The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mac OS X over the 3 months to 21 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 Devon 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS X
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £205 £268 £250
% change year-on-year
-23.36% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -16.66%
All Operating Systems
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
37 64 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 21.26% 35.16% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 6
Average daily rate £300 £324 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +44.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £359 £400 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 4
Average hourly rate £18.05 £14.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.48% -55.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Mac OS X
South West

Mac OS X
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon Mac OS X Jobs Demand Trend

Mac OS X
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Mac OS X 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 X.

1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Mac OS X 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 X. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory