The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS X
Rank 233 211 221
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +10
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS X 21 34 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.291% 0.480% 0.163%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.122% 1.759% 0.691%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 9
Average salary £28,000 £40,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% +60.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £36,750 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £36,500 £30,250
% change year-on-year
-6.84% +20.66%
All Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1871 1933 1592
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 25.94% 27.28% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1595 1689 1410
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Mac OS X
England

Mac OS X
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Mac OS X Salary Trend

Mac OS X
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mac OS X across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West Mac OS X Salary Histogram

Mac OS X
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester -3 18 £28,000 -19.42%
Cheshire -14 3 £30,500 -23.75%
Mac OS X
England

Mac OS X
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 22 (64.71%) Windows
2 19 (55.88%) Linux
3 13 (38.24%) UNIX
4 11 (32.35%) Degree
5 10 (29.41%) Apple
6 9 (26.47%) PHP
6 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (23.53%) C
7 8 (23.53%) C#
7 8 (23.53%) C++
7 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
7 8 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (20.59%) Visual Studio
8 7 (20.59%) ATL
8 7 (20.59%) OO
8 7 (20.59%) N-Tier
9 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 6 (17.65%) CSS
9 6 (17.65%) Git (software)
10 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
10 5 (14.71%) BDD
10 5 (14.71%) Semantic Web
10 5 (14.71%) TDD
10 5 (14.71%) Content Management
10 5 (14.71%) Interactive TV
10 5 (14.71%) HTML
10 5 (14.71%) .NET
10 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
10 5 (14.71%) Firewall
10 5 (14.71%) MVC

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 7 (20.59%) ATL
2 6 (17.65%) CSS
3 5 (14.71%) HTML
3 5 (14.71%) .NET
4 3 (8.824%) LAMP
4 3 (8.824%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.824%) Laravel
5 2 (5.882%) Symfony
5 2 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (5.882%) Google Maps API
6 1 (2.941%) Modernizr
6 1 (2.941%) JPA
6 1 (2.941%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (2.941%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.941%) Java EE
6 1 (2.941%) iBATIS
6 1 (2.941%) Spring
6 1 (2.941%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.941%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.941%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.882%) Fireworks
2 2 (5.882%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
1 5 (14.71%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) LAN
2 1 (2.941%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.941%) HTTP
2 1 (2.941%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.882%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Visual Studio
2 6 (17.65%) Git (software)
3 3 (8.824%) JIRA
4 2 (5.882%) Subversion
5 1 (2.941%) Maven
5 1 (2.941%) GitHub
General
1 2 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 2 (5.882%) Finance
1 2 (5.882%) Manufacturing
1 2 (5.882%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Field Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) C++ Developer
3 5 (14.71%) PHP Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (11.76%) Web Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Field Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) Test Leader
5 3 (8.824%) Administrator
6 2 (5.882%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.882%) Web Designer
6 2 (5.882%) UNIX Administrator
6 2 (5.882%) Designer
7 1 (2.941%) iOS Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Mac Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (20.59%) N-Tier
3 5 (14.71%) Semantic Web
3 5 (14.71%) Interactive TV
3 5 (14.71%) BBC
4 3 (8.824%) EPoS
4 3 (8.824%) Replication
5 2 (5.882%) Digital Media
5 2 (5.882%) Mathematics
5 2 (5.882%) iPad
6 1 (2.941%) Open Source
6 1 (2.941%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.941%) Blackberry
6 1 (2.941%) Clustering
6 1 (2.941%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Windows
2 19 (55.88%) Linux
3 13 (38.24%) UNIX
4 8 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
6 4 (11.76%) Windows XP
7 3 (8.824%) Mac OS X Server
8 2 (5.882%) Debian
8 2 (5.882%) AIX
8 2 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.941%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) OO
2 5 (14.71%) BDD
2 5 (14.71%) TDD
2 5 (14.71%) Content Management
2 5 (14.71%) MVC
3 4 (11.76%) Validation
3 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (11.76%) Web Development
3 4 (11.76%) Product Management
4 3 (8.824%) Web Accessibility
4 3 (8.824%) Performance Testing
4 3 (8.824%) Software Testing
4 3 (8.824%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.824%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.824%) Test Strategy
5 2 (5.882%) SEO
5 2 (5.882%) E-business
5 2 (5.882%) Automated Testing
5 2 (5.882%) Load Balancing
5 2 (5.882%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) PHP
2 8 (23.53%) C
2 8 (23.53%) C#
2 8 (23.53%) C++
2 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) Ruby
4 3 (8.824%) Scala
5 2 (5.882%) SQL
6 1 (2.941%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) MCITP
3 3 (8.824%) MCTS
3 3 (8.824%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.824%) ISEB
4 2 (5.882%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.941%) MCSE
5 1 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.941%) CCNP
5 1 (2.941%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.941%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Apple
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.824%) Zend
4 2 (5.882%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.882%) IBM
4 2 (5.882%) Google
5 1 (2.941%) SonicWALL
5 1 (2.941%) Draytek
5 1 (2.941%) Cisco
5 1 (2.941%) HP
5 1 (2.941%) VMware
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