The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 - 49 -
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 0 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 1.406% -
As % of the Operating Systems category - 8.108% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £205 £268 £300
% change year-on-year
-23.36% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
98 111 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.69% 17.34% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 62
Average daily rate £305 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 34
Average hourly rate £14.81 £16.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.22% +17.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £11.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.25 £23.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Mac OS X
South East

Mac OS X
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Mac OS X Jobs Demand 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Mac OS X Hourly Rate Trend

Mac OS X
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) OOD
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) LAMP
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) Symfony
3 1 (25.00%) Zend
3 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (25.00%) PHP5
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (25.00%) Symfony
1 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Zend