The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mac OS over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS
Rank 197 210 245
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +35
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 4 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.064% 0.039% 0.010%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.323% 0.194% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £110 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -68.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £193 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
-35.83% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £11.00 £13.75
% change year-on-year
+72.72% -20.00%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1240 1543 1876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.70% 19.83% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 964 1245
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 97 108
Average hourly rate £31.25 £20.00 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.80 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Mac OS
London

Mac OS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

City of London Mac OS Jobs Demand Trend

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mac OS across the City of London region.

City of London Mac OS Daily Rate Trend

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS across the City of London region.

City of London Mac OS Hourly Rate Trend

Mac OS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Mac OS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Mac OS.

1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (50.00%) MS Office
4 5 (50.00%) Mac OS X
4 5 (50.00%) Apple
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
5 4 (40.00%) VoIP
5 4 (40.00%) DHCP
5 4 (40.00%) VPN
5 4 (40.00%) DNS
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (40.00%) Android
6 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (30.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (30.00%) Workflow
7 2 (20.00%) Publishing
7 2 (20.00%) Internet
7 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 2 (20.00%) iPad
7 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Management
7 2 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
7 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (10.00%) Vectorworks
8 1 (10.00%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista

Mac OS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Mac OS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Mac OS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) Lync
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (10.00%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (10.00%) Vectorworks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VoIP
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) DMZ
General
1 2 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
2 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (30.00%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Mac Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) iPad
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (10.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (50.00%) Mac OS X
4 4 (40.00%) Android
5 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (10.00%) UNIX
7 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
7 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Software Distribution
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Apple
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe