Mac OS Contracts in the North West

Apple macOS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Mac OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mac OS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 117 144
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 7 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.73% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.37% 5.63% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £135 £123 £520
25th Percentile £149 £125 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £220 £565
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -61.06% +18.95%
75th Percentile £300 £425 £585
90th Percentile £480 - £600
England median daily rate £288 £230 £325
% change year-on-year +25.00% -29.23% +22.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £16.00 £18.08
% change year-on-year +54.13% -11.50% +26.88%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Mac OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the North West

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the North West

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the North West

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the North West

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +11 3 £300 -3.23% 25
Merseyside +5 3 £141 -27.56% 3
Cheshire -8 1 - - 7
Mac OS
England

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Grunt
1 1 (14.29%) gulp
1 1 (14.29%) Jasmine
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Mocha
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Android Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) IT Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Mustache
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) iPhone
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Android
2 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) VB
1 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) MCSA
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) BitLocker
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (14.29%) PaperCut
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) McAfee
2 1 (14.29%) Symantec
2 1 (14.29%) VMware