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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 535 533
Rank change year-on-year -130 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 7 28 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.086% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.64% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 32
10th Percentile £151 £148 £140
25th Percentile £153 £221 £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 5,252 4,403 5,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 13.54% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,334 2,798 3,543
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £308 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 269 306
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.55 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -29.32% -16.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.33 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.69% -47.05% +28.21%

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 2 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 -131 7 £155 -61.25% 12
UK excluding London -117 6 £160 -75.38% 5
North of England -87 5 £160 -75.38% 3
Yorkshire -50 4 £160 -75.38% 2
East of England -23 1 - - 1
North East -46 1 - -
West Midlands -48 1 - - 1
Midlands -56 1 - - 1
London -78 1 £150 -29.82% 7
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