Mac OS X Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 116 129 130
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.044% 0.095% 0.065%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.188% 0.427% 0.283%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £314 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +79.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £205 £268 £300
% change year-on-year
-23.36% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 532 703 706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.16% 22.20% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 281 381
Average daily rate £295 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.08% +5.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £458 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 67 72
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +32.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £10.18 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £32.50
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Mac OS X Daily Rate Trend

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 North West region.

North West Mac OS X Hourly Rate Trend

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 North West 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
Manchester +10 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 North West 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 4 (44.44%) Ruby
3 4 (44.44%) Blackberry
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 4 (44.44%) Symbian
3 4 (44.44%) ISEB
3 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (44.44%) Android
3 4 (44.44%) iPhone
3 4 (44.44%) iPhone SDK
3 4 (44.44%) bada
3 4 (44.44%) Maemo
3 4 (44.44%) BDD
3 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
3 4 (44.44%) iOS SDK
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (33.33%) JSON
4 3 (33.33%) XML
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) JavaScript

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
1 4 (44.44%) iPhone SDK
1 4 (44.44%) iOS SDK
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) JSON
2 3 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) Series 60
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) JAX-RS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Robotium
2 1 (11.11%) Xcode
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Firebug
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Web Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Blackberry
1 4 (44.44%) iPhone
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Web
2 1 (11.11%) Interactive TV
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Mobile
2 4 (44.44%) Android
2 4 (44.44%) bada
2 4 (44.44%) Maemo
2 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
2 4 (44.44%) BDD
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) RDF
4 2 (22.22%) Benchmarking
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 1 (11.11%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) ISEB
1 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Symbian
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
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