Mac OS Contracts

Apple macOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mac OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS 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 422 464 574
Rank change year-on-year +42 +110 +21
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 153 225 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.65% 2.48% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 153 199
10th Percentile £140 £179 £155
25th Percentile £185 £213 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £228 £325 £275
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +18.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £378 £550 £528
90th Percentile £553 £633 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £513 £225
% change year-on-year -56.10% +127.78% -43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 19
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.16 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.81 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +24.69% +11.71%
75th Percentile £17.72 £19.05 £27.63
90th Percentile £18.00 £42.11 £29.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.65 £18.08 £13.50
% change year-on-year -13.44% +33.93% +4.01%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS 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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Top 15 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 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 +27 137 £225 -18.18% 112
UK excluding London +34 79 £225 -56.10% 81
London +38 65 £239 -11.57% 36
Work from Home +54 24 £240 -42.31% 46
South East +7 21 £378 +59.16% 27
North of England +19 18 £220 -59.60% 19
North West +26 16 £220 -59.60% 8
South West +6 15 £225 -62.50% 14
Midlands +26 12 £200 -9.09% 14
Scotland +35 9 £575 -8.00% 3
West Midlands +18 8 £200 -46.31% 10
East Midlands +11 4 £600 +263.64% 4
Wales +19 2 £220 +15.79% 3
Yorkshire +9 2 £150 -67.57% 8
East of England - 2 £215 - 8

Mac OS
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 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (10.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.41%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (30.72%) Azure
3 18 (11.76%) AWS
4 9 (5.88%) WhatsApp
5 8 (5.23%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.23%) OneDrive
6 6 (3.92%) GCP
6 6 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.27%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.61%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.65%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.65%) GitHub
9 1 (0.65%) IaaS
9 1 (0.65%) PaaS
9 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.92%) LAN
2 29 (18.95%) VPN
3 25 (16.34%) Firewall
3 25 (16.34%) WAN
4 13 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (6.54%) VoIP
6 8 (5.23%) VLAN
7 6 (3.92%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (3.92%) DNS
7 6 (3.92%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.61%) DHCP
8 4 (2.61%) Wireless
9 2 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.31%) SAN
9 2 (1.31%) WLAN
10 1 (0.65%) HTTP
10 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.65%) Network Security
10 1 (0.65%) SNMP
10 1 (0.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) Power BI
2 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.65%) MySQL
3 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.27%) JIRA
2 4 (2.61%) Hudson
3 3 (1.96%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.96%) XCTest
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Maven
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) Xcode
General
1 82 (53.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.50%) Finance
4 8 (5.23%) Mandarin Language
4 8 (5.23%) Retail
5 7 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.61%) Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Advertising
9 2 (1.31%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.31%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Marketing
9 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Aviation
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (19.61%) Support Engineer
2 20 (13.07%) Analyst
3 15 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support
3 15 (9.80%) Desktop Support
3 15 (9.80%) IT Support
3 15 (9.80%) Technical Support
4 14 (9.15%) Administrator
4 14 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.15%) IT Engineer
5 12 (7.84%) Mac Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 11 (7.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Desktop Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Senior
6 11 (7.19%) Support Analyst
6 11 (7.19%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (6.54%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Mac Administrator
9 8 (5.23%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.31%) Pandas
2 1 (0.65%) JSON
2 1 (0.65%) Laravel
2 1 (0.65%) LDAP
2 1 (0.65%) OAuth
2 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.65%) SAML
2 1 (0.65%) UIKit
2 1 (0.65%) Vue
2 1 (0.65%) XML
2 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.07%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (9.15%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.19%) Blog
4 10 (6.54%) Driving Licence
5 8 (5.23%) Clustering
6 4 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.96%) iPhone
7 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.96%) Social Media
8 2 (1.31%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.31%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.31%) IoT
8 2 (1.31%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.31%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.65%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 129 (84.31%) Windows
2 52 (33.99%) Windows 10
3 27 (17.65%) Apple iOS
4 26 (16.99%) Android
5 20 (13.07%) Windows Server
6 15 (9.80%) Linux
7 10 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (5.23%) Mac OS X
8 8 (5.23%) Unix
9 6 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.31%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.65%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.99%) Customer Service
2 41 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (16.34%) ITIL
4 21 (13.73%) Asset Management
5 20 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (7.84%) Mobile Device Management
7 10 (6.54%) Decision-Making
8 8 (5.23%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (4.58%) Server Management
10 6 (3.92%) Agile
10 6 (3.92%) DevOps
10 6 (3.92%) Quality Management
10 6 (3.92%) Service Delivery
10 6 (3.92%) Software Deployment
10 6 (3.92%) Time Management
11 5 (3.27%) Disk Encryption
11 5 (3.27%) Migration
11 5 (3.27%) Refactoring
11 5 (3.27%) Service Management
11 5 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.42%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.84%) Python
3 3 (1.96%) Swift
4 2 (1.31%) Bash
5 1 (0.65%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.65%) PHP
5 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.76%) Degree
2 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (5.23%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.58%) CCNA
4 7 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.27%) A+ Certification
5 5 (3.27%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.61%) CISM
6 4 (2.61%) MCSA
6 4 (2.61%) MCSE
6 4 (2.61%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.96%) CISSP
7 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.96%) MCP
8 2 (1.31%) ACSP
8 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.31%) CCNP
8 2 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.80%) SLA
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (35.95%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (9.80%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.23%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.31%) vSphere
7 1 (0.65%) Docker
7 1 (0.65%) iptables
7 1 (0.65%) NFS
7 1 (0.65%) vCloud
7 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 50 (32.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (25.49%) SCCM
3 35 (22.88%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (5.23%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (3.92%) AirWatch
5 6 (3.92%) Autotask
5 6 (3.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.65%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 63 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 52 (33.99%) Apple
3 25 (16.34%) Cisco
4 18 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 17 (11.11%) VMware
6 8 (5.23%) Adobe
7 7 (4.58%) Splunk
8 6 (3.92%) Datto
8 6 (3.92%) Google
8 6 (3.92%) HP
8 6 (3.92%) TOWER Software
9 5 (3.27%) Okta
10 4 (2.61%) Citrix
10 4 (2.61%) F5
10 4 (2.61%) Planview
10 4 (2.61%) Sophos
11 3 (1.96%) Dell
11 3 (1.96%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.31%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.31%) WatchGuard