Mac OS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apple macOS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Mac OS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 170 181
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 32 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.43% 0.78% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.65% 7.81% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 15
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,563 £35,938 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -28.21%
75th Percentile £39,500 £38,750 £41,625
90th Percentile - £43,250 £60,250
South East median annual salary £36,250 £37,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% +19.30%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 481 384 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.41% 10.00% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 403 301 373
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.88% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,625 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £38,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.88% -23.00% +5.26%

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Mac OS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Mac OS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mac OS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mac OS

Mac OS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mac OS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Mac OS in the Thames Valley

Mac OS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +25 17 £39,000 - 5
Oxfordshire -28 14 £31,250 -13.19% 3
Buckinghamshire -17 1 £30,000 -20.00% 3
Mac OS
South East

Mac OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 19 (59.38%) SharePoint
2 17 (53.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) NetSuite
1 4 (12.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (59.38%) Entra ID
3 14 (43.75%) Azure
4 11 (34.38%) Google Workspace
5 5 (15.63%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.25%) SaaS
7 1 (3.13%) AWS
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) DNS
2 12 (37.50%) DHCP
3 11 (34.38%) Firewall
3 11 (34.38%) SSL
3 11 (34.38%) VLAN
3 11 (34.38%) VoIP
3 11 (34.38%) VPN
3 11 (34.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.13%) DKIM
4 1 (3.13%) DMARC
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) WAN
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 30 (93.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Advertising
3 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (81.25%) IT Engineer
1 26 (81.25%) IT Support
1 26 (81.25%) IT Support Engineer
1 26 (81.25%) Support Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Senior
2 11 (34.38%) Senior IT Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Senior IT Support
2 11 (34.38%) Senior Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) IT Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) OpenID
1 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
3 9 (28.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 11 (34.38%) Data Privacy
4 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (34.38%) Kalman Filter
4 11 (34.38%) Mobile Device Management
4 11 (34.38%) Project Delivery
5 7 (21.88%) ITIL
5 7 (21.88%) User Experience
6 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (18.75%) Service Management
7 5 (15.63%) Process Improvement
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
9 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 1 (3.13%) Performance Testing
10 1 (3.13%) Regression Testing
10 1 (3.13%) Security Testing
10 1 (3.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) CompTIA Security+
1 11 (34.38%) DBS Check
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (34.38%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (3.13%) ACMT
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (34.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) Hyper-V
2 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (40.63%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (53.13%) Apple
3 12 (37.50%) Cisco
4 11 (34.38%) Datto
4 11 (34.38%) Google
4 11 (34.38%) SonicWALL
4 11 (34.38%) Veeam
4 11 (34.38%) VMware
5 6 (18.75%) Okta
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki