West Midlands Mac OS X Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Apple Mac OS X (Mac OSX) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mac OS X over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apple Mac OS X (Mac OSX)
Location Alfreton Barnsley Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Droitwich East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Farnham Guildford Hammersmith Hertfordshire Hull Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Poole Reading Redhill Salford Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Taunton Teddington UK Wales West Drayton West Midlands West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	211	221
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	24	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.139 %	0.237 %
Salaries quoted	21	4
Average minimum salary	£24,258	£22,500
Average salary	£27,081	£25,000
% change on same period last year	+8.32 %
Average maximum salary	£29,903	£27,500
UK excluding London average salary	£26,676	£32,293
% change on same period last year	-17.39 %
Operating Systems West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	2108	2109
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.113 %	0.864 %
Salaries quoted	1845	1782
Average minimum salary	£29,382	£28,789
Average salary	£31,420	£30,809
% change on same period last year	+1.98 %
Average maximum salary	£33,457	£32,829
UK excluding London average salary	£34,472	£35,006
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Mac OS X England

Mac OS X
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

Mac OS X
Salary Trend

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

Mac OS X
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mac OS X across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Mac OS X
Job Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Coventry	-	19	£26,632	-
Birmingham	-	11	£28,364	-
Worcestershire	-	1	£21,500	-

Mac OS X England

Mac OS X
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 23 (69.70 %) C++ 1 23 (69.70 %) MFC 1 23 (69.70 %) Windows 1 23 (69.70 %) Degree 2 22 (66.67 %) Health 3 21 (63.64 %) OpenGL 4 20 (60.61 %) OO 5 18 (54.55 %) 3D Graphics 6 16 (48.48 %) Pensions 7 13 (39.39 %) Insurance 8 12 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 9 10 (30.30 %) VC++ 10 9 (27.27 %) OOP 10 9 (27.27 %) Flash 10 9 (27.27 %) XHTML

10 9 (27.27 %) HTML 10 9 (27.27 %) JavaScript 10 9 (27.27 %) PHP 10 9 (27.27 %) CSS 10 9 (27.27 %) Life Science 11 7 (21.21 %) MS Office 11 7 (21.21 %) UNIX 12 6 (18.18 %) DHTML 12 6 (18.18 %) Dreamweaver 12 6 (18.18 %) SharePoint 12 6 (18.18 %) MS Visio 12 6 (18.18 %) Visual Studio 12 6 (18.18 %) ASP 12 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 12 6 (18.18 %) Photoshop

Mac OS X
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 23 (69.70 %) MFC 2 21 (63.64 %) OpenGL 3 9 (27.27 %) HTML 3 9 (27.27 %) CSS 3 9 (27.27 %) XHTML 4 6 (18.18 %) XML 4 6 (18.18 %) ASP 4 6 (18.18 %) XSL 5 3 (9.091 %) XUL 5 3 (9.091 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 6 (18.18 %) SharePoint 1 6 (18.18 %) ColdFusion 1 6 (18.18 %) Content Management Server 1 6 (18.18 %) CMS 1 6 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (9.091 %) Apache
Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) MS Office 2 6 (18.18 %) MS Visio 2 6 (18.18 %) Acrobat 2 6 (18.18 %) FreeHand 2 6 (18.18 %) Fireworks 2 6 (18.18 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.091 %) RIP 2 1 (3.030 %) VPN 2 1 (3.030 %) Internet 2 1 (3.030 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 1 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 7 1 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (9.091 %) MySQL 3 1 (3.030 %) FileMaker 3 1 (3.030 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 9 (27.27 %) Flash 2 6 (18.18 %) Dreamweaver 2 6 (18.18 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (18.18 %) FrontPage 3 3 (9.091 %) Xcode
General 1 22 (66.67 %) Health 2 18 (54.55 %) 3D Graphics 3 16 (48.48 %) Pensions 4 13 (39.39 %) Insurance 5 6 (18.18 %) Animation 6 3 (9.091 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 23 (69.70 %) Developer 2 6 (18.18 %) C++ Developer 2 6 (18.18 %) UI Designer 2 6 (18.18 %) Interactive Designer 3 3 (9.091 %) Test Engineer 3 3 (9.091 %) Web Developer 3 3 (9.091 %) HTML Developer 3 3 (9.091 %) JavaScript Developer 4 2 (6.061 %) Delphi Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) Graduate 5 1 (3.030 %) Graduate Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) Senior C++ Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) Graduate C++ Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (27.27 %) Life Science 2 6 (18.18 %) W3C 3 2 (6.061 %) Mathematics 3 2 (6.061 %) Physics 3 2 (6.061 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 23 (69.70 %) Windows 2 7 (21.21 %) UNIX 3 4 (12.12 %) Linux 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows NT 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows CE 4 1 (3.030 %) Palm OS 4 1 (3.030 %) Mac OS X Server 4 1 (3.030 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (60.61 %) OO 2 12 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 3 9 (27.27 %) OOP 4 3 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) System Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Regression Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Usability Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Performance Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Compatibility Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Load Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Stress Testing 4 3 (9.091 %) Security Testing	Programming Languages 1 23 (69.70 %) C++ 2 10 (30.30 %) VC++ 3 9 (27.27 %) JavaScript 3 9 (27.27 %) PHP 4 6 (18.18 %) VBScript 4 6 (18.18 %) DHTML 5 2 (6.061 %) Delphi 6 1 (3.030 %) VB
Qualifications 1 23 (69.70 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (18.18 %) WAI 2 3 (9.091 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (3.030 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 6 (18.18 %) Adobe 1 6 (18.18 %) Macromedia 2 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft