Mac OS Contracts

Apple macOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mac OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mac OS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 440 472
Rank change year-on-year +64 +32 +100
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 144 161 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.53% 2.77% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 111 164
10th Percentile £141 £140 £189
25th Percentile £180 £185 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £238 £350
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -32.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £432 £378 £554
90th Percentile £521 £538 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £225 £400
% change year-on-year +73.33% -43.75% +77.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 14
10th Percentile £20.50 £12.50 £14.45
25th Percentile £21.25 £14.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.66 £16.00 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +54.13% -11.50% -9.60%
75th Percentile - £17.72 £19.38
90th Percentile - £17.87 £70.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £15.65 £18.08
% change year-on-year +57.57% -13.44% +39.08%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS 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 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +46 130 £283 +22.83% 157
UK excluding London +47 73 £390 +73.33% 110
London +26 62 £275 +13.99% 61
North of England +38 31 £400 +81.82% 24
Work from Home +52 28 £415 +72.92% 99
Yorkshire +35 21 £400 +166.67% 7
South East +38 15 £300 -20.63% 24
Midlands +22 10 £290 +45.00% 18
West Midlands +14 7 £175 -10.26% 8
Scotland +8 7 £496 -13.74% 3
North West -2 7 £160 -27.27% 14
East of England +36 5 £325 +51.16% 20
South West +33 4 £215 -4.44% 14
East Midlands +11 3 £395 -34.17% 10
North East - 3 - - 3
Wales +5 2 £413 +87.50% 10

Mac OS
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 12 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.08%) Confluence
4 2 (1.39%) Mattermost
4 2 (1.39%) nginx
4 2 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (27.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.69%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 15 (10.42%) Google Workspace
4 13 (9.03%) Azure
5 7 (4.86%) OneDrive
6 6 (4.17%) AWS
7 5 (3.47%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.08%) SaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Slack
8 3 (2.08%) Smartsheet
8 3 (2.08%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.39%) GCP
9 2 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.69%) OVHcloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) DNS
1 11 (7.64%) Firewall
2 9 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.86%) VPN
4 7 (4.86%) Wireless
5 6 (4.17%) DHCP
6 4 (2.78%) Internet
7 3 (2.08%) LAN
7 3 (2.08%) Network Security
7 3 (2.08%) VoIP
7 3 (2.08%) WAN
8 2 (1.39%) VLAN
9 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.69%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.69%) NAS
9 1 (0.69%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.69%) SSH
9 1 (0.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) Power BI
2 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.69%) FileMaker
3 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (9.03%) JIRA
2 6 (4.17%) Git
3 4 (2.78%) GitLab
3 4 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) Grunt
4 1 (0.69%) gulp
4 1 (0.69%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.69%) Mocha
4 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 78 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Retail
5 11 (7.64%) Finance
6 8 (5.56%) Military
7 5 (3.47%) Banking
8 4 (2.78%) Local Government
9 3 (2.08%) Marketing
9 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Electronics
10 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.39%) Publishing
11 1 (0.69%) Front Office
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.92%) Support Engineer
2 28 (19.44%) IT Support
3 24 (16.67%) Mac Engineer
4 18 (12.50%) Analyst
4 18 (12.50%) Support Manager
5 16 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 13 (9.03%) Desktop Support
6 13 (9.03%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) Senior
8 11 (7.64%) IT Manager
9 10 (6.94%) Desktop Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) Service Analyst
9 10 (6.94%) Service Desk Analyst
10 9 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (5.56%) 1st Line Support Manager
11 8 (5.56%) IT Support Manager
12 7 (4.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Developer
12 7 (4.86%) Senior Mac Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.08%) FastAPI
1 3 (2.08%) LDAP
1 3 (2.08%) pytest
1 3 (2.08%) X-Windows
2 2 (1.39%) cloud-init
2 2 (1.39%) Kafka
2 2 (1.39%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.69%) Core Data
3 1 (0.69%) CSS
3 1 (0.69%) Django
3 1 (0.69%) HTML
3 1 (0.69%) HTML5
3 1 (0.69%) jQuery
3 1 (0.69%) Mustache
3 1 (0.69%) Node.js
3 1 (0.69%) React
3 1 (0.69%) RESTful
3 1 (0.69%) SAML
3 1 (0.69%) Sass
3 1 (0.69%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.58%) Smartphone
2 17 (11.81%) iPhone
3 7 (4.86%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.39%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.39%) PKI
5 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.69%) iPad
6 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (68.06%) Windows
2 31 (21.53%) Linux
3 27 (18.75%) Apple iOS
4 22 (15.28%) Windows 10
5 21 (14.58%) Android
6 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.47%) Unix
8 3 (2.08%) Mac OS X
8 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.39%) CentOS
9 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.69%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.11%) Customer Service
2 45 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (24.31%) ITIL
4 22 (15.28%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (15.28%) Mobile Device Management
5 21 (14.58%) ITSM
6 19 (13.19%) Service Management
7 18 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 11 (7.64%) Service Delivery
8 11 (7.64%) Task Automation
9 10 (6.94%) Agile
10 9 (6.25%) Asset Management
10 9 (6.25%) Security Patching
11 8 (5.56%) CI/CD
11 8 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
11 8 (5.56%) Time Management
12 7 (4.86%) Inventory Management
12 7 (4.86%) Patch Management
12 7 (4.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (4.17%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.58%) Bash
2 20 (13.89%) Python
3 18 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.78%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.39%) AppleScript
5 2 (1.39%) C++
5 2 (1.39%) Go
5 2 (1.39%) Groovy
5 2 (1.39%) VB
5 2 (1.39%) VBScript
6 1 (0.69%) Java
6 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.69%) Perl
6 1 (0.69%) SQL
6 1 (0.69%) Swift
6 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.94%) A+ Certification
3 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.25%) ACSP
5 7 (4.86%) Degree
6 6 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (3.47%) ACTC
7 5 (3.47%) CISSP
8 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.78%) MCP
8 4 (2.78%) MCSE
9 3 (2.08%) CCNA
9 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.08%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.39%) CISM
10 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.39%) MCSA
11 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) SLA
2 5 (3.47%) NCSC
3 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.39%) QA
6 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.17%) Docker
3 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.39%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.69%) vSphere
6 1 (0.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (31.94%) Jamf Pro
2 16 (11.11%) SCCM
3 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.17%) Terraform
5 5 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.08%) Rancher
7 2 (1.39%) Consul
7 2 (1.39%) Grafana
7 2 (1.39%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.39%) Istio
7 2 (1.39%) linkerd
7 2 (1.39%) Packer
7 2 (1.39%) Podman
7 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.39%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.69%) Ansible
8 1 (0.69%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (49.31%) Microsoft
2 57 (39.58%) Apple
3 24 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 14 (9.72%) Google
5 12 (8.33%) Cisco
6 9 (6.25%) HP
7 7 (4.86%) Dell
8 6 (4.17%) Symantec
8 6 (4.17%) VMware
9 5 (3.47%) Okta
10 4 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (2.78%) Splunk
11 3 (2.08%) ESET
11 3 (2.08%) Netskope
12 2 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (1.39%) Citrix
12 2 (1.39%) F5
12 2 (1.39%) McAfee
12 2 (1.39%) Proofpoint
12 2 (1.39%) SAP