Mac OS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apple macOS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 376 519
Rank change year-on-year +51 +143 -67
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 24 83 107
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.34% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.56% 2.53% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 61 81
10th Percentile £185 £230 £184
25th Percentile £213 £245 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £416 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% -7.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £389 £600 £594
90th Percentile £610 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £228 £325 £275
% change year-on-year -30.00% +18.18% -36.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £14.50
% change year-on-year -11.50% +24.69% +11.71%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,538 3,284 5,347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.50% 13.55% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,308 3,820
10th Percentile £225 £245 £300
25th Percentile £360 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +2.69% +10.54%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £618
90th Percentile £681 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 107 128
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.85
25th Percentile £14.14 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £40.70 £68.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

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 2 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) WhatsApp
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) MQTT
3 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Maven
1 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) IT Support
2 4 (16.67%) Mac Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Audio Visual Support
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Service Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Support
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Mac Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.17%) Pandas
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
1 1 (4.17%) XML
1 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.17%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 5 (20.83%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
5 3 (12.50%) Android
5 3 (12.50%) Mac OS X
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 4 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (8.33%) Coaching
3 2 (8.33%) Filmmaking
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.33%) RBAC
3 2 (8.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.17%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (4.17%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (4.17%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps
4 1 (4.17%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (4.17%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.17%) Project Delivery
4 1 (4.17%) Runbook
4 1 (4.17%) SDET
4 1 (4.17%) Security Operations
4 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) ACSP
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.17%) CCNA
2 1 (4.17%) CCNP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) MCSA
2 1 (4.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (16.67%) QA
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) iptables
4 1 (4.17%) vCloud
4 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.67%) AirWatch
3 3 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Apple
3 4 (16.67%) F5
3 4 (16.67%) HP
3 4 (16.67%) Planview
3 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk