macOS Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 93 42 84
Rank change year-on-year -51 +42 -27
Permanent jobs citing macOS 7 26 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.32% 3.74% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.24% 31.71% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 5
10th Percentile £44,900 £30,956 £36,000
25th Percentile £71,000 £31,250 £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 - £39,500 £43,750
90th Percentile - £39,750 -
East of England median annual salary £29,000 £33,113 £38,500
% change year-on-year -12.42% -13.99% -3.75%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 216 82 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.95% 11.80% 19.51%
Number of salaries quoted 174 62 141
10th Percentile £31,378 £26,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £29,719 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £33,113 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.20% -38.68% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £41,095 £39,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -22.00% +25.00%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

macOS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

macOS
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing macOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing macOS

macOS
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing macOS in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for macOS in Cambridgeshire

macOS
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing macOS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 2026. 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
Cambridge -28 6 £80,000 +141.60% 13
Chatteris - 1 £30,000 -
macOS
East of England

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) C++ Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Google JAX
1 1 (14.29%) JAX
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) OpenCV
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Molecular Biology
2 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Debian
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Biology
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Deep Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Image Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) LLM
4 1 (14.29%) Physics
4 1 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) Fortran
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Ceph
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Lustre
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
1 1 (14.29%) Samba
1 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Apple
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat