Apple iOS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apple iOS
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Apple iOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 104 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +49
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 11 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 1.07% 1.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.32% 8.49% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 24
10th Percentile £320 £192 £115
25th Percentile £359 £319 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.76% -13.27%
75th Percentile £624 £534 £575
90th Percentile £671 £575 £596
Central London median daily rate £459 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +22.40% -11.76% -11.46%

All Operating Systems
City of London

Apple iOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 174 259 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.57% 12.57% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 173 265
10th Percentile £200 £224 £206
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £501 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +4.27% -10.70%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £708 £698
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £19.16
25th Percentile £26.31 - £19.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £112.00 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -75.22% +440.67% +1.05%
75th Percentile £29.31 - £22.55
90th Percentile £29.43 - £23.27
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £112.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -75.45% +491.65% -7.66%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apple iOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Apple iOS job vacancy trend in the City of London

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apple iOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple iOS in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in the City of London

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apple iOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Firebase
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Figma
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Google Play
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQLite
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Xcode
2 2 (18.18%) CocoaPods
2 2 (18.18%) Crashlytics
2 2 (18.18%) fastlane
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Storybook
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) iOS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Support
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AVFoundation
1 2 (18.18%) Core Animation
1 2 (18.18%) Core Data
1 2 (18.18%) JSON
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) React Native
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) RxSwift
1 2 (18.18%) SwiftUI
1 2 (18.18%) UIKit
2 1 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (9.09%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) D3.js
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
2 1 (9.09%) RxJava
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Animation
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) BYOD
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) iOS Development
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) MVVM
5 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (18.18%) Android Development
6 2 (18.18%) Application Security
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
6 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) Push Notifications
6 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Swift
2 4 (36.36%) Objective-C
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Kotlin
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Plaid
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow