Mac OS X Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple Mac OS X
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mac OS X skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mac OS X over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 364 402
Rank change year-on-year +36 +38 +45
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 6 30 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% 0.91% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 41
10th Percentile - £134 £173
25th Percentile - £290 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £438 £240
Median % change year-on-year -63.43% +82.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £469 £538
90th Percentile - £543 £700
UK median daily rate £400 £345 £241
% change year-on-year +15.94% +43.15% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
UK median hourly rate - £18.27 £180.00
% change year-on-year - -89.85% +800.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Mac OS X 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,208 3,279 4,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.28% 15.84% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 2,180 3,235
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £243 £257 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £504
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.74% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 320 339
10th Percentile £15.31 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.24 £17.49
Median hourly rate £22.88 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.75 £60.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.76
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.50% -44.02% +74.67%

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
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
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 3 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
North West +11 3 - - 3
Midlands +9 3 £160 -63.43% 5
North of England +7 3 - - 4
West Midlands +4 3 £160 -63.43% 2
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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (16.67%) QuarkXPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 3 (50.00%) Mocha
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) Grunt
2 2 (33.33%) gulp
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) HTML Developer
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mac Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) HTML5
1 3 (50.00%) jQuery
1 3 (50.00%) Mustache
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) Sass
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
1 3 (50.00%) Web Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Quark