Mac OS X Contracts

Apple Mac OS X
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mac OS X skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS X over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 547 697
Rank change year-on-year +42 +150 -56
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 70 135 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.21% 1.49% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 113 115
10th Percentile £133 £164 £139
25th Percentile £210 £200 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £263 £235
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +11.70% -50.53%
75th Percentile £728 £650 £584
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £250 £200
% change year-on-year +75.00% +25.00% -55.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £18.14 - £9.00
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.27 £180.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -89.85% +1100.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile £24.14 - £16.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 - £12.08
% change year-on-year - - -3.34%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS X is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,784 9,075 12,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 16.19% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 6,324 8,810
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 391 567
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.06 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS X over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mac OS X over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +20 62 £438 +75.00% 22
London +67 36 £375 +50.00% 8
UK excluding London +7 29 £438 +75.00% 13
Midlands - 13 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 13 £438 - 1
Work from Home +80 9 £240 -63.08% 4
North of England -2 8 £450 -30.77% 6
Scotland - 6 £126 -
Yorkshire -4 5 £425 -37.04% 2
North West +19 3 £508 +190.00% 4
South West +5 1 £550 -8.33% 2
South East -9 1 - - 4

Mac OS X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.57%) Skype for Business
4 4 (5.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.43%) InDesign
3 1 (1.43%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (17.14%) Azure
3 8 (11.43%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.57%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.29%) AWS
6 2 (2.86%) Slack
7 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) GitHub
7 1 (1.43%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Firewall
2 9 (12.86%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (12.86%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (8.57%) Skype
4 4 (5.71%) HTTP
5 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.29%) VPN
6 2 (2.86%) LAN
6 2 (2.86%) WAN
7 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Mockito
2 5 (7.14%) JIRA
3 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.71%) Gatling
3 4 (5.71%) Git
3 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.71%) JMeter
3 4 (5.71%) Selenium
3 4 (5.71%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Legal
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Developer
2 20 (28.57%) Senior
3 18 (25.71%) Java Developer
4 15 (21.43%) Analyst
4 15 (21.43%) Senior Developer
5 14 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (18.57%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (14.29%) Desktop Support
8 9 (12.86%) Support Engineer
9 8 (11.43%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (11.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) IT Support
11 6 (8.57%) Digital Developer
11 6 (8.57%) Support Officer
12 4 (5.71%) Consultant
12 4 (5.71%) IT Engineer
12 4 (5.71%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (5.71%) Test Engineer
13 3 (4.29%) 1st Line Support
13 3 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (31.43%) ActiveMQ
1 22 (31.43%) Kafka
2 18 (25.71%) JAX-RS
3 4 (5.71%) Web Services
4 2 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (1.43%) Node.js
5 1 (1.43%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 7 (10.00%) iPhone
2 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.86%) IoT
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) NHS
5 1 (1.43%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.00%) Linux
2 33 (47.14%) Windows
3 24 (34.29%) Unix
4 16 (22.86%) Android
5 12 (17.14%) Windows 7
6 10 (14.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (11.43%) Mac OS
8 4 (5.71%) Apple iOS
8 4 (5.71%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Agile
1 24 (34.29%) BDD
1 24 (34.29%) TDD
2 23 (32.86%) Test Automation
3 20 (28.57%) Microservices
4 19 (27.14%) Continuous Deployment
5 18 (25.71%) Pair Programming
6 17 (24.29%) Responsive Web Design
6 17 (24.29%) Web Design
6 17 (24.29%) Web Development
7 13 (18.57%) SIEM
7 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (15.71%) Malware Reverse Engineering
9 11 (15.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 11 (15.71%) Purple Team
9 11 (15.71%) Risk Management
9 11 (15.71%) Threat Analysis
9 11 (15.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) Java
2 5 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.71%) Groovy
3 4 (5.71%) Scala
4 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.43%) Python
4 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) CEH
5 1 (1.43%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (15.71%) GDPR
1 11 (15.71%) HIPAA
1 11 (15.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (15.71%) NIST
2 7 (10.00%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) Snort
3 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (14.29%) SCCM
2 3 (4.29%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.43%) AirWatch
3 1 (1.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (35.71%) Apple
1 25 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.86%) Cisco
3 8 (11.43%) Adobe
4 6 (8.57%) Citrix
4 6 (8.57%) Mitel
4 6 (8.57%) Progress
5 5 (7.14%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.86%) Google
6 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.86%) VMware
7 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.43%) HP
7 1 (1.43%) Okta
7 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.43%) Qualys
7 1 (1.43%) Remedy
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk