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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 579 618
Rank change year-on-year +119 +39 +113
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 489 442 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.43% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.46% 2.66% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 426 261 406
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,680 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £69,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £33,722 £34,500
% change year-on-year -3.62% -2.26% -4.17%

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 14,115 16,608 29,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.32% 16.00% 18.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,920 11,176 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
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 2 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 2 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 +120 436 £32,500 -7.14% 101
UK excluding London +70 347 £32,500 -3.62% 61
London +91 135 £43,000 +7.50% 44
Work from Home +45 111 £40,000 -20.00% 26
North of England +79 85 £36,500 +19.67% 20
South East -9 65 £30,750 -5.38% 9
Midlands +46 54 £31,250 +22.79% 14
East of England +41 49 £33,750 +6.94% 4
South West -12 48 £29,000 -10.77% 12
North West +29 41 £40,617 +26.93% 9
Yorkshire +97 38 £32,500 +6.56% 6
West Midlands +44 30 £30,000 +18.93% 10
East Midlands +4 24 £32,500 +25.00% 4
Scotland -60 23 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Wales +18 8 £24,500 -55.45% 3
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland +41 7 £37,500 -25.00%
North East - 6 £27,000 - 5

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 67 (13.70%) SharePoint
2 62 (12.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (6.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.02%) WordPress
5 4 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.61%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 112 (22.90%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.23%) Trello
4 5 (1.02%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.41%) InCopy
7 2 (0.41%) InDesign
8 1 (0.20%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 240 (49.08%) Microsoft 365
2 139 (28.43%) Azure
3 64 (13.09%) AWS
4 51 (10.43%) Entra ID
5 42 (8.59%) Google Workspace
6 23 (4.70%) SaaS
7 21 (4.29%) OneDrive
8 12 (2.45%) Power Automate
9 10 (2.04%) Slack
10 8 (1.64%) GCP
10 8 (1.64%) Serverless
10 8 (1.64%) WhatsApp
11 7 (1.43%) GitHub
11 7 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.23%) Mimecast
13 5 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.02%) DigitalOcean
13 5 (1.02%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.82%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.82%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 110 (22.49%) Firewall
2 66 (13.50%) LAN
3 65 (13.29%) Wireless
4 57 (11.66%) Wi-Fi
5 50 (10.22%) WAN
6 48 (9.82%) DNS
7 45 (9.20%) VPN
8 36 (7.36%) Network Security
9 31 (6.34%) DHCP
10 29 (5.93%) TCP/IP
10 29 (5.93%) VoIP
11 24 (4.91%) Internet
12 17 (3.48%) PBX
12 17 (3.48%) VLAN
13 16 (3.27%) NAS
14 11 (2.25%) Broadband
15 8 (1.64%) SAN
16 7 (1.43%) WLAN
17 6 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (1.23%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.68%) MySQL
1 18 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.23%) Tableau
4 4 (0.82%) Power BI
5 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.20%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.20%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (8.18%) JIRA
2 19 (3.89%) Bitbucket
3 17 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.66%) Git
5 10 (2.04%) CMake
6 8 (1.64%) Appium
6 8 (1.64%) UI Automator
7 7 (1.43%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.23%) AdminStudio
9 5 (1.02%) MSI
10 3 (0.61%) GCC
10 3 (0.61%) GDB
11 2 (0.41%) GitLab
11 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.41%) Xcode
12 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.20%) Gradle
12 1 (0.20%) JUnit
General
1 197 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 60 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (6.13%) Finance
4 24 (4.91%) Games
5 21 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.27%) Marketing
8 11 (2.25%) Retail
9 10 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.64%) Automotive
10 8 (1.64%) Electronics
11 7 (1.43%) Legal
11 7 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.23%) Law
13 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.61%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.61%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (30.67%) Support Engineer
2 128 (26.18%) IT Support
3 87 (17.79%) IT Engineer
4 74 (15.13%) IT Support Engineer
5 62 (12.68%) Analyst
6 60 (12.27%) Senior
7 46 (9.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 43 (8.79%) IT Technician
9 42 (8.59%) 2nd Line Support
10 36 (7.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 32 (6.54%) Desktop Engineer
11 32 (6.54%) Desktop Support
12 30 (6.13%) Support Analyst
13 27 (5.52%) Systems Engineer
14 26 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (5.32%) Technical Support
15 25 (5.11%) Field Engineer
16 24 (4.91%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 22 (4.50%) IT Manager
18 21 (4.29%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.84%) .NET
1 9 (1.84%) Software Packaging
2 7 (1.43%) CSS
2 7 (1.43%) HTML
3 3 (0.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (0.61%) EDI
3 3 (0.61%) OpenGL
4 2 (0.41%) Spring
5 1 (0.20%) BREW
5 1 (0.20%) Django
5 1 (0.20%) Laravel
5 1 (0.20%) LDAP
5 1 (0.20%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.20%) SAML
5 1 (0.20%) Web Services
5 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (13.91%) Onboarding
2 24 (4.91%) Driving Licence
3 20 (4.09%) Video Conferencing
4 18 (3.68%) Smartphone
5 17 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 17 (3.48%) Social Media
6 13 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.45%) CCTV
8 11 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.84%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.43%) BYOD
11 7 (1.43%) Clustering
11 7 (1.43%) EPoS
11 7 (1.43%) Life Science
12 6 (1.23%) CMDB
12 6 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 432 (88.34%) Windows
2 113 (23.11%) Linux
3 109 (22.29%) Windows 10
4 88 (18.00%) Apple iOS
5 86 (17.59%) Windows Server
6 61 (12.47%) Android
7 20 (4.09%) Unix
8 16 (3.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (2.45%) Mac OS X
12 9 (1.84%) CentOS
13 5 (1.02%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.61%) VMS
15 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.41%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.41%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.20%) Scientific Linux
16 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (31.70%) Problem-Solving
2 129 (26.38%) Customer Service
3 68 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
4 59 (12.07%) Computer Science
5 54 (11.04%) ITIL
6 49 (10.02%) Mobile Device Management
7 45 (9.20%) Service Management
8 35 (7.16%) Software Engineering
9 33 (6.75%) Asset Management
9 33 (6.75%) ITSM
9 33 (6.75%) Project Management
10 32 (6.54%) Mentoring
11 30 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (5.93%) Time Management
12 29 (5.93%) User Experience
13 27 (5.52%) Agile
13 27 (5.52%) Data Protection
14 26 (5.32%) Fintech
15 21 (4.29%) Test Automation
16 20 (4.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (14.31%) PowerShell
2 45 (9.20%) Bash
3 14 (2.86%) C#
3 14 (2.86%) Python
4 12 (2.45%) C++
5 11 (2.25%) SQL
6 9 (1.84%) Java
7 8 (1.64%) Objective-C
8 6 (1.23%) Go
9 5 (1.02%) C
10 4 (0.82%) PHP
11 3 (0.61%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.41%) Bicep
12 2 (0.41%) Perl
12 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (26.58%) Degree
2 54 (11.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 49 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (8.79%) DBS Check
5 37 (7.57%) A+ Certification
6 29 (5.93%) MCP
7 28 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (5.32%) CCNA
9 11 (2.25%) MCSE
10 7 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (1.43%) Security Cleared
11 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.41%) CCNP
14 2 (0.41%) CISSP
14 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.41%) HNC
14 2 (0.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.70%) GDPR
3 22 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (4.29%) SLA
5 15 (3.07%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.64%) QA
7 4 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 3
System Software
1 225 (46.01%) Active Directory
2 66 (13.50%) Hyper-V
3 52 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.64%) Docker
6 7 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.41%) vSphere
9 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (11.66%) Jamf Pro
2 54 (11.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (8.59%) SCCM
4 16 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.64%) Autotask
6 7 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.23%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.23%) Terraform
8 5 (1.02%) AirWatch
8 5 (1.02%) PaperCut
9 4 (0.82%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.41%) WSUS
11 1 (0.20%) Grafana
11 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.20%) WMI
Vendors
1 270 (55.21%) Microsoft
2 87 (17.79%) VMware
3 81 (16.56%) Apple
4 56 (11.45%) Google
5 33 (6.75%) Cisco
6 29 (5.93%) Atlassian
7 24 (4.91%) Palo Alto
8 22 (4.50%) Citrix
9 19 (3.89%) Veeam
10 17 (3.48%) Adobe
11 16 (3.27%) Meraki
12 14 (2.86%) Dell
13 12 (2.45%) ConnectWise
14 10 (2.04%) Datto
15 9 (1.84%) Aruba
16 8 (1.64%) HP
16 8 (1.64%) Salesforce
17 7 (1.43%) Draytek
17 7 (1.43%) Remedy
17 7 (1.43%) Sophos