Apple Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apple
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Apple products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apple over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 112 130
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing Apple 4 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.90% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 2.05% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £235 £127 £111
25th Percentile £250 £140 £132
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £250 £198
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +26.26% -36.13%
75th Percentile £411 £364 £419
90th Percentile £487 £395 £568
Central London median daily rate £278 £250 £215
% change year-on-year +11.00% +16.28% -28.33%

All Vendors
City of London

Apple falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 859 929 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.23% 43.84% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 586 823
10th Percentile £325 £345 £325
25th Percentile £418 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 8
10th Percentile £19.11 £18.90 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.63 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.33 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.22% +64.29% +66.67%
75th Percentile £50.13 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.33 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -38.06% +21.43% +47.87%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Apple job vacancy trend in the City of London

Apple
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in the City of London

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Apple
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 1 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
1 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CocoaPods
1 1 (25.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (25.00%) fastlane
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AVFoundation
1 1 (25.00%) Core Animation
1 1 (25.00%) Core Data
1 1 (25.00%) RxSwift
1 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Animation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MOS
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Polycom
3 1 (25.00%) Wyse