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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 353 370
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +90
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 7 17 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.045% 0.094% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.28% 0.56% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 42
10th Percentile £238 £126 £170
25th Percentile £329 £131 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £235 £269
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -12.56% -2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £518 £678
90th Percentile £685 £541 £700
UK median daily rate £278 £508 £270
% change year-on-year -45.32% +87.96% -46.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
UK median hourly rate - £18.27 £180.00
% change year-on-year - -89.85% +1100.00%

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 2,480 3,016 3,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.04% 16.60% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,571 1,960 2,579
10th Percentile £175 £185 £163
25th Percentile £250 £313 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 280 288
10th Percentile £15.27 £12.23 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.32 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £39.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% +42.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.19 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £24.58 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.62% -31.25% +73.91%

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 17 August 2025.

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
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 17 August 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
Yorkshire -12 3 £650 - 3
North of England -12 3 £650 +28.08% 9
West Midlands -9 2 £350 +48.94% 2
Midlands -11 2 £350 +48.94% 2
South East +19 1 £365 - 3
East of England - 1 £150 - 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (42.86%) JAX-RS
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Signage
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Unix
4 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
5 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) BDD
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Web Design
2 2 (28.57%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) AirWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki