Mac OS X Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Apple Mac OS X UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	406	431	456
Rank change year-on-year	+25	+25
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X	198	219	192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.43%	0.41%	0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category	2.05%	1.76%	1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	148	133	93
Median daily rate	£450	£400	£300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.50%	+33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£150	£135	£150
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£508
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£450	£375
% change year-on-year	+5.55%	+20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	17	24
Median hourly rate	£14.00	£14.50	£15.89
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-3.44%	-8.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£12.10	£12.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.40	£24.90	£19.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.00	£14.00	£15.50
% change year-on-year	-	-9.67%

Mac OS X is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	9650	12429	12432
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	20.86%	23.11%	22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	6010	7823	7240
Median daily rate	£403	£395	£355
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.89%	+11.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£200	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£348
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	545	650	985
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£16.97	£16.84
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-5.71%	+0.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.00	£16.20
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	+4.93%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Mac OS X.

Contractor daily rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Mac OS X over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+35	192	£450	+12.50%	65
London	-16	85	£413	+38.07%	29
East of England	+29	36	£475	+239.28%	8
Yorkshire	+31	29	£475	+10.46%	4
Essex	-	29	£488	-
South Yorkshire	+23	19	£500	+60.00%	1
Southend-on-Sea	-	18	£495	-
Sheffield	-	17	£500	-	1
West Midlands	+38	16	£475	+239.28%	3
South East	+23	16	£440	+0.57%	14
Telford	-	11	£513	-
Shropshire	-	11	£513	-
West Yorkshire	+17	10	£313	-27.32%	3
Leeds	+15	10	£313	-27.32%	3
West Sussex	+17	7	£750	-
City of London	-10	7	£425	+27.81%	5
Worthing	+21	6	£750	-
South West	-2	6	£330	-40.00%	1
Milton Keynes	-	6	£375	-
Buckinghamshire	-	6	£375	-
Birmingham	+15	4	£300	+66.66%	1
North West	+17	3	£450	+9.75%	2
Hertfordshire	+2	3	£550	-	4
Cheshire	-	3	£450	-	2
Devon	-	3	£475	-
Plymouth	-	3	£475	-
Scotland	+42	2	£375	+42.85%	1
Gloucestershire	+9	2	£161	-75.19%
Cambridge	+6	2	£140	-0.08%	3
Cambridgeshire	+2	2	£140	-0.08%	3

Mac OS X
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Mac OS X also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Mac OS X.

1	243 (62.15%)	Linux
2	205 (52.43%)	Unix
3	177 (45.27%)	Git (software)
4	165 (42.20%)	Agile Software Development
5	158 (40.41%)	Windows
6	153 (39.13%)	Java
7	139 (35.55%)	HTML
8	130 (33.25%)	CSS
8	130 (33.25%)	Relational Database
9	120 (30.69%)	JavaScript
10	119 (30.43%)	Configuration Management
11	118 (30.18%)	Test Automation
12	116 (29.67%)	TDD
13	102 (26.09%)	Web Development
14	99 (25.32%)	HTTP

15	90 (23.02%)	Continuous Integration
16	83 (21.23%)	Python
17	82 (20.97%)	Web Design
17	82 (20.97%)	Responsive Web Design
18	81 (20.72%)	Active Directory
19	78 (19.95%)	Mentoring
20	72 (18.41%)	Microsoft
21	70 (17.90%)	Subversion
21	70 (17.90%)	DevOps
22	69 (17.65%)	REST
23	68 (17.39%)	Scrum
24	64 (16.37%)	Windows 7
25	59 (15.09%)	Ruby
25	59 (15.09%)	Apple
26	54 (13.81%)	Web Services

Mac OS X
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	17 (4.35%)	JBoss
2	16 (4.09%)	MS Exchange
3	15 (3.84%)	Confluence
4	14 (3.58%)	WebLogic
5	11 (2.81%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
6	9 (2.30%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	8 (2.05%)	Skype for Business
8	7 (1.79%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	4 (1.02%)	Apache
9	4 (1.02%)	Exchange Server 2003
10	3 (0.77%)	Apache Solr
10	3 (0.77%)	Elasticsearch
10	3 (0.77%)	SharePoint
10	3 (0.77%)	WordPress
11	2 (0.51%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	2 (0.51%)	nginx
11	2 (0.51%)	Oracle SOA Suite
12	1 (0.26%)	CMS
12	1 (0.26%)	Jetty
12	1 (0.26%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	37 (9.46%)	Microsoft Office
2	6 (1.53%)	Photoshop
3	3 (0.77%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	2 (0.51%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	2 (0.51%)	Spreadsheet
5	1 (0.26%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	25 (6.39%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.51%)	Oracle BPM
3	1 (0.26%)	Dynamics AX

Cloud Services
1	28 (7.16%)	Amazon AWS
2	23 (5.88%)	Office 365
3	17 (4.35%)	Microsoft Azure
4	4 (1.02%)	GitHub
4	4 (1.02%)	Sauce Labs
5	3 (0.77%)	G Suite
5	3 (0.77%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	2 (0.51%)	Amazon S3
6	2 (0.51%)	CloudFront
6	2 (0.51%)	Google App Engine
6	2 (0.51%)	iTunes
6	2 (0.51%)	Route 53
7	1 (0.26%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	1 (0.26%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	1 (0.26%)	Azure Active Directory
7	1 (0.26%)	OneDrive
7	1 (0.26%)	TestFlight

Communications & Networking
1	99 (25.32%)	HTTP
2	44 (11.25%)	Wireless
3	31 (7.93%)	TCP/IP
4	29 (7.42%)	Firewall
5	26 (6.65%)	LAN
6	25 (6.39%)	Internet
7	24 (6.14%)	SSL
8	22 (5.63%)	DNS
9	20 (5.12%)	DHCP
9	20 (5.12%)	LDAP
10	18 (4.60%)	WAN
11	15 (3.84%)	VPN
12	12 (3.07%)	Intrusion Detection
13	10 (2.56%)	Wi-Fi
14	9 (2.30%)	3G
14	9 (2.30%)	GPRS
14	9 (2.30%)	GSM
14	9 (2.30%)	LTE
14	9 (2.30%)	Remote Desktop
14	9 (2.30%)	SGSN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	130 (33.25%)	Relational Database
2	45 (11.51%)	MySQL
3	37 (9.46%)	MongoDB
4	21 (5.37%)	Neo4j
5	18 (4.60%)	MariaDB
6	15 (3.84%)	NoSQL
7	14 (3.58%)	Redis
8	8 (2.05%)	Apache Cassandra
8	8 (2.05%)	Data Mining
9	7 (1.79%)	SQL Server
10	6 (1.53%)	PostgreSQL
11	4 (1.02%)	MS Access
12	2 (0.51%)	Big Data
12	2 (0.51%)	Flink
12	2 (0.51%)	Hadoop
12	2 (0.51%)	Oracle Database
12	2 (0.51%)	Oracle Database 10g
12	2 (0.51%)	Oracle Database 11g
12	2 (0.51%)	Oracle Database 12c
12	2 (0.51%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	177 (45.27%)	Git (software)
2	70 (17.90%)	Subversion
3	44 (11.25%)	Jenkins
4	22 (5.63%)	JUnit
5	20 (5.12%)	SoapUI
6	17 (4.35%)	Mockito
7	16 (4.09%)	Cucumber
7	16 (4.09%)	JIRA
8	13 (3.32%)	Maven
9	10 (2.56%)	gulp
9	10 (2.56%)	Selenium
9	10 (2.56%)	WebDriver
10	9 (2.30%)	Appium
10	9 (2.30%)	Atlassian Bamboo
10	9 (2.30%)	Bitbucket
11	8 (2.05%)	Xcode
12	7 (1.79%)	Grunt
13	5 (1.28%)	Calabash
14	4 (1.02%)	Jasmine
14	4 (1.02%)	Protractor

General
1	43 (11.00%)	Finance
2	29 (7.42%)	Marketing
3	26 (6.65%)	Telecoms
4	25 (6.39%)	Electronics
4	25 (6.39%)	Manufacturing
5	13 (3.32%)	Banking
6	12 (3.07%)	Retail
7	6 (1.53%)	Corporate Banking
8	5 (1.28%)	Games
9	4 (1.02%)	Italian Language
9	4 (1.02%)	Japanese Language
10	3 (0.77%)	Advertising
10	3 (0.77%)	Legal
11	2 (0.51%)	Publishing
12	1 (0.26%)	Digital Economy
12	1 (0.26%)	Interactive Media
12	1 (0.26%)	Multimedia
12	1 (0.26%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	187 (47.83%)	Developer
2	98 (25.06%)	Java Developer
3	55 (14.07%)	Analyst
4	41 (10.49%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5	31 (7.93%)	Support Engineer
6	30 (7.67%)	Service Analyst
6	30 (7.67%)	Service Desk Analyst
7	23 (5.88%)	Architect
8	22 (5.63%)	2nd Line Support
8	22 (5.63%)	Desktop Support
8	22 (5.63%)	Scala Developer
9	18 (4.60%)	IT Support
9	18 (4.60%)	Support Analyst
9	18 (4.60%)	Technical Support
10	17 (4.35%)	Mac Engineer
10	17 (4.35%)	Windows Engineer
11	16 (4.09%)	Full Stack Developer
11	16 (4.09%)	Senior Developer
12	15 (3.84%)	1st/2nd Line Support
12	15 (3.84%)	Front End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	139 (35.55%)	HTML
2	130 (33.25%)	CSS
3	69 (17.65%)	REST
4	54 (13.81%)	Web Services
5	48 (12.28%)	XML
6	43 (11.00%)	JSON
7	39 (9.97%)	Hibernate
8	36 (9.21%)	Middleware
9	30 (7.67%)	SOAP
10	27 (6.91%)	Spring
11	23 (5.88%)	Node.js
11	23 (5.88%)	XSD
12	21 (5.37%)	Dropwizard
12	21 (5.37%)	JSON Schema
12	21 (5.37%)	RESTful
12	21 (5.37%)	WSDL
13	20 (5.12%)	JAX-RS
13	20 (5.12%)	JPA
14	19 (4.86%)	EclipseLink
14	19 (4.86%)	React

Miscellaneous
1	45 (11.51%)	User Experience
2	20 (5.12%)	Enterprise Software
3	19 (4.86%)	Computer Science
4	16 (4.09%)	Blackberry
5	14 (3.58%)	Management Information System
6	13 (3.32%)	Analytical Skills
7	11 (2.81%)	iPhone
8	10 (2.56%)	Blog
9	7 (1.79%)	iPad
9	7 (1.79%)	Video Conferencing
10	6 (1.53%)	Mobile App
11	5 (1.28%)	Data Centre
11	5 (1.28%)	Smartphone
12	4 (1.02%)	Fat Client
12	4 (1.02%)	Greenfield Project
12	4 (1.02%)	Online Games
12	4 (1.02%)	Thin Client
13	3 (0.77%)	Animation
13	3 (0.77%)	Handset
14	2 (0.51%)	PDA

Operating Systems
1	243 (62.15%)	Linux
2	205 (52.43%)	Unix
3	158 (40.41%)	Windows
4	64 (16.37%)	Windows 7
5	49 (12.53%)	Android
5	49 (12.53%)	Apple iOS
6	35 (8.95%)	Windows 10
7	31 (7.93%)	Windows Server
8	21 (5.37%)	Windows Server 2008
9	16 (4.09%)	Windows 8
10	15 (3.84%)	Windows Server 2003
11	14 (3.58%)	Windows XP
12	13 (3.32%)	Windows Server 2012
13	11 (2.81%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	10 (2.56%)	Windows Phone
15	9 (2.30%)	Mac OS
16	4 (1.02%)	Windows Vista
17	3 (0.77%)	Mac OS X Server
17	3 (0.77%)	Ubuntu
17	3 (0.77%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	165 (42.20%)	Agile Software Development
2	119 (30.43%)	Configuration Management
3	118 (30.18%)	Test Automation
4	116 (29.67%)	TDD
5	102 (26.09%)	Web Development
6	90 (23.02%)	Continuous Integration
7	82 (20.97%)	Responsive Web Design
7	82 (20.97%)	Web Design
8	78 (19.95%)	Mentoring
9	70 (17.90%)	DevOps
10	68 (17.39%)	Scrum
11	52 (13.30%)	Continuous Deployment
12	51 (13.04%)	Data Visualisation
12	51 (13.04%)	Line Management
12	51 (13.04%)	Visualisation
13	49 (12.53%)	ITIL
14	44 (11.25%)	Continuous Delivery
15	40 (10.23%)	BDD
16	39 (9.97%)	Front End Development
17	37 (9.46%)	SOA

Programming Languages
1	153 (39.13%)	Java
2	120 (30.69%)	JavaScript
3	83 (21.23%)	Python
4	59 (15.09%)	Ruby
5	37 (9.46%)	Scala
5	37 (9.46%)	SQL
6	21 (5.37%)	PL/SQL
7	18 (4.60%)	PHP
7	18 (4.60%)	PowerShell
8	17 (4.35%)	Apple Swift
9	10 (2.56%)	VB
10	9 (2.30%)	C++
10	9 (2.30%)	Perl
11	8 (2.05%)	Objective-C
12	7 (1.79%)	Go
13	6 (1.53%)	C#
14	5 (1.28%)	Bash Shell
14	5 (1.28%)	C
14	5 (1.28%)	R
15	4 (1.02%)	Groovy

Qualifications
1	35 (8.95%)	Security Cleared
2	27 (6.91%)	Degree
3	25 (6.39%)	Cisco Certification
4	19 (4.86%)	SC Cleared
5	18 (4.60%)	BPSS Clearance
6	17 (4.35%)	CISM
6	17 (4.35%)	CISSP
7	15 (3.84%)	Computer Science Degree
8	14 (3.58%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
8	14 (3.58%)	CCSP
8	14 (3.58%)	SANS
9	13 (3.32%)	Microsoft Certification
10	10 (2.56%)	CTC Cleared
11	9 (2.30%)	DBS Check
11	9 (2.30%)	ITIL Certification
12	8 (2.05%)	BC Cleared
13	6 (1.53%)	CCNA
13	6 (1.53%)	MCSE
14	5 (1.28%)	CCNP
15	4 (1.02%)	GIAC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (5.37%)	SLA
2	12 (3.07%)	PCI DSS
3	11 (2.81%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	10 (2.56%)	QA
5	7 (1.79%)	WAI
6	6 (1.53%)	WCAG
7	1 (0.26%)	FATCA

System Software
1	81 (20.72%)	Active Directory
2	22 (5.63%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	19 (4.86%)	Docker
4	11 (2.81%)	Virtual Desktop
5	10 (2.56%)	vSphere
6	6 (1.53%)	VMware ESXi
7	3 (0.77%)	Hyper-V
7	3 (0.77%)	Virtual Machines
8	2 (0.51%)	BitLocker
8	2 (0.51%)	VirtualBox
8	2 (0.51%)	XenDesktop
9	1 (0.26%)	Microsoft App-V
9	1 (0.26%)	Samba
9	1 (0.26%)	VMware Server
9	1 (0.26%)	Xen
9	1 (0.26%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	24 (6.14%)	Ansible
2	16 (4.09%)	SCCM
3	14 (3.58%)	Jamf Pro
4	10 (2.56%)	AirWatch
4	10 (2.56%)	Puppet
5	4 (1.02%)	Grafana
5	4 (1.02%)	Nagios
5	4 (1.02%)	StatsD
6	3 (0.77%)	Cisco Prime
6	3 (0.77%)	cPanel
6	3 (0.77%)	Terraform
6	3 (0.77%)	WSUS
7	2 (0.51%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7	2 (0.51%)	Norton AntiVirus
7	2 (0.51%)	SCOM
7	2 (0.51%)	SCSM
7	2 (0.51%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
8	1 (0.26%)	Backup Exec
8	1 (0.26%)	Tivoli
8	1 (0.26%)	Tivoli Storage Manager

Vendors
1	72 (18.41%)	Microsoft
2	59 (15.09%)	Apple
3	26 (6.65%)	Oracle
3	26 (6.65%)	SAP
4	25 (6.39%)	Cisco
4	25 (6.39%)	VMware
5	17 (4.35%)	Google
6	15 (3.84%)	WSO2
7	14 (3.58%)	Dell
7	14 (3.58%)	LogRhythm
8	13 (3.32%)	Citrix
9	12 (3.07%)	Rapid7
10	10 (2.56%)	Splunk
11	9 (2.30%)	LANDesk
11	9 (2.30%)	MobileIron
11	9 (2.30%)	MuleSoft
11	9 (2.30%)	ServiceNow
12	5 (1.28%)	Palo Alto
12	5 (1.28%)	Symantec
13	4 (1.02%)	Zend