Apple Contract Job Trends in England

Apple
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 July 2026, 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 330 322
Rank change year-on-year -140 -8 +61
Contract jobs citing Apple 149 180 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.66% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 1.39% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 116 125
10th Percentile £158 £150 £133
25th Percentile £175 £184 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £275 £282
Median % change year-on-year - -2.31% +17.29%
75th Percentile £490 £476 £418
90th Percentile £575 £560 £500
UK median daily rate £275 £274 £275
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 17
10th Percentile £19.20 £18.10 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.71 £19.20 £15.22
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.91 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +47.72% -6.33%
75th Percentile £24.28 £25.15 £17.72
90th Percentile £25.75 - £19.76
UK median hourly rate £20.09 £24.66 £16.86
% change year-on-year -18.53% +46.26% -6.33%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,360 12,945 15,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.43% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,634 8,199 10,031
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 602 1,019
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.84 £12.52
25th Percentile £19.72 £17.66 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -32.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.12 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Apple job vacancy trend in England

Apple
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apple

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in England

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apple

Apple
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
London -61 81 £226 -18.37% 66
North of England -112 21 £450 +12.50% 19
South West -29 14 £388 +87.65% 8
South East -67 13 £387 +104.90% 30
Yorkshire -86 13 £510 +27.50% 4
Midlands -54 10 £163 -35.00% 18
East of England -25 9 £500 +2.17% 8
West Midlands -65 7 £120 -60.00% 2
North East -34 4 £450 +24.14% 2
North West -52 4 £260 -15.45% 13
East Midlands -19 3 £275 +10.00% 16
Apple
UK

Apple
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 23 (15.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.34%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Actimize
1 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.67%) Shopify
1 1 (0.67%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.56%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (25.50%) Entra ID
3 32 (21.48%) Azure
4 9 (6.04%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.70%) AWS
6 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.36%) Firebase
7 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.68%) Apple Pay
8 4 (2.68%) Google Pay
9 3 (2.01%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.01%) Slack
10 2 (1.34%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.34%) SaaS
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.67%) Datadog
11 1 (0.67%) Google Gemini
11 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.38%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (6.71%) VPN
3 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.36%) Skype
5 4 (2.68%) DHCP
5 4 (2.68%) DNS
5 4 (2.68%) Internet
5 4 (2.68%) LAN
5 4 (2.68%) WAN
5 4 (2.68%) Wireless
6 3 (2.01%) Network Security
7 2 (1.34%) Firewall
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.67%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.67%) SSL
8 1 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.36%) fastlane
1 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.36%) Xcode
2 2 (1.34%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.67%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.67%) Git
3 1 (0.67%) GitLab
3 1 (0.67%) XCTest
3 1 (0.67%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.09%) Finance
4 10 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.04%) Retail
6 8 (5.37%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.70%) Banking
8 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.68%) Health Technology
11 3 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.01%) Billing
11 3 (2.01%) Legal
11 3 (2.01%) Marketing
12 2 (1.34%) Publishing
12 2 (1.34%) Slovak Language
13 1 (0.67%) Aviation
13 1 (0.67%) Bulgarian Language
13 1 (0.67%) Law
13 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (20.13%) IT Support
2 27 (18.12%) Support Engineer
3 23 (15.44%) IT Engineer
4 18 (12.08%) IT Support Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Analyst
6 13 (8.72%) Mac Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Senior
8 10 (6.71%) Desktop Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Desktop Support
8 10 (6.71%) Mobile Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Developer
9 9 (6.04%) iOS Developer
10 7 (4.70%) Architect
10 7 (4.70%) Technical Support
11 6 (4.03%) Help Desk Analyst
12 5 (3.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) 2nd Line Support
12 5 (3.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.36%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.37%) SwiftUI
2 7 (4.70%) RESTful
3 6 (4.03%) iOS SDK
3 6 (4.03%) UIKit
4 5 (3.36%) Core Data
5 4 (2.68%) React
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.01%) PySpark
7 1 (0.67%) JSON
7 1 (0.67%) Kafka
7 1 (0.67%) Loki
7 1 (0.67%) OAuth
7 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.67%) React Native
7 1 (0.67%) REST
7 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.75%) Onboarding
2 17 (11.41%) Mobile App
3 11 (7.38%) iPad
4 10 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.71%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (5.37%) iPhone
5 8 (5.37%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.03%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.68%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (2.68%) Blackberry
7 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.68%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (2.01%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.34%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.34%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (1.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 78 (52.35%) Windows
2 55 (36.91%) Mac OS
3 43 (28.86%) Apple iOS
4 39 (26.17%) Android
5 33 (22.15%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.68%) Linux
8 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.67%) CentOS
9 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (33.56%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (30.20%) Customer Service
3 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (16.11%) ITIL
4 21 (14.09%) Agile
5 19 (12.75%) Mobile Device Management
6 17 (11.41%) Asset Management
6 17 (11.41%) DevOps
6 17 (11.41%) Time Management
6 17 (11.41%) User Experience
7 14 (9.40%) AI
7 14 (9.40%) Customer Experience
7 14 (9.40%) Information Security
7 14 (9.40%) ITSM
8 12 (8.05%) CI/CD
9 11 (7.38%) Change Management
9 11 (7.38%) Data Protection
9 11 (7.38%) iOS Development
9 11 (7.38%) Service Management
10 10 (6.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.71%) Swift
2 9 (6.04%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.04%) Python
3 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.01%) Java
4 3 (2.01%) SQL
5 2 (1.34%) Bash
5 2 (1.34%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.67%) Korn
6 1 (0.67%) Rust
6 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) Degree
4 12 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (6.71%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.03%) ACSP
6 6 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.34%) ACTC
8 2 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.34%) MCSE
9 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.67%) CCSP
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.77%) SLA
2 6 (4.03%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 5 (3.36%) WCAG
4 4 (2.68%) NCSC
4 4 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 43 (28.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.34%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.67%) Firmware
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.67%) vSphere
4 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.67%) zsh
Systems Management
1 38 (25.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (16.78%) Jamf Pro
3 15 (10.07%) SCCM
4 8 (5.37%) ServiceCenter
5 5 (3.36%) Terraform
6 3 (2.01%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.34%) Grafana
7 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.67%) Ansible
8 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.67%) Puppet
8 1 (0.67%) systemd
8 1 (0.67%) yum
Vendors
1 84 (56.38%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.46%) ServiceNow
3 20 (13.42%) HP
4 17 (11.41%) Google
5 12 (8.05%) Samsung
6 10 (6.71%) Dell
7 7 (4.70%) Citrix
7 7 (4.70%) CyberArk
8 6 (4.03%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (4.03%) Cisco
9 5 (3.36%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.01%) VMware
11 2 (1.34%) Klarna
11 2 (1.34%) Okta
11 2 (1.34%) PayPal
11 2 (1.34%) Remedy
12 1 (0.67%) Meraki
12 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.67%) Spotify
12 1 (0.67%) YouTube