The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire 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 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 Lancashire 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 X
Rank - 43 30
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - 0.231% 0.446%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 1.333% 1.471%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £328 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +87.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £205 £268 £300
% change year-on-year
-23.36% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Operating Systems
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
66 75 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 33.67% 17.36% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 28
Average daily rate £275 £380 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.63% +41.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £289 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 14
Average hourly rate £19.04 £29.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.45% -9.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.75 £21.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Mac OS X
North 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 Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Lancashire Mac OS X Jobs Demand Trend

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Mac OS X Daily Rate Trend

Mac OS X
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) JAX-RS

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) JAX-RS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby