Apple Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Apple
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 3 September 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 63 76
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +53
Contract jobs citing Apple 4 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.88% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 1.47% 2.29% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 22
10th Percentile - £139 £147
25th Percentile £175 £145 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £168 £271
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -38.25% -51.67%
75th Percentile £225 £203 £411
90th Percentile - £216 £450
Scotland median daily rate £200 £200 £270
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +111.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.63 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year -3.53% - -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 272 306 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.73% 38.69% 41.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 172 288
10th Percentile £380 £156 £199
25th Percentile £425 £227 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -11.05% +2.15%
75th Percentile £538 £521 £538
90th Percentile £621 £673 £588
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.06% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 3
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.30 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.18 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +2.31% +0.62%
75th Percentile £37.50 £21.45 £35.74
90th Percentile £60.38 £24.18 £46.54
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.07% +2.31% -

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Apple in Edinburgh

Apple
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apple.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apple

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apple.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apple

Apple
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) Mac Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (25.00%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Mac Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft