Mac OS X Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple Mac OS X
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Mac OS X skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS X over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 394 432
Rank change year-on-year +38 +38 -39
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 29 62 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.90% 1.37% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 61
10th Percentile £133 £173 £134
25th Percentile £268 £200 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £250 £213
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +17.65% -57.50%
75th Percentile £469 £669 £550
90th Percentile £544 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £345 £264 £225
% change year-on-year +30.81% +17.22% -55.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £18.16 - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £16.00
75th Percentile £21.07 - £16.50
90th Percentile £26.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.27 £180.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -89.85% +800.00% +53.85%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Mac OS X is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,231 4,532 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.28% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 3,149 3,853
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £256 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.90 £60.64 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 11 £438 - 4
West Midlands - 11 £438 - 2
North of England +2 7 £425 -34.62% 1
Scotland - 6 £126 - 2
Yorkshire +5 5 £425 -37.04% 1
South East -10 4 £178 -18.39% 3
North West +19 2 - -
South West - 1 £550 - 2
Mac OS X
UK

Mac OS X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (13.79%) HTTP
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
1 4 (13.79%) Gatling
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
1 4 (13.79%) JMeter
1 4 (13.79%) Selenium
1 4 (13.79%) WebDriver
2 2 (6.90%) Mockito
General
1 10 (34.48%) Legal
2 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 10 (34.48%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Desktop Support
3 6 (20.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) IT Support
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) Web Services
3 2 (6.90%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Blackberry
2 4 (13.79%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 13 (44.83%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Unix
4 4 (13.79%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.45%) Android
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) SIEM
2 10 (34.48%) Computer Forensics
2 10 (34.48%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (34.48%) Incident Management
2 10 (34.48%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 10 (34.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 10 (34.48%) Purple Team
2 10 (34.48%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (34.48%) Risk Management
2 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (34.48%) Threat Analysis
2 10 (34.48%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) BDD
3 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (20.69%) TDD
3 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
4 5 (17.24%) Line Management
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) Groovy
2 4 (13.79%) Scala
2 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (34.48%) GDPR
1 10 (34.48%) HIPAA
1 10 (34.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (34.48%) NIST
2 7 (24.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) AirWatch
2 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Apple
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) HP
3 3 (10.34%) Remedy
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) Ivanti
4 1 (3.45%) SAP