Mac OS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apple macOS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 92 136 141
Rank change year-on-year +44 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 10 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.76% 2.30% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £184 - £225
25th Percentile £210 £213 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £263 £330
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -20.45% +109.52%
75th Percentile £444 £478 -
90th Percentile £508 £538 £434
South East median daily rate £300 £378 £240
% change year-on-year -20.63% +57.50% +37.14%
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%
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £16.00 £18.08
% change year-on-year +54.13% -11.50% +44.64%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the Thames Valley

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the Thames Valley

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the Thames Valley

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the Thames Valley

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +34 6 £400 +33.33% 12
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £150 -33.56% 7
Oxfordshire +4 2 £375 -28.57% 8
Mac OS
South East

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Skype
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Android
2 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Break/Fix
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (10.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) CEH
1 1 (10.00%) CISA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
1 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Apple
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Altiris
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) VMware