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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 678 523 514
Rank change year-on-year -155 -9 +31
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 7 30 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.092% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.68% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 32
10th Percentile £151 £151 £140
25th Percentile £153 £225 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £400 £516
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -22.52% +85.87%
75th Percentile £158 £675 £750
90th Percentile £159 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £650 £158
% change year-on-year -75.38% +312.70% -41.67%
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 5,326 4,423 5,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 13.51% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,826 3,480
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £305 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% -4.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +0.33% -0.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 265 279
10th Percentile £14.47 £15.50 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -48.21% +5.84%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £74.54 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.33 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.69% -52.10% +20.00%

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 9 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 7 £155 -61.25% 7
UK excluding London -122 6 £160 -75.38% 4
North of England -79 5 £160 -75.38% 3
Yorkshire -47 4 £160 -75.38% 2
East of England -23 1 - -
West Midlands -47 1 - - 1
North East -47 1 - -
Midlands -51 1 - - 1
London -94 1 £150 -29.82% 3
North West - 1 - - 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 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Help Desk Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Help Desk Support
2 2 (28.57%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (57.14%) JAX-RS
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) Android
5 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) BDD
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) Pair Programming
1 4 (57.14%) Responsive Web Design
1 4 (57.14%) TDD
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Web Design
1 4 (57.14%) Web Development
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft