Mac OS Job Trends in the North West

Apple macOS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Mac OS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 194 170
Rank change year-on-year +36 -24 +109
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 23 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.37% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.18% 1.97% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 8
10th Percentile £22,625 £25,750 £23,475
25th Percentile £22,906 £39,945 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £42,134 £54,424
Median % change year-on-year -38.29% -22.58% +28.06%
75th Percentile £26,750 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £30,250 £61,775 -
England median annual salary £32,500 £38,750 £38,750
% change year-on-year -16.13% - -3.13%

All Operating Systems
North West

Mac OS 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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 372 661 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.04% 12.71% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 324 368 416
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,233
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mac OS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Mac OS job vacancy trend in the North West

Mac OS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mac OS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in the North West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Mac OS in the North West

Mac OS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Lancashire +30 17 £25,500 -39.48% 6
Manchester +26 3 £32,500 -40.09% 12
Cheshire -10 3 £28,500 - 5
Mac OS
England

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 4 (17.39%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
4 2 (8.70%) Viva Engage
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DHCP
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
1 6 (26.09%) LAN
1 6 (26.09%) WAN
2 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) IT Support
2 12 (52.17%) Support Engineer
3 11 (47.83%) IT Engineer
3 11 (47.83%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (30.43%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (30.43%) Technical Support
4 7 (30.43%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) 1st Line Support
6 3 (13.04%) IT Support Technician
6 3 (13.04%) IT Technician
6 3 (13.04%) Support Technician
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Mac Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) iPhone
2 2 (8.70%) iPad
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows 10
3 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) Android
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Customer Service
2 7 (30.43%) Critical Thinking
2 7 (30.43%) ERP
2 7 (30.43%) ITSM
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.70%) Inventory Management
5 2 (8.70%) ITIL
5 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.35%) Customer Experience
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PL/SQL
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
1 7 (30.43%) VBScript
2 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Veeam
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Apple
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow