Apple Mac OS X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Mac OS X skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 723 615 798
Rank change year-on-year -108 +183 -6
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS X 17 58 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.13% 0.095%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% 0.88% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13 58 77
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £31,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.39% -15.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £52,400 £45,250 £51,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,500 £30,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +9.84% -20.78% +13.24%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS X 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,644 6,566 14,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.07% 14.76% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,240 4,257 10,766
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

Mac OS X
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mac OS X job vacancy trend in the UK

Mac OS X
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS X.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mac OS X

Mac OS X
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mac OS X over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Mac OS X in the UK

Mac OS X
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS X within the UK over the 6 months to 14 June 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
England -103 14 £37,500 +18.11% 1
London -29 10 £41,000 +9.33%
UK excluding London -119 4 £33,500 +9.84% 1
Work from Home -2 2 £34,500 +11.29%
North of England -65 2 £32,000 +4.92% 1
East of England - 2 £35,000 -
North East - 2 £32,000 -

Mac OS X
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) LAN
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
1 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) QGIS
General
1 15 (88.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Arabic Language
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) German Language
3 1 (5.88%) Kurdish Language
3 1 (5.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) IT Engineer
2 10 (58.82%) Support Engineer
3 9 (52.94%) IT Support
3 9 (52.94%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Report Specialist
5 3 (17.65%) Field Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior
6 2 (11.76%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior IT Support
6 2 (11.76%) Senior Support Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
7 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (17.65%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows 10
3 11 (64.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (82.35%) Customer Service
3 8 (47.06%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
4 4 (23.53%) ITSM
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Validation
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) SCCM
1 11 (64.71%) WSUS
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Apple
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft