Mac OS Job Trends in Scotland

Apple macOS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Mac OS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 135 259
Rank change year-on-year +5 +124 -85
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 10 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.90% 1.58% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile - - £52,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £72,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +36.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £27,500 £77,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £58,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 204 190 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.23% 9.53% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 152 415
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,100 £26,100
25th Percentile £29,750 £46,985 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,650 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Mac OS job vacancy trend in Scotland

Mac OS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Mac OS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Edinburgh - 7 - - 1
Glasgow -16 3 £27,000 -64.00% 2
Mac OS
UK

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) IT Support
1 10 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (30.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware