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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 526 524
Rank change year-on-year -138 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 7 33 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.74% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 27 32
10th Percentile £195 £154 £140
25th Percentile £248 £244 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £400 £516
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -22.52% +37.67%
75th Percentile £423 £675 £750
90th Percentile £475 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £600 £158
% change year-on-year -73.33% +280.95% -43.29%
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 5,319 4,462 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 13.55% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 2,854 3,463
10th Percentile £190 £188 £200
25th Percentile £313 £300 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £579
90th Percentile £675 £672 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 274 274
10th Percentile £14.21 £15.50 £15.53
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £20.07
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -48.93% +5.48%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.57 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +29.22% -52.10% +14.43%

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 16 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 16 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 -166 7 £335 -16.25% 10
UK excluding London -120 6 £160 -73.33% 7
North of England -90 5 £160 -75.38% 3
Yorkshire -58 4 £160 -75.38% 2
East of England -22 1 - - 1
North East -41 1 - -
North West -44 1 - - 1
Midlands -44 1 - - 1
West Midlands -52 1 - - 1
London -96 1 £510 +138.60% 4

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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (71.43%) JAX-RS
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) Mustache
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Nunjucks
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WSDL
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Unix
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Android
4 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Deployment
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Pair Programming
2 4 (57.14%) Responsive Web Design
2 4 (57.14%) Web Design
2 4 (57.14%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
4 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft