Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	33	Down 15 places-15	£40,000	+15.92%	604 3.80%	226
Windows Server	94	Up 1 place+1	£40,500	+15.71%	234 1.47%	66
Linux	100	Down 25 places-25	£50,000	-9.09%	222 1.39%	158
Windows 10	194	Down 34 places-34	£30,000	-4.76%	88 0.55%	15
Android	218	Down 23 places-23	£38,500	+14.92%	64 0.40%	27
Apple iOS	231	Down 30 places-30	£37,500	+11.94%	51 0.32%	31
macOS	254	Down 66 places-66	£33,250	+14.65%	28 0.18%	14
Embedded Linux	263	Down 46 places-46	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	14
Unix	265	Down 66 places-66	£61,500	-16.66%	17 0.11%	17
Windows Server 2012	271	Down 50 places-50	£43,000	-6.52%	11 0.069%	4
Windows Server 2016	271	Down 64 places-64	£37,500	-16.66%	11 0.069%	2
Ubuntu	272	Down 58 places-58	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.063%	2
Debian	273	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.057%	1
Solaris	273	New entry-	£44,472	-	9 0.057%	8
VMS	273	Down 96 places-96	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.057%	10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	274	Down 55 places-55	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	3
Windows Server 2019	276	Down 78 places-78	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.038%	2
OpenVMS	277	Down 52 places-52	£75,000	-	5 0.031%
AIX	280	Down 60 places-60	-	-	2 0.013%	2
Windows 7	280	Down 56 places-56	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%	1