Apple iOS Contracts

Apple iOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Apple iOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apple iOS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 281 253
Rank change year-on-year +57 -28 -37
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 451 565 975
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 0.98% 1.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.94% 6.04% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 395 683
10th Percentile £213 £162 £183
25th Percentile £325 £211 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -17.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £658 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £300 £403
% change year-on-year +41.67% -25.47% +8.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 38
10th Percentile £12.25 £16.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.91 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% -1.33% +26.65%
75th Percentile £17.76 £28.84 £66.31
90th Percentile £37.34 £82.50 £78.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.29 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.57% +12.12% +19.57%

All Operating Systems
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,681 9,357 13,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 16.23% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 6,548 8,958
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +0.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 413 611
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.05 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £39.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% +73.33% +26.62%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.83% +50.00% +21.21%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apple iOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple iOS.

Daily rate trend for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple iOS.

Hourly rate trend for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +53 397 £475 +16.92% 255
UK excluding London +63 263 £425 +41.67% 142
London +5 160 £525 +23.53% 126
Work from Home +22 108 £475 +5.56% 114
North of England +61 106 £463 +2.66% 38
North West +63 79 £800 +113.33% 23
South East -3 58 £373 +86.25% 39
Midlands +52 46 £445 +12.66% 23
Scotland +34 28 £400 +60.00% 16
Yorkshire +24 27 £300 -42.86% 11
West Midlands +39 24 £450 -14.29% 14
East Midlands +28 22 £150 -62.03% 9
South West -6 12 £375 -16.67% 15
Northern Ireland +13 7 £190 -5.00%
East of England +7 5 £265 -44.21% 13
Wales +19 4 £500 +17.65% 3

Apple iOS
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 19 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.88%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.11%) Confluence
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.44%) Sketch
3 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.44%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.22%) InDesign
5 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 117 (25.94%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (13.53%) Azure
3 41 (9.09%) AWS
4 20 (4.43%) SaaS
5 17 (3.77%) Figma
6 13 (2.88%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.22%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.00%) GitHub
9 6 (1.33%) PaaS
10 4 (0.89%) Apigee
10 4 (0.89%) GCP
10 4 (0.89%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.89%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.67%) Sentry
11 3 (0.67%) Slack
12 2 (0.44%) Asana
12 2 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.44%) Google Play
12 2 (0.44%) Miro
12 2 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 54 (11.97%) Firewall
2 53 (11.75%) VPN
3 13 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (2.88%) Network Security
3 13 (2.88%) Skype
4 12 (2.66%) VoIP
5 10 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.33%) Wireless
7 4 (0.89%) DHCP
7 4 (0.89%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.67%) SSL
8 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.67%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.44%) HTTP
9 2 (0.44%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) DNS
10 1 (0.22%) PBX
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.10%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.88%) Big Data
3 8 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.11%) DB2
5 5 (1.11%) MySQL
6 4 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.89%) Power BI
7 3 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.32%) Git
2 20 (4.43%) Xcode
3 19 (4.21%) XCUITest
4 18 (3.99%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.88%) Appium
6 11 (2.44%) JIRA
7 7 (1.55%) Postman
7 7 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.33%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.33%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.33%) XCTest
9 5 (1.11%) Maven
10 4 (0.89%) Hudson
10 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.67%) gulp
11 3 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (0.67%) Selenium
12 2 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
12 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.44%) git-flow
General
1 85 (18.85%) Social Skills
2 54 (11.97%) Finance
3 32 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (7.10%) Public Sector
4 31 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (5.10%) Banking
6 22 (4.88%) Retail
7 19 (4.21%) Legal
8 5 (1.11%) Billing
8 5 (1.11%) French Language
8 5 (1.11%) Front Office
8 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.89%) Publishing
9 4 (0.89%) Spanish Language
10 3 (0.67%) Games
10 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.44%) Automotive
11 2 (0.44%) German Language
11 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (24.39%) Developer
2 67 (14.86%) Lead
3 63 (13.97%) Architect
4 57 (12.64%) iOS Developer
5 48 (10.64%) Senior
6 46 (10.20%) Technical Architect
7 41 (9.09%) Technical Leader
8 40 (8.87%) Analyst
9 39 (8.65%) IT Support
10 35 (7.76%) Lead Architect
11 26 (5.76%) Support Engineer
12 22 (4.88%) Support Analyst
13 19 (4.21%) Designer
13 19 (4.21%) IT Analyst
14 17 (3.77%) IT Engineer
14 17 (3.77%) React Developer
15 16 (3.55%) IT Support Analyst
15 16 (3.55%) Mobile Developer
16 13 (2.88%) UX Designer
17 12 (2.66%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (14.41%) Node.js
2 31 (6.87%) React Native
3 29 (6.43%) React
4 25 (5.54%) REST
5 19 (4.21%) iOS SDK
5 19 (4.21%) SwiftUI
6 17 (3.77%) .NET
7 16 (3.55%) HTML
7 16 (3.55%) RESTful
8 15 (3.33%) CSS
9 13 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
9 13 (2.88%) Web Services
10 12 (2.66%) Flutter
11 10 (2.22%) UIKit
12 8 (1.77%) HTML5
13 7 (1.55%) GraphQL
14 6 (1.33%) CSS3
14 6 (1.33%) Spring
14 6 (1.33%) Spring Boot
15 5 (1.11%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.63%) Mobile App
2 41 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 39 (8.65%) Public Cloud
4 28 (6.21%) iPhone
5 15 (3.33%) CMDB
6 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (2.88%) Distributed Applications
7 13 (2.88%) Smartphone
8 12 (2.66%) iPad
9 10 (2.22%) Video Editing
10 9 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.55%) Digital Signage
12 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.33%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.11%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.11%) Social Media
14 5 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 261 (57.87%) Android
2 190 (42.13%) Windows
3 85 (18.85%) Windows 10
4 56 (12.42%) Windows Server
5 32 (7.10%) Linux
6 31 (6.87%) Mac OS
7 20 (4.43%) Unix
8 11 (2.44%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.89%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.44%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.22%) tvOS
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Phone
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (19.29%) iOS Development
2 83 (18.40%) Agile
3 64 (14.19%) CI/CD
4 59 (13.08%) Security Architecture
5 58 (12.86%) Mobile Device Management
6 54 (11.97%) Customer Service
6 54 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (11.53%) DevOps
8 46 (10.20%) User Experience
9 44 (9.76%) Risk Management
10 43 (9.53%) Zero Trust
11 42 (9.31%) Roadmaps
12 41 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 41 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
13 39 (8.65%) Design Patterns
14 33 (7.32%) Mobile Development
15 30 (6.65%) ITSM
16 27 (5.99%) Android Development
16 27 (5.99%) Information Security
16 27 (5.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (21.06%) Swift
2 33 (7.32%) JavaScript
3 30 (6.65%) Java
3 30 (6.65%) Objective-C
4 27 (5.99%) Python
5 21 (4.66%) Kotlin
6 17 (3.77%) SQL
7 12 (2.66%) C
8 9 (2.00%) C#
8 9 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.55%) C++
10 6 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.11%) Dart
12 4 (0.89%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) Bash
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 63 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.43%) Degree
4 18 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.22%) ACMT
8 1 (0.22%) CISSP
8 1 (0.22%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.88%) QA
1 22 (4.88%) SLA
2 13 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.22%) NCSC
5 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (20.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.89%) vSphere
4 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) iptables
6 1 (0.22%) vCloud
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 43 (9.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (7.32%) SCCM
3 20 (4.43%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (2.66%) Ansible
5 11 (2.44%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (1.33%) Terraform
8 3 (0.67%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.67%) WSUS
9 2 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) AppManager
10 1 (0.22%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) Nessus
10 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 103 (22.84%) Apple
2 86 (19.07%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.10%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.77%) Citrix
5 15 (3.33%) Google
6 10 (2.22%) Okta
7 9 (2.00%) Adobe
7 9 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.33%) SAP
8 6 (1.33%) VMware
9 4 (0.89%) Avaya
9 4 (0.89%) Sophos
10 3 (0.67%) HP
10 3 (0.67%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.44%) Dell
11 2 (0.44%) Intel
11 2 (0.44%) Ivanti
11 2 (0.44%) Mitel
11 2 (0.44%) Splunk
11 2 (0.44%) Sun