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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 534 503
Rank change year-on-year -125 -31 +58
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 10 12 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.036% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.19% 0.27% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 37
10th Percentile £151 £145 £137
25th Percentile £153 £156 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £235 £420
Median % change year-on-year -34.04% -44.05% +55.56%
75th Percentile £158 £291 £738
90th Percentile £159 £365 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £300 £235
% change year-on-year -46.67% +27.66% -12.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.61
25th Percentile - - £18.07
Median hourly rate - - £18.27
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.27

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 5,157 4,370 5,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 13.26% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,796 3,611
10th Percentile £193 £192 £200
25th Percentile £325 £311 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £474
% change year-on-year +2.00% -5.06% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 259 333
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.73% -31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £67.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £22.56 £46.25
% change year-on-year +18.17% -51.22% +68.18%

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
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 12 August 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 -107 10 £155 -34.04% 11
UK excluding London -96 9 £160 -46.67% 3
North of England - 8 £160 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £160 - 1
North West - 4 - - 1
East of England -18 1 - -
West Midlands -46 1 - -
Midlands -51 1 - -
London -77 1 £150 -31.82% 8
North East - 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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) ActiveMQ
1 7 (70.00%) JAX-RS
1 7 (70.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Unix
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (10.00%) Android
5 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) BDD
1 7 (70.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 7 (70.00%) Microservices
1 7 (70.00%) Pair Programming
1 7 (70.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 7 (70.00%) TDD
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (70.00%) Web Design
1 7 (70.00%) Web Development
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft