Mac OS X Contracts

Apple Mac OS X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mac OS X skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mac OS X over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 524 554
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 +193
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 6 66 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.14% 1.11% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 44 110
10th Percentile £145 £133 £150
25th Percentile £160 £187 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £229 £333 £266
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +24.88% +2.40%
75th Percentile £279 £738 £650
90th Percentile £399 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate - £438 £250
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £180.00
Median % change year-on-year - -89.85% +1100.00%
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 4,293 5,921 8,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.70% 13.62% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,778 3,890 6,146
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £462
% change year-on-year -2.70% +0.13% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 434 407
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £18.44
Median hourly rate £22.53 £24.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -41.94% +88.89%
75th Percentile £41.00 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.98 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £31.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year -37.84% -7.46% +67.50%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS X over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS X.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Top 3 Contract 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 3 July 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
London +15 6 £229 -25.61% 19
England +6 6 £229 -47.71% 37
Work from Home +26 2 £381 +58.85% 9

Mac OS X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Google Workspace
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) Intranet
3 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) Skype
3 1 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Electronics
3 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support
2 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Team Leader
4 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 1 (16.67%) iPhone
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 8
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Case Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (16.67%) MCSA
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MOS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Wyse
3 2 (33.33%) Adobe
3 2 (33.33%) Apple
3 2 (33.33%) Autodesk
3 2 (33.33%) Dell
3 2 (33.33%) Draytek
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee
3 2 (33.33%) Sage
3 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Sophos
3 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 2 (33.33%) Toshiba
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) WatchGuard
3 2 (33.33%) Webroot