Mac OS X Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Mac OS X skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS X over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Apple Mac OS X UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	388	414	435
Rank change year-on-year	+26	+21
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X	199	210	190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.46%	0.42%	0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category	2.24%	1.86%	1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted	150	129	94
Median daily rate	£450	£400	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.50%	+23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£147	£128	£139
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£625	£529
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£455	£375
% change year-on-year	+4.39%	+21.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	14	24
Median hourly rate	£14.00	£18.75	£15.77
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-25.33%	+18.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.05	£12.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.00	£28.30	£20.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.00	£14.25	£15.50
% change year-on-year	-1.75%	-8.06%

Mac OS X is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	8889	11314	11220
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	20.56%	22.88%	22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	11933	16372	15346
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£173	£200	£165
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£566	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£348
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1219	1404	2348
Median hourly rate	£16.50	£16.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.50	£11.25	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.00	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	+3.03%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Mac OS X as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in England

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Mac OS X in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Mac OS X in England

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Mac OS X in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in England

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in England

Mac OS X
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the England region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-20	87	£413	+40.42%	34
East of England	+33	37	£475	+239.28%	5
North of England	+65	32	£475	+10.46%	6
Yorkshire	+29	28	£475	+10.46%	3
South East	+19	19	£390	-10.85%	9
West Midlands	+39	18	£513	+266.07%	1
Midlands	+14	18	£513	-14.58%	2
South West	-9	6	£330	-40.00%
North West	+20	3	£450	+9.75%	2
North East	+72	1	£550	+74.60%	1
Mac OS X UK

Mac OS X
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS X also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Mac OS X.

1	230 (61.83%)	Linux
2	191 (51.34%)	Unix
3	169 (45.43%)	Git (software)
4	156 (41.94%)	Agile Software Development
5	154 (41.40%)	Windows
6	140 (37.63%)	Java
7	125 (33.60%)	CSS
8	123 (33.06%)	HTML
9	116 (31.18%)	Relational Database
10	113 (30.38%)	JavaScript
10	113 (30.38%)	TDD
11	103 (27.69%)	Configuration Management
12	101 (27.15%)	Test Automation
13	98 (26.34%)	Web Development
14	85 (22.85%)	HTTP

15	84 (22.58%)	Continuous Integration
16	83 (22.31%)	Python
17	78 (20.97%)	Active Directory
18	75 (20.16%)	Mentoring
19	71 (19.09%)	Microsoft
20	70 (18.82%)	DevOps
21	69 (18.55%)	Web Design
21	69 (18.55%)	Responsive Web Design
22	68 (18.28%)	Subversion
23	65 (17.47%)	Windows 7
24	58 (15.59%)	Ruby
24	58 (15.59%)	Scrum
25	55 (14.78%)	REST
26	52 (13.98%)	Apple
27	51 (13.71%)	Web Services

Mac OS X
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	15 (4.03%)	MS Exchange
2	14 (3.76%)	Confluence
2	14 (3.76%)	JBoss
3	11 (2.96%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
4	10 (2.69%)	WebLogic
5	9 (2.42%)	Exchange Server 2010
6	7 (1.88%)	Skype for Business
7	6 (1.61%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	5 (1.34%)	Apache
9	4 (1.08%)	Exchange Server 2003
10	3 (0.81%)	Apache Solr
10	3 (0.81%)	Elasticsearch
10	3 (0.81%)	SharePoint
10	3 (0.81%)	WordPress
11	2 (0.54%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	2 (0.54%)	nginx
12	1 (0.27%)	Jetty
12	1 (0.27%)	Mule
12	1 (0.27%)	Oracle SOA Suite
12	1 (0.27%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	34 (9.14%)	Microsoft Office
2	6 (1.61%)	Photoshop
3	3 (0.81%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	2 (0.54%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	2 (0.54%)	Spreadsheet
5	1 (0.27%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	25 (6.72%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.27%)	Dynamics AX
2	1 (0.27%)	Oracle BPM

Cloud Services
1	27 (7.26%)	Amazon AWS
2	23 (6.18%)	Office 365
3	15 (4.03%)	Microsoft Azure
4	4 (1.08%)	GitHub
4	4 (1.08%)	Sauce Labs
5	3 (0.81%)	G Suite
5	3 (0.81%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	2 (0.54%)	Amazon S3
6	2 (0.54%)	CloudFront
6	2 (0.54%)	Google App Engine
6	2 (0.54%)	Route 53
7	1 (0.27%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	1 (0.27%)	Azure Active Directory
7	1 (0.27%)	OneDrive

Communications & Networking
1	85 (22.85%)	HTTP
2	44 (11.83%)	Wireless
3	31 (8.33%)	TCP/IP
4	28 (7.53%)	Firewall
5	24 (6.45%)	SSL
6	23 (6.18%)	Internet
7	22 (5.91%)	LAN
8	21 (5.65%)	DNS
9	19 (5.11%)	DHCP
10	17 (4.57%)	LDAP
11	15 (4.03%)	VPN
12	14 (3.76%)	WAN
13	12 (3.23%)	Intrusion Detection
14	10 (2.69%)	Remote Desktop
15	9 (2.42%)	3G
15	9 (2.42%)	GPRS
15	9 (2.42%)	GSM
15	9 (2.42%)	LTE
15	9 (2.42%)	SGSN
15	9 (2.42%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	116 (31.18%)	Relational Database
2	43 (11.56%)	MySQL
3	26 (6.99%)	MongoDB
4	16 (4.30%)	NoSQL
5	15 (4.03%)	MariaDB
6	14 (3.76%)	Redis
7	10 (2.69%)	Neo4j
8	9 (2.42%)	Apache Cassandra
8	9 (2.42%)	SQL Server
9	8 (2.15%)	Data Mining
10	6 (1.61%)	PostgreSQL
11	4 (1.08%)	MS Access
12	2 (0.54%)	Big Data
12	2 (0.54%)	Flink
12	2 (0.54%)	Hadoop
12	2 (0.54%)	RDBMS
12	2 (0.54%)	SQL Server 2005
13	1 (0.27%)	Oracle Database
13	1 (0.27%)	Oracle Database 10g
13	1 (0.27%)	Oracle Database 12c

Development Applications
1	169 (45.43%)	Git (software)
2	68 (18.28%)	Subversion
3	38 (10.22%)	Jenkins
4	22 (5.91%)	SoapUI
5	19 (5.11%)	JUnit
6	15 (4.03%)	JIRA
7	14 (3.76%)	Mockito
8	13 (3.49%)	Maven
9	10 (2.69%)	Cucumber
9	10 (2.69%)	gulp
9	10 (2.69%)	Selenium
9	10 (2.69%)	WebDriver
10	9 (2.42%)	Appium
10	9 (2.42%)	Atlassian Bamboo
10	9 (2.42%)	Bitbucket
11	7 (1.88%)	Grunt
12	5 (1.34%)	Calabash
12	5 (1.34%)	Xcode
13	4 (1.08%)	Jasmine
13	4 (1.08%)	Protractor

General
1	38 (10.22%)	Finance
2	29 (7.80%)	Marketing
3	26 (6.99%)	Telecoms
4	25 (6.72%)	Electronics
4	25 (6.72%)	Manufacturing
5	13 (3.49%)	Banking
6	11 (2.96%)	Retail
7	6 (1.61%)	Corporate Banking
7	6 (1.61%)	Games
8	4 (1.08%)	Italian Language
8	4 (1.08%)	Japanese Language
9	3 (0.81%)	Advertising
9	3 (0.81%)	Legal
10	2 (0.54%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.27%)	Digital Economy
11	1 (0.27%)	Interactive Media
11	1 (0.27%)	Multimedia
11	1 (0.27%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	172 (46.24%)	Developer
2	85 (22.85%)	Java Developer
3	56 (15.05%)	Analyst
4	40 (10.75%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5	31 (8.33%)	Service Analyst
5	31 (8.33%)	Service Desk Analyst
6	30 (8.06%)	Support Engineer
7	23 (6.18%)	Desktop Support
8	22 (5.91%)	Scala Developer
9	21 (5.65%)	2nd Line Support
10	20 (5.38%)	Architect
11	18 (4.84%)	Senior Developer
11	18 (4.84%)	Support Analyst
11	18 (4.84%)	Technical Support
12	16 (4.30%)	Agile Developer
12	16 (4.30%)	Full Stack Developer
12	16 (4.30%)	Mac Engineer
12	16 (4.30%)	Windows Engineer
13	15 (4.03%)	Front End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
14	14 (3.76%)	1st/2nd Line Support

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	125 (33.60%)	CSS
2	123 (33.06%)	HTML
3	55 (14.78%)	REST
4	51 (13.71%)	Web Services
5	45 (12.10%)	XML
6	37 (9.95%)	Middleware
7	35 (9.41%)	JSON
8	31 (8.33%)	SOAP
9	26 (6.99%)	Hibernate
10	24 (6.45%)	XSD
11	23 (6.18%)	JSON Schema
11	23 (6.18%)	WSDL
12	22 (5.91%)	Node.js
13	18 (4.84%)	React
14	17 (4.57%)	Spring
15	16 (4.30%)	JPA
16	15 (4.03%)	EclipseLink
17	14 (3.76%)	JAAS
17	14 (3.76%)	RESTful
17	14 (3.76%)	Spring MVC

Miscellaneous
1	44 (11.83%)	User Experience
2	19 (5.11%)	Computer Science
3	17 (4.57%)	Enterprise Software
4	16 (4.30%)	Blackberry
5	14 (3.76%)	Management Information System
6	12 (3.23%)	Analytical Skills
7	11 (2.96%)	Blog
8	8 (2.15%)	iPhone
8	8 (2.15%)	Video Conferencing
9	5 (1.34%)	Data Centre
9	5 (1.34%)	Mobile App
9	5 (1.34%)	Smartphone
10	4 (1.08%)	Greenfield Project
10	4 (1.08%)	iPad
10	4 (1.08%)	Online Games
11	3 (0.81%)	Data Structures
11	3 (0.81%)	PDA
12	2 (0.54%)	Cyber Kill Chain
12	2 (0.54%)	Digital Media
12	2 (0.54%)	RIA

Operating Systems
1	230 (61.83%)	Linux
2	191 (51.34%)	Unix
3	154 (41.40%)	Windows
4	65 (17.47%)	Windows 7
5	49 (13.17%)	Android
6	47 (12.63%)	Apple iOS
7	34 (9.14%)	Windows 10
8	29 (7.80%)	Windows Server
9	19 (5.11%)	Windows Server 2008
10	12 (3.23%)	Windows 8
11	11 (2.96%)	Windows XP
12	10 (2.69%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	10 (2.69%)	Windows Phone
13	9 (2.42%)	Windows Server 2003
14	8 (2.15%)	Mac OS
14	8 (2.15%)	Windows Server 2012
15	4 (1.08%)	Windows Vista
16	3 (0.81%)	Mac OS X Server
16	3 (0.81%)	Ubuntu
16	3 (0.81%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	156 (41.94%)	Agile Software Development
2	113 (30.38%)	TDD
3	103 (27.69%)	Configuration Management
4	101 (27.15%)	Test Automation
5	98 (26.34%)	Web Development
6	84 (22.58%)	Continuous Integration
7	75 (20.16%)	Mentoring
8	70 (18.82%)	DevOps
9	69 (18.55%)	Responsive Web Design
9	69 (18.55%)	Web Design
10	58 (15.59%)	Scrum
11	51 (13.71%)	Line Management
12	48 (12.90%)	Data Visualisation
12	48 (12.90%)	ITIL
12	48 (12.90%)	Visualisation
13	44 (11.83%)	Continuous Delivery
14	41 (11.02%)	BDD
15	38 (10.22%)	Continuous Deployment
15	38 (10.22%)	Front End Development
16	37 (9.95%)	SOA

Programming Languages
1	140 (37.63%)	Java
2	113 (30.38%)	JavaScript
3	83 (22.31%)	Python
4	58 (15.59%)	Ruby
5	38 (10.22%)	Scala
6	36 (9.68%)	SQL
7	18 (4.84%)	PHP
7	18 (4.84%)	PowerShell
8	17 (4.57%)	PL/SQL
9	14 (3.76%)	Apple Swift
10	10 (2.69%)	VB
11	9 (2.42%)	C++
11	9 (2.42%)	Perl
12	6 (1.61%)	C#
13	5 (1.34%)	Bash Shell
13	5 (1.34%)	C
13	5 (1.34%)	Objective-C
13	5 (1.34%)	R
14	4 (1.08%)	Groovy
14	4 (1.08%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	32 (8.60%)	Security Cleared
2	25 (6.72%)	Cisco Certification
3	24 (6.45%)	Degree
4	19 (5.11%)	SC Cleared
5	17 (4.57%)	CISM
5	17 (4.57%)	CISSP
6	15 (4.03%)	Computer Science Degree
7	14 (3.76%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
7	14 (3.76%)	BPSS Clearance
7	14 (3.76%)	CCSP
7	14 (3.76%)	SANS
8	10 (2.69%)	CTC Cleared
9	9 (2.42%)	ITIL Certification
9	9 (2.42%)	Microsoft Certification
10	8 (2.15%)	BC Cleared
10	8 (2.15%)	DBS Check
11	6 (1.61%)	CCNA
11	6 (1.61%)	MCSE
12	5 (1.34%)	CCNP
13	4 (1.08%)	GIAC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (5.65%)	SLA
2	12 (3.23%)	PCI DSS
3	10 (2.69%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	9 (2.42%)	QA
5	7 (1.88%)	WAI
6	6 (1.61%)	WCAG
7	1 (0.27%)	FATCA

System Software
1	78 (20.97%)	Active Directory
2	22 (5.91%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	19 (5.11%)	Docker
4	10 (2.69%)	vSphere
5	8 (2.15%)	Virtual Desktop
6	6 (1.61%)	VMware ESXi
7	4 (1.08%)	Hyper-V
8	3 (0.81%)	Virtual Machines
9	2 (0.54%)	BitLocker
9	2 (0.54%)	VirtualBox
9	2 (0.54%)	XenDesktop
10	1 (0.27%)	Samba
10	1 (0.27%)	Xen
10	1 (0.27%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	23 (6.18%)	Ansible
2	14 (3.76%)	Jamf Pro
2	14 (3.76%)	SCCM
3	10 (2.69%)	AirWatch
4	9 (2.42%)	Puppet
5	4 (1.08%)	Grafana
5	4 (1.08%)	Nagios
5	4 (1.08%)	StatsD
6	3 (0.81%)	Cisco Prime
6	3 (0.81%)	cPanel
6	3 (0.81%)	Terraform
7	2 (0.54%)	Kibana
7	2 (0.54%)	Kubernetes
7	2 (0.54%)	logstash
7	2 (0.54%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7	2 (0.54%)	Norton AntiVirus
7	2 (0.54%)	SCOM
7	2 (0.54%)	SCSM
7	2 (0.54%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
7	2 (0.54%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	71 (19.09%)	Microsoft
2	52 (13.98%)	Apple
3	26 (6.99%)	Cisco
3	26 (6.99%)	SAP
4	25 (6.72%)	VMware
5	21 (5.65%)	Oracle
6	17 (4.57%)	WSO2
7	16 (4.30%)	Google
8	14 (3.76%)	Dell
8	14 (3.76%)	LogRhythm
9	13 (3.49%)	Citrix
10	12 (3.23%)	Rapid7
11	11 (2.96%)	MuleSoft
11	11 (2.96%)	Splunk
12	9 (2.42%)	LANDesk
12	9 (2.42%)	MobileIron
13	8 (2.15%)	ServiceNow
14	5 (1.34%)	Palo Alto
14	5 (1.34%)	Symantec
15	4 (1.08%)	Zend