Mac OS X Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apple Mac OS X
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 335 444
Rank change year-on-year +38 +109 +150
Contract jobs citing Mac OS X 7 10 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.59% 0.63% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 25
10th Percentile £405 £187 £250
25th Percentile £450 £212 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £240 £650
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -63.08% +26.83%
75th Percentile £525 £750 £725
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £402 £290 £246
% change year-on-year +38.62% +18.13% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £18.27 £180.00
% change year-on-year - -89.85% +800.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Mac OS X
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mac OS X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mac OS X trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mac OS X
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mac OS X.

Mac OS X daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS X
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mac OS X.

Mac OS X hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mac OS X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
1 3 (42.86%) SMTP
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Grunt
1 1 (14.29%) gulp
1 1 (14.29%) Jasmine
1 1 (14.29%) Mocha
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Help Desk Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Production Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Remote Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Mustache
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyberattack
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
2 2 (28.57%) Ticket Management
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Case Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) A+ Certification
1 2 (28.57%) ACSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Apple
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) OneLogin
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto