The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mac OS X over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS X
Rank 110 98 -
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS X 4 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.237% 0.138% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.003% 0.651% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £32,500 £33,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.98% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £36,500 £30,250
% change year-on-year
-6.84% +20.66%
All Operating Systems
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
399 307 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.67% 21.20% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 345 287 242
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,650 £22,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Mac OS X
West Midlands

Mac OS X
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Mac OS X across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Birmingham Mac OS X Jobs Demand Trend

Mac OS X
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Mac OS X across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Mac OS X Salary Trend

Mac OS X
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Mac OS X also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Mac OS X.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 3 (50.00%) Advertising
2 3 (50.00%) MS Office
2 3 (50.00%) COM
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 3 (50.00%) Apple
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) X-Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) RSpec
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) PHPUnit
4 1 (16.67%) Capistrano
4 1 (16.67%) Xserve
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Active Record
4 1 (16.67%) Redis
4 1 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Mac OS X also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Mac OS X. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) COM
2 2 (33.33%) X-Windows
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (16.67%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) RSpec
1 1 (16.67%) PHPUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Capistrano
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Phing
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Technician
2 2 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
1 1 (16.67%) Xserve
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Gentoo
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Active Record
1 1 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
1 3 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Twitter
2 1 (16.67%) Zend