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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 332 329
Rank change year-on-year -137 -3 +51
Contract jobs citing Apple 157 177 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 1.35% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 114 114
10th Percentile £160 £150 £140
25th Percentile £200 £184 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +31.31%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £432
90th Percentile £581 £560 £562
UK median daily rate £275 £275 £308
% change year-on-year - -10.57% +17.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 7
10th Percentile £19.07 £18.10 £15.22
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £15.42
Median hourly rate £22.79 £25.15 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +37.66% +1.05%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £26.00
90th Percentile £25.76 - £33.20
UK median hourly rate £22.79 £25.15 £18.00
% change year-on-year -9.40% +39.72% -0.44%

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 19,083 13,118 14,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.20% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,026 8,297 9,248
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 644 754
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.32 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -14.41% -21.64%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.71%

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 16 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apple in England over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 August 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 -58 87 £275 -1.79% 128
North of England -111 21 £450 +28.57% 23
Midlands -42 16 £175 -30.00% 24
South West -44 16 £388 +87.65% 9
Yorkshire -78 13 £510 +36.00% 1
South East -72 11 £481 +123.84% 40
East Midlands -17 8 £275 +10.00% 18
West Midlands -47 8 £120 -73.33% 6
East of England -29 4 £500 - 10
North East -39 4 £450 +63.64% 2
North West -43 4 £260 -6.73% 20
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 26 (16.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (16.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.64%) Maya
5 1 (0.64%) Steinberg Cubase
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Actimize
1 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.64%) Shopify
1 1 (0.64%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.03%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (27.39%) Entra ID
3 33 (21.02%) Azure
4 8 (5.10%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.46%) AWS
5 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.18%) Firebase
6 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.55%) Apple Pay
7 4 (2.55%) Google Pay
8 3 (1.91%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.91%) SaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.64%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.64%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (7.01%) VPN
3 7 (4.46%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.46%) WAN
4 6 (3.82%) Skype
5 5 (3.18%) Internet
5 5 (3.18%) LAN
6 4 (2.55%) Firewall
6 4 (2.55%) Wireless
7 3 (1.91%) DHCP
7 3 (1.91%) DNS
7 3 (1.91%) Network Security
8 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) fastlane
1 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.18%) Xcode
2 2 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.64%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.64%) Git
3 1 (0.64%) GitLab
3 1 (0.64%) XCTest
3 1 (0.64%) XCUITest
General
1 56 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.92%) Finance
4 11 (7.01%) Retail
5 9 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.18%) Banking
7 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.55%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.91%) Billing
9 3 (1.91%) Legal
9 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.27%) Slovak Language
11 1 (0.64%) Bulgarian Language
11 1 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (19.75%) IT Support
1 31 (19.75%) Support Engineer
2 30 (19.11%) IT Engineer
3 22 (14.01%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Analyst
4 12 (7.64%) Mac Engineer
5 11 (7.01%) Developer
6 10 (6.37%) iOS Developer
6 10 (6.37%) Senior
7 9 (5.73%) Architect
7 9 (5.73%) Desktop Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) Desktop Support
7 9 (5.73%) Support Specialist
8 8 (5.10%) Mobile Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Help Desk Analyst
9 6 (3.82%) Lead
10 5 (3.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (3.18%) Product Manager
11 4 (2.55%) Active Directory Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) RESTful
1 7 (4.46%) SwiftUI
2 6 (3.82%) iOS SDK
2 6 (3.82%) UIKit
3 5 (3.18%) Core Data
4 4 (2.55%) React
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.91%) PySpark
6 1 (0.64%) JSON
6 1 (0.64%) Kafka
6 1 (0.64%) Loki
6 1 (0.64%) REST
6 1 (0.64%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Mobile App
2 19 (12.10%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.01%) iPad
3 11 (7.01%) Virtual Team
4 10 (6.37%) iPhone
4 10 (6.37%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.37%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (4.46%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.55%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.55%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.91%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.91%) Digital Wallet
7 3 (1.91%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.91%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 88 (56.05%) Windows
2 63 (40.13%) Mac OS
3 48 (30.57%) Apple iOS
4 40 (25.48%) Android
5 37 (23.57%) Windows 10
6 7 (4.46%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.91%) Linux
8 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (38.22%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (29.30%) Customer Service
3 27 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (15.29%) ITIL
5 23 (14.65%) Customer Experience
6 21 (13.38%) Agile
6 21 (13.38%) ITSM
7 19 (12.10%) DevOps
7 19 (12.10%) User Experience
8 18 (11.46%) Asset Management
8 18 (11.46%) Mobile Device Management
9 17 (10.83%) Service Management
10 16 (10.19%) AI
10 16 (10.19%) Information Security
11 15 (9.55%) Time Management
12 13 (8.28%) Change Management
13 12 (7.64%) Identity Management
14 11 (7.01%) CI/CD
14 11 (7.01%) Generative AI
14 11 (7.01%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
1 11 (7.01%) Swift
2 10 (6.37%) Python
3 5 (3.18%) Bash
3 5 (3.18%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.55%) Objective-C
5 3 (1.91%) Java
5 3 (1.91%) SQL
6 1 (0.64%) Korn
6 1 (0.64%) Rust
6 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.10%) Degree
4 12 (7.64%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.55%) ACSP
9 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.27%) MCSE
11 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.64%) ACTC
11 1 (0.64%) CCSP
11 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.64%) CISSP
11 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) SLA
2 10 (6.37%) QA
3 6 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.18%) WCAG
5 4 (2.55%) NCSC
5 4 (2.55%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 2 (1.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 48 (30.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.91%) Firmware
4 2 (1.27%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.27%) zsh
5 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (27.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (17.20%) Jamf Pro
3 17 (10.83%) SCCM
4 5 (3.18%) Terraform
5 3 (1.91%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.91%) WSUS
6 2 (1.27%) Grafana
6 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.27%) ServiceCenter
6 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.64%) Ansible
7 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.64%) Puppet
7 1 (0.64%) systemd
7 1 (0.64%) yum
Vendors
1 91 (57.96%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.47%) ServiceNow
3 18 (11.46%) HP
4 16 (10.19%) Google
5 15 (9.55%) Samsung
6 8 (5.10%) CyberArk
7 7 (4.46%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (4.46%) Citrix
8 5 (3.18%) Cisco
8 5 (3.18%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.91%) Remedy
10 2 (1.27%) Dell
10 2 (1.27%) Klarna
10 2 (1.27%) PayPal
10 2 (1.27%) VMware
11 1 (0.64%) FIS
11 1 (0.64%) Meraki
11 1 (0.64%) MobileIron
11 1 (0.64%) Okta
11 1 (0.64%) Snow