Apple macOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mac OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 575 630
Rank change year-on-year +110 +55 +84
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 493 448 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.43% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.50% 2.69% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 430 266 407
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,064 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £47,500 £59,219 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £70,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £33,319 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -4.80% -2.78%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mac OS.

Salary trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 439 £32,500 -7.14% 103
UK excluding London +88 348 £32,500 -2.46% 61
London +99 138 £43,000 +7.50% 47
Work from Home +42 112 £40,000 -20.00% 27
North of England +85 84 £36,500 +19.67% 21
South East -4 64 £31,500 +3.28% 13
Midlands +47 55 £31,500 +22.45% 13
East of England +39 50 £35,000 +10.90% 5
South West +14 48 £29,000 -12.78% 9
North West +35 40 £40,000 +25.00% 11
Yorkshire +98 38 £32,500 +6.56% 6
West Midlands +45 31 £30,000 +18.93% 12
East Midlands +6 24 £32,500 -24.42% 1
Scotland -65 24 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Wales +18 8 £24,500 -55.45% 2
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland +37 7 £37,500 -25.00%
North East - 6 £27,000 - 4

Mac OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 67 (13.59%) SharePoint
2 63 (12.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (6.90%) Confluence
4 5 (1.01%) WordPress
5 4 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.61%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 111 (22.52%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.22%) Trello
4 5 (1.01%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.41%) InCopy
7 2 (0.41%) InDesign
8 1 (0.20%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 242 (49.09%) Microsoft 365
2 143 (29.01%) Azure
3 69 (14.00%) AWS
4 53 (10.75%) Entra ID
5 41 (8.32%) Google Workspace
6 27 (5.48%) SaaS
7 21 (4.26%) OneDrive
8 12 (2.43%) Power Automate
9 10 (2.03%) Slack
10 9 (1.83%) GitHub
11 8 (1.62%) GCP
11 8 (1.62%) Serverless
11 8 (1.62%) WhatsApp
12 7 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.42%) Mimecast
13 5 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.01%) DigitalOcean
13 5 (1.01%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.81%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 114 (23.12%) Firewall
2 67 (13.59%) LAN
3 66 (13.39%) Wireless
4 58 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
5 51 (10.34%) WAN
6 48 (9.74%) DNS
7 45 (9.13%) VPN
8 36 (7.30%) Network Security
9 32 (6.49%) DHCP
10 30 (6.09%) TCP/IP
10 30 (6.09%) VoIP
11 24 (4.87%) Internet
12 18 (3.65%) PBX
12 18 (3.65%) VLAN
13 16 (3.25%) NAS
14 10 (2.03%) Broadband
14 10 (2.03%) IP Telephony
14 10 (2.03%) SAN
15 7 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (1.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.26%) MySQL
2 19 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.04%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.22%) Tableau
5 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.81%) Power BI
6 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.20%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.20%) Flink
Development Applications
1 41 (8.32%) JIRA
2 20 (4.06%) Bitbucket
2 20 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.04%) Git
4 10 (2.03%) CMake
5 8 (1.62%) Appium
5 8 (1.62%) UI Automator
6 7 (1.42%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.01%) AdminStudio
7 5 (1.01%) MSI
8 4 (0.81%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.61%) GCC
9 3 (0.61%) GDB
10 2 (0.41%) GitLab
10 2 (0.41%) Maven
10 2 (0.41%) Xcode
11 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.20%) Gradle
11 1 (0.20%) JUnit
General
1 198 (40.16%) Social Skills
2 59 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (6.09%) Finance
4 23 (4.67%) Games
5 21 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.25%) Marketing
8 11 (2.23%) Retail
9 10 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.62%) Automotive
10 8 (1.62%) Electronics
11 7 (1.42%) Legal
11 7 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.22%) Law
13 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.61%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.61%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (30.22%) Support Engineer
2 128 (25.96%) IT Support
3 89 (18.05%) IT Engineer
4 74 (15.01%) IT Support Engineer
5 63 (12.78%) Analyst
5 63 (12.78%) Senior
6 46 (9.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 43 (8.72%) 2nd Line Support
8 42 (8.52%) IT Technician
9 36 (7.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 32 (6.49%) Desktop Engineer
11 31 (6.29%) Desktop Support
11 31 (6.29%) Support Analyst
12 29 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (5.48%) Systems Engineer
14 26 (5.27%) Technical Support
15 25 (5.07%) Field Engineer
16 23 (4.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 22 (4.46%) IT Analyst
17 22 (4.46%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.83%) .NET
1 9 (1.83%) CSS
1 9 (1.83%) HTML
2 8 (1.62%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (0.61%) EDI
3 3 (0.61%) OpenGL
4 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.41%) J2EE
4 2 (0.41%) jOOQ
4 2 (0.41%) React
4 2 (0.41%) React Native
4 2 (0.41%) Redux
4 2 (0.41%) Spring
4 2 (0.41%) Vue
5 1 (0.20%) BREW
5 1 (0.20%) Django
5 1 (0.20%) Laravel
5 1 (0.20%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.39%) Onboarding
2 24 (4.87%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
4 18 (3.65%) Smartphone
5 17 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 17 (3.45%) Social Media
6 14 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.43%) CCTV
8 10 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.83%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.62%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.42%) BYOD
11 7 (1.42%) Clustering
11 7 (1.42%) EPoS
11 7 (1.42%) Life Science
12 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.01%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 431 (87.42%) Windows
2 116 (23.53%) Linux
3 109 (22.11%) Windows 10
4 89 (18.05%) Apple iOS
5 86 (17.44%) Windows Server
6 62 (12.58%) Android
7 20 (4.06%) Unix
8 16 (3.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (2.43%) Mac OS X
12 9 (1.83%) CentOS
13 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.61%) VMS
15 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.41%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.41%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.20%) Scientific Linux
16 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (31.85%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (26.57%) Customer Service
3 71 (14.40%) Cybersecurity
4 60 (12.17%) Computer Science
5 53 (10.75%) ITIL
6 48 (9.74%) Mobile Device Management
7 45 (9.13%) Service Management
8 35 (7.10%) Software Engineering
9 33 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (6.69%) Project Management
10 32 (6.49%) Asset Management
10 32 (6.49%) ITSM
10 32 (6.49%) Mentoring
11 30 (6.09%) Time Management
12 28 (5.68%) User Experience
13 27 (5.48%) Agile
13 27 (5.48%) Fintech
14 26 (5.27%) Data Protection
15 21 (4.26%) Task Automation
15 21 (4.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (14.60%) PowerShell
2 47 (9.53%) Bash
3 16 (3.25%) Python
4 14 (2.84%) C#
5 13 (2.64%) SQL
6 12 (2.43%) C++
7 11 (2.23%) Java
8 8 (1.62%) Objective-C
9 6 (1.22%) Go
10 5 (1.01%) C
10 5 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.81%) PHP
12 2 (0.41%) Bicep
12 2 (0.41%) Perl
12 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 133 (26.98%) Degree
2 53 (10.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 50 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (8.72%) DBS Check
5 37 (7.51%) A+ Certification
6 29 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (5.88%) MCP
7 27 (5.48%) CCNA
8 11 (2.23%) MCSE
9 7 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.42%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.41%) CCNP
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.41%) HNC
12 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.67%) GDPR
3 22 (4.46%) SLA
4 21 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (2.84%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.62%) QA
7 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 3
System Software
1 226 (45.84%) Active Directory
2 67 (13.59%) Hyper-V
3 54 (10.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (5.07%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.03%) Docker
6 7 (1.42%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.41%) vSphere
9 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (11.56%) Jamf Pro
2 54 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (8.11%) SCCM
4 15 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.62%) Autotask
6 7 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.22%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.22%) Terraform
8 5 (1.01%) AirWatch
8 5 (1.01%) PaperCut
9 4 (0.81%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.61%) WSUS
11 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.20%) Grafana
12 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.20%) WMI
Vendors
1 273 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 90 (18.26%) VMware
3 81 (16.43%) Apple
4 55 (11.16%) Google
5 34 (6.90%) Cisco
6 30 (6.09%) Atlassian
7 25 (5.07%) Palo Alto
8 22 (4.46%) Citrix
8 22 (4.46%) Veeam
9 18 (3.65%) Meraki
10 17 (3.45%) Adobe
11 14 (2.84%) Dell
12 12 (2.43%) ConnectWise
13 10 (2.03%) Datto
14 9 (1.83%) Aruba
14 9 (1.83%) Salesforce
15 8 (1.62%) HP
15 8 (1.62%) Remedy
16 7 (1.42%) Draytek
16 7 (1.42%) Sophos