Operating System Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	37	Down -9 places-9	£35,500	+1.42%	417 3.44%	92
Windows Server	88	Up 60 places+60	£37,500	+1.35%	193 1.59%	31
Linux	105	Down -95 places-95	£57,500	+6.97%	163 1.34%	54
Windows 10	179	Up 14 places+14	£30,000	+1.69%	76 0.63%	12
Android	211	Down -190 places-190	£50,000	-9.09%	44 0.36%	7
Apple iOS	211	Up 8 places+8	£29,500	-54.61%	44 0.36%	11
Mac OS	220	Down -3 places-3	£37,500	-18.47%	35 0.29%	8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	224	Up 7 places+7	£55,000	-26.53%	31 0.26%	5
Unix	227	Down -3 places-3	£62,500	-14.63%	28 0.23%	10
Windows Server 2016	235	Down -6 places-6	£46,375	-13.72%	20 0.16%	3
Windows Server 2019	241	Down -20 places-20	£42,500	+26.86%	14 0.12%	1
FreeRTOS	243	New entry-	£57,500	-	12 0.099%	1
CentOS	245	Down -18 places-18	£97,500	+77.27%	10 0.082%	2
VMS	245	Down -15 places-15	£37,500	-25.08%	10 0.082%	7
Ubuntu	247	Down -18 places-18	£52,500	-12.50%	8 0.066%	2
AIX	247	New entry-	-	-	8 0.066%	1
Windows 7	248	Down -15 places-15	£32,500	-18.75%	7 0.058%	2
Embedded Linux	249	New entry-	£60,000	-	6 0.050%	4
Solaris	251	New entry-	£57,250	-	4 0.033%	4
CoreOS	252	New entry-	-	-	3 0.025%
Debian	253	Down -27 places-27	-	-	2 0.017%	4
VME	254	New entry-	£44,447	-	1 0.008%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	254	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
Windows 8	254	Down -20 places-20	£26,250	-34.37%	1 0.008%
Windows Server 2012	254	Down -20 places-20	£65,000	+109.67%	1 0.008%	1
Windows Server 2008	254	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	+16.07%	1 0.008%
SUSE	254	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
Oracle Linux	254	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%