Apple macOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Mac OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mac OS over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 470 583
Rank change year-on-year +16 +113 +22
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 241 491 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.65% 3.50% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 177 429 271
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £36,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £47,580 £48,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,283 £57,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £33,193
% change year-on-year - -2.09% -5.16%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,611 14,048 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 14.47% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,478 10,926 11,463
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,759 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -

Mac OS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mac OS.

Salary trend for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mac OS over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mac OS within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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
England +4 228 £34,625 +6.54% 185
UK excluding London +72 174 £32,500 - 96
South East +131 80 £34,000 +13.33% 22
Work from Home +117 71 £42,134 +5.34% 103
London +13 62 £42,000 -2.33% 118
North of England +33 30 £42,134 +23.92% 20
North West +7 23 £44,067 +10.17% 8
East of England +35 21 £32,500 - 3
Midlands +31 18 £27,500 -14.73% 17
South West +88 17 £30,000 +3.45% 14
East Midlands +53 14 £27,500 -15.38% 13
Wales +49 5 £22,500 -8.16% 10
Scotland +110 4 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Yorkshire +49 4 £36,000 +10.77% 9
West Midlands +11 4 £28,500 -5.00% 4
North East +45 3 £25,000 -7.41% 3

Mac OS
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:

Application Platforms
1 52 (21.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (16.60%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.90%) IBM Domino
4 3 (1.24%) WordPress
5 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 2 (0.83%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (11.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.07%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.83%) InDesign
5 2 (0.83%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.24%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 151 (62.66%) Microsoft 365
2 105 (43.57%) Azure
3 47 (19.50%) Entra ID
4 24 (9.96%) AWS
5 21 (8.71%) OneDrive
6 19 (7.88%) SaaS
7 17 (7.05%) Google Workspace
8 6 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.49%) Slack
9 5 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.07%) Cloudflare
10 4 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.66%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.66%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.83%) GCP
11 2 (0.83%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.83%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.83%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 66 (27.39%) DNS
2 47 (19.50%) DHCP
3 46 (19.09%) Firewall
4 42 (17.43%) TCP/IP
5 40 (16.60%) LAN
6 36 (14.94%) VPN
7 29 (12.03%) WAN
8 22 (9.13%) VoIP
9 21 (8.71%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (6.64%) VLAN
11 15 (6.22%) Wireless
12 14 (5.81%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (4.15%) WLAN
14 9 (3.73%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (2.90%) Internet
15 7 (2.90%) SSL
16 4 (1.66%) HTTPS
17 3 (1.24%) IP Telephony
17 3 (1.24%) SAN
17 3 (1.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.83%) Metadata
4 2 (0.83%) Power BI
4 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.90%) JIRA
2 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.66%) WiX
General
1 147 (61.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.79%) Finance
3 20 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.64%) Legal
5 11 (4.56%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.73%) Retail
7 8 (3.32%) Law
8 6 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Publishing
11 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.41%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (25.31%) Support Engineer
2 60 (24.90%) IT Support
3 43 (17.84%) IT Engineer
4 41 (17.01%) Analyst
5 29 (12.03%) IT Support Engineer
6 26 (10.79%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (8.71%) Technical Support
8 18 (7.47%) 1st Line Support
8 18 (7.47%) Support Analyst
9 16 (6.64%) Senior
10 15 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (5.39%) Support Technician
12 11 (4.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.15%) Developer
14 9 (3.73%) IT Manager
15 8 (3.32%) Administrator
15 8 (3.32%) Service Analyst
15 8 (3.32%) Technical Analyst
15 8 (3.32%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.90%) REST
2 6 (2.49%) .NET
3 4 (1.66%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.66%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.66%) Blazor
3 4 (1.66%) COM
3 4 (1.66%) Entity Framework
3 4 (1.66%) LDAP
3 4 (1.66%) SOAP
4 2 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.83%) CSS
4 2 (0.83%) Electron
4 2 (0.83%) Express.js
4 2 (0.83%) HTML
4 2 (0.83%) JNI
4 2 (0.83%) Node.js
4 2 (0.83%) React
5 1 (0.41%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.13%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.05%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.56%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.90%) Client/Server
6 7 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.66%) CCTV
8 4 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.66%) iPad
8 4 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.66%) Wiki
9 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.24%) iPhone
10 2 (0.83%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.83%) CMDB
10 2 (0.83%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.83%) Social Media
11 1 (0.41%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 208 (86.31%) Windows
2 66 (27.39%) Linux
3 48 (19.92%) Apple iOS
3 48 (19.92%) Windows 10
4 45 (18.67%) Windows Server
5 22 (9.13%) Android
6 11 (4.56%) CentOS
7 10 (4.15%) Debian
7 10 (4.15%) Ubuntu
7 10 (4.15%) Unix
8 8 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (2.07%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.83%) VMS
11 2 (0.83%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.41%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.41%) Solaris
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (49.38%) Customer Service
2 100 (41.49%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (21.16%) ITIL
4 38 (15.77%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (15.35%) ITSM
6 27 (11.20%) Service Delivery
7 26 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (9.13%) Problem Management
9 17 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (7.05%) Mentoring
10 16 (6.64%) Migration
11 15 (6.22%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (5.81%) User Experience
13 12 (4.98%) Server Management
14 11 (4.56%) Asset Management
14 11 (4.56%) Change Management
14 11 (4.56%) Computer Science
14 11 (4.56%) Mobile Device Management
15 10 (4.15%) B2B
15 10 (4.15%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.77%) PowerShell
2 20 (8.30%) Bash
3 13 (5.39%) Python
4 9 (3.73%) C#
4 9 (3.73%) C++
5 8 (3.32%) SQL
6 7 (2.90%) C
6 7 (2.90%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.66%) Go
8 3 (1.24%) Java
8 3 (1.24%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.83%) Fortran
9 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.83%) Perl
10 1 (0.41%) VB
10 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (14.52%) Degree
2 27 (11.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (7.47%) A+ Certification
4 12 (4.98%) Network+ Certification
5 10 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.15%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.73%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.32%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.90%) MCP
8 7 (2.90%) MCSA
9 5 (2.07%) MCSE
10 4 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.83%) PhD
13 1 (0.41%) CCIE
13 1 (0.41%) CFCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.32%) GDPR
2 7 (2.90%) SLA
3 4 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.24%) PMO
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 133 (55.19%) Active Directory
2 33 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.20%) Hyper-V
4 20 (8.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (3.73%) pfSense
6 7 (2.90%) vSphere
7 5 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.83%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.41%) Docker
10 1 (0.41%) LXC
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.41%) RHEV
10 1 (0.41%) Samba
10 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 59 (24.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.98%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (3.73%) SCCM
4 5 (2.07%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.66%) Graylog
5 4 (1.66%) Terraform
6 3 (1.24%) Autotask
6 3 (1.24%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) EnCase
8 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.41%) FTK
8 1 (0.41%) Nessus
8 1 (0.41%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 157 (65.15%) Microsoft
2 44 (18.26%) Apple
3 38 (15.77%) VMware
4 31 (12.86%) Cisco
5 15 (6.22%) Google
6 11 (4.56%) Sophos
7 9 (3.73%) Meraki
7 9 (3.73%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.32%) iManage
8 8 (3.32%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.49%) SAP
9 6 (2.49%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (2.07%) Okta
11 4 (1.66%) Aruba
11 4 (1.66%) N-able
11 4 (1.66%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.24%) Concur
12 3 (1.24%) Freshdesk
12 3 (1.24%) HubSpot
12 3 (1.24%) Veeam