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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 559 620
Rank change year-on-year +70 +61 +105
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 461 452 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.31% 2.86% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 409 233 412
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,681 £30,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -15.29%
75th Percentile £44,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £34,324 £34,000
% change year-on-year -5.31% +0.95% -6.85%

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 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mac OS in the UK

Mac OS
Top 18 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 23 May 2024. 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 +95 418 £32,500 -7.14% 103
UK excluding London +63 329 £32,500 -5.31% 72
London +71 125 £42,500 +12.58% 39
Work from Home -24 95 £39,595 -22.74% 46
North of England +65 82 £36,500 +17.74% 15
South East -12 61 £29,761 -13.29% 21
Midlands +26 52 £31,000 +12.73% 12
South West -16 50 £29,000 -9.38% 17
East of England +38 48 £32,500 -2.82% 6
North West +21 40 £40,617 +40.06% 3
Yorkshire +81 36 £32,500 +4.84% 9
West Midlands +27 28 £30,000 +24.76% 7
East Midlands +10 24 £32,500 -43.48% 5
Scotland -70 14 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Wales +14 8 £24,500 -55.45% 2
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £37,500 -
North East - 6 £27,000 - 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 61 (13.23%) SharePoint
2 56 (12.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (6.29%) Confluence
4 5 (1.08%) WordPress
5 4 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 108 (23.43%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.08%) Photoshop
3 5 (1.08%) Trello
4 4 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.43%) InCopy
6 2 (0.43%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (50.33%) Microsoft 365
2 139 (30.15%) Azure
3 64 (13.88%) AWS
4 46 (9.98%) Entra ID
5 38 (8.24%) Google Workspace
6 18 (3.90%) OneDrive
7 15 (3.25%) SaaS
8 10 (2.17%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.74%) Slack
10 7 (1.52%) GCP
10 7 (1.52%) GitHub
10 7 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.52%) WhatsApp
11 6 (1.30%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.30%) Serverless
12 5 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.08%) DigitalOcean
13 4 (0.87%) Dropbox
13 4 (0.87%) Google Drive
13 4 (0.87%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 98 (21.26%) Firewall
2 61 (13.23%) Wireless
3 60 (13.02%) LAN
4 52 (11.28%) Wi-Fi
5 51 (11.06%) DNS
6 43 (9.33%) WAN
7 42 (9.11%) VPN
8 37 (8.03%) Network Security
9 35 (7.59%) DHCP
10 29 (6.29%) TCP/IP
11 27 (5.86%) VoIP
12 26 (5.64%) Internet
13 15 (3.25%) NAS
14 13 (2.82%) PBX
14 13 (2.82%) VLAN
15 11 (2.39%) Broadband
16 7 (1.52%) IP Telephony
17 6 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
17 6 (1.30%) SAN
18 5 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.82%) MySQL
1 13 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.08%) Power BI
4 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.65%) Tableau
5 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.22%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (7.59%) JIRA
2 15 (3.25%) Bitbucket
3 13 (2.82%) Git
4 12 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.39%) CMake
6 8 (1.74%) Appium
6 8 (1.74%) UI Automator
7 7 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.30%) AdminStudio
9 5 (1.08%) MSI
10 4 (0.87%) GCC
10 4 (0.87%) GDB
11 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.43%) Xcode
12 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.22%) GitLab
12 1 (0.22%) Gradle
12 1 (0.22%) JUnit
General
1 189 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (6.72%) Finance
4 24 (5.21%) Games
5 21 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (2.82%) Marketing
8 12 (2.60%) Retail
9 11 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.74%) Automotive
11 8 (1.74%) Electronics
12 7 (1.52%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.30%) Legal
14 5 (1.08%) Law
15 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.65%) Banking
16 3 (0.65%) Multimedia
17 2 (0.43%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 143 (31.02%) Support Engineer
2 128 (27.77%) IT Support
3 80 (17.35%) IT Engineer
4 71 (15.40%) IT Support Engineer
5 57 (12.36%) Analyst
6 48 (10.41%) Senior
7 45 (9.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 44 (9.54%) IT Technician
9 41 (8.89%) 2nd Line Support
10 35 (7.59%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 31 (6.72%) Desktop Engineer
11 31 (6.72%) Desktop Support
12 28 (6.07%) Support Analyst
13 27 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (5.64%) Technical Support
15 24 (5.21%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 24 (5.21%) Field Engineer
16 23 (4.99%) IT Analyst
17 22 (4.77%) IT Manager
17 22 (4.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.74%) .NET
1 8 (1.74%) Software Packaging
2 7 (1.52%) CSS
2 7 (1.52%) HTML
3 4 (0.87%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (0.87%) OpenGL
4 2 (0.43%) EDI
4 2 (0.43%) SAML
4 2 (0.43%) Spring
5 1 (0.22%) BREW
5 1 (0.22%) Laravel
5 1 (0.22%) LDAP
5 1 (0.22%) OAuth
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) Web Services
5 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (14.53%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.99%) Driving Licence
3 19 (4.12%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.69%) Social Media
5 16 (3.47%) Smartphone
6 14 (3.04%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.39%) CCTV
8 11 (2.39%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.17%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.52%) BYOD
11 7 (1.52%) Clustering
11 7 (1.52%) EPoS
12 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.30%) CMDB
12 6 (1.30%) Life Science
12 6 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 407 (88.29%) Windows
2 103 (22.34%) Windows 10
3 97 (21.04%) Linux
4 87 (18.87%) Apple iOS
5 81 (17.57%) Windows Server
6 57 (12.36%) Android
7 19 (4.12%) Unix
8 16 (3.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (3.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (2.39%) Mac OS X
12 9 (1.95%) CentOS
13 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.65%) VMS
15 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.43%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.22%) Scientific Linux
16 1 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (31.02%) Problem-Solving
2 127 (27.55%) Customer Service
3 60 (13.02%) Computer Science
4 57 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (11.28%) Mobile Device Management
6 50 (10.85%) ITIL
7 41 (8.89%) Service Management
8 36 (7.81%) Asset Management
9 29 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (6.29%) Software Engineering
9 29 (6.29%) Time Management
10 28 (6.07%) ITSM
10 28 (6.07%) Project Management
11 26 (5.64%) Mentoring
11 26 (5.64%) User Experience
12 25 (5.42%) Data Protection
13 22 (4.77%) Agile
13 22 (4.77%) Fintech
14 19 (4.12%) Project Delivery
15 18 (3.90%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.45%) PowerShell
2 38 (8.24%) Bash
3 14 (3.04%) C#
4 13 (2.82%) C++
5 11 (2.39%) Python
6 10 (2.17%) SQL
7 9 (1.95%) Java
8 8 (1.74%) Objective-C
9 5 (1.08%) C
10 4 (0.87%) Go
10 4 (0.87%) PHP
11 3 (0.65%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.43%) Bicep
12 2 (0.43%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) Ruby
13 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 127 (27.55%) Degree
2 52 (11.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 49 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (9.54%) DBS Check
5 36 (7.81%) A+ Certification
6 30 (6.51%) MCP
7 24 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (4.77%) CCNA
9 11 (2.39%) MCSE
10 7 (1.52%) Security Cleared
11 6 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.43%) CCNP
14 2 (0.43%) CISSP
14 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.43%) HNC
14 2 (0.43%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.77%) GDPR
3 21 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (3.69%) SLA
5 12 (2.60%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.74%) QA
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 217 (47.07%) Active Directory
2 62 (13.45%) Hyper-V
3 51 (11.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.34%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.52%) Docker
5 7 (1.52%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.22%) NFS
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (11.71%) Jamf Pro
2 49 (10.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (9.11%) SCCM
4 16 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.74%) Autotask
6 7 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.08%) AirWatch
7 5 (1.08%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.87%) PaperCut
8 4 (0.87%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.65%) Terraform
10 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.22%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.22%) WMI
11 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 260 (56.40%) Microsoft
2 81 (17.57%) VMware
3 74 (16.05%) Apple
4 52 (11.28%) Google
5 32 (6.94%) Cisco
6 24 (5.21%) Atlassian
7 22 (4.77%) Citrix
8 20 (4.34%) Palo Alto
9 17 (3.69%) Veeam
10 14 (3.04%) Adobe
11 13 (2.82%) Meraki
12 12 (2.60%) ConnectWise
13 11 (2.39%) Dell
14 10 (2.17%) Datto
15 8 (1.74%) Aruba
15 8 (1.74%) Okta
15 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
16 7 (1.52%) Draytek
16 7 (1.52%) Remedy
16 7 (1.52%) Sophos