Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	34	Down 17 places-17	£40,000	+17.60%	609 3.82%	84
Windows Server	104	Down 10 places-10	£41,000	+17.14%	234 1.47%	21
Linux	112	Down 37 places-37	£50,000	-9.09%	218 1.37%	50
Windows 10	205	Down 45 places-45	£31,500	-	93 0.58%	6
Android	234	Down 38 places-38	£38,500	+14.92%	63 0.39%	9
Apple iOS	247	Down 45 places-45	£37,500	+11.94%	50 0.31%	7
macOS	269	Down 80 places-80	£33,250	+14.65%	28 0.18%	6
Embedded Linux	278	Down 60 places-60	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	9
Unix	281	Down 81 places-81	£62,000	-15.99%	16 0.10%	3
Windows Server 2012	286	Down 64 places-64	£43,000	-6.52%	11 0.069%
Windows Server 2016	286	Down 78 places-78	£37,500	-16.66%	11 0.069%
Ubuntu	287	Down 72 places-72	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.063%	1
VMS	288	Down 110 places-110	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.056%	4
Debian	288	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.056%
Solaris	288	New entry-	£44,472	-	9 0.056%	4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	289	Down 69 places-69	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	1
Windows Server 2019	291	Down 92 places-92	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.038%	1
OpenVMS	292	Down 66 places-66	£75,000	-	5 0.031%
Windows 7	295	Down 70 places-70	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%
AIX	295	Down 74 places-74	-	-	2 0.013%	3