macOS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow 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 94 71 65
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing macOS 5 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.42% 1.48% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.82% 5.76% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 1
10th Percentile £189 £200 -
25th Percentile £240 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £496 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +24.00% -13.29%
75th Percentile £525 £563 -
90th Percentile £615 £600 -
Scotland median daily rate £350 £420 £300
% change year-on-year -16.67% +40.00% -34.97%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 177 191 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.76% 25.71% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 88 86
10th Percentile £204 £200 £206
25th Percentile £334 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £468 £395
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +18.50% -15.73%
75th Percentile £479 £538 £500
90th Percentile £675 £591 £575
Scotland median daily rate £375 £465 £383
% change year-on-year -19.35% +21.57% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 0
10th Percentile £13.24 - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - -
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% - -
75th Percentile £21.09 - -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
% change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +5.76%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

macOS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

macOS
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing macOS

macOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for macOS in Glasgow

macOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing macOS

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (20.00%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk