Mac OS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Apple macOS
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +46
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.65% 0.27% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.19% 1.50% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £133
25th Percentile £175 £175 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £355
Median % change year-on-year - -43.66% +57.78%
75th Percentile £297 £225 £600
90th Percentile £340 - -
Scotland median daily rate £338 £300 £461
% change year-on-year +12.50% -34.97% +105.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.21 £11.65
Median % change year-on-year - +13.39% -
Scotland median hourly rate - £13.21 £15.58
% change year-on-year - -15.18% -12.10%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 77 133 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.50% 17.97% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 88 65
10th Percentile £175 £149 £154
25th Percentile £400 £200 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £345 £425
Median % change year-on-year +37.68% -18.82% -13.92%
75th Percentile £538 £503 £526
90th Percentile £575 £685 £583
Scotland median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 6
10th Percentile - £15.22 £12.41
25th Percentile - £18.82 £14.30
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year - +36.53% +2.67%
75th Percentile - - £50.56
90th Percentile - £57.50 £62.00
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.09 £19.18
% change year-on-year +8.92% +20.39% +18.65%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Mac OS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Mac Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Mac Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Mac Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft