Mac OS X Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple Mac OS X
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Mac OS X skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS X over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 396 442
Rank change year-on-year +32 +46 -40
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 31 56 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.95% 1.19% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 43 60
10th Percentile £134 £173 £134
25th Percentile £203 £190 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £241 £206
Median % change year-on-year +76.35% +16.85% -58.75%
75th Percentile £469 £544 £513
90th Percentile £501 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £290 £250 £220
% change year-on-year +16.00% +13.64% -56.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £18.19 - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £16.00
75th Percentile £25.41 - £16.50
90th Percentile £30.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.27 £180.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -89.85% +800.00% -61.90%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Mac OS X is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,272 4,687 5,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.36% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 3,273 3,905
10th Percentile £171 £163 £148
25th Percentile £250 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 348 473
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.56
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -41.33% +68.31% +25.38%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mac OS X in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK excluding London

Mac OS X
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Midlands - 11 £438 - 4
West Midlands - 11 £438 - 3
North of England +18 7 £425 -20.93%
South East -4 6 £215 -8.51% 6
Scotland - 6 £126 - 2
Yorkshire +12 5 £425 -28.42%
North West +11 2 - -
South West - 1 £550 - 1
Mac OS X
UK

Mac OS X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2013
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Azure
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (12.90%) HTTP
5 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.23%) LAN
5 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.23%) VPN
5 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
1 4 (12.90%) Gatling
1 4 (12.90%) Git
1 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
1 4 (12.90%) JMeter
1 4 (12.90%) Selenium
1 4 (12.90%) WebDriver
2 2 (6.45%) Mockito
General
1 10 (32.26%) Legal
2 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Electronics
6 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Support Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Desktop Support
4 7 (22.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) IT Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (9.68%) IT Support
6 3 (9.68%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Windows Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
7 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (19.35%) Kafka
2 4 (12.90%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Blackberry
1 6 (19.35%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Unix
3 6 (19.35%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.23%) Android
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) SIEM
2 10 (32.26%) Computer Forensics
2 10 (32.26%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (32.26%) Incident Management
2 10 (32.26%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 10 (32.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 10 (32.26%) Purple Team
2 10 (32.26%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (32.26%) Risk Management
2 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (32.26%) Threat Analysis
2 10 (32.26%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) BDD
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (19.35%) TDD
3 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
4 5 (16.13%) Line Management
5 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Java
2 4 (12.90%) Groovy
2 4 (12.90%) Scala
2 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) CEH
4 1 (3.23%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (32.26%) GDPR
1 10 (32.26%) HIPAA
1 10 (32.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (32.26%) NIST
2 8 (25.81%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) AirWatch
2 1 (3.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Apple
2 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco
3 5 (16.13%) HP
3 5 (16.13%) Remedy
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Adobe
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Ivanti