Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ACSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing ACSA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.004% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 - -
75th Percentile £103,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ACSA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,184 27,860 32,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.68% 26.87% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,043 17,264 14,482
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,364 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

ACSA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ACSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ACSA in the UK

ACSA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ACSA.

Salary trend for ACSA in the UK

ACSA
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ACSA within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London - 1 £97,500 -
England - 1 £97,500 -
Work from Home - 1 £97,500 -

ACSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) IT Architect
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ACSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Netskope
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler