Apple Contracts in England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apple over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

Apple UK / England
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	330	368	392
Rank change year-on-year	+38	+24
Contract jobs citing Apple	275	272	252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.64%	0.55%	0.49%
As % of the Vendors category	1.46%	1.24%	1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted	177	186	139
Median daily rate	£310	£375	£300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-17.33%	+25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£100	£140	£165
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£523	£550	£540
UK excluding London median daily rate	£250	£329	£313
% change year-on-year	-24.01%	+5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	29	21	33
Median hourly rate	£14.50	£19.00	£16.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-23.68%	+18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.62	£11.50	£9.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£20.70	£21.00	£33.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.25	£19.75	£15.00
% change year-on-year	-27.84%	+31.66%

Apple is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	18890	22000	22906
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	43.94%	44.52%	44.82%
Number of daily rates quoted	11569	13814	13687
Median daily rate	£428	£405	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£260	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£361
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	630	730	1047
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£19.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.89%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.15	£11.00	£11.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.33	£42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.50
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+10.81%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Apple as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Apple in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apple in England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apple in England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-1	157	£300	-20.00%	46
South East	+10	33	£300	-20.00%	23
East of England	+4	24	£164	-34.36%	5
North West	+34	22	£388	+3.33%	14
South West	0	15	£338	+37.33%	5
Yorkshire	+22	13	£331	-19.69%	8
West Midlands	+15	7	£115	-77.00%	10
East Midlands	-	3	-	-	7
North East	+61	1	£500	+61.29%	2
Apple UK

Apple
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Apple also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Apple.

1	298 (56.44%)	Windows
2	179 (33.90%)	Apple iOS
3	170 (32.20%)	Microsoft
4	159 (30.11%)	Active Directory
5	146 (27.65%)	Android
6	125 (23.67%)	Windows 7
7	117 (22.16%)	Microsoft Office
8	104 (19.70%)	Agile Software Development
9	91 (17.23%)	Finance
10	90 (17.05%)	Apple Swift
11	79 (14.96%)	Mobile App
12	77 (14.58%)	Objective-C
13	74 (14.02%)	Google
14	71 (13.45%)	ITIL
14	71 (13.45%)	Office 365

15	70 (13.26%)	iOS Development
16	67 (12.69%)	VPN
17	62 (11.74%)	Windows 10
18	61 (11.55%)	SCCM
19	56 (10.61%)	User Experience
19	56 (10.61%)	Mobile Development
20	53 (10.04%)	Xcode
21	51 (9.66%)	Mac OS X
22	49 (9.28%)	Windows Server
23	48 (9.09%)	Test Automation
23	48 (9.09%)	Citrix
24	47 (8.90%)	TCP/IP
24	47 (8.90%)	VMware
25	45 (8.52%)	Git (software)
25	45 (8.52%)	HTML

Apple
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	24 (4.55%)	SharePoint
2	22 (4.17%)	IIS
3	20 (3.79%)	CMS
3	20 (3.79%)	MS Exchange
4	17 (3.22%)	Skype for Business
5	16 (3.03%)	Confluence
5	16 (3.03%)	Sitecore CMS
6	14 (2.65%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	8 (1.52%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
7	8 (1.52%)	IBM Notes
8	6 (1.14%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	5 (0.95%)	Apache
10	4 (0.76%)	Exchange Server 2003
10	4 (0.76%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	3 (0.57%)	Apache Spark
11	3 (0.57%)	SharePoint 2013
12	2 (0.38%)	Liferay
12	2 (0.38%)	Mongrel
12	2 (0.38%)	nginx
12	2 (0.38%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	117 (22.16%)	Microsoft Office
2	14 (2.65%)	Microsoft Excel
3	10 (1.89%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	6 (1.14%)	InVision
5	5 (0.95%)	Adobe Creative Suite
5	5 (0.95%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	4 (0.76%)	InfoPath
6	4 (0.76%)	Photoshop
6	4 (0.76%)	Spreadsheet
7	3 (0.57%)	InDesign
7	3 (0.57%)	MS Visio
7	3 (0.57%)	SOLIDWORKS
8	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Project
9	1 (0.19%)	CINEMA 4D
9	1 (0.19%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	12 (2.27%)	Remedy ITSM
2	2 (0.38%)	Dynamics CRM
2	2 (0.38%)	Dynamics GP
2	2 (0.38%)	Teamcenter
3	1 (0.19%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	71 (13.45%)	Office 365
2	22 (4.17%)	G Suite
3	11 (2.08%)	Amazon AWS
3	11 (2.08%)	Microsoft Azure
4	6 (1.14%)	Google Drive
5	5 (0.95%)	Google Play
6	4 (0.76%)	OneDrive
7	3 (0.57%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	3 (0.57%)	GitHub
7	3 (0.57%)	SaaS
8	2 (0.38%)	Amazon EC2
8	2 (0.38%)	Azure Active Directory
8	2 (0.38%)	Google Analytics
8	2 (0.38%)	Google App Engine
8	2 (0.38%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	2 (0.38%)	iTunes
9	1 (0.19%)	Mimecast
9	1 (0.19%)	ServiceMax
9	1 (0.19%)	TestFlight
9	1 (0.19%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	67 (12.69%)	VPN
2	47 (8.90%)	TCP/IP
3	43 (8.14%)	DNS
4	39 (7.39%)	LAN
4	39 (7.39%)	WAN
5	38 (7.20%)	DHCP
6	37 (7.01%)	Firewall
7	35 (6.63%)	Wireless
8	33 (6.25%)	VoIP
9	28 (5.30%)	Internet
10	15 (2.84%)	LTE
10	15 (2.84%)	Wi-Fi
11	12 (2.27%)	Skype
12	11 (2.08%)	GSM
12	11 (2.08%)	HSPA
12	11 (2.08%)	WCDMA
13	10 (1.89%)	SSL
14	8 (1.52%)	Remote Desktop
15	7 (1.33%)	HTTP
15	7 (1.33%)	WebEx

Database & Business Intelligence
1	15 (2.84%)	SQL Server
2	11 (2.08%)	MySQL
3	10 (1.89%)	MongoDB
4	9 (1.70%)	PostgreSQL
4	9 (1.70%)	Redis
5	7 (1.33%)	Relational Database
6	6 (1.14%)	NoSQL
7	5 (0.95%)	Apache Cassandra
8	3 (0.57%)	Big Data
8	3 (0.57%)	Hadoop
8	3 (0.57%)	HBase
8	3 (0.57%)	SQL Server 2005
9	2 (0.38%)	Mixpanel
9	2 (0.38%)	RDBMS
9	2 (0.38%)	SQLite
10	1 (0.19%)	FileMaker
10	1 (0.19%)	MS Access
10	1 (0.19%)	OLTP
10	1 (0.19%)	SQL Server 2008
10	1 (0.19%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	53 (10.04%)	Xcode
2	45 (8.52%)	Git (software)
3	27 (5.11%)	JIRA
4	20 (3.79%)	Android Studio
5	16 (3.03%)	Team Foundation Server
5	16 (3.03%)	Visual Studio
6	15 (2.84%)	Subversion
7	12 (2.27%)	git-flow
8	10 (1.89%)	Jenkins
9	9 (1.70%)	Selenium
10	7 (1.33%)	Axure RP
10	7 (1.33%)	Bitbucket
10	7 (1.33%)	Cucumber
10	7 (1.33%)	JUnit
11	5 (0.95%)	Capybara
11	5 (0.95%)	Travis CI
11	5 (0.95%)	webpack
12	4 (0.76%)	CocoaPods
12	4 (0.76%)	Eclipse
13	3 (0.57%)	Fiddler

General
1	91 (17.23%)	Finance
2	39 (7.39%)	Banking
3	19 (3.60%)	Retail
4	18 (3.41%)	Publishing
5	12 (2.27%)	Telecoms
6	8 (1.52%)	Marketing
7	7 (1.33%)	Investment Banking
8	6 (1.14%)	Front Office
9	5 (0.95%)	Law
9	5 (0.95%)	Legal
9	5 (0.95%)	Manufacturing
10	4 (0.76%)	Advertising
10	4 (0.76%)	Pharmaceutical
11	2 (0.38%)	Automotive
11	2 (0.38%)	Back Office
11	2 (0.38%)	Electronics
11	2 (0.38%)	Retail Banking
12	1 (0.19%)	Billing
12	1 (0.19%)	Czech Language
12	1 (0.19%)	Interactive Media

Job Titles
1	123 (23.30%)	Developer
2	82 (15.53%)	Support Engineer
3	72 (13.64%)	Analyst
4	66 (12.50%)	iOS Developer
5	59 (11.17%)	Desktop Support
6	51 (9.66%)	2nd Line Support
7	47 (8.90%)	IT Support
8	33 (6.25%)	IT Engineer
9	32 (6.06%)	Architect
10	30 (5.68%)	Mac Engineer
10	30 (5.68%)	Support Analyst
11	29 (5.49%)	Desktop Engineer
12	28 (5.30%)	1st Line Support
12	28 (5.30%)	IT Support Engineer
13	27 (5.11%)	2nd Line Engineer
14	26 (4.92%)	1st/2nd Line Support
14	26 (4.92%)	2nd Line Support Engineer
15	25 (4.73%)	Desktop Support Engineer
15	25 (4.73%)	Windows Engineer
16	24 (4.55%)	Service Desk Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	45 (8.52%)	HTML
2	40 (7.58%)	REST
3	37 (7.01%)	JSON
4	35 (6.63%)	RESTful
5	32 (6.06%)	CSS
6	30 (5.68%)	Core Data
7	29 (5.49%)	.NET
8	26 (4.92%)	XML
9	24 (4.55%)	jQuery
9	24 (4.55%)	Web Services
10	23 (4.36%)	iOS SDK
11	21 (3.98%)	Elastic Stack
11	21 (3.98%)	SOAP
12	19 (3.60%)	ASP.NET
13	18 (3.41%)	HTML5
13	18 (3.41%)	React
14	17 (3.22%)	Ajax
15	16 (3.03%)	Apache Cordova
15	16 (3.03%)	Cocoa
15	16 (3.03%)	Sass

Miscellaneous
1	79 (14.96%)	Mobile App
2	56 (10.61%)	User Experience
3	40 (7.58%)	Smartphone
4	36 (6.82%)	Analytical Skills
5	35 (6.63%)	Blackberry
6	26 (4.92%)	Video Conferencing
7	25 (4.73%)	iPhone
8	24 (4.55%)	iPad
9	19 (3.60%)	Management Information System
10	17 (3.22%)	W3C
11	16 (3.03%)	Animation
12	13 (2.46%)	Computer Science
13	12 (2.27%)	Data Centre
14	10 (1.89%)	RSA SecurID
15	9 (1.70%)	BYOD
16	6 (1.14%)	Cyber Attack
17	5 (0.95%)	Driving Licence
17	5 (0.95%)	PKI
17	5 (0.95%)	Security Operations Centre
17	5 (0.95%)	Social Media

Operating Systems
1	298 (56.44%)	Windows
2	179 (33.90%)	Apple iOS
3	146 (27.65%)	Android
4	125 (23.67%)	Windows 7
5	62 (11.74%)	Windows 10
6	51 (9.66%)	Mac OS X
7	49 (9.28%)	Windows Server
8	42 (7.95%)	Linux
8	42 (7.95%)	Windows Server 2008
9	38 (7.20%)	Unix
10	33 (6.25%)	Windows 8
10	33 (6.25%)	Windows Server 2012
11	29 (5.49%)	Mac OS
12	27 (5.11%)	Windows XP
13	20 (3.79%)	Windows Server 2003
14	8 (1.52%)	Windows Mobile
14	8 (1.52%)	Windows Phone
15	7 (1.33%)	Windows Vista
16	3 (0.57%)	CentOS
16	3 (0.57%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	104 (19.70%)	Agile Software Development
2	71 (13.45%)	ITIL
3	70 (13.26%)	iOS Development
4	56 (10.61%)	Mobile Development
5	48 (9.09%)	Test Automation
6	39 (7.39%)	Scrum
7	33 (6.25%)	TDD
8	32 (6.06%)	Incident Management
9	31 (5.87%)	ITSM
10	30 (5.68%)	Project Management
11	23 (4.36%)	Continuous Integration
11	23 (4.36%)	Migration
12	22 (4.17%)	Open Source
13	21 (3.98%)	Android Development
13	21 (3.98%)	Change Management
13	21 (3.98%)	Front End Development
13	21 (3.98%)	Service Delivery
13	21 (3.98%)	Stakeholder Management
13	21 (3.98%)	Time Management
13	21 (3.98%)	Web Development

Programming Languages
1	90 (17.05%)	Apple Swift
2	77 (14.58%)	Objective-C
3	40 (7.58%)	JavaScript
4	38 (7.20%)	Java
5	25 (4.73%)	C#
6	20 (3.79%)	SQL
7	19 (3.60%)	Python
8	9 (1.70%)	ActionScript
9	7 (1.33%)	Go
9	7 (1.33%)	PHP
10	5 (0.95%)	PowerShell
11	4 (0.76%)	C
11	4 (0.76%)	C++
12	3 (0.57%)	Bash Shell
12	3 (0.57%)	JSX
12	3 (0.57%)	Perl
12	3 (0.57%)	Ruby
12	3 (0.57%)	Shell Script
13	2 (0.38%)	VBScript
14	1 (0.19%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	41 (7.77%)	Degree
2	37 (7.01%)	Security Cleared
3	34 (6.44%)	Microsoft Certification
4	33 (6.25%)	SC Cleared
5	26 (4.92%)	DBS Check
6	18 (3.41%)	CISSP
7	16 (3.03%)	MCSE
8	15 (2.84%)	SANS
8	15 (2.84%)	SSCP
9	12 (2.27%)	MCSA
10	11 (2.08%)	Computer Science Degree
10	11 (2.08%)	MCP
11	10 (1.89%)	CTC Cleared
11	10 (1.89%)	Numerate Degree
12	9 (1.70%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	6 (1.14%)	CCNA
13	6 (1.14%)	Cisco Certification
13	6 (1.14%)	Network+ Certification
14	5 (0.95%)	ISEB
15	4 (0.76%)	A+ Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	38 (7.20%)	SLA
2	31 (5.87%)	QA
3	2 (0.38%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	2 (0.38%)	TARGET2
4	1 (0.19%)	ISO 9001
4	1 (0.19%)	PMO

System Software
1	159 (30.11%)	Active Directory
2	26 (4.92%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	11 (2.08%)	Hyper-V
4	10 (1.89%)	Docker
4	10 (1.89%)	XenApp
5	8 (1.52%)	Virtual Desktop
6	7 (1.33%)	VMware ESXi
7	6 (1.14%)	vSphere
8	4 (0.76%)	Virtual Servers
9	3 (0.57%)	Terminal Services
9	3 (0.57%)	Xen
10	2 (0.38%)	Citrix Presentation Server
10	2 (0.38%)	VirtualBox
10	2 (0.38%)	XenDesktop
11	1 (0.19%)	BitLocker
11	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft App-V
11	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft Virtual Server

Systems Management
1	61 (11.55%)	SCCM
2	20 (3.79%)	HockeyApp
3	16 (3.03%)	QRadar
4	14 (2.65%)	AirWatch
5	10 (1.89%)	ServiceCenter
6	9 (1.70%)	Kibana
6	9 (1.70%)	logstash
7	8 (1.52%)	Jamf Pro
8	5 (0.95%)	Microsoft Intune
8	5 (0.95%)	SCOM
9	4 (0.76%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9	4 (0.76%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
10	3 (0.57%)	Puppet
10	3 (0.57%)	RSA enVision
10	3 (0.57%)	SCOrch
11	2 (0.38%)	Cisco CUCM
11	2 (0.38%)	Norton AntiVirus
11	2 (0.38%)	Tivoli
11	2 (0.38%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
11	2 (0.38%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	170 (32.20%)	Microsoft
2	74 (14.02%)	Google
3	48 (9.09%)	Citrix
4	47 (8.90%)	VMware
5	38 (7.20%)	HP
6	27 (5.11%)	Cisco
7	23 (4.36%)	Dell
8	21 (3.98%)	Splunk
9	20 (3.79%)	Adobe
9	20 (3.79%)	IBM
10	18 (3.41%)	Remedy
11	16 (3.03%)	LogRhythm
11	16 (3.03%)	Sitecore
12	14 (2.65%)	BMC
13	13 (2.46%)	MobileIron
13	13 (2.46%)	Toshiba
14	10 (1.89%)	CA
14	10 (1.89%)	Oracle
14	10 (1.89%)	Peregrine
15	9 (1.70%)	Xamarin