Mac OS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apple macOS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Mac OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mac OS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 371 513
Rank change year-on-year +53 +142 -65
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 23 86 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.46% 2.66% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 63 82
10th Percentile £185 £209 £184
25th Percentile £213 £294 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £416 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% -7.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £400 £600 £584
90th Percentile £615 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £225 £330 £275
% change year-on-year -31.82% +20.00% -38.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £15.83 £18.08 £14.50
% change year-on-year -12.47% +24.69% +7.49%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Mac OS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 3,239 5,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,268 3,789
10th Percentile £229 £245 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £620
90th Percentile £685 £731 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Mac OS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mac OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mac OS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mac OS.

Mac OS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Mac OS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mac OS.

Mac OS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.35%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) WhatsApp
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.35%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) VPN
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Internet
3 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) MQTT
3 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Maven
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) IT Support
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Mac Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Audio Visual Support
4 2 (8.70%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.35%) Pandas
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) XML
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.35%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows 10
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
5 3 (13.04%) Android
5 3 (13.04%) Mac OS X
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Customer Service
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 2 (8.70%) Coaching
3 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.70%) Filmmaking
3 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.70%) RBAC
3 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
4 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.35%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (4.35%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps
4 1 (4.35%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (4.35%) Runbook
4 1 (4.35%) SDET
4 1 (4.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) ACSP
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
2 1 (4.35%) CCNP
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) MCSA
2 1 (4.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) iptables
4 1 (4.35%) vCloud
4 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.04%) AirWatch
3 2 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco
3 4 (17.39%) Apple
4 3 (13.04%) F5
4 3 (13.04%) HP
4 3 (13.04%) Planview
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) VMware
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) ESET
6 1 (4.35%) Okta
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk