Mac OS X Contracts in the West Midlands

Apple Mac OS X
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 100 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 3 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.56% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.64% 4.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.43% - -
England median daily rate £402 £400 £240
% change year-on-year +0.50% +66.67% +10.98%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 183 245 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.61% 12.58% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 163 275
10th Percentile £147 £182 £170
25th Percentile £190 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £559
90th Percentile £653 £695 £694
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.83 £14.71
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%
75th Percentile £19.01 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £20.00 £48.13 £25.75
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS X in the West Midlands

Mac OS X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Mac OS X in the West Midlands

Mac OS X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS X in the West Midlands

Mac OS X
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +8 2 £160 -63.43% 2
Staffordshire - 1 - - 1
Mac OS X
England

Mac OS X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (33.33%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (33.33%) QuarkXPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) A+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) MCP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Quark