Mac OS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Apple macOS
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Mac OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 79 102
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 11 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.69% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.31% 3.28% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £179 £181 £174
25th Percentile £213 £241 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £313 £350
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% -10.71% -26.32%
75th Percentile £338 £338 £584
90th Percentile £397 - £646
England median daily rate £280 £280 £325
% change year-on-year - -13.85% +18.18%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 255 183 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.89% 16.15% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 68 183
10th Percentile £163 £210 £150
25th Percentile £205 £224 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £356 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -16.18% +9.68%
75th Percentile £488 £446 £570
90th Percentile £575 £556 £710
England median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 18 39
10th Percentile £14.00 £42.48 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.57 £53.66 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.75 £65.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% +359.04% -34.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.09
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% +61.54% +30.00%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Mac OS job vacancy trend in the East of England

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mac OS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the East of England

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mac OS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Norfolk -14 6 £330 +135.71% 2
Hertfordshire -18 3 £228 -24.17% 4
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £225 -30.77% 9
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 4
Mac OS
England

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Google Workspace
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) VoIP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Military
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Service Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Support
3 2 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Smartphone
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Apple iOS
3 7 (63.64%) Android
4 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
5 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
6 1 (9.09%) Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
2 6 (54.55%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (54.55%) Customer Service
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) MCTS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
2 1 (9.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk