Mac OS Contract Job Trends in England

Apple macOS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Mac OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 377 379
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 +146
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 231 127 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.54% 3.14% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 73 129
10th Percentile £154 £145 £160
25th Percentile £170 £188 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £500 £419 £441
90th Percentile £550 £523 £550
UK median daily rate £288 £280 £325
% change year-on-year +2.68% -13.85% +27.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 4
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.54 £16.90
25th Percentile £24.23 £21.83 £17.43
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.34 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +40.92% +7.25%
75th Percentile £29.19 £37.50 £25.38
90th Percentile £81.08 £68.98 £26.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £18.61
% change year-on-year +4.01% +29.93% +2.76%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,170 4,050 5,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 13.98% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,737 2,555 3,993
10th Percentile £176 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £313 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £565 £594 £613
90th Percentile £669 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 141 307
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +76.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63.63 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +53.23% +27.84%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Mac OS job vacancy trend in England

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in England

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mac OS in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS in England

Mac OS
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +43 110 £296 +7.73% 29
North of England -26 41 £319 -4.14% 25
South East -15 30 £447 +59.64% 28
Yorkshire -20 21 £500 -31.03% 13
Midlands -23 21 £200 -57.89% 7
North West -11 15 £175 -26.32% 11
East Midlands - 14 £436 - 1
East of England -12 13 £228 -24.17% 11
South West +2 11 £295 +51.28% 4
West Midlands -30 7 £195 -58.95% 6
North East -8 6 £175 -48.53% 2
Mac OS
UK

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 14 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.43%) InDesign
5 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (51.52%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (19.91%) Entra ID
3 45 (19.48%) Azure
4 29 (12.55%) GCP
5 21 (9.09%) AWS
6 13 (5.63%) Google Workspace
7 9 (3.90%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.60%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.30%) GitHub
9 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.87%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Slack
11 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.43%) Dropbox
11 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.43%) Figma
11 1 (0.43%) Firebase
11 1 (0.43%) Google Drive
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 58 (25.11%) Wireless
2 16 (6.93%) DNS
3 15 (6.49%) Firewall
3 15 (6.49%) VPN
4 13 (5.63%) DHCP
5 12 (5.19%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.33%) VoIP
7 9 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.60%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (2.16%) LAN
10 4 (1.73%) VLAN
11 3 (1.30%) IP Telephony
11 3 (1.30%) Network Security
11 3 (1.30%) WAN
12 2 (0.87%) Internet
12 2 (0.87%) SSL
12 2 (0.87%) Telepresence
12 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.87%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (6.93%) JIRA
2 6 (2.60%) JUnit
3 3 (1.30%) Git
4 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.87%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.87%) MSI
5 1 (0.43%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 86 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.68%) Finance
3 41 (17.75%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.82%) Banking
5 24 (10.39%) Electronics
5 24 (10.39%) Manufacturing
5 24 (10.39%) Marketing
5 24 (10.39%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.03%) Legal
8 6 (2.60%) Games
8 6 (2.60%) Military
8 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.60%) Retail
9 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (22.51%) IT Support
2 50 (21.65%) Support Engineer
3 38 (16.45%) Desktop Support
4 28 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
5 26 (11.26%) Analyst
5 26 (11.26%) IT Engineer
6 23 (9.96%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 23 (9.96%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 22 (9.52%) Mac Engineer
7 22 (9.52%) Senior
8 21 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (5.63%) Desktop Engineer
9 13 (5.63%) Support Analyst
10 10 (4.33%) Architect
10 10 (4.33%) Support Manager
11 9 (3.90%) Consultant
12 8 (3.46%) Field Engineer
12 8 (3.46%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.46%) Service Analyst
12 8 (3.46%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.90%) JNI
2 6 (2.60%) Android NDK
2 6 (2.60%) Android SDK
2 6 (2.60%) iOS SDK
3 4 (1.73%) CSS
3 4 (1.73%) HTML
4 3 (1.30%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.30%) Electron
4 3 (1.30%) Node.js
4 3 (1.30%) React
5 2 (0.87%) BREW
5 2 (0.87%) JSON
5 2 (0.87%) RESTful
6 1 (0.43%) AVFoundation
6 1 (0.43%) Core Animation
6 1 (0.43%) Core Data
6 1 (0.43%) SAML
6 1 (0.43%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.43%) UIKit
6 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.61%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.49%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.06%) iPhone
4 11 (4.76%) iPad
5 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.33%) Smartphone
6 8 (3.46%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.60%) Augmented Reality
7 6 (2.60%) Virtual Reality
8 5 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.30%) IoT
10 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 146 (63.20%) Windows
2 89 (38.53%) Android
3 49 (21.21%) Windows 10
4 42 (18.18%) Apple iOS
5 33 (14.29%) Linux
6 7 (3.03%) Unix
7 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.73%) CentOS
8 4 (1.73%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.30%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.87%) tvOS
11 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.43%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.11%) Customer Service
2 45 (19.48%) ITIL
3 42 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (12.99%) ITSM
5 27 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (11.26%) User Experience
7 25 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (10.82%) Roadmaps
8 24 (10.39%) Digital Marketing
8 24 (10.39%) Programme Management
8 24 (10.39%) Zero Trust
9 19 (8.23%) Analytics
10 18 (7.79%) Data Protection
11 17 (7.36%) Computer Science
12 15 (6.49%) Application Packaging
12 15 (6.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (6.06%) Enterprise Architecture
13 14 (6.06%) Service Management
13 14 (6.06%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 38 (16.45%) Bash
3 19 (8.23%) Python
4 11 (4.76%) Java
5 10 (4.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.60%) C++
7 4 (1.73%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.30%) C
8 3 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.30%) Perl
9 2 (0.87%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.87%) Swift
10 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 84 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 80 (34.63%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.39%) Degree
4 23 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (7.79%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.06%) A+ Certification
6 14 (6.06%) ACSP
6 14 (6.06%) ACTC
7 8 (3.46%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.73%) CISSP
9 4 (1.73%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (1.73%) GCIH
9 4 (1.73%) MCP
10 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.30%) MCSA
10 3 (1.30%) MCSE
10 3 (1.30%) MCTS
10 3 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.66%) GDPR
2 19 (8.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.93%) SLA
4 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) QA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (31.60%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (20.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (19.48%) SCCM
3 43 (18.61%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (3.03%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.30%) Terraform
6 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.87%) EnCase
6 2 (0.87%) FTK
6 2 (0.87%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.43%) Ansible
7 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 111 (48.05%) Microsoft
2 101 (43.72%) Apple
3 64 (27.71%) Cisco
4 56 (24.24%) HP
5 55 (23.81%) Dell
6 45 (19.48%) ServiceNow
7 24 (10.39%) SAP
8 18 (7.79%) Google
8 18 (7.79%) VMware
9 17 (7.36%) Citrix
10 9 (3.90%) Splunk
11 8 (3.46%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.60%) Meraki
12 6 (2.60%) Remedy
13 5 (2.16%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.16%) Rapid7
13 5 (2.16%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.73%) CheckPoint
14 4 (1.73%) Qualys
14 4 (1.73%) Red Hat
91 Mac OS jobs in England