macOS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 37 28 33
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 0
Contract jobs citing macOS 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.65% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.88% 2.78% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £175 £175 £363
% change year-on-year - -51.72% -19.44%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 36 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.04% 18.09% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 33
10th Percentile £120 £138 £149
25th Percentile £144 £163 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £213 £225
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -45.45%
75th Percentile £238 £400 £400
90th Percentile £300 £562 £570
North West median daily rate £445 £369 £400
% change year-on-year +20.60% -7.75% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £15.35
25th Percentile - - £16.88
Median hourly rate - £17.44 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year - -1.76% -2.73%
75th Percentile - - £22.91
90th Percentile - - £24.06
North West median hourly rate £72.66 £16.72 £18.66
% change year-on-year +334.57% -10.37% -17.09%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

macOS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

macOS
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing macOS

macOS
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing macOS within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -10 2 - - 3
macOS
North West

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk