Operating System Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Windows	39	Down -11 places-11	£35,500	+1.42%	422 3.39%	152
Windows Server	93	Up 60 places+60	£37,500	-	196 1.57%	44
Linux	100	Down -91 places-91	£58,250	+8.37%	179 1.44%	108
Windows 10	187	Up 12 places+12	£30,000	+3.44%	68 0.55%	14
Apple iOS	211	Up 9 places+9	£29,500	-50.83%	44 0.35%	35
Android	214	Down -193 places-193	£50,000	+17.64%	41 0.33%	26
Mac OS	220	Up 1 place+1	£37,500	-11.52%	35 0.28%	12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	224	Up 10 places+10	£55,000	-26.53%	31 0.25%	16
Unix	226	Up 5 places+5	£64,038	+6.72%	29 0.23%	14
Windows Server 2016	231	Down -1 place-1	£45,000	-16.27%	24 0.19%	6
Windows Server 2019	238	Down -13 places-13	£43,750	+30.59%	17 0.14%	6
VMS	243	Down -12 places-12	£37,500	-25.08%	12 0.096%	4
FreeRTOS	243	New entry-	£57,500	-	12 0.096%	2
Ubuntu	245	Down -15 places-15	£50,000	-16.66%	10 0.080%	6
CentOS	245	Down -15 places-15	£97,500	+62.50%	10 0.080%	2
Embedded Linux	246	New entry-	£60,000	-	9 0.072%	6
AIX	247	New entry-	-	-	8 0.064%	2
Windows 7	249	Down -13 places-13	£34,000	-15.00%	6 0.048%	1
Solaris	251	New entry-	£57,250	-	4 0.032%	4
CoreOS	252	New entry-	-	-	3 0.024%
Debian	253	Down -28 places-28	-	-	2 0.016%	6
SUSE	254	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
Oracle Linux	254	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
VME	254	New entry-	£44,447	-	1 0.008%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	254	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.008%
Windows Server 2012	254	Down -19 places-19	£65,000	+109.67%	1 0.008%	2
Windows Server 2008	254	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	+16.07%	1 0.008%