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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 111 140
Rank change year-on-year -14 +29 +32
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 4 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.39% 4.21% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile £151 £195 £366
25th Percentile £154 £213 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -23.81% +85.84%
75th Percentile £233 £425 £565
90th Percentile £273 £453 -
England median daily rate £400 £266 £275
% change year-on-year +50.23% -3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £16.00 £18.08
% change year-on-year +57.19% -11.50% +9.78%

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 288 285 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.13% 11.86% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 189 278
10th Percentile £187 £200 £180
25th Percentile £297 £320 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £450 £431
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +4.35% -9.21%
75th Percentile £503 £650 £565
90th Percentile £625 £850 £650
England median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 43 48
10th Percentile - - £13.99
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £17.41
Median hourly rate £17.44 £11.20 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.78% -57.75% +21.67%
75th Percentile £18.51 £18.11 £45.88
90th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £53.79
England median hourly rate £23.00 £35.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year -35.36% -11.04% +70.21%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -2 2 £230 -42.50% 3
Merseyside - 2 £158 - 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Push Notifications
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Google