Mac OS X Contract Job Trends

Apple Mac OS X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Mac OS X skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 516 534
Rank change year-on-year -147 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 7 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.80% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 30 15
10th Percentile £265 £158 £144
25th Percentile £423 £267 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £413 £240
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% +71.88% -43.53%
75th Percentile - £675 £430
90th Percentile - £700 £527
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £650 £344
% change year-on-year -75.38% +89.09% -23.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.22
Median hourly rate - - £16.19
75th Percentile - - £17.16
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.19

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,362 4,501 5,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 13.63% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,875 3,270
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £281 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £449
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.24% -0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 301 250
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £22.65
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -53.43% +23.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £57.38
% change year-on-year +3.38% -56.17% +43.44%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mac OS X relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mac OS X job vacancy trend in the UK

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS X

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS X over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS X.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS X

Mac OS X
Top 10 Contract Job 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 6 months to 7 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
England -144 7 £510 +23.64% 16
UK excluding London -129 4 £160 -75.38% 8
London -85 3 £510 +138.60% 8
North of England -86 3 £160 -75.38% 3
Yorkshire -50 2 £160 -75.38% 2
East of England -24 1 - - 2
North West -40 1 - - 1
North East -41 1 - -
Midlands -47 1 - -
West Midlands -50 1 - -

Mac OS X
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Mockito
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) JUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (71.43%) JAX-RS
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Keycloak
2 3 (42.86%) Mustache
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) Nunjucks
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) WSDL
2 3 (42.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Unix
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Android
4 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Deployment
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) API Design
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) SOLID
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Web Design
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
Mac OS X jobs