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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 585 625
Rank change year-on-year +100 +40 +106
Permanent jobs citing Mac OS 477 432 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.41% 2.68% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 417 250 408
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £29,656 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,625
Median % change year-on-year - -1.75% -16.18%
75th Percentile £44,263 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £34,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% - -7.48%

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 14,005 16,129 29,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.12% 15.97% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,789 10,915 16,509
10th Percentile £26,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +121 430 £32,500 -7.14% 96
UK excluding London +61 339 £32,500 -4.41% 59
London +83 131 £42,500 +9.68% 44
Work from Home +15 101 £39,190 -21.62% 25
North of England +84 84 £36,500 +17.74% 20
South East -21 62 £29,761 -10.49% 11
Midlands +21 53 £31,000 +20.51% 12
East of England +48 50 £32,500 -2.09% 5
South West -4 50 £29,000 -9.38% 8
North West +27 41 £40,617 +26.93% 8
Yorkshire +94 37 £32,500 +4.84% 7
West Midlands +18 29 £30,000 +18.93% 5
East Midlands +3 24 £32,500 -24.42% 7
Scotland -66 18 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Wales +12 8 £24,500 -55.45% 4
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland +27 6 £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 66 (13.84%) SharePoint
2 58 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (6.71%) Confluence
4 5 (1.05%) WordPress
5 4 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.63%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 112 (23.48%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.26%) Trello
4 5 (1.05%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.42%) InCopy
7 2 (0.42%) InDesign
8 1 (0.21%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 236 (49.48%) Microsoft 365
2 139 (29.14%) Azure
3 64 (13.42%) AWS
4 47 (9.85%) Entra ID
5 37 (7.76%) Google Workspace
6 23 (4.82%) SaaS
7 20 (4.19%) OneDrive
8 11 (2.31%) Power Automate
9 9 (1.89%) Slack
10 8 (1.68%) GCP
10 8 (1.68%) WhatsApp
11 7 (1.47%) GitHub
11 7 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.47%) Serverless
12 6 (1.26%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.05%) DigitalOcean
14 4 (0.84%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.84%) Google Drive
14 4 (0.84%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 104 (21.80%) Firewall
2 61 (12.79%) Wireless
3 60 (12.58%) LAN
4 56 (11.74%) Wi-Fi
5 51 (10.69%) DNS
6 44 (9.22%) WAN
7 42 (8.81%) VPN
8 37 (7.76%) Network Security
9 34 (7.13%) DHCP
10 30 (6.29%) TCP/IP
11 28 (5.87%) VoIP
12 26 (5.45%) Internet
13 16 (3.35%) PBX
14 15 (3.14%) NAS
15 14 (2.94%) VLAN
16 11 (2.31%) Broadband
17 7 (1.47%) IP Telephony
17 7 (1.47%) SAN
18 6 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
18 6 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.56%) MySQL
2 16 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.52%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.26%) Tableau
5 5 (1.05%) Power BI
6 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.21%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (7.97%) JIRA
2 18 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 16 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.73%) Git
5 10 (2.10%) CMake
6 8 (1.68%) Appium
6 8 (1.68%) UI Automator
7 7 (1.47%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.26%) AdminStudio
9 5 (1.05%) MSI
10 3 (0.63%) GCC
10 3 (0.63%) GDB
11 2 (0.42%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.42%) Xcode
12 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.21%) GitLab
12 1 (0.21%) Gradle
12 1 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 196 (41.09%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.71%) Finance
4 24 (5.03%) Games
5 21 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.35%) Marketing
8 11 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.31%) Retail
9 9 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.68%) Automotive
10 8 (1.68%) Electronics
11 7 (1.47%) Legal
11 7 (1.47%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.26%) Law
13 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.63%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.42%) Banking
15 2 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (31.03%) Support Engineer
2 127 (26.62%) IT Support
3 82 (17.19%) IT Engineer
4 72 (15.09%) IT Support Engineer
5 61 (12.79%) Analyst
6 53 (11.11%) Senior
7 45 (9.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 44 (9.22%) IT Technician
9 41 (8.60%) 2nd Line Support
10 35 (7.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 32 (6.71%) Desktop Engineer
12 31 (6.50%) Desktop Support
13 29 (6.08%) Support Analyst
14 27 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (5.45%) Technical Support
16 25 (5.24%) Systems Engineer
17 24 (5.03%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 24 (5.03%) Field Engineer
18 22 (4.61%) IT Analyst
18 22 (4.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.89%) .NET
2 8 (1.68%) Software Packaging
3 7 (1.47%) CSS
3 7 (1.47%) HTML
4 3 (0.63%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (0.63%) EDI
4 3 (0.63%) OpenGL
5 2 (0.42%) Spring
6 1 (0.21%) BREW
6 1 (0.21%) Laravel
6 1 (0.21%) LDAP
6 1 (0.21%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.21%) SAML
6 1 (0.21%) Web Services
6 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.84%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.03%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.98%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.56%) Smartphone
4 17 (3.56%) Social Media
5 15 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.52%) CCTV
9 11 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.47%) BYOD
11 7 (1.47%) Clustering
11 7 (1.47%) EPoS
11 7 (1.47%) Life Science
12 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.26%) CMDB
12 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 421 (88.26%) Windows
2 108 (22.64%) Windows 10
3 105 (22.01%) Linux
4 88 (18.45%) Apple iOS
5 83 (17.40%) Windows Server
6 59 (12.37%) Android
7 19 (3.98%) Unix
8 17 (3.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (2.52%) Mac OS X
12 9 (1.89%) CentOS
13 6 (1.26%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.63%) VMS
14 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.42%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.42%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.21%) Debian
16 1 (0.21%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 127 (26.62%) Customer Service
3 64 (13.42%) Cybersecurity
4 59 (12.37%) Computer Science
5 53 (11.11%) ITIL
6 52 (10.90%) Mobile Device Management
7 42 (8.81%) Service Management
8 36 (7.55%) Asset Management
9 33 (6.92%) Software Engineering
10 32 (6.71%) Project Management
11 31 (6.50%) ITSM
12 30 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (6.29%) Mentoring
13 29 (6.08%) Time Management
13 29 (6.08%) User Experience
14 26 (5.45%) Agile
15 25 (5.24%) Data Protection
15 25 (5.24%) Fintech
16 20 (4.19%) Test Automation
17 19 (3.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (13.63%) PowerShell
2 41 (8.60%) Bash
3 14 (2.94%) C#
4 13 (2.73%) Python
5 12 (2.52%) C++
6 11 (2.31%) SQL
7 9 (1.89%) Java
8 8 (1.68%) Objective-C
9 5 (1.05%) C
9 5 (1.05%) Go
10 4 (0.84%) PHP
11 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.42%) Bicep
12 2 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (27.25%) Degree
2 52 (10.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 49 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (9.22%) DBS Check
5 36 (7.55%) A+ Certification
6 29 (6.08%) MCP
7 27 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (5.24%) CCNA
9 11 (2.31%) MCSE
10 7 (1.47%) Security Cleared
11 6 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.42%) CCNP
14 2 (0.42%) CISSP
14 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.42%) HNC
14 2 (0.42%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (4.61%) GDPR
3 18 (3.77%) SLA
4 12 (2.52%) SOC 2
5 8 (1.68%) QA
6 6 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 222 (46.54%) Active Directory
2 63 (13.21%) Hyper-V
3 52 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (4.82%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.68%) Docker
6 7 (1.47%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.42%) vSphere
8 1 (0.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (11.95%) Jamf Pro
2 51 (10.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (8.81%) SCCM
4 16 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.68%) Autotask
6 7 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.26%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.05%) AirWatch
8 5 (1.05%) PaperCut
8 5 (1.05%) Terraform
9 4 (0.84%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.21%) Grafana
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.21%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.21%) WMI
11 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 265 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 86 (18.03%) VMware
3 81 (16.98%) Apple
4 51 (10.69%) Google
5 33 (6.92%) Cisco
6 26 (5.45%) Atlassian
7 23 (4.82%) Palo Alto
8 22 (4.61%) Citrix
9 19 (3.98%) Veeam
10 17 (3.56%) Adobe
11 15 (3.14%) Dell
12 13 (2.73%) Meraki
13 12 (2.52%) ConnectWise
14 10 (2.10%) Datto
15 9 (1.89%) Aruba
16 8 (1.68%) HP
16 8 (1.68%) Okta
16 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
17 7 (1.47%) LogicMonitor
17 7 (1.47%) Ubiquiti