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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 516 535
Rank change year-on-year -159 +19 +17
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 8 35 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.11% 0.080%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.15% 0.79% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 29 18
10th Percentile £230 £157 £138
25th Percentile £335 £263 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £240
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +66.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £430
90th Percentile - £700 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £650 £180
% change year-on-year -75.38% +261.11% -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile - - £15.98
Median hourly rate - - £17.23
75th Percentile - - £17.99
90th Percentile - - £18.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.23

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 5,370 4,411 5,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 13.49% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,811 3,378
10th Percentile £190 £188 £200
25th Percentile £313 £300 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £432 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 290 256
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.50 £16.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £18.87 £21.66
Median hourly rate £27.33 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -53.43% +15.66%
75th Percentile £65.42 £57.50 £69.77
90th Percentile £74.78 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £57.25
% change year-on-year +29.22% -56.07% +24.78%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -137 8 £510 +27.50% 12
UK excluding London -127 6 £160 -75.38% 5
North of England -94 5 £160 -75.38% 3
Yorkshire -59 4 £160 -75.38% 2
London -90 2 £510 +138.60% 7
East of England -29 1 - - 1
North East -40 1 - -
West Midlands -41 1 - -
North West -50 1 - - 1
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Mockito
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (75.00%) JAX-RS
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (25.00%) Mustache
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Nunjucks
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) WSDL
2 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Android
4 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) BDD
1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 4 (50.00%) Web Design
2 4 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) API Design
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) SOLID
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft