macOS Job Trends in Scotland

Apple macOS (formerly Mac OS X)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 104 147 136
Rank change year-on-year +43 -11 -27
Permanent jobs citing macOS 36 4 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.85% 0.15% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.93% 2.84% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 35 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26,750 £24,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £25,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -41.18% -39.29%
75th Percentile £34,250 £25,500 £43,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -12.16% -1.33%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 172 141 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.06% 5.39% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 120 83 230
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,800 £29,625
25th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -28.57% +10.33%
75th Percentile £44,063 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £72,664
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

macOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

macOS job vacancy trend in Scotland

macOS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing macOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing macOS

macOS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for macOS in Scotland

macOS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing macOS within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +31 31 £28,500 +14.00% 6
Glasgow - 5 £43,500 - 4
macOS
UK

macOS
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 22 (61.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (61.11%) Entra ID
3 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) OneDrive
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) VoIP
2 5 (13.89%) DHCP
2 5 (13.89%) DNS
2 5 (13.89%) VPN
3 3 (8.33%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) LAN
3 3 (8.33%) VLAN
3 3 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (91.67%) IT Support
2 23 (63.89%) IT Engineer
2 23 (63.89%) IT Support Engineer
2 23 (63.89%) Support Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (27.78%) Analyst
3 10 (27.78%) IT Analyst
3 10 (27.78%) IT Support Analyst
3 10 (27.78%) Support Analyst
4 9 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
4 9 (25.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 8 (22.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Mac Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Windows Support Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 23 (63.89%) Driving Licence
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (8.33%) Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Customer Service
2 13 (36.11%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (25.00%) Time Management
4 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.33%) Resilience Testing
5 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (8.33%) Runbook
5 3 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
System Software
1 22 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) VMware