Mac OS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apple macOS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Mac OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 384 513
Rank change year-on-year +62 +129 -83
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 25 82 109
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.60% 2.39% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 60 78
10th Percentile £185 £231 £183
25th Percentile £206 £322 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £453 £438
Median % change year-on-year -46.96% +3.43% +1.45%
75th Percentile £353 £600 £592
90th Percentile £605 £643 £662
UK median daily rate £230 £350 £265
% change year-on-year -34.29% +32.08% -41.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £49.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £51.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.50% -9.60% +48.15%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,560 3,429 5,346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 13.68% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 2,415 3,769
10th Percentile £225 £245 £298
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £606
90th Percentile £685 £725 £677
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 102 160
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £14.27 £35.88 £19.63
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +22.22% +21.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.00 £60.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.62
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Mac OS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mac OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mac OS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mac OS.

Mac OS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Mac OS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mac OS.

Mac OS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) WhatsApp
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.00%) LAN
3 1 (4.00%) MQTT
3 1 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Maven
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
4 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) IT Support
2 4 (16.00%) Mac Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Audio Visual Support
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Mac Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Flask
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.00%) Pandas
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
1 1 (4.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (4.00%) XML
1 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.00%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.00%) Android
3 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (16.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Mac OS X
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (8.00%) Agile
3 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.00%) Coaching
3 2 (8.00%) Filmmaking
3 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (8.00%) RBAC
3 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (4.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (4.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (4.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (4.00%) Runbook
4 1 (4.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (16.00%) QA
1 4 (16.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) iptables
3 1 (4.00%) vCloud
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.00%) AirWatch
3 2 (8.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (16.00%) Apple
4 4 (16.00%) F5
4 4 (16.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) Planview
5 2 (8.00%) Citrix
5 2 (8.00%) VMware
6 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) SAP