Glasgow Mac OS X Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apple Mac OS X (Mac OSX) skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Mac OS X over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apple Mac OS X (Mac OSX)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Dorset East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Leeds London Maidenhead Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Somerset South East South West Surrey Taunton Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£247	£218
% change on same period last year	+13.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.89	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+105.95 %
Operating Systems Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	162	351
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.355 %
Daily rates quoted	36	115
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£316
Average daily rate	£312	£331
% change on same period last year	-5.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.69	£14.92
Average hourly rate	£22.90	£16.47
% change on same period last year	+38.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£18.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Mac OS X Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Mac OS X
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS X across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS X across the Glasgow region.

Mac OS X
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (100.00 %) Exchange Server 2003	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft