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

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Mac OS 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 over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Apple Mac OS
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank548561521
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Down-40
Matching contract IT job ads312015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.052 %0.033 %0.027 %
As % of the Operating Systems category0.258 %0.157 %0.150 %
Number of daily rates quoted13144
Average daily rate£200£405£179
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.61 %+126.57 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£96£282£138
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£370£450£200
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£313£144
% change year-on-year
-4.00 %+117.39 %
Number of hourly rates quoted755
Average hourly rate£13.50£15.00£12.68
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00 %+18.29 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£11.00£13.75£11.25
% change year-on-year
-20.00 %+22.22 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		120201270110029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK20.31 %20.70 %18.21 %
Number of daily rates quoted606461864456
Average daily rate£350£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£215£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£324£306
% change year-on-year
+0.30 %+5.79 %
Number of hourly rates quoted118112531038
Average hourly rate£17.50£16.75£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.47 %+4.68 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.00£16.20£15.50
% change year-on-year
+4.93 %+4.51 %

Mac OS
Demand Trend

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

Mac OS Demand Trend

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Mac OS Daily Rate Trend

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mac OS within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Mac OS Daily Rate Histogram

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Mac OS Hourly Rate Trend

Mac OS
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+2129£208-48.76 %
LondonUp+3319£170-62.22 %
City of LondonUp+384£110-68.57 %
North WestNew entry-4£300-
LancashireNew entry-3--
DerbyshireNew entry-2--
ChesterfieldNew entry-2--
East MidlandsNew entry-2--
South EastNo change01£93-
WiltshireDown-71£375+20.00 %
South WestDown-231£375+20.00 %
West MidlandsNew entry-1£500-
MerseysideNew entry-1£300-
BirminghamNew entry-1£500-
LancasterNew entry-1--
LiverpoolNew entry-1£300-
NewburyNew entry-1£93-
BerkshireNew entry-1£93-

Mac OS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mac OS 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.

132 (61.54 %)Windows
219 (36.54 %)Linux
314 (26.92 %)Microsoft
314 (26.92 %)Apple
413 (25.00 %)Active Directory
413 (25.00 %)MS Office
512 (23.08 %)DNS
611 (21.15 %)Windows XP
78 (15.38 %)UNIX
78 (15.38 %)DHCP
78 (15.38 %)VPN
78 (15.38 %)Mac OS X
87 (13.46 %)Cisco
87 (13.46 %)Internet
87 (13.46 %)Adobe
87 (13.46 %)MS Exchange
87 (13.46 %)Windows 7
96 (11.54 %)ITIL
96 (11.54 %)Citrix
105 (9.615 %)TCP/IP
105 (9.615 %)HTML
105 (9.615 %)MS Excel
105 (9.615 %)Telecoms
105 (9.615 %)Git (software)
114 (7.692 %)Security Cleared
114 (7.692 %)Computer Science
114 (7.692 %)Bomgar
114 (7.692 %)DameWare
114 (7.692 %)Remedy
114 (7.692 %)Publishing

Mac OS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mac OS 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (9.615 %)HTML
24 (7.692 %)CSS
33 (5.769 %)Ruby on Rails
33 (5.769 %)HTML5
33 (5.769 %)Haml
33 (5.769 %)CSS3
33 (5.769 %)Django
33 (5.769 %)jQuery
42 (3.846 %)Software Packaging
51 (1.923 %)SOAP
51 (1.923 %)XML
51 (1.923 %)Flash
51 (1.923 %)JSON
51 (1.923 %)POJO
51 (1.923 %)iOS SDK
51 (1.923 %)REST
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (13.46 %)MS Exchange
24 (7.692 %)CMS
24 (7.692 %)SharePoint
33 (5.769 %)Facebook Platform
33 (5.769 %)WordPress
33 (5.769 %)Amazon S3
41 (1.923 %)Content Management Server
41 (1.923 %)WebLogic
41 (1.923 %)IIS
41 (1.923 %)Lotus Notes
41 (1.923 %)Apache
41 (1.923 %)Tomcat
41 (1.923 %)Oracle Application Server
41 (1.923 %)Exchange Server 2003
41 (1.923 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
41 (1.923 %)RabbitMQ
41 (1.923 %)Exchange Server 2010
41 (1.923 %)OpenStack
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (25.00 %)MS Office
25 (9.615 %)MS Excel
31 (1.923 %)Photoshop
31 (1.923 %)LightWave 3D
31 (1.923 %)Final Cut Pro
31 (1.923 %)Google Apps
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (23.08 %)DNS
28 (15.38 %)DHCP
28 (15.38 %)VPN
37 (13.46 %)Internet
45 (9.615 %)TCP/IP
53 (5.769 %)LAN
53 (5.769 %)WAN
53 (5.769 %)LDAP
62 (3.846 %)Firewall
62 (3.846 %)SMTP
71 (1.923 %)POP3
71 (1.923 %)HTTP
71 (1.923 %)ADSL
71 (1.923 %)SSH
71 (1.923 %)VLAN
71 (1.923 %)IMAP
71 (1.923 %)RFID
71 (1.923 %)NetScreen
71 (1.923 %)Wireless
71 (1.923 %)Cisco PIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (7.692 %)MySQL
21 (1.923 %)FileMaker
21 (1.923 %)RDBMS
21 (1.923 %)SQL Server
21 (1.923 %)Apache Cassandra
21 (1.923 %)NoSQL
21 (1.923 %)SQLite
21 (1.923 %)Hadoop
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (9.615 %)Git (software)
23 (5.769 %)Subversion
23 (5.769 %)RSpec
31 (1.923 %)JIRA
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (9.615 %)Telecoms
24 (7.692 %)Publishing
32 (3.846 %)Back Office
41 (1.923 %)Marketing
41 (1.923 %)Pharmaceutical
41 (1.923 %)Electronics
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110 (19.23 %)Desktop Support
29 (17.31 %)Support Engineer
37 (13.46 %)Administrator
37 (13.46 %)Analyst
46 (11.54 %)Desktop Support Engineer
46 (11.54 %)Desktop Engineer
55 (9.615 %)Developer
64 (7.692 %)Systems Administrator
64 (7.692 %)1st Line Support
73 (5.769 %)Support Analyst
73 (5.769 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
82 (3.846 %)IT Support
82 (3.846 %)Support Specialist
82 (3.846 %)2nd Line Support
82 (3.846 %)Service Analyst
82 (3.846 %)Junior
82 (3.846 %)Architect
82 (3.846 %)Java Developer
82 (3.846 %)IT Administrator
82 (3.846 %)Service Desk Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (7.692 %)Computer Science
23 (5.769 %)Graphic Design
23 (5.769 %)Xserve
23 (5.769 %)iPad
23 (5.769 %)iPhone
32 (3.846 %)PDA
41 (1.923 %)W3C
41 (1.923 %)Video Editing
41 (1.923 %)Data Protection Act
41 (1.923 %)Blackberry
41 (1.923 %)Big Data
41 (1.923 %)Cloud Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
132 (61.54 %)Windows
219 (36.54 %)Linux
311 (21.15 %)Windows XP
48 (15.38 %)UNIX
48 (15.38 %)Mac OS X
57 (13.46 %)Windows 7
63 (5.769 %)Ubuntu
72 (3.846 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
72 (3.846 %)Mac OS X Server
72 (3.846 %)Apple iOS
81 (1.923 %)Windows Server 2003
81 (1.923 %)Solaris
81 (1.923 %)Windows 2000
81 (1.923 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (11.54 %)ITIL
24 (7.692 %)Migration
33 (5.769 %)Time Management
42 (3.846 %)Configuration Management
42 (3.846 %)Incident Management
42 (3.846 %)Network Design
51 (1.923 %)CRM
51 (1.923 %)UML
51 (1.923 %)OOP
51 (1.923 %)Project Management
51 (1.923 %)BDD
51 (1.923 %)Data Protection
51 (1.923 %)Multithreading
51 (1.923 %)User Acceptance Testing
51 (1.923 %)Continuous Integration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (7.692 %)JavaScript
23 (5.769 %)Shell Script
23 (5.769 %)PHP
23 (5.769 %)Java
23 (5.769 %)Python
23 (5.769 %)Ruby
23 (5.769 %)PHP5
32 (3.846 %)SQL
41 (1.923 %)C
41 (1.923 %)C++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (7.692 %)Security Cleared
23 (5.769 %)Degree
23 (5.769 %)SC Cleared
31 (1.923 %)Cisco Certification
31 (1.923 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (1.923 %)CCNA
31 (1.923 %)DV Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (5.769 %)QA
21 (1.923 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
113 (25.00 %)Active Directory
24 (7.692 %)Terminal Services
33 (5.769 %)Xsan
42 (3.846 %)VMware Infrastructure
51 (1.923 %)ISA Server
51 (1.923 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (7.692 %)DameWare
23 (5.769 %)Nagios
23 (5.769 %)SCCM
32 (3.846 %)Puppet
41 (1.923 %)CFEngine
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
114 (26.92 %)Microsoft
114 (26.92 %)Apple
27 (13.46 %)Cisco
27 (13.46 %)Adobe
36 (11.54 %)Citrix
44 (7.692 %)Bomgar
44 (7.692 %)Remedy
44 (7.692 %)HP
53 (5.769 %)Facebook
62 (3.846 %)VMware
62 (3.846 %)CheckPoint
71 (1.923 %)Dell
71 (1.923 %)Symantec
71 (1.923 %)Lotus
71 (1.923 %)Oracle
71 (1.923 %)Sophos
71 (1.923 %)ArcSight
71 (1.923 %)WatchGuard
71 (1.923 %)SonicWALL
71 (1.923 %)Google
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