Mac OS Contracts in Scotland

Apple macOS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 121 152
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +15
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 7 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.05% 2.23% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £320 - £538
25th Percentile £405 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% -8.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £688
90th Percentile £600 - -
UK median daily rate £338 £234 £350
% change year-on-year +44.39% -33.21% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Mac OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in Scotland

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in Scotland

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in Scotland

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in Scotland

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +4 7 £496 -13.74% 2
Mac OS
UK

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) FastAPI
1 3 (42.86%) LDAP
1 3 (42.86%) pytest
1 3 (42.86%) X-Windows
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Line Management
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
5 1 (14.29%) Logistics
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Podman
2 2 (28.57%) RSA Archer
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Netskope
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Proofpoint
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) Apple