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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 539 523
Rank change year-on-year -127 -16 +29
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 9 16 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.049% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.17% 0.37% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 35
10th Percentile £151 £145 £136
25th Percentile £153 £193 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £278 £508
Median % change year-on-year -44.14% -45.32% +87.96%
75th Percentile £158 £430 £744
90th Percentile £159 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £400 £235
% change year-on-year -60.00% +70.21% -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 5,214 4,341 5,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 13.23% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 2,767 3,591
10th Percentile £193 £190 £200
25th Percentile £318 £308 £335
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 £668 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 263 331
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.42
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -10.91% -31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.33 £23.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -40.26% +40.00%

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 19 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 -125 9 £155 -44.14% 5
UK excluding London -82 8 £160 -60.00% 2
North of England -74 7 £160 -75.38% 2
Yorkshire -42 4 £160 -75.38% 1
North West - 3 - - 1
East of England -27 1 - -
Midlands -41 1 - -
West Midlands -56 1 - -
London -83 1 £150 -31.82% 3
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 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Help Desk Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (22.22%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (66.67%) JAX-RS
1 6 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Unix
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 1 (11.11%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) BDD
1 6 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
1 6 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 6 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
1 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 6 (66.67%) Web Design
1 6 (66.67%) Web Development
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft