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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 372 451
Rank change year-on-year +4 +79 -34
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 29 60 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.88% 1.38% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 48 56
10th Percentile £133 £173 £136
25th Percentile £373 £195 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £246 £198
Median % change year-on-year +78.21% +24.30% -56.11%
75th Percentile £479 £650 £438
90th Percentile £544 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £438 £250 £235
% change year-on-year +75.00% +6.38% -50.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £18.14 - £8.30
25th Percentile - - £9.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £12.08
75th Percentile - - £14.58
90th Percentile £24.14 - £15.73
UK median hourly rate £18.27 £180.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -89.85% +1061.29% +19.23%

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 3,295 4,348 5,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.99% 19.03% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,991 3,871
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 305 447
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.29 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 - 12 £438 - 3
West Midlands - 12 £438 - 3
North of England +3 8 £450 -30.77% 6
Scotland - 6 £126 -
Yorkshire -7 5 £425 -37.04% 3
North West +21 3 £508 +190.00% 3
South East -5 2 £140 -40.43% 4
South West +5 1 £550 -8.33% 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 1 (3.45%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (3.45%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (3.45%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (13.79%) HTTP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
1 4 (13.79%) Gatling
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
1 4 (13.79%) JMeter
1 4 (13.79%) Selenium
1 4 (13.79%) WebDriver
2 3 (10.34%) Mockito
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (37.93%) Legal
2 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Analyst
2 11 (37.93%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Desktop Support
3 5 (17.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) ActiveMQ
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) Web Services
3 3 (10.34%) JAX-RS
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Blackberry
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 7 (24.14%) Unix
4 2 (6.90%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.45%) Android
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) SIEM
2 11 (37.93%) Computer Forensics
2 11 (37.93%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (37.93%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 11 (37.93%) Purple Team
2 11 (37.93%) Reverse Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) Risk Management
2 11 (37.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (37.93%) Threat Analysis
2 11 (37.93%) Vulnerability Management
3 10 (34.48%) Incident Management
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 7 (24.14%) BDD
4 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (24.14%) TDD
4 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
5 5 (17.24%) Line Management
6 4 (13.79%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) Groovy
2 4 (13.79%) Scala
2 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (37.93%) GDPR
1 11 (37.93%) HIPAA
1 11 (37.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (37.93%) NIST
2 7 (24.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
1 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Apple
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.45%) HP
3 1 (3.45%) Ivanti
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy