Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	34	Down 16 places-16	£40,000	+15.92%	605 3.79%	233
Windows Server	100	Down 8 places-8	£40,500	+15.71%	234 1.47%	67
Linux	108	Down 36 places-36	£48,750	-11.36%	221 1.39%	158
Windows 10	200	Down 43 places-43	£30,000	-4.76%	89 0.56%	19
Android	222	Down 30 places-30	£39,250	+17.16%	66 0.41%	29
Apple iOS	235	Down 36 places-36	£37,500	+11.94%	53 0.33%	33
macOS	259	Down 73 places-73	£33,250	+14.65%	29 0.18%	15
Embedded Linux	269	Down 55 places-55	£67,500	+25.58%	19 0.12%	14
Unix	271	Down 75 places-75	£61,500	-16.66%	17 0.11%	17
Windows Server 2012	277	Down 60 places-60	£43,000	-10.41%	11 0.069%	4
Windows Server 2016	277	Down 73 places-73	£37,500	-16.66%	11 0.069%	3
Ubuntu	278	Down 67 places-67	£60,000	+50.00%	10 0.063%	2
Debian	279	New entry-	£41,000	-	9 0.056%	1
Solaris	279	New entry-	£44,472	-	9 0.056%	7
VMS	279	Down 105 places-105	£44,250	-38.96%	9 0.056%	10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	280	Down 66 places-66	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.050%	3
Windows Server 2019	282	Down 89 places-89	£43,000	-16.09%	6 0.038%	3
OpenVMS	283	Down 61 places-61	£75,000	-	5 0.031%
FreeRTOS	286	Down 68 places-68	£47,500	-9.52%	2 0.013%	7
Kali Linux	286	New entry-	£41,250	-	2 0.013%
AIX	286	Down 69 places-69	-	-	2 0.013%	2
Windows 7	286	Down 65 places-65	£26,437	+5.74%	2 0.013%	1