Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	33	Down 16 places-16	£40,000	+17.60%	616 3.84%	85
Windows Server	97	Down 5 places-5	£41,000	+17.14%	236 1.47%	21
Linux	105	Down 32 places-32	£51,250	-6.81%	217 1.35%	56
Windows 10	194	Down 40 places-40	£31,500	-	93 0.58%	7
Android	224	Down 36 places-36	£38,500	+14.92%	63 0.39%	9
Apple iOS	238	Down 43 places-43	£37,500	+11.94%	49 0.31%	8
macOS	258	Down 76 places-76	£33,250	+15.65%	29 0.18%	6
Embedded Linux	268	Down 58 places-58	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	10
Unix	271	Down 80 places-80	£62,000	-15.99%	16 0.100%	3
Windows Server 2016	276	Down 76 places-76	£37,500	-16.66%	11 0.069%
Windows Server 2012	276	Down 62 places-62	£43,000	-6.52%	11 0.069%
Ubuntu	277	Down 70 places-70	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.062%	1
Debian	278	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.056%
Solaris	278	New entry-	£44,472	-	9 0.056%	4
VMS	278	Down 108 places-108	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.056%	4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	279	Down 67 places-67	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	1
Windows Server 2019	281	Down 90 places-90	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.037%	1
OpenVMS	282	Down 64 places-64	£75,000	-	5 0.031%
AIX	285	Down 72 places-72	-	-	2 0.013%	3
Windows 7	285	Down 68 places-68	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%	1