Mac OS Contract Job Trends

Apple macOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Mac OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 346 432
Rank change year-on-year -107 +86 +29
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 221 205 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.62% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.29% 4.69% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 100 83
10th Percentile £153 £180 £143
25th Percentile £175 £213 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £400 £280
Median % change year-on-year -38.75% +42.86% -2.61%
75th Percentile £480 £525 £404
90th Percentile £669 £588 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £280 £375 £280
% change year-on-year -25.33% +33.93% +17.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 10
10th Percentile £16.01 £24.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.75 - £12.68
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% +57.19% -11.50%
75th Percentile £34.49 £43.25 £34.50
90th Percentile £46.49 £89.63 £41.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £83.32 £16.00
% change year-on-year -60.99% +420.72% -11.50%

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 5,157 4,370 5,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 13.26% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,796 3,611
10th Percentile £193 £192 £200
25th Percentile £325 £311 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £474
% change year-on-year +2.00% -5.06% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 259 333
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.73% -31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £67.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £22.56 £46.25
% change year-on-year +18.17% -51.22% +68.18%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mac OS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mac OS job vacancy trend in the UK

Mac OS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Top 14 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 12 August 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 -89 206 £240 -40.00% 187
London -34 116 £225 -43.75% 101
UK excluding London -120 94 £280 -25.33% 102
Work from Home -52 38 £350 -35.19% 82
South East -66 32 £273 -39.04% 36
North of England -84 28 £350 -12.50% 33
West Midlands -35 16 £186 -7.25% 3
Midlands -42 16 £186 -46.39% 5
North West -37 13 £361 +125.63% 21
Yorkshire -65 13 £525 +31.25% 11
East of England -17 11 £638 +264.29% 16
Scotland -9 10 £350 -12.50% 4
North East -38 5 £275 - 2
South West -50 3 £463 +56.78% 11

Mac OS
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 32 (14.48%) SharePoint
2 23 (10.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.71%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.45%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.45%) Houdini
6 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.45%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 8 (3.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (48.87%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (31.22%) Azure
3 61 (27.60%) Entra ID
4 29 (13.12%) OneDrive
5 28 (12.67%) AWS
6 15 (6.79%) GCP
7 12 (5.43%) Google Workspace
7 12 (5.43%) SaaS
8 11 (4.98%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.62%) PaaS
10 7 (3.17%) IaaS
11 6 (2.71%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.36%) GitHub
14 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (0.90%) BrowserStack
14 2 (0.90%) Slack
15 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
15 1 (0.45%) AWS Control Tower
15 1 (0.45%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 39 (17.65%) VPN
2 35 (15.84%) TCP/IP
3 32 (14.48%) DNS
4 31 (14.03%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (11.76%) DHCP
6 15 (6.79%) Firewall
7 14 (6.33%) LAN
8 12 (5.43%) Internet
9 10 (4.52%) WAN
10 6 (2.71%) NAS
10 6 (2.71%) Network Security
10 6 (2.71%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.71%) VoIP
10 6 (2.71%) Wireless
11 4 (1.81%) SSL
12 2 (0.90%) WAAS
13 1 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
13 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.45%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.17%) Power BI
2 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (1.81%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.81%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.81%) JUnit
2 4 (1.81%) Selenium
2 4 (1.81%) TestNG
3 2 (0.90%) Gatling
3 2 (0.90%) JMeter
3 2 (0.90%) Mockito
4 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.45%) CMake
4 1 (0.45%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.45%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) MSI
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.45%) Xcode
General
1 74 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.22%) Finance
4 18 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.17%) Retail
6 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.71%) Legal
8 5 (2.26%) Military
9 4 (1.81%) Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.81%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (24.89%) Support Engineer
2 43 (19.46%) IT Support
3 29 (13.12%) IT Engineer
4 28 (12.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 26 (11.76%) Analyst
6 22 (9.95%) Desktop Support
7 18 (8.14%) Senior
8 17 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
9 16 (7.24%) Desktop Engineer
9 16 (7.24%) Mac Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Support Specialist
11 11 (4.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (4.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 10 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.52%) Service Analyst
12 10 (4.52%) Service Desk Analyst
13 9 (4.07%) Developer
13 9 (4.07%) Security Engineer
13 9 (4.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.81%) SAML
2 2 (0.90%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (0.90%) JAX-RS
2 2 (0.90%) Kafka
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.45%) Bazel
3 1 (0.45%) Core Media
3 1 (0.45%) CSS
3 1 (0.45%) HTML
3 1 (0.45%) Mustache
3 1 (0.45%) Nunjucks
3 1 (0.45%) Play Framework
3 1 (0.45%) REST
3 1 (0.45%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.91%) Onboarding
2 18 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (4.52%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.62%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.62%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.17%) iPhone
6 7 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.26%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.81%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.81%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.81%) iPad
9 4 (1.81%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (1.36%) BYOD
10 3 (1.36%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 188 (85.07%) Windows
2 73 (33.03%) Apple iOS
3 47 (21.27%) Android
4 38 (17.19%) Windows 10
5 16 (7.24%) Linux
6 11 (4.98%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.71%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.81%) CentOS
9 2 (0.90%) Unix
9 2 (0.90%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (31.67%) Customer Service
3 55 (24.89%) ITSM
4 50 (22.62%) ITIL
5 36 (16.29%) Mobile Device Management
6 27 (12.22%) User Experience
7 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (11.31%) Service Management
8 23 (10.41%) Data Protection
9 22 (9.95%) Service Delivery
10 21 (9.50%) AI
10 21 (9.50%) Time Management
11 19 (8.60%) Asset Management
11 19 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (8.14%) Migration
13 15 (6.79%) Inventory Management
13 15 (6.79%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (6.33%) Process Improvement
15 13 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.67%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.98%) Python
3 5 (2.26%) Bash
4 4 (1.81%) Scala
5 3 (1.36%) Java
5 3 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.45%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.45%) Swift
7 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (20.81%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.12%) Degree
4 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.17%) CISSP
6 7 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.26%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.36%) ACSP
10 2 (0.90%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) CCNA
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.62%) SLA
2 7 (3.17%) NCSC
3 5 (2.26%) QA
4 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (39.37%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.26%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.90%) zsh
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (26.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (22.17%) Jamf Pro
3 26 (11.76%) SCCM
4 11 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.62%) Terraform
6 6 (2.71%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.90%) Ansible
7 2 (0.90%) WSUS
8 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 131 (59.28%) Microsoft
2 64 (28.96%) Apple
3 50 (22.62%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.43%) Citrix
4 12 (5.43%) Google
4 12 (5.43%) Samsung
5 11 (4.98%) Zscaler
6 9 (4.07%) Cisco
6 9 (4.07%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (4.07%) Okta
6 9 (4.07%) Remedy
7 8 (3.62%) Meraki
8 7 (3.17%) Adobe
9 6 (2.71%) Splunk
10 5 (2.26%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (2.26%) Sophos
10 5 (2.26%) Synology
10 5 (2.26%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (1.81%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.81%) VMware