Mac OS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Apple macOS
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Mac OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 1 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% 0.73% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.28% 5.77% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £122
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.06%
North West median daily rate £244 £229 £220
% change year-on-year +6.56% +3.98% -61.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £21.36 £16.67
25th Percentile - £21.83 £17.02
Median hourly rate - £23.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +30.56% -
75th Percentile - £23.92 -
90th Percentile - £24.08 £17.75
North West median hourly rate - £23.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +30.56% -

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 78 52 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.10% 12.71% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 41 45
10th Percentile £193 £250 £129
25th Percentile £300 £350 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £393 £487
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -19.30% +39.14%
75th Percentile £484 £488 £538
90th Percentile £585 £565 £582
North West median daily rate £363 £393 £438
% change year-on-year -7.76% -10.17% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £21.36 £14.00
25th Percentile - £21.83 £16.61
Median hourly rate - £23.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +30.56% -14.04%
75th Percentile - £23.92 -
90th Percentile - £24.08 £18.30
North West median hourly rate £59.25 £26.59 £16.00
% change year-on-year +122.83% +66.19% -45.39%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Mac OS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
Chester - 1 £550 - 1
Mac OS
North West

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk