Herefordshire Mac OS X Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apple Mac OS X (Mac OSX) skills within the Herefordshire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apple Mac OS X (Mac OSX)
Location Basingstoke Brighton Bristol City of London Coventry Croydon Dorset East Sussex England Hampshire Herefordshire London Oxford Oxfordshire Somerset South East South West Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley UK West Midlands	3 months to 21 Aug 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	£289	£228
% change on same period last year	+27.10 %
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 Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	33	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£270
Average daily rate	£359	£277
% change on same period last year	+29.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.25	£13.30
Average hourly rate	£15.63	£14.10
% change on same period last year	+10.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£14.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.93	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.96 %
Mac OS X West Midlands

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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.