macOS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring macOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 215 289
Rank change year-on-year -167 +74 +18
Contract jobs citing macOS 96 172 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.08% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.08% 6.43% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 106 49
10th Percentile £156 £160 £145
25th Percentile £185 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £410 £250
Median % change year-on-year -43.90% +64.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £306 £525 £400
90th Percentile £511 £675 £435
UK median daily rate £240 £400 £270
% change year-on-year -40.00% +48.15% -20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 8
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.15 £14.62
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.87 £15.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +29.67% +21.51%
75th Percentile £33.75 £87.97 £31.50
90th Percentile £34.63 £89.63 £36.60
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £27.09
% change year-on-year +29.22% -7.16% +14.06%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

macOS 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 3,120 2,677 2,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.08% 16.88% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,891 1,719 1,727
10th Percentile £188 £170 £183
25th Percentile £263 £220 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -4.49% -1.11%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £609 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 254 216
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.04 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.69 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% -59.13% +35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.58 £68.98
90th Percentile £74.74 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -54.41% +25.46%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing macOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

macOS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

macOS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing macOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing macOS

macOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing macOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for macOS in the UK excluding London

macOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing macOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing macOS

macOS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing macOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for macOS in the UK excluding London

macOS
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 macOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 October 2026. 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
South East -70 30 £273 -39.04% 24
North of England -122 25 £230 -54.00% 33
West Midlands -45 17 £186 -7.25% 9
Midlands -50 17 £186 -21.06% 14
East of England -22 15 £200 - 21
North West -46 14 £175 - 24
Scotland -32 7 £350 -16.67% 12
Yorkshire -80 7 £320 -36.00% 4
South West -35 6 £190 -35.59% 20
North East -40 5 £275 +57.14% 6
macOS
UK

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (5.21%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.04%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (1.04%) Houdini
3 1 (1.04%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (5.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.21%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (38.54%) Azure
2 37 (38.54%) Entra ID
3 17 (17.71%) OneDrive
4 15 (15.63%) AWS
5 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.21%) Google Workspace
6 5 (5.21%) Mimecast
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.17%) GCP
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.08%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.04%) Google Gemini
10 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 19 (19.79%) DNS
3 17 (17.71%) VPN
3 17 (17.71%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (16.67%) DHCP
5 9 (9.38%) Firewall
5 9 (9.38%) LAN
6 8 (8.33%) NAS
7 6 (6.25%) WAN
7 6 (6.25%) Wireless
8 4 (4.17%) VoIP
9 3 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (3.13%) SAN
10 2 (2.08%) Telepresence
10 2 (2.08%) Unified Communications
10 2 (2.08%) Value-Added Service
11 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.04%) Internet
11 1 (1.04%) Network Security
11 1 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Cucumber
2 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.17%) JUnit
2 4 (4.17%) Selenium
2 4 (4.17%) TestNG
3 2 (2.08%) Gatling
3 2 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) JMeter
3 2 (2.08%) Mockito
3 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.04%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.04%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.04%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.04%) MSI
General
1 43 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Legal
6 3 (3.13%) Military
7 2 (2.08%) Back Office
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Italian Language
7 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) IT Support
2 18 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) Analyst
4 10 (10.42%) IT Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Service Analyst
5 9 (9.38%) Service Desk Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Lead
7 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Team Leader
8 4 (4.17%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.17%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.17%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) QA Tester
8 4 (4.17%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Tester
9 3 (3.13%) Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Field Service Technician
9 3 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (2.08%) JAX-RS
1 2 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (1.04%) LDAP
2 1 (1.04%) Play Framework
2 1 (1.04%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.04%) REST
2 1 (1.04%) SAML
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Onboarding
2 10 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.29%) Mobile App
5 6 (6.25%) iPhone
5 6 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (5.21%) Driving Licence
7 4 (4.17%) PKI
7 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.13%) Smartphone
9 2 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (1.04%) Digital Signage
10 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.04%) Social Media
10 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (89.58%) Windows
2 33 (34.38%) Apple iOS
3 24 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 20 (20.83%) Android
5 14 (14.58%) Linux
6 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
7 7 (7.29%) Ubuntu
8 5 (5.21%) CentOS
9 3 (3.13%) Unix
10 2 (2.08%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.04%) VMS
11 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (41.67%) Customer Service
3 39 (40.63%) ITIL
4 38 (39.58%) ITSM
5 18 (18.75%) AI
6 16 (16.67%) User Experience
7 15 (15.63%) Service Management
8 14 (14.58%) Data Protection
8 14 (14.58%) Mobile Device Management
9 13 (13.54%) Time Management
10 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (7.29%) Coaching
14 6 (6.25%) Decision-Making
14 6 (6.25%) Generative AI
14 6 (6.25%) Incident Management
15 5 (5.21%) Antivirus Management
15 5 (5.21%) Application Packaging
15 5 (5.21%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.17%) Python
2 4 (4.17%) Scala
3 2 (2.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.58%) Degree
4 7 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.13%) CISSP
6 3 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.04%) ACSP
8 1 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) SLA
2 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (28.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (17.71%) Jamf Pro
3 11 (11.46%) SCCM
4 1 (1.04%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.04%) Ansible
4 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (69.79%) Microsoft
2 34 (35.42%) ServiceNow
3 19 (19.79%) Apple
4 16 (16.67%) Cisco
5 9 (9.38%) Meraki
6 8 (8.33%) Samsung
7 7 (7.29%) Adobe
8 6 (6.25%) Atlassian
8 6 (6.25%) Remedy
9 5 (5.21%) Google
9 5 (5.21%) Sophos
9 5 (5.21%) Splunk
9 5 (5.21%) Synology
9 5 (5.21%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (5.21%) VMware
10 4 (4.17%) Citrix
11 3 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (2.08%) Autodesk
12 2 (2.08%) Dell