Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	32	Down 14 places-14	£40,000	+14.28%	610 3.84%	225
Windows Server	93	Up 9 places+9	£40,000	+14.28%	238 1.50%	61
Linux	99	Down 16 places-16	£46,801	-14.90%	226 1.42%	150
Windows 10	193	Down 23 places-23	£30,000	-4.76%	89 0.56%	19
Android	215	Down 12 places-12	£39,250	+17.16%	65 0.41%	24
Apple iOS	227	Down 17 places-17	£37,500	+11.94%	53 0.33%	28
macOS	250	Down 53 places-53	£33,250	+14.65%	30 0.19%	13
Embedded Linux	261	Down 36 places-36	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	14
Unix	263	Down 56 places-56	£61,500	-16.66%	17 0.11%	16
Solaris	268	New entry-	£44,472	-	12 0.076%	6
Windows Server 2012	269	Down 41 places-41	£43,000	-10.41%	11 0.069%	3
Windows Server 2016	269	Down 55 places-55	£37,500	-11.76%	11 0.069%	2
Ubuntu	270	Down 48 places-48	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.063%	1
VMS	271	Down 86 places-86	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.057%	12
Debian	271	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.057%	1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	272	Down 47 places-47	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	2
Windows Server 2019	274	Down 72 places-72	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.038%	3
OpenVMS	275	Down 42 places-42	£75,000	-	5 0.031%	1
Kali Linux	278	New entry-	£41,250	-	2 0.013%
Windows 7	278	Down 47 places-47	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%	1
FreeRTOS	278	Down 49 places-49	£47,500	-9.52%	2 0.013%	7