Mac OS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple macOS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 351 408
Rank change year-on-year +39 +57 -32
Contract jobs citing Mac OS 78 92 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.41% 2.05% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 61 65
10th Percentile £133 £200 £112
25th Percentile £190 £233 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £525 £225
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +133.33% -43.75%
75th Percentile £378 £600 £338
90th Percentile £575 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £230 £350 £265
% change year-on-year -34.29% +32.08% -41.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 13
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.16 £11.45
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.60 £12.25
Median hourly rate £15.65 £18.08 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.44% +39.08% +0.15%
75th Percentile £17.72 - £21.00
90th Percentile - £19.38 £27.75
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £18.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.50% -9.60% +48.15%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,235 4,485 5,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 19.20% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,106 3,820
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £259 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £672 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 335 455
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.36 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.38 £60.66 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mac OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mac OS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mac OS in the UK excluding London

Mac OS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +16 21 £378 +57.50% 11
North of England +31 20 £220 -60.34% 19
North West +23 18 £220 -60.34% 8
South West +6 14 £225 -57.14% 8
Midlands +28 12 £200 -13.04% 12
West Midlands +19 9 £195 -18.75% 5
Scotland +39 7 £575 -8.00% 2
Wales +21 2 £220 +15.79% 4
East Midlands +15 2 £600 +263.64% 7
East of England +14 2 £215 - 5
Yorkshire +8 2 £150 -67.57% 6
Mac OS
UK

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (29.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.28%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.97%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (39.74%) Azure
3 8 (10.26%) OneDrive
4 7 (8.97%) AWS
5 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.13%) GCP
6 4 (5.13%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub
7 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.67%) LAN
2 12 (15.38%) VPN
3 11 (14.10%) Firewall
3 11 (14.10%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (12.82%) WAN
5 7 (8.97%) Wireless
6 6 (7.69%) VLAN
6 6 (7.69%) VoIP
7 4 (5.13%) WLAN
8 3 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (3.85%) SAN
9 2 (2.56%) HTTP
10 1 (1.28%) DNS
10 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.28%) IPsec
10 1 (1.28%) SNMP
10 1 (1.28%) SSH
10 1 (1.28%) SSL
10 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) Power BI
2 3 (3.85%) MySQL
2 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Hudson
2 2 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Git
3 1 (1.28%) Xcode
3 1 (1.28%) XCTest
General
1 43 (55.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Finance
5 4 (5.13%) Retail
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Support Engineer
2 13 (16.67%) Administrator
3 10 (12.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 10 (12.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) Technical Support
4 9 (11.54%) Desktop Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Desktop Support
4 9 (11.54%) IT Support
4 9 (11.54%) Mac Administrator
5 8 (10.26%) Analyst
5 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.26%) Support Analyst
5 8 (10.26%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (8.97%) IT Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (8.97%) Technical Support Analyst
6 7 (8.97%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) EDI
2 1 (1.28%) Flask
2 1 (1.28%) LDAP
2 1 (1.28%) Pandas
2 1 (1.28%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (1.28%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Blog
2 10 (12.82%) Driving Licence
2 10 (12.82%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.69%) Clustering
4 5 (6.41%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.85%) CCTV
5 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.56%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.56%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 62 (79.49%) Windows
2 23 (29.49%) Windows 10
3 16 (20.51%) Apple iOS
4 14 (17.95%) Android
5 11 (14.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (11.54%) Linux
6 9 (11.54%) Windows Server
6 9 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (6.41%) Unix
8 4 (5.13%) Ubuntu
9 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.49%) Customer Service
1 23 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (12.82%) Asset Management
3 9 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (11.54%) ITIL
3 9 (11.54%) Mobile Device Management
4 8 (10.26%) Decision-Making
4 8 (10.26%) Software Deployment
5 7 (8.97%) DevOps
5 7 (8.97%) Service Management
6 6 (7.69%) Agile
6 6 (7.69%) Customer Experience
6 6 (7.69%) Inventory Management
6 6 (7.69%) Quality Management
7 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.41%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (6.41%) Refactoring
7 5 (6.41%) Service Delivery
7 5 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (5.13%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (1.28%) Objective-C
4 1 (1.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.13%) A+ Certification
2 4 (5.13%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.85%) MCP
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) MCDST
4 2 (2.56%) MCSE
5 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) SLA
2 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (39.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.26%) Hyper-V
2 8 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.28%) NFS
3 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (60.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (37.18%) SCCM
3 16 (20.51%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (10.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (7.69%) Autotask
5 6 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (5.13%) AirWatch
7 3 (3.85%) PaperCut
8 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (39.74%) Apple
3 12 (15.38%) Cisco
3 12 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 11 (14.10%) VMware
5 7 (8.97%) HP
6 6 (7.69%) Datto
7 5 (6.41%) Splunk
7 5 (6.41%) WatchGuard
8 4 (5.13%) F5
8 4 (5.13%) Planview
8 4 (5.13%) Sophos
9 3 (3.85%) Aruba
9 3 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.85%) Sage
9 3 (3.85%) SonicWALL
9 3 (3.85%) Veeam
10 2 (2.56%) Dell
11 1 (1.28%) Citrix