Mac OS Contracts in England

Apple macOS
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 439 526
Rank change year-on-year +30 +87 -16
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 140 214 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.79% 2.68% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 139 185
10th Percentile £139 £180 £147
25th Percentile £185 £225 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £300 £250
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £378 £525 £488
90th Percentile £440 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £230 £350 £265
% change year-on-year -34.29% +32.08% -41.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 16
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.45 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £12.81
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +26.88% +5.56%
75th Percentile £17.72 £19.38 £27.56
90th Percentile £17.87 £70.70 £32.63
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.50% -9.60% +48.15%

All Operating Systems
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,016 8,000 10,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.33% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,661 7,507
10th Percentile £185 £195 £174
25th Percentile £300 £325 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 385 544
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.56 £13.42
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.14
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +69.38% +24.59%
75th Percentile £60.80 £65.00 £51.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in England

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in England

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in England

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in England

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +32 67 £240 -12.73% 43
South East +19 21 £378 +57.50% 12
North of England +31 20 £220 -60.34% 20
North West +29 18 £220 -60.34% 8
South West +12 14 £225 -57.14% 8
Midlands +25 12 £200 -13.04% 12
West Midlands +21 9 £195 -18.75% 5
East Midlands +17 2 £600 +263.64% 7
East of England +16 2 £215 - 5
Yorkshire +10 2 £150 -67.57% 7
Mac OS
UK

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.86%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 75 (53.57%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (32.14%) Azure
3 12 (8.57%) AWS
4 11 (7.86%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.43%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.43%) WhatsApp
6 6 (4.29%) GCP
6 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.57%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.86%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub
9 2 (1.43%) Slack
10 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.71%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.71%) IaaS
10 1 (0.71%) PaaS
10 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (20.00%) LAN
2 27 (19.29%) VPN
3 25 (17.86%) WAN
4 24 (17.14%) Firewall
5 12 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (7.14%) VoIP
7 9 (6.43%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (5.71%) VLAN
8 8 (5.71%) Wireless
9 5 (3.57%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.86%) DNS
10 4 (2.86%) SAN
11 3 (2.14%) DHCP
12 2 (1.43%) HTTP
12 2 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.43%) WLAN
13 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.71%) Network Security
13 1 (0.71%) SSH
13 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.86%) MySQL
2 4 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 4 (2.86%) Hudson
3 3 (2.14%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.14%) XCTest
4 2 (1.43%) Git
5 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) Maven
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
5 1 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 72 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.14%) Finance
4 8 (5.71%) Mandarin Language
4 8 (5.71%) Retail
5 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Banking
7 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.43%) Advertising
9 2 (1.43%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.43%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.43%) Marketing
9 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.71%) Aviation
10 1 (0.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 21 (15.00%) Analyst
3 18 (12.86%) Desktop Support
4 16 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (10.71%) Technical Support
6 13 (9.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 13 (9.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) Administrator
6 13 (9.29%) Mac Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) IT Support
8 11 (7.86%) Support Analyst
9 10 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) IT Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Senior
10 9 (6.43%) Mac Administrator
10 9 (6.43%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (5.71%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.14%) EDI
2 1 (0.71%) Flask
2 1 (0.71%) JSON
2 1 (0.71%) Laravel
2 1 (0.71%) LDAP
2 1 (0.71%) OAuth
2 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.71%) Pandas
2 1 (0.71%) SAML
2 1 (0.71%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (0.71%) UIKit
2 1 (0.71%) Vue
2 1 (0.71%) XML
2 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
2 11 (7.86%) Blog
2 11 (7.86%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.14%) Driving Licence
4 8 (5.71%) Clustering
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.14%) CCTV
6 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.14%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.43%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.43%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 2 (1.43%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Social Media
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 116 (82.86%) Windows
2 51 (36.43%) Windows 10
3 30 (21.43%) Android
4 29 (20.71%) Apple iOS
5 17 (12.14%) Windows Server
6 16 (11.43%) Linux
7 11 (7.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (5.71%) Mac OS X
10 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.43%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.71%) Unix
13 1 (0.71%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.86%) Customer Service
2 25 (17.86%) ITIL
2 25 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.00%) Asset Management
4 10 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
5 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (5.71%) Decision-Making
6 8 (5.71%) Software Deployment
7 7 (5.00%) Server Management
8 6 (4.29%) Customer Experience
8 6 (4.29%) Inventory Management
8 6 (4.29%) Quality Management
8 6 (4.29%) Service Delivery
8 6 (4.29%) Service Management
8 6 (4.29%) Time Management
9 5 (3.57%) Coaching
9 5 (3.57%) Migration
9 5 (3.57%) Project Management
10 4 (2.86%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (2.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.57%) Python
3 4 (2.86%) SQL
4 3 (2.14%) Swift
5 2 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) Java
6 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.71%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (4.29%) CCNA
2 6 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.57%) A+ Certification
3 5 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) CISSP
5 3 (2.14%) CISM
5 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.14%) MCP
5 3 (2.14%) MCSE
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.43%) MCDST
6 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) GCFA
7 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.71%) SLA
2 6 (4.29%) QA
3 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.71%) NCSC
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (40.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.86%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.14%) vSphere
7 2 (1.43%) Docker
8 1 (0.71%) iptables
8 1 (0.71%) NFS
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (26.43%) SCCM
3 34 (24.29%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (5.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (4.29%) AirWatch
5 6 (4.29%) Autotask
6 3 (2.14%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (43.57%) Microsoft
2 51 (36.43%) Apple
3 26 (18.57%) Cisco
4 21 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 17 (12.14%) VMware
6 8 (5.71%) Adobe
6 8 (5.71%) HP
7 7 (5.00%) Google
8 6 (4.29%) Datto
8 6 (4.29%) TOWER Software
9 4 (2.86%) F5
9 4 (2.86%) Planview
9 4 (2.86%) Sophos
10 3 (2.14%) Aruba
10 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.14%) Citrix
10 3 (2.14%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.14%) Sage
10 3 (2.14%) Veeam
10 3 (2.14%) WatchGuard