The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mac OS over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS
Rank 121 120 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 2 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.111% 0.398% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.370% 1.320% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 0
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £39,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -13.33%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
541 606 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.07% 30.18% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 434 547 387
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,250 £50,000 £48,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Mac OS
North West

Mac OS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Mac OS Jobs Demand Trend

Mac OS
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Mac OS Salary Trend

Mac OS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mac OS across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Mac OS Salary Histogram

Mac OS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Knutsford - 1 £40,000 -
Macclesfield - 1 £25,000 -
Mac OS
North West

Mac OS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Mac OS 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.

1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Network Management
4 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (10.00%) MS Access
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) Symantec
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee
4 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) VMware

Mac OS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Mac OS 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) DBA
1 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (10.00%) Administrator
1 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (10.00%) Network Management
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (10.00%) Project Management
1 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) VMware