macOS Job Trends in Cambridge

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring macOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 46 57
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing macOS 6 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.48% 1.89% 0.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.92% 21.21% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £73,700 - £36,000
25th Percentile £77,750 £30,956 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £33,113 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +141.60% -22.09% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £43,750
90th Percentile - £84,500 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £80,000 £33,113 £42,500
% change year-on-year +141.60% -22.09% +6.25%

All Operating Systems
Cambridge

macOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 153 33 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 12.27% 8.89% 21.97%
Number of salaries quoted 126 26 90
10th Percentile £31,500 £26,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £29,063 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £33,113 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.20% -44.81% +41.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 £33,113 £54,000
% change year-on-year +81.20% -38.68% +12.50%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing macOS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

macOS job vacancy trend in Cambridge

macOS
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing macOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing macOS

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) C++ Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Google JAX
1 1 (16.67%) JAX
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Molecular Biology
2 1 (16.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Debian
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Biology
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Vision
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Image Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Fortran
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Ceph
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Lustre
1 1 (16.67%) NFS
1 1 (16.67%) Samba
1 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (16.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat