Mac OS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Apple macOS
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Mac OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 97 125
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 0
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 7 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.47% 0.39% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.26% 3.28% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £333 £167 -
25th Percentile £473 £208 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year +60.30% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £778 £425 -
90th Percentile £784 £493 -
South East median daily rate £447 £280 £325
% change year-on-year +59.64% -13.85% +35.14%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Mac OS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 215 183 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.53% 12.05% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 115 235
10th Percentile £204 £200 £148
25th Percentile £271 £253 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £404 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +1.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £581
90th Percentile £588 £681 £623
South East median daily rate £433 £435 £400
% change year-on-year -0.57% +8.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 14
10th Percentile £17.58 - £31.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £55.28
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +2.65% +0.51%
75th Percentile £24.33 £57.62 £64.06
90th Percentile £81.20 - £68.22
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.69% +7.05% +197.30%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mac OS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Mac OS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mac OS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in Berkshire

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mac OS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Reading +13 3 £750 +81.82% 2
Wokingham -22 2 £252 -52.10%
Maidenhead - 2 - -
Mac OS
South East

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Build Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Build Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Forensic Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (28.57%) Document Management
1 2 (28.57%) E-Discovery
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 2 (28.57%) Information Security
1 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
1 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) GCFA
1 2 (28.57%) GCFE
1 2 (28.57%) GCIH
1 2 (28.57%) GREM
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) EnCase
1 2 (28.57%) FTK
2 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (28.57%) Darktrace