macOS Contract Job Trends in England

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring macOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 262 381
Rank change year-on-year -152 +119 -60
Contract jobs citing macOS 220 274 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.98% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.87% 6.94% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 156 88
10th Percentile £156 £160 £144
25th Percentile £185 £212 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £400 £273
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +46.79% -16.15%
75th Percentile £388 £525 £409
90th Percentile £620 £678 £515
UK median daily rate £240 £400 £270
% change year-on-year -40.00% +48.15% -20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 9
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.78 £15.84
25th Percentile £22.75 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -16.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £26.75 £38.00
90th Percentile £34.63 £83.66 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £27.09
% change year-on-year +29.22% -7.16% +14.06%

All Operating Systems
England

macOS 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 4,519 3,947 4,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.77% 14.06% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 2,583 2,852
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 283 215
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.27 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £23.46
Median hourly rate £32.29 £24.00 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -60.93% +28.43%
75th Percentile £67.47 £52.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -54.41% +25.46%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

macOS job vacancy trend in England

macOS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing macOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing macOS

macOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing macOS in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for macOS in England

macOS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing macOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing macOS

macOS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing macOS in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for macOS in England

macOS
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 macOS within the England region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
London -69 131 £226 -30.62% 202
South East -70 30 £273 -39.04% 22
North of England -122 25 £230 -54.00% 33
West Midlands -45 17 £186 -7.25% 9
Midlands -50 17 £186 -21.06% 14
East of England -22 15 £200 - 21
North West -46 14 £175 - 24
Yorkshire -80 7 £320 -36.00% 4
South West -35 6 £190 -35.59% 19
North East -40 5 £275 +57.14% 6
macOS
UK

macOS
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 30 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 30 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.45%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.45%) Houdini
4 1 (0.45%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 121 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (35.45%) Entra ID
3 58 (26.36%) Azure
4 26 (11.82%) OneDrive
5 22 (10.00%) AWS
6 13 (5.91%) Google Workspace
7 9 (4.09%) GCP
8 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.64%) SaaS
9 6 (2.73%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.36%) Slack
12 2 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.91%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.91%) GitHub
13 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.45%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.45%) Google Drive
13 1 (0.45%) IaaS
13 1 (0.45%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.82%) TCP/IP
1 37 (16.82%) VPN
2 32 (14.55%) DNS
2 32 (14.55%) Wi-Fi
3 28 (12.73%) DHCP
4 14 (6.36%) Firewall
5 11 (5.00%) LAN
6 10 (4.55%) WAN
6 10 (4.55%) Wireless
7 9 (4.09%) Internet
8 8 (3.64%) NAS
9 5 (2.27%) VoIP
10 4 (1.82%) Value-Added Service
11 3 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (1.36%) Network Security
11 3 (1.36%) SAN
11 3 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.91%) Telepresence
12 2 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.73%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.27%) Power BI
3 4 (1.82%) MySQL
3 4 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (6.82%) JIRA
2 8 (3.64%) Cucumber
2 8 (3.64%) JUnit
3 7 (3.18%) Git
4 6 (2.73%) Mockito
5 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.82%) Gradle
5 4 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.82%) Maven
5 4 (1.82%) Selenium
5 4 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.82%) TestNG
6 2 (0.91%) Gatling
6 2 (0.91%) JMeter
6 2 (0.91%) Xcode
7 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.45%) CMake
7 1 (0.45%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.45%) MSI
7 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 92 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (14.55%) Finance
3 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.18%) Military
6 7 (3.18%) Retail
7 6 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Banking
8 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.91%) Back Office
11 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 57 (25.91%) IT Support
3 36 (16.36%) IT Engineer
3 36 (16.36%) IT Support Engineer
4 31 (14.09%) Analyst
5 23 (10.45%) Desktop Support
6 21 (9.55%) Mac Engineer
7 19 (8.64%) 2nd Line Support
7 19 (8.64%) Desktop Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Support Analyst
9 12 (5.45%) Lead
9 12 (5.45%) Service Analyst
9 12 (5.45%) Service Desk Analyst
9 12 (5.45%) Support Specialist
10 10 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Senior
11 8 (3.64%) Team Leader
12 7 (3.18%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.09%) Terraform
2 6 (2.73%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (2.73%) JAX-RS
2 6 (2.73%) Kafka
3 4 (1.82%) Keycloak
3 4 (1.82%) RESTful
3 4 (1.82%) SOAP
3 4 (1.82%) Spring
3 4 (1.82%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.82%) Web Services
3 4 (1.82%) WSDL
3 4 (1.82%) XML
4 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.36%) CSS
4 3 (1.36%) HTML
4 3 (1.36%) Mustache
4 3 (1.36%) Node.js
4 3 (1.36%) Nunjucks
4 3 (1.36%) React
5 2 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.91%) Onboarding
2 26 (11.82%) Video Conferencing
3 13 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.64%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.64%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.73%) iPhone
7 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.82%) BYOD
9 4 (1.82%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.82%) iPad
9 4 (1.82%) PKI
9 4 (1.82%) Smartphone
10 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.91%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 177 (80.45%) Windows
2 60 (27.27%) Apple iOS
3 43 (19.55%) Windows 10
4 36 (16.36%) Android
5 22 (10.00%) Linux
6 13 (5.91%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.18%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.73%) Unix
9 5 (2.27%) CentOS
10 2 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.45%) VMS
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (37.27%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (33.18%) Customer Service
3 60 (27.27%) ITSM
4 59 (26.82%) ITIL
5 35 (15.91%) Service Management
6 29 (13.18%) Mobile Device Management
7 28 (12.73%) User Experience
8 25 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (10.45%) Asset Management
11 20 (9.09%) Data Protection
11 20 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 19 (8.64%) AI
12 19 (8.64%) Time Management
13 18 (8.18%) CI/CD
13 18 (8.18%) Service Delivery
14 16 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (7.27%) Inventory Management
14 16 (7.27%) Migration
14 16 (7.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.09%) Python
3 6 (2.73%) Bash
3 6 (2.73%) Java
4 4 (1.82%) Scala
5 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.91%) Swift
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) Go
7 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.55%) Degree
4 11 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.09%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.18%) A+ Certification
6 7 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.82%) CISSP
8 4 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.36%) ACSP
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.36%) CCSAS
10 1 (0.45%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.45%) ECSA
10 1 (0.45%) GCED
10 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.36%) SLA
2 7 (3.18%) NCSC
3 5 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.27%) QA
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.45%) ITGC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (41.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.27%) Docker
3 5 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.36%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.36%) zsh
5 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (26.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (22.27%) Jamf Pro
3 27 (12.27%) SCCM
4 14 (6.36%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.64%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.36%) AirWatch
6 3 (1.36%) WSUS
7 2 (0.91%) Ansible
8 1 (0.45%) Grafana
8 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 154 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 71 (32.27%) Apple
3 53 (24.09%) ServiceNow
4 22 (10.00%) Cisco
5 18 (8.18%) Samsung
6 17 (7.73%) Google
7 13 (5.91%) Adobe
8 11 (5.00%) Meraki
9 9 (4.09%) Okta
9 9 (4.09%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.64%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (3.18%) Remedy
11 7 (3.18%) VMware
12 6 (2.73%) Citrix
13 5 (2.27%) Sophos
13 5 (2.27%) Synology
13 5 (2.27%) Ubiquiti
14 4 (1.82%) Autodesk
14 4 (1.82%) Splunk