Operating System Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	45	Down 30 places-30	£35,500	+2.89%	414 3.21%	163
Linux	98	Down 80 places-80	£60,000	+11.62%	205 1.59%	114
Windows Server	112	Up 25 places+25	£37,500	-7.40%	178 1.38%	61
Windows 10	202	Down 40 places-40	£30,000	-	64 0.50%	7
Android	221	Down 172 places-172	£50,000	+61.29%	45 0.35%	42
Apple iOS	229	Down 33 places-33	£29,500	+4.04%	37 0.29%	45
macOS	230	Down 42 places-42	£37,500	+47.05%	36 0.28%	21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	236	Down 21 places-21	£68,750	+14.58%	30 0.23%	14
Windows Server 2016	238	Down 30 places-30	£43,000	-20.00%	28 0.22%	6
Unix	238	Down 28 places-28	£65,576	+63.93%	28 0.22%	18
Windows Server 2019	246	Down 40 places-40	£45,000	+45.16%	20 0.16%	5
Ubuntu	253	Down 44 places-44	£40,000	-33.33%	13 0.10%	5
CentOS	254	Down 42 places-42	£97,500	+62.50%	12 0.093%	3
VMS	255	Down 53 places-53	£35,500	-29.07%	11 0.085%	4
Embedded Linux	256	New entry-	£60,000	-	10 0.078%	5
FreeRTOS	257	New entry-	£57,500	-	9 0.070%	3
AIX	258	New entry-	£45,544	-	8 0.062%	2
Windows 7	258	Down 42 places-42	£34,000	-5.55%	8 0.062%
Solaris	262	New entry-	£57,500	-	4 0.031%	2
CoreOS	263	New entry-	-	-	3 0.023%
Debian	264	Down 59 places-59	-	-	2 0.016%	4