Operating System Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	47	Down 31 places-31	£36,000	+2.85%	395 3.06%	108
Linux	97	Down 80 places-80	£60,000	+14.28%	208 1.61%	71
Windows Server	115	Up 17 places+17	£37,500	-6.83%	176 1.36%	45
Windows 10	210	Down 47 places-47	£30,000	+1.69%	60 0.46%	11
Android	228	Down 185 places-185	£51,000	+54.54%	42 0.33%	14
Apple iOS	233	Down 40 places-40	£29,500	-10.60%	37 0.29%	13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	237	Down 20 places-20	£56,536	-5.77%	33 0.26%	9
macOS	237	Down 48 places-48	£37,500	+47.05%	33 0.26%	8
Windows Server 2016	243	Down 30 places-30	£41,000	-23.72%	27 0.21%	3
Unix	246	Down 35 places-35	£65,576	+31.15%	24 0.19%	2
Windows Server 2019	250	Down 41 places-41	£45,000	+45.16%	20 0.15%	4
Ubuntu	257	Down 46 places-46	£40,000	-33.33%	13 0.10%	2
CentOS	258	Down 42 places-42	£97,500	+95.00%	12 0.093%	2
Embedded Linux	260	New entry-	£60,000	-	10 0.077%	5
VMS	260	Down 56 places-56	£35,500	-29.07%	10 0.077%
Windows 7	262	Down 46 places-46	£34,000	+26.51%	8 0.062%
FreeRTOS	262	New entry-	£57,500	-	8 0.062%	4
AIX	263	New entry-	£45,544	-	7 0.054%
Solaris	266	New entry-	£57,500	-	4 0.031%