macOS Contract Job Trends in the North East

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 76 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -40 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing macOS 5 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.59% 1.97% 2.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.25% 15.00% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £215 - £286
25th Percentile £238 £170 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £175 £330
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -46.97% +120.00%
75th Percentile £380 £340 £355
90th Percentile £443 £436 £382
England median daily rate £230 £400 £273
% change year-on-year -42.50% +46.79% -16.15%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 80 40 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 9.40% 13.11% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 27 18
10th Percentile £203 £155 £146
25th Percentile £235 £184 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £247 £345
Median % change year-on-year +69.88% -28.55% -1.43%
75th Percentile £475 £351 £470
90th Percentile £535 £530 £491
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £16.90 - -
Median hourly rate £17.39 - -
75th Percentile £26.66 - -
90th Percentile £47.28 - -
England median hourly rate £32.29 £24.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +34.54% -60.93% +28.43%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

macOS job vacancy trend in the North East

macOS
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing macOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing macOS

macOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for macOS in the North East

macOS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing macOS within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -40 4 £380 +117.14% 5
Durham - 1 £200 -
macOS
England

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) BYOD
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Mitel
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware