Operating System Statistics in the Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	31	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	+14.28%	598 3.82%	311
Windows Server	97	Down -14 places-14	£38,000	+8.57%	231 1.47%	120
Linux	102	Down -29 places-29	£45,000	-21.73%	224 1.43%	164
Windows 10	192	Down -36 places-36	£29,813	-6.83%	93 0.59%	30
Android	221	Down -28 places-28	£38,500	+10.00%	64 0.41%	41
Apple iOS	232	Down -33 places-33	£37,500	+7.14%	53 0.34%	38
Mac OS	256	Down -65 places-65	£33,250	+16.66%	29 0.19%	12
Unix	265	Down -58 places-58	£61,500	-12.14%	20 0.13%	24
Ubuntu	272	Down -63 places-63	£60,000	+50.00%	13 0.083%	4
Solaris	273	New entry-	£44,472	-	12 0.077%	12
Embedded Linux	274	Down -51 places-51	£67,500	-12.90%	11 0.070%	7
Debian	274	Down -47 places-47	£41,000	-31.66%	11 0.070%	1
VMS	275	Down -95 places-95	£42,500	-41.37%	10 0.064%	7
Windows Server 2012	276	Down -55 places-55	£43,000	-14.00%	9 0.057%	9
Windows Server 2016	276	Down -72 places-72	£42,000	+8.38%	9 0.057%	6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	277	Down -59 places-59	£75,000	+30.43%	8 0.051%	12
FreeRTOS	277	Down -50 places-50	£56,250	-13.46%	8 0.051%	7
Windows Server 2019	279	Down -83 places-83	£43,000	-14.00%	6 0.038%	5
OpenVMS	280	Down -53 places-53	£75,000	-	5 0.032%
Kali Linux	281	New entry-	£41,250	-	4 0.026%	2
Windows 7	282	Down -60 places-60	£26,437	-16.07%	3 0.019%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	284	Down -60 places-60	-	-	1 0.006%	4
CentOS	284	Down -61 places-61	-	-	1 0.006%	3
Alpine Linux	284	New entry-	£37,500	-	1 0.006%
AIX	284	Down -63 places-63	-	-	1 0.006%	4
Windows NT	284	New entry-	£37,500	-	1 0.006%	1
Mac OS X	284	Down -62 places-62	-	-	1 0.006%
zOS	284	Down -57 places-57	-	-	1 0.006%	1