macOS Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 186 109 154
Rank change year-on-year -77 +45 -49
Permanent jobs citing macOS 26 62 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.31% 1.87% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.09% 15.46% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 22 45 16
10th Percentile - £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £18,000 £30,956 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £33,113 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% -13.99% -3.75%
75th Percentile £34,688 £39,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £79,700 £58,750 £47,625
England median annual salary £38,500 £32,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +18.46% -12.16% +5.71%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 635 401 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.57% 12.07% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 496 297 383
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,095 £39,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -22.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

macOS job vacancy trend in the East of England

macOS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing macOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing macOS

macOS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for macOS in the East of England

macOS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing macOS within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire -47 13 £18,000 -64.18% 6
Cambridgeshire -51 7 £80,000 +141.60% 15
Bedfordshire -16 2 £32,500 -
Essex -29 2 £32,500 +16.07%
Suffolk - 2 £27,000 -
macOS
England

macOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (30.77%) WordPress
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 8 (30.77%) Google Ads
4 2 (7.69%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) DNS
2 11 (42.31%) VPN
3 10 (38.46%) Firewall
3 10 (38.46%) Internet
4 3 (11.54%) DHCP
4 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) VLAN
5 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) NAS
6 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (3.85%) VoIP
6 1 (3.85%) WAN
6 1 (3.85%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
General
1 20 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) IT Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) IT Support
3 6 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Support Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Support Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Google JAX
1 1 (3.85%) JAX
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
1 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
1 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Molecular Biology
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Apple iOS
3 9 (34.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (19.23%) Linux
5 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.85%) Android
6 1 (3.85%) CentOS
6 1 (3.85%) Debian
6 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) AI
1 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Mathematics
3 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
6 2 (7.69%) Asset Management
6 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.69%) Email Filtering
6 2 (7.69%) Fintech
6 2 (7.69%) ITSM
6 2 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning
6 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
6 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.69%) User Experience
7 1 (3.85%) CRM
7 1 (3.85%) ITIL
7 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) Fortran
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) SLA
2 8 (30.77%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Ceph
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Lustre
3 1 (3.85%) NFS
3 1 (3.85%) Samba
3 1 (3.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.54%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (3.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (46.15%) Apple
3 10 (38.46%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) Meraki
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Sophos
5 1 (3.85%) Synology
5 1 (3.85%) Ubiquiti