Mac OS X Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 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 X
Rank 311 346 382
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +36
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 74 60 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.343% 0.224% 0.176%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.683% 1.101% 0.871%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 14
Average daily rate £225 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £173 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £375 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £205 £268 £300
% change year-on-year
-23.36% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 20
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% +8.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £14.60 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.00 £22.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 4398 5448 6315
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.37% 20.34% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2883 3280 3803
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 313 341
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Mac OS X
England

Mac OS X
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Mac OS X Daily Rate Trend

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mac OS X across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Mac OS X Daily Rate Histogram

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Mac OS X Hourly Rate Trend

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mac OS X across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Mac OS X Hourly Rate Histogram

Mac OS X
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +23 24 £350 +27.27%
Hounslow - 1 £450 -
Uxbridge - 1 - -
Mac OS X
England

Mac OS X
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 103 (72.54%) Windows
2 63 (44.37%) Apple
3 62 (43.66%) Active Directory
4 57 (40.14%) Microsoft
5 42 (29.58%) Windows XP
6 38 (26.76%) Windows Server 2003
7 37 (26.06%) Windows Server 2008
8 36 (25.35%) Windows 7
9 34 (23.94%) MS Exchange
10 33 (23.24%) MS Office
11 30 (21.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (20.42%) DNS
13 28 (19.72%) Citrix
14 26 (18.31%) VMware
15 25 (17.61%) DHCP
15 25 (17.61%) MCSE
15 25 (17.61%) Linux
16 24 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
17 22 (15.49%) Cisco
18 21 (14.79%) TCP/IP
19 20 (14.08%) LAN
19 20 (14.08%) MCITP
19 20 (14.08%) Exchange Server 2010
20 19 (13.38%) Apple iOS
20 19 (13.38%) MS Excel
21 18 (12.68%) ITIL
21 18 (12.68%) Exchange Server 2007
22 17 (11.97%) Degree
22 17 (11.97%) CCNA
22 17 (11.97%) Cisco Certification

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 10 (7.042%) JSON
2 9 (6.338%) Ruby on Rails
3 8 (5.634%) CSS
3 8 (5.634%) RESTful
3 8 (5.634%) Resque
4 7 (4.930%) jQuery
4 7 (4.930%) XML
5 5 (3.521%) HTML
5 5 (3.521%) HTML5
6 4 (2.817%) CSS3
6 4 (2.817%) Web Services
6 4 (2.817%) Application Packaging
7 3 (2.113%) Cocoa
7 3 (2.113%) Spring
7 3 (2.113%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.113%) Grails
8 2 (1.408%) Zend Framework
8 2 (1.408%) Gearman
8 2 (1.408%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.408%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 34 (23.94%) MS Exchange
2 20 (14.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (12.68%) Exchange Server 2007
4 8 (5.634%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (5.634%) Apache
4 8 (5.634%) nginx
4 8 (5.634%) Apache Solr
5 7 (4.930%) Lotus Notes
6 6 (4.225%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (1.408%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.408%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.408%) CMS
7 2 (1.408%) GlassFish
8 1 (0.704%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.704%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.704%) Lync
Applications
1 33 (23.24%) MS Office
2 19 (13.38%) MS Excel
3 6 (4.225%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (2.113%) Google Apps
4 3 (2.113%) Office 365
5 2 (1.408%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (1.408%) Vectorworks
6 1 (0.704%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 29 (20.42%) DNS
2 25 (17.61%) DHCP
3 21 (14.79%) TCP/IP
4 20 (14.08%) LAN
5 17 (11.97%) Internet
6 15 (10.56%) SAN
6 15 (10.56%) WAN
7 13 (9.155%) Firewall
8 12 (8.451%) VPN
9 11 (7.746%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (7.042%) Cisco PIX
10 10 (7.042%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (5.634%) Wireless
12 7 (4.930%) DSL
13 4 (2.817%) LDAP
13 4 (2.817%) HTTP
14 3 (2.113%) VoIP
15 2 (1.408%) RIP
15 2 (1.408%) ADSL
15 2 (1.408%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.746%) MySQL
2 8 (5.634%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.634%) Redis
3 3 (2.113%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.113%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.408%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.704%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.704%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 11 (7.746%) Git (software)
2 9 (6.338%) Capistrano
3 8 (5.634%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.113%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.113%) RSpec
5 2 (1.408%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.408%) JUnit
5 2 (1.408%) Xcode
5 2 (1.408%) Hudson
5 2 (1.408%) QUnit
5 2 (1.408%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.408%) Phing
6 1 (0.704%) Redmine
6 1 (0.704%) JIRA
General
1 13 (9.155%) Finance
2 7 (4.930%) Advertising
3 5 (3.521%) Marketing
4 4 (2.817%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.113%) Publishing
6 2 (1.408%) Games
6 2 (1.408%) Retail
7 1 (0.704%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.704%) Banking
7 1 (0.704%) Legal
7 1 (0.704%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.704%) Front Office
7 1 (0.704%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 30 (21.13%) Analyst
1 30 (21.13%) Support Engineer
2 24 (16.90%) IT Support
3 22 (15.49%) Desktop Support
3 22 (15.49%) Support Analyst
4 21 (14.79%) Developer
5 18 (12.68%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (9.155%) 3rd Line Support
7 11 (7.746%) IT Support Analyst
7 11 (7.746%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (7.746%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 11 (7.746%) Technical Assistant
8 10 (7.042%) Desktop Engineer
8 10 (7.042%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 6 (4.225%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.225%) Ruby Developer
9 6 (4.225%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (3.521%) Administrator
11 4 (2.817%) Support Technician
11 4 (2.817%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.155%) Blackberry
2 9 (6.338%) iPhone
2 9 (6.338%) iPad
3 7 (4.930%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.521%) Firmware
4 5 (3.521%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.817%) Statistics
6 3 (2.113%) Open Source
6 3 (2.113%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.408%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.408%) SaaS
7 2 (1.408%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.408%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.408%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.408%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.704%) Handset
8 1 (0.704%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.704%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.704%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.704%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 103 (72.54%) Windows
2 42 (29.58%) Windows XP
3 38 (26.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 37 (26.06%) Windows Server 2008
5 36 (25.35%) Windows 7
6 25 (17.61%) Linux
7 19 (13.38%) Apple iOS
8 16 (11.27%) Windows Vista
9 11 (7.746%) Android
10 9 (6.338%) UNIX
11 8 (5.634%) Gentoo
11 8 (5.634%) Ubuntu
12 6 (4.225%) Mac OS
13 5 (3.521%) HPUX
14 3 (2.113%) Solaris
15 1 (0.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.704%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.704%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (12.68%) ITIL
2 10 (7.042%) Service Management
2 10 (7.042%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (5.634%) Active Record
4 7 (4.930%) OO
5 6 (4.225%) OOA/OOD
6 5 (3.521%) Service Delivery
7 4 (2.817%) Scrum
7 4 (2.817%) TDD
7 4 (2.817%) Data Management
7 4 (2.817%) Risk Analysis
7 4 (2.817%) Performance Management
7 4 (2.817%) Information Assurance
8 3 (2.113%) Time Management
8 3 (2.113%) Web Development
8 3 (2.113%) MVC
8 3 (2.113%) Mobile Commerce
8 3 (2.113%) BDD
8 3 (2.113%) Software Distribution
8 3 (2.113%) Mobile Marketing
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.27%) SQL
2 12 (8.451%) Ruby
3 10 (7.042%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.634%) Java
5 7 (4.930%) PHP
6 5 (3.521%) C
6 5 (3.521%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.113%) Python
7 3 (2.113%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.408%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.408%) Groovy
8 2 (1.408%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.704%) Scala
9 1 (0.704%) Perl
9 1 (0.704%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.704%) VBScript
9 1 (0.704%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (21.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (17.61%) MCSE
3 20 (14.08%) MCITP
4 17 (11.97%) Degree
4 17 (11.97%) CCNA
4 17 (11.97%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (9.155%) MCP
6 10 (7.042%) CCNP
6 10 (7.042%) MCSA
6 10 (7.042%) CCA
6 10 (7.042%) Citrix Certification
6 10 (7.042%) CCEA
7 5 (3.521%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.521%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.817%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.113%) MCDST
9 3 (2.113%) MCT
10 2 (1.408%) CISSP
10 2 (1.408%) GIAC
10 2 (1.408%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.521%) SLA
2 2 (1.408%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.408%) COBIT
2 2 (1.408%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.408%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.704%) QA
System Software
1 62 (43.66%) Active Directory
2 24 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (11.27%) XenDesktop
4 14 (9.859%) XenApp
5 9 (6.338%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.634%) Varnish
7 7 (4.930%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.408%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.408%) Nmap
8 2 (1.408%) vSphere
9 1 (0.704%) Snort
Systems Management
1 7 (4.930%) Backup Exec
2 5 (3.521%) SCCM
2 5 (3.521%) HP SIM
3 3 (2.113%) WSUS
4 2 (1.408%) Puppet
4 2 (1.408%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.704%) Sysprep
5 1 (0.704%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.704%) DameWare
Vendors
1 63 (44.37%) Apple
2 57 (40.14%) Microsoft
3 28 (19.72%) Citrix
4 26 (18.31%) VMware
5 22 (15.49%) Cisco
6 15 (10.56%) HP
7 7 (4.930%) Adobe
7 7 (4.930%) Lotus
8 6 (4.225%) Sage
8 6 (4.225%) Symantec
9 5 (3.521%) Juniper
9 5 (3.521%) IBM
10 4 (2.817%) Oracle
11 3 (2.113%) Dell
11 3 (2.113%) Remedy
11 3 (2.113%) Altiris
11 3 (2.113%) Google
12 2 (1.408%) LANDesk
12 2 (1.408%) Zend
12 2 (1.408%) Polycom
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London
Key skills: Windows XP/7 Mac OSX, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion 10.8 MS Exchange MS Office 2007/2010 Apple Remote Desktop Casper Suite Blackberry & BES Printer &...
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Rate: £12 to £15 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
1st/2nd Line Support Analyst (Mac/PC)
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Freelance Mobile App Developer
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Skills required - Object Oriented Programming with .NET, PHP or Java. - CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript experience. - iOS / Android mobile experience. - Experience working with OS X, Cocoa framework or Objective-C.
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Posted: 2 May 2013
iOS Developer - iOS SDK, Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa, Cocos2d
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