Mac OS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple macOS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 321 353 405
Rank change year-on-year +32 +52 -10
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 80 77 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.36% 1.80% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 53 63
10th Percentile £145 £186 £120
25th Percentile £191 £213 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £525 £225
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +133.33% -43.75%
75th Percentile £378 £600 £381
90th Percentile £598 £688 £630
UK median daily rate £225 £330 £275
% change year-on-year -31.82% +20.00% -38.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 15
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.16 £12.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.58 £13.00
Median hourly rate £14.83 £18.08 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +29.14% +7.86%
75th Percentile £17.72 - £24.38
90th Percentile £17.76 £18.47 £27.75
UK median hourly rate £15.83 £18.08 £14.50
% change year-on-year -12.47% +24.69% +7.49%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mac OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +15 21 £225 -58.68% 23
North West +21 18 £225 -58.68% 14
South East +10 18 £378 +69.70% 26
South West +4 16 £225 -62.50% 12
Midlands +21 12 £200 -42.86% 17
Scotland +50 9 £575 -8.00% 3
West Midlands +23 8 £200 -61.90% 12
East Midlands +6 4 £600 +263.64% 5
Wales +22 2 £220 +15.79% 1
Yorkshire +5 2 £150 -67.57% 8
East of England - 2 £215 - 8
North East - 1 £300 - 2
Mac OS
UK

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.25%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 42 (52.50%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (36.25%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) AWS
4 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.00%) GCP
5 4 (5.00%) Mimecast
5 4 (5.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.75%) LAN
2 12 (15.00%) VPN
2 12 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (12.50%) Firewall
3 10 (12.50%) WAN
4 7 (8.75%) VLAN
4 7 (8.75%) VoIP
5 3 (3.75%) DNS
5 3 (3.75%) Wireless
6 2 (2.50%) HTTP
6 2 (2.50%) HTTPS
6 2 (2.50%) IPsec
6 2 (2.50%) SNMP
6 2 (2.50%) SSH
6 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.50%) WLAN
7 1 (1.25%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Hudson
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Xcode
3 1 (1.25%) XCTest
General
1 44 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Finance
5 4 (5.00%) Retail
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Automotive
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Support Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Administrator
3 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) IT Support
4 9 (11.25%) Technical Support
5 8 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 7 (8.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) IT Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Mac Administrator
6 7 (8.75%) Support Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Support Technician
7 6 (7.50%) IT Support Technician
7 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (7.50%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) LDAP
1 2 (2.50%) Pandas
2 1 (1.25%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Onboarding
2 10 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 9 (11.25%) Blog
4 7 (8.75%) Clustering
5 4 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.50%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (82.50%) Windows
2 23 (28.75%) Windows 10
3 12 (15.00%) Linux
4 11 (13.75%) Apple iOS
5 10 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 9 (11.25%) Android
7 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (6.25%) Unix
10 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.75%) Customer Service
3 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
5 9 (11.25%) Decision-Making
6 7 (8.75%) Quality Management
7 6 (7.50%) Asset Management
7 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (7.50%) DevOps
8 5 (6.25%) Agile
8 5 (6.25%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (6.25%) ITIL
8 5 (6.25%) Refactoring
8 5 (6.25%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (5.00%) Open Source
9 4 (5.00%) Service Management
9 4 (5.00%) Software Deployment
9 4 (5.00%) Time Management
10 2 (2.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.75%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
3 1 (1.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) A+ Certification
2 4 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) MCDST
4 2 (2.50%) MCP
4 2 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (1.25%) ACSP
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) SLA
2 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 37 (46.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (27.50%) SCCM
3 18 (22.50%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (8.75%) Autotask
4 7 (8.75%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (5.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (3.75%) AirWatch
7 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.50%) systemd
7 2 (2.50%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (32.50%) Apple
3 10 (12.50%) VMware
4 9 (11.25%) Cisco
5 7 (8.75%) Datto
5 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
5 7 (8.75%) Splunk
6 5 (6.25%) Sophos
7 4 (5.00%) HP
8 3 (3.75%) F5
8 3 (3.75%) Planview
8 3 (3.75%) SonicWALL
9 2 (2.50%) Dell
9 2 (2.50%) WatchGuard
10 1 (1.25%) Adobe
10 1 (1.25%) Aruba
10 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.25%) Citrix
10 1 (1.25%) Workday