The first table below looks at the demand for Mac OS X skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mac OS X over the 3 months to 17 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Mac OS X
Rank 202 187 167
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -20
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS X 5 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.101% 0.044% 0.072%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.444% 0.190% 0.342%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
Average salary £32,500 £33,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.98% +34.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £30,250
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +17.35%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1127 1052 878
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 22.70% 23.36% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 970 945 779
Average salary £37,000 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.44% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,225 £22,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Mac OS X Salary Trend

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham -22 4 £32,500 -2.98%
Coventry - 1 £40,000 -
Mac OS X
England

Mac OS X
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
1 4 (57.14%) Apple
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) Advertising
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Adobe
2 3 (42.86%) MS Office
2 3 (42.86%) COM
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (28.57%) X-Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Handset
4 1 (14.29%) Xcode
4 1 (14.29%) Gentoo
4 1 (14.29%) BT
4 1 (14.29%) Electronics
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (14.29%) RSpec
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) PHPUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Capistrano

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (42.86%) COM
2 2 (28.57%) X-Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (14.29%) Zend Framework
3 1 (14.29%) iOS SDK
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) 3G
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) GSM
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Xcode
1 1 (14.29%) RSpec
1 1 (14.29%) PHPUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Capistrano
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Phing
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Mac Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Technician
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Handset
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
1 1 (14.29%) Xserve
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows XP
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Gentoo
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Vista
3 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Six Sigma
1 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
1 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (14.29%) Time Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Record
1 1 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PHP
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Apple
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) BT
3 1 (14.29%) Zend
3 1 (14.29%) Twitter