The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X Server skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mac OS X Server over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS X Server
Rank 528 576 580
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +4
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X Server 6 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.017% 0.010%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.059% 0.083% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 4
Average daily rate - £365 £155
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +135.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £200
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £22.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.63% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
-50.90% -
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10144 12048 12518
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.52% 20.32% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5444 5992 6127
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 1202 1233
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%

Mac OS X Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mac OS X Server Jobs Demand Trend

Mac OS X Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mac OS X Server within the UK.

Mac OS X Server Daily Rate Trend

Mac OS X Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS X Server within the UK.

Mac OS X Server Hourly Rate Trend

Mac OS X Server
Top 6 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 Server within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +52 6 - -
South West - 6 - -
Gloucestershire - 4 - -
Cheltenham - 4 - -
Somerset - 2 - -
Bath - 2 - -

Mac OS X Server
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mac OS X Server 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 Server.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
2 5 (71.43%) Apple
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
2 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Vista
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) Subversion
3 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
3 2 (28.57%) nginx
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Apache
3 2 (28.57%) FreeBSD
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX

Mac OS X Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mac OS X Server 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 Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
1 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (28.57%) nginx
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
1 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support
2 3 (42.86%) Mac Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Support
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Vista
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) FreeBSD
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Apple