Mac OS Contracts in the South East

Apple macOS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 144 185 199
Rank change year-on-year +41 +14 +40
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 15 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.94% 2.04% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 14
10th Percentile £147 £203 £200
25th Percentile £193 £213 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £378 £240
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +57.50% +37.14%
75th Percentile £422 - £323
90th Percentile £503 £458 £330
England median daily rate £288 £230 £325
% change year-on-year +25.00% -29.23% +22.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
Median hourly rate £24.66 £16.00 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +54.13% -11.50% +44.64%
England median hourly rate £24.66 £16.00 £18.08
% change year-on-year +54.13% -11.50% +26.88%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the South East

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the South East

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the South East

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the South East

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +44 10 £375 +42.86% 10
Berkshire +34 6 £400 +33.33% 6
Surrey - 3 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £150 -33.56% 1
Oxfordshire +4 2 £375 -28.57% 5
West Sussex - 2 - - 1
Kent 0 1 £145 -61.64% 2
Mac OS
England

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) WhatsApp
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) LAN
1 3 (20.00%) WAN
1 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
3 1 (6.67%) MPLS
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Skype
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) IT Technician
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Technician
4 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (13.33%) Junior
4 2 (13.33%) Junior IT Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Junior IT Support
4 2 (13.33%) Junior Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Technician
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (26.67%) Android
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
5 1 (6.67%) Break/Fix
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
5 1 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Threat Management
5 1 (6.67%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) CISA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
2 1 (6.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Apple
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Altiris
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) VMware