Apple macOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mac OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mac OS over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 416 628 589
Rank change year-on-year +212 -39 +27
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 342 498 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.78% 2.45% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 306 367 357
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,400
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,250 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +12.14% -6.67% -6.25%

All Operating Systems
UK

Mac OS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,056 20,329 22,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 16.63% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,010 13,652 16,244
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +214 290 £38,500 +1.32% 124
UK excluding London +163 186 £39,250 +12.14% 92
London +227 152 £40,000 -0.62% 47
Work from Home +167 104 £65,000 +52.94% 37
Scotland +42 49 £70,000 +100.00% 8
Midlands +137 35 £32,500 -35.00% 18
South East +94 34 £28,290 -12.95% 20
East of England +101 24 £40,000 +23.08% 6
North of England +138 23 £45,000 +12.50% 23
South West +78 18 £37,500 -33.66% 14
East Midlands +69 18 £42,500 +77.08% 7
West Midlands +115 17 £30,680 -44.22% 11
North West +106 14 £55,000 +25.71% 12
Yorkshire +95 9 £31,500 -4.91% 10
Northern Ireland +35 2 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Wales +7 1 £35,000 -36.36% 1

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 54 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.39%) MS Exchange
3 14 (4.09%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (12.57%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (12.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 39 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (3.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (3.22%) InDesign
4 11 (3.22%) Photoshop
5 7 (2.05%) InCopy
6 4 (1.17%) Chatbot
6 4 (1.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.58%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
1 1 (0.29%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 140 (40.94%) Azure
3 89 (26.02%) AWS
4 76 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 53 (15.50%) SaaS
6 48 (14.04%) OneDrive
7 33 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (8.19%) GitHub
9 24 (7.02%) Google Workspace
10 19 (5.56%) Serverless
11 11 (3.22%) GCP
12 9 (2.63%) Mimecast
13 8 (2.34%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.75%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.75%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.75%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.75%) WhatsApp
15 5 (1.46%) IaaS
15 5 (1.46%) Slack
16 4 (1.17%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 74 (21.64%) Firewall
2 42 (12.28%) DNS
3 38 (11.11%) VPN
4 33 (9.65%) DHCP
5 24 (7.02%) TCP/IP
6 23 (6.73%) LAN
7 22 (6.43%) WAN
8 19 (5.56%) Wireless
9 16 (4.68%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (4.39%) PBX
10 15 (4.39%) Remote Desktop
11 14 (4.09%) VoIP
12 13 (3.80%) VLAN
13 10 (2.92%) SAN
14 7 (2.05%) NAS
14 7 (2.05%) Network Security
15 5 (1.46%) Internet
15 5 (1.46%) IP Telephony
16 4 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
16 4 (1.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (11.99%) MySQL
3 23 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.39%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.05%) Redis
6 6 (1.75%) Tableau
7 4 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.17%) GIS
7 4 (1.17%) QGIS
8 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.58%) Flink
9 1 (0.29%) ArangoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Power BI
9 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (12.57%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.48%) Git
3 25 (7.31%) IntelliJ
3 25 (7.31%) Maven
4 19 (5.56%) JIRA
5 10 (2.92%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.58%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) CMake
7 1 (0.29%) GCC
7 1 (0.29%) GDB
7 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 168 (49.12%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.82%) Finance
3 32 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.51%) Retail
5 11 (3.22%) Marketing
6 8 (2.34%) Legal
7 6 (1.75%) Law
7 6 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.17%) Billing
9 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.17%) Publishing
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
10 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.29%) Aviation
10 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (25.73%) Support Engineer
2 73 (21.35%) IT Support
3 62 (18.13%) Senior
4 50 (14.62%) IT Engineer
5 39 (11.40%) Desktop Support
5 39 (11.40%) Developer
5 39 (11.40%) IT Support Engineer
6 36 (10.53%) Analyst
7 28 (8.19%) Senior Developer
8 26 (7.60%) JavaScript Developer
9 25 (7.31%) J2EE Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Java Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 25 (7.31%) React Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Senior J2EE Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Senior Java Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 25 (7.31%) Senior React Developer
10 24 (7.02%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.94%) CSS
1 34 (9.94%) HTML
2 26 (7.60%) React
3 25 (7.31%) J2EE
3 25 (7.31%) jOOQ
3 25 (7.31%) React Native
3 25 (7.31%) Redux
4 17 (4.97%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.22%) Vue
6 8 (2.34%) EDI
6 8 (2.34%) Node.js
6 8 (2.34%) XML
7 7 (2.05%) Memcached
7 7 (2.05%) Ruby on Rails
7 7 (2.05%) Sidekiq
8 4 (1.17%) 802.1X
8 4 (1.17%) LDAP
8 4 (1.17%) Middleware
9 2 (0.58%) .NET
9 2 (0.58%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.82%) Driving Licence
2 35 (10.23%) Self-Motivation
3 33 (9.65%) Data Centre
4 22 (6.43%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.39%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.92%) Life Science
6 10 (2.92%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.05%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.75%) CCTV
9 6 (1.75%) Social Media
9 6 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.46%) Smartphone
11 4 (1.17%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.17%) Web3
12 3 (0.88%) Replication
13 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.58%) EPoS
13 2 (0.58%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 278 (81.29%) Windows
2 123 (35.96%) Linux
3 77 (22.51%) Apple iOS
4 65 (19.01%) Windows Server
5 61 (17.84%) Android
6 58 (16.96%) Windows 10
7 12 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (2.92%) Mac OS X
9 9 (2.63%) Unix
10 8 (2.34%) Ubuntu
11 7 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.46%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (1.17%) CentOS
14 2 (0.58%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.29%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.63%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (24.85%) Customer Service
3 39 (11.40%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (10.82%) Computer Science
5 36 (10.53%) Ticket Management
6 35 (10.23%) ITIL
7 31 (9.06%) Translating Business Requirements
8 29 (8.48%) Break/Fix
9 26 (7.60%) Agile
9 26 (7.60%) User Experience
10 25 (7.31%) Mathematics
10 25 (7.31%) Prototyping
11 23 (6.73%) Reverse Engineering
11 23 (6.73%) Software Engineering
12 22 (6.43%) CI/CD
13 20 (5.85%) Service Delivery
14 19 (5.56%) ITSM
15 18 (5.26%) Mentoring
16 15 (4.39%) Service Management
16 15 (4.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (16.08%) Bash
1 55 (16.08%) Python
2 54 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 46 (13.45%) SQL
4 43 (12.57%) Java
5 42 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.80%) C++
7 12 (3.51%) C#
8 7 (2.05%) C
8 7 (2.05%) Ruby
9 5 (1.46%) Rust
10 4 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.88%) Go
11 3 (0.88%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.58%) VB
12 2 (0.58%) VBScript
13 1 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (20.76%) Degree
2 39 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (9.36%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (5.26%) CCNA
7 12 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.63%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.17%) ACSP
11 3 (0.88%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.58%) GIAC
12 2 (0.58%) HNC
12 2 (0.58%) HND
12 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.29%) GCIH
13 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.57%) SLA
2 14 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.22%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.63%) NCSC
4 9 (2.63%) NIST
4 9 (2.63%) QA
5 7 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.58%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 3
System Software
1 157 (45.91%) Active Directory
2 35 (10.23%) Hyper-V
3 34 (9.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (8.77%) Docker
5 12 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.88%) NFS
9 2 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (19.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (12.87%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (6.14%) SCCM
4 6 (1.75%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.46%) Terraform
6 4 (1.17%) Ansible
6 4 (1.17%) Puppet
6 4 (1.17%) SysTrack
6 4 (1.17%) WSUS
7 2 (0.58%) XenMobile
8 1 (0.29%) Autotask
8 1 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.29%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 182 (53.22%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.08%) Apple
2 55 (16.08%) VMware
3 39 (11.40%) Google
4 27 (7.89%) ServiceNow
5 23 (6.73%) Remedy
6 21 (6.14%) Adobe
7 16 (4.68%) Palo Alto
7 16 (4.68%) Splunk
8 13 (3.80%) Atlassian
8 13 (3.80%) Dell
8 13 (3.80%) Meraki
9 6 (1.75%) Cisco
9 6 (1.75%) Veeam
9 6 (1.75%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.46%) WatchGuard
11 4 (1.17%) Hitachi
11 4 (1.17%) Nexthink
12 3 (0.88%) Citrix
12 3 (0.88%) Synology