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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 503 559
Rank change year-on-year -45 +56 +95
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 36 35 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.095% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.75% 0.67% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 39
10th Percentile £212 £158 £140
25th Percentile £278 £170 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -60.00%
75th Percentile £675 £430 £419
90th Percentile £700 £525 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £160 £269
% change year-on-year +275.00% -40.47% -61.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £23.81
25th Percentile - £15.22 -
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.54% +60.00%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £28.50
90th Percentile - - £30.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £16.19 £24.00
% change year-on-year - -32.54% +193.94%

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 4,802 5,208 7,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 14.10% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,099 3,183 4,796
10th Percentile £181 £200 £183
25th Percentile £271 £329 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
75th Percentile £569 £585 £611
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £450 £442
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.81% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 372 222 351
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £18.27
Median hourly rate £24.50 £49.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +50.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £50.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -52.43% +81.82% +22.22%

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 November 2025.

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 12 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 November 2025. 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 -22 35 £425 +70.00% 6
UK excluding London -11 28 £600 +275.00% 5
North of England -15 22 £650 +28.08%
Yorkshire - 18 £650 -
London -6 6 £235 -37.33% 2
Work from Home +17 5 £538 +7.50% 2
North East -3 3 - -
North West -19 3 £610 +20.20%
West Midlands -20 3 £400 +150.00% 1
Midlands -31 3 £400 +150.00% 1
East of England - 2 £189 - 2
South East 0 1 £365 - 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 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) Internet
2 2 (5.56%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) Intranet
3 1 (2.78%) LAN
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) GIS
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Mockito
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Developer
1 22 (61.11%) Java Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Senior
3 14 (38.89%) Senior Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Lead
5 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) IT Support
6 3 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) IT Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Service Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (2.78%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) ActiveMQ
1 13 (36.11%) JAX-RS
1 13 (36.11%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.78%) J2EE
3 1 (2.78%) JPA
3 1 (2.78%) JWT
3 1 (2.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.78%) Digital Signage
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (75.00%) Linux
2 23 (63.89%) Unix
3 12 (33.33%) Windows
4 6 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (11.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (8.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Agile
1 21 (58.33%) Microservices
2 20 (55.56%) BDD
2 20 (55.56%) TDD
2 20 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 19 (52.78%) Continuous Deployment
4 15 (41.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 15 (41.67%) Web Design
5 13 (36.11%) Pair Programming
5 13 (36.11%) Web Development
6 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
8 3 (8.33%) Customer Service
8 3 (8.33%) ITSM
8 3 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (8.33%) SIEM
9 2 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Java
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) ISEB
5 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.78%) MCSA
5 1 (2.78%) MCSE
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Snort
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) SCCM
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) AirWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (5.56%) Altiris
4 1 (2.78%) Avaya
4 1 (2.78%) Bomgar
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) Meraki
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Polycom
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Wyse