Apple macOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mac OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 463 587
Rank change year-on-year +36 +124 -17
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 154 235 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.71% 2.54% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 154 202
10th Percentile £140 £186 £153
25th Percentile £185 £230 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £350 £258
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +35.92% -41.14%
75th Percentile £378 £561 £500
90th Percentile £523 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £525 £216
% change year-on-year -57.14% +142.77% -45.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 20
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.45 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £15.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +16.76% +14.79%
75th Percentile £17.72 £19.38 £27.75
90th Percentile £17.87 £70.70 £37.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.65 £18.08 £13.50
% change year-on-year -13.44% +33.93% +4.01%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,687 9,251 13,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 6,458 8,915
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 404 594
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%

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 20 May 2024.

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 15 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 20 May 2024. 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 +51 140 £230 -23.33% 124
UK excluding London +44 77 £225 -57.14% 87
London +42 68 £240 -12.73% 53
Work from Home +56 25 £240 -43.53% 42
South East +18 21 £378 +57.50% 23
North of England +28 20 £220 -59.60% 22
North West +23 18 £220 -59.60% 3
South West +8 14 £225 -62.50% 23
Midlands +18 11 £200 -9.09% 12
West Midlands +26 9 £195 -47.65% 6
Scotland +37 7 £575 -8.00% 3
Wales +21 2 £220 +15.79% 3
East of England +12 2 £215 - 6
East Midlands +12 2 £600 +263.64% 6
Yorkshire +10 2 £150 -67.57% 12

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 16 (10.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 40 (25.97%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (31.17%) Azure
3 18 (11.69%) AWS
4 10 (6.49%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.49%) OneDrive
5 9 (5.84%) WhatsApp
6 6 (3.90%) GCP
6 6 (3.90%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.25%) Google Workspace
7 5 (3.25%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.30%) GitHub
9 2 (1.30%) Slack
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.65%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.78%) LAN
2 27 (17.53%) VPN
3 25 (16.23%) WAN
4 23 (14.94%) Firewall
5 13 (8.44%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (6.49%) VoIP
7 8 (5.19%) VLAN
8 6 (3.90%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (3.90%) DNS
8 6 (3.90%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.25%) Wireless
10 4 (2.60%) DHCP
11 3 (1.95%) WLAN
12 2 (1.30%) HTTP
12 2 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.65%) Network Security
13 1 (0.65%) SNMP
13 1 (0.65%) SSH
13 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.60%) Power BI
2 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.65%) MySQL
3 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.90%) JIRA
2 4 (2.60%) Hudson
3 3 (1.95%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.95%) XCTest
4 2 (1.30%) Git
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Xcode
General
1 83 (53.90%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.44%) Finance
4 8 (5.19%) Mandarin Language
4 8 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.19%) Retail
5 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.60%) Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Advertising
9 2 (1.30%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.30%) Law
9 2 (1.30%) Legal
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Aviation
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (20.13%) Support Engineer
2 22 (14.29%) Analyst
3 18 (11.69%) Desktop Support
4 17 (11.04%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (9.74%) Technical Support
6 14 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
6 14 (9.09%) IT Support
6 14 (9.09%) Mac Engineer
7 13 (8.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 13 (8.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 13 (8.44%) Administrator
7 13 (8.44%) IT Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (7.14%) Senior
9 11 (7.14%) Support Analyst
9 11 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (6.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Mac Administrator
11 9 (5.84%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.65%) Flask
1 1 (0.65%) JSON
1 1 (0.65%) Laravel
1 1 (0.65%) LDAP
1 1 (0.65%) OAuth
1 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.65%) Pandas
1 1 (0.65%) SAML
1 1 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (0.65%) UIKit
1 1 (0.65%) Vue
1 1 (0.65%) XML
1 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.99%) Video Conferencing
2 12 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.14%) Blog
4 10 (6.49%) Driving Licence
5 8 (5.19%) Clustering
6 5 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.95%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.30%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.30%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.30%) IoT
9 2 (1.30%) iPhone
9 2 (1.30%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.30%) Social Media
10 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.65%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 128 (83.12%) Windows
2 52 (33.77%) Windows 10
3 29 (18.83%) Apple iOS
4 27 (17.53%) Android
5 20 (12.99%) Windows Server
6 13 (8.44%) Linux
7 10 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (5.84%) Mac OS X
9 8 (5.19%) Unix
10 6 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.30%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.65%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.12%) Customer Service
2 34 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (14.94%) ITIL
4 22 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 18 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (7.79%) Mobile Device Management
7 10 (6.49%) Decision-Making
8 8 (5.19%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (5.19%) Software Deployment
9 7 (4.55%) Agile
9 7 (4.55%) Customer Experience
9 7 (4.55%) DevOps
9 7 (4.55%) Server Management
9 7 (4.55%) Service Management
10 6 (3.90%) Inventory Management
10 6 (3.90%) Quality Management
10 6 (3.90%) Service Delivery
10 6 (3.90%) Time Management
11 5 (3.25%) Migration
11 5 (3.25%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.34%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.14%) Python
3 3 (1.95%) Swift
4 2 (1.30%) Bash
5 1 (0.65%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.65%) PHP
5 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) Degree
2 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.55%) CCNA
3 7 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) A+ Certification
4 5 (3.25%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.60%) CISM
5 4 (2.60%) MCSE
6 3 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.95%) CISSP
6 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.95%) MCP
6 3 (1.95%) MCSA
6 3 (1.95%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.30%) CCNP
7 2 (1.30%) MCDST
8 1 (0.65%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.04%) SLA
2 6 (3.90%) QA
3 4 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.65%) NCSC
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (38.31%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.19%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.95%) vSphere
7 2 (1.30%) Docker
7 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.65%) iptables
8 1 (0.65%) NFS
8 1 (0.65%) vCloud
8 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 53 (34.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (26.62%) SCCM
3 36 (23.38%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (5.19%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (5.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (3.90%) AirWatch
5 6 (3.90%) Autotask
6 1 (0.65%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (34.42%) Apple
3 25 (16.23%) Cisco
4 21 (13.64%) ServiceNow
5 18 (11.69%) VMware
6 8 (5.19%) Adobe
6 8 (5.19%) Google
7 6 (3.90%) Datto
7 6 (3.90%) TOWER Software
8 5 (3.25%) Citrix
8 5 (3.25%) HP
8 5 (3.25%) Okta
8 5 (3.25%) Splunk
9 4 (2.60%) F5
9 4 (2.60%) Planview
9 4 (2.60%) Sophos
10 3 (1.95%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.95%) Dell
10 3 (1.95%) SonicWALL
11 2 (1.30%) WatchGuard