Apple Contracts 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 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 319 384
Rank change year-on-year -5 +65 +38
Contract jobs citing Apple 164 232 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.62% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.42% 1.48% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 135 200
10th Percentile £150 £131 £158
25th Percentile £184 £195 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £255 £235
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +8.40% -10.38%
75th Percentile £500 £378 £355
90th Percentile £695 £450 £550
UK median daily rate £350 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +40.00% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 13
10th Percentile £16.80 £13.87 £15.83
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.21 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.51 £17.72 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% -1.99% +12.19%
75th Percentile £24.66 £18.60 -
90th Percentile - £25.10 £19.38
UK median hourly rate £18.36 £17.72 £18.08
% change year-on-year +3.60% -1.99% +12.19%

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 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple in England.

Daily rate trend for Apple in England

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple in England.

Hourly rate trend for Apple in England

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 1 May 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
London -1 70 £280 +10.89% 234
North of England +49 50 £400 +51.23% 63
Yorkshire +44 38 £375 +33.21% 22
South West +56 13 £550 +511.11% 30
Midlands +15 13 £250 +92.31% 48
East of England +39 12 £500 +163.16% 38
East Midlands +4 8 £250 +100.00% 21
North West +6 7 £215 -13.13% 32
West Midlands +13 5 £280 +40.00% 22
South East -22 5 £319 -15.67% 98
North East - 5 £463 - 9
Apple
UK

Apple
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.32%) nginx
1 12 (7.32%) Traefik
2 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.61%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (31.71%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.61%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.61%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 55 (33.54%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (31.71%) Entra ID
3 20 (12.20%) AWS
4 19 (11.59%) Azure
5 12 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
5 12 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (3.66%) Apple Pay
7 5 (3.05%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.83%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.22%) GCP
9 2 (1.22%) Google Pay
9 2 (1.22%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.61%) IaaS
10 1 (0.61%) PaaS
10 1 (0.61%) SaaS
10 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.54%) DNS
1 14 (8.54%) TCP/IP
2 11 (6.71%) Wireless
3 7 (4.27%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (4.27%) VPN
3 7 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (3.66%) Firewall
5 5 (3.05%) Internet
6 4 (2.44%) LAN
6 4 (2.44%) WAN
7 3 (1.83%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.22%) ATM
8 2 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.22%) WebEx
9 1 (0.61%) DHCP
9 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.61%) Network Security
9 1 (0.61%) Skype
9 1 (0.61%) SSL
9 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.61%) Big Data
4 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.61%) FileMaker
4 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.93%) GitLab
2 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.05%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) Pa11y
General
1 80 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.15%) Banking
4 15 (9.15%) Retail
5 10 (6.10%) Finance
6 8 (4.88%) Military
6 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.44%) Legal
8 3 (1.83%) Electronics
8 3 (1.83%) Local Government
8 3 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.22%) Back Office
9 2 (1.22%) Billing
9 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (16.46%) Support Engineer
2 20 (12.20%) Senior
3 19 (11.59%) IT Support
4 18 (10.98%) Support Manager
5 17 (10.37%) Mac Engineer
6 15 (9.15%) Analyst
7 12 (7.32%) Desktop Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (6.10%) 1st Line Support
9 10 (6.10%) Desktop Support
10 8 (4.88%) 1st Line Support Manager
10 8 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
10 8 (4.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.88%) IT Support Manager
10 8 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.32%) cloud-init
1 12 (7.32%) Kafka
1 12 (7.32%) Keycloak
2 3 (1.83%) CSS
2 3 (1.83%) HTML
3 2 (1.22%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.22%) Web Services
4 1 (0.61%) EDI
4 1 (0.61%) REST
4 1 (0.61%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.61%) SAML
4 1 (0.61%) UIKit
4 1 (0.61%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) iPhone
2 17 (10.37%) Smartphone
3 13 (7.93%) PKI
4 7 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.27%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (3.05%) iPad
6 3 (1.83%) IVR
7 2 (1.22%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.22%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.22%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) BYOD
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile Wallet
8 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 76 (46.34%) Windows
2 57 (34.76%) Mac OS
3 45 (27.44%) Apple iOS
4 35 (21.34%) Android
5 22 (13.41%) Linux
6 15 (9.15%) Unix
6 15 (9.15%) Windows 10
7 12 (7.32%) CentOS
7 12 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.66%) Mac OS X
9 5 (3.05%) Windows Server
10 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.61%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.83%) Mobile Device Management
2 43 (26.22%) Customer Service
3 42 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (17.07%) Agile
4 28 (17.07%) ITIL
5 20 (12.20%) Service Management
6 17 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (10.37%) ITSM
7 16 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 15 (9.15%) Coaching
8 15 (9.15%) Incident Management
9 14 (8.54%) Service Delivery
9 14 (8.54%) Time Management
10 13 (7.93%) Identity Management
10 13 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (7.32%) Cloud Security
11 12 (7.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 12 (7.32%) Observability
11 12 (7.32%) Secrets Management
11 12 (7.32%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.46%) Bash
2 25 (15.24%) Python
3 18 (10.98%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.32%) Go
5 3 (1.83%) Swift
5 3 (1.83%) VBA
6 2 (1.22%) AppleScript
6 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.93%) Degree
4 12 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.71%) ACSP
6 7 (4.27%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.05%) ACTC
8 4 (2.44%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.22%) MCP
9 2 (1.22%) MCSE
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.32%) NCSC
2 10 (6.10%) SLA
3 8 (4.88%) QA
4 2 (1.22%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.05%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (35.98%) Jamf Pro
2 17 (10.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (9.76%) SCCM
4 13 (7.93%) Terraform
5 12 (7.32%) Consul
5 12 (7.32%) Grafana
5 12 (7.32%) HAProxy
5 12 (7.32%) Istio
5 12 (7.32%) Kubernetes
5 12 (7.32%) linkerd
5 12 (7.32%) Packer
5 12 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.32%) Rancher
5 12 (7.32%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.61%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.61%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 76 (46.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.85%) ServiceNow
3 16 (9.76%) Okta
4 13 (7.93%) Cisco
4 13 (7.93%) Citrix
4 13 (7.93%) ESET
5 12 (7.32%) Google
5 12 (7.32%) Samsung
5 12 (7.32%) Splunk
6 10 (6.10%) HP
7 9 (5.49%) Dell
8 8 (4.88%) SOTI
9 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.83%) SAP
11 2 (1.22%) Adobe
11 2 (1.22%) Computacenter
11 2 (1.22%) EMC
11 2 (1.22%) Oracle
11 2 (1.22%) Unisys
11 2 (1.22%) VMware