Apple Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Apple
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Apple 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.61% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 1.26% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £132 £143 £203
25th Percentile £154 £157 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £158 £184 £283
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% -34.78% +61.43%
75th Percentile £250 £215 £339
90th Percentile £280 £232 £368
England median daily rate £288 £300 £250
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -10.71%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 363 317 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 44.00% 41.60% 50.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 186 296
10th Percentile £211 £263 £198
25th Percentile £340 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.52% +6.11%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £589
90th Percentile £638 £626 £694
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 25
10th Percentile £17.12 £12.75 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.60 £14.37 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.28 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.37 £65.00
90th Percentile - £48.83 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.18% +82.71%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Apple job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Apple
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apple.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apple

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in the East Midlands

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apple.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apple

Apple
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
Leicestershire -1 2 £184 +37.45% 1
Lincolnshire - 2 £158 - 2
Derbyshire - 1 £300 - 1
Apple
England

Apple
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Okta