macOS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 133 101 110
Rank change year-on-year -32 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing macOS 7 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.30% 0.94% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.25% 4.97% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 2
10th Percentile £189 £183 £198
25th Percentile £240 £227 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £420 £300
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +40.00% -34.97%
75th Percentile £525 £519 £356
90th Percentile £615 £600 £383
UK median daily rate £240 £400 £270
% change year-on-year -40.00% +48.15% -20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £13.21
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £27.09
% change year-on-year +29.22% -7.16% +14.06%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 311 302 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.14% 18.92% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 152 221
10th Percentile £150 £181 £169
25th Percentile £227 £322 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £465 £383
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +21.57% -15.00%
75th Percentile £507 £538 £513
90th Percentile £617 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 13
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.64
25th Percentile £13.70 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +5.76%
75th Percentile £23.25 - £24.18
90th Percentile £46.25 - £50.84
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -54.41% +25.46%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

macOS job vacancy trend in Scotland

macOS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing macOS

macOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for macOS in Scotland

macOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing macOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing macOS

macOS
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 macOS within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -23 5 £350 -29.44% 4
Edinburgh -9 1 - - 6
West Lothian - 1 - -
macOS
UK

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Claude Code
1 1 (14.29%) Gemini Tracker
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Italian Language
2 2 (28.57%) Military
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Service Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Smartphone
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Android
2 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Chat Support
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk