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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 331 336
Rank change year-on-year -129 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing Apple 164 191 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.69% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 1.45% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 126 115
10th Percentile £162 £150 £158
25th Percentile £200 £185 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £283 £325
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -13.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £479 £500 £438
90th Percentile £578 £556 £562
UK median daily rate £275 £280 £315
% change year-on-year -1.79% -11.11% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 6
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.10 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.67 £18.87 £15.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £17.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +45.97% -7.17%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £27.07
90th Percentile £26.10 - £34.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -12.52% +37.66% -1.56%

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 19,212 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £711 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 615 595
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 90 £226 -19.46% 255
North of England -112 22 £450 +12.50% 34
Midlands -38 18 £200 -20.00% 33
South West -27 16 £375 +81.60% 17
Yorkshire -79 13 £510 +27.50% 12
South East -63 12 £550 +155.81% 50
East Midlands -10 10 £275 +10.00% 19
West Midlands -41 8 £148 -60.53% 14
North West -52 5 £368 +157.44% 20
East of England -35 4 £500 -5.66% 29
North East -45 4 £450 +63.64% 2
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 25 (15.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.05%) CMS
4 4 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (16.46%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.22%) Steinberg Cubase
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.61%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Actimize
1 1 (0.61%) Monis
1 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
1 1 (0.61%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 58 (35.37%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (28.66%) Entra ID
3 34 (20.73%) Azure
4 7 (4.27%) AWS
4 7 (4.27%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.05%) Firebase
5 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.44%) Apple Pay
6 4 (2.44%) Google Pay
6 4 (2.44%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.44%) SaaS
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.22%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.61%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.54%) VPN
2 13 (7.93%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.88%) Skype
4 8 (4.88%) WAN
5 7 (4.27%) Internet
6 6 (3.66%) LAN
7 5 (3.05%) DNS
8 4 (2.44%) DHCP
8 4 (2.44%) Firewall
9 3 (1.83%) Network Security
9 3 (1.83%) Wireless
10 2 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.05%) fastlane
2 5 (3.05%) Xcode
3 2 (1.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.61%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.61%) XCTest
4 1 (0.61%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Finance
4 13 (7.93%) Retail
5 10 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.66%) Banking
8 5 (3.05%) Publishing
8 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.44%) Advertising
9 4 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.44%) Electronics
9 4 (2.44%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.44%) Marketing
10 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.22%) Billing
11 2 (1.22%) Legal
11 2 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (21.34%) Support Engineer
2 33 (20.12%) IT Support
3 32 (19.51%) IT Engineer
4 24 (14.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 14 (8.54%) Mac Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Support Specialist
7 11 (6.71%) Analyst
8 10 (6.10%) Developer
9 9 (5.49%) Architect
9 9 (5.49%) Desktop Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) iOS Developer
9 9 (5.49%) Senior
10 8 (4.88%) Mobile Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Desktop Support
12 6 (3.66%) Help Desk Analyst
12 6 (3.66%) Lead
13 5 (3.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 5 (3.05%) 2nd Line Support
13 5 (3.05%) IT Support Specialist
14 4 (2.44%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.66%) RESTful
1 6 (3.66%) SwiftUI
1 6 (3.66%) UIKit
2 5 (3.05%) Core Data
2 5 (3.05%) iOS SDK
2 5 (3.05%) Terraform
3 4 (2.44%) CSS
3 4 (2.44%) HTML
4 3 (1.83%) React
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.61%) cloud-init
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) Kafka
6 1 (0.61%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.61%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.41%) Onboarding
2 20 (12.20%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.32%) Video Conferencing
3 12 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 10 (6.10%) iPad
5 9 (5.49%) iPhone
5 9 (5.49%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.27%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.44%) Replication
9 3 (1.83%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (1.83%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.83%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.83%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.83%) PKI
9 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.83%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.83%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 94 (57.32%) Windows
2 67 (40.85%) Mac OS
3 47 (28.66%) Apple iOS
4 41 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 38 (23.17%) Android
6 7 (4.27%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.44%) Linux
8 3 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.22%) CentOS
10 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.76%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (29.88%) Customer Service
3 26 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (15.85%) ITIL
4 23 (14.02%) Customer Experience
5 22 (13.41%) ITSM
6 20 (12.20%) Agile
6 20 (12.20%) Service Management
7 19 (11.59%) Asset Management
7 19 (11.59%) DevOps
7 19 (11.59%) Mobile Device Management
8 18 (10.98%) User Experience
9 17 (10.37%) AI
10 15 (9.15%) Information Security
11 14 (8.54%) Time Management
12 13 (7.93%) Identity Management
12 13 (7.93%) Inventory Management
13 12 (7.32%) Change Management
14 11 (6.71%) Service Delivery
15 10 (6.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.93%) PowerShell
2 10 (6.10%) Swift
3 8 (4.88%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.88%) Python
4 7 (4.27%) Bash
5 4 (2.44%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.61%) Go
6 1 (0.61%) Korn
6 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.59%) Degree
4 13 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.44%) ACSP
8 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) ACTC
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CISSP
9 1 (0.61%) MCSE
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) SLA
2 11 (6.71%) QA
3 5 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.05%) NCSC
3 5 (3.05%) WCAG
4 4 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.22%) GDPR
5 2 (1.22%) PSD2
6 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 52 (31.71%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.83%) Firmware
4 2 (1.22%) zsh
5 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (26.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (17.68%) Jamf Pro
3 17 (10.37%) SCCM
4 4 (2.44%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.83%) WSUS
6 2 (1.22%) Grafana
6 2 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.61%) Ansible
7 1 (0.61%) Consul
7 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.61%) Istio
7 1 (0.61%) linkerd
7 1 (0.61%) Packer
7 1 (0.61%) Puppet
7 1 (0.61%) Rancher
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceCenter
7 1 (0.61%) systemd
7 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 97 (59.15%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.68%) ServiceNow
3 17 (10.37%) HP
3 17 (10.37%) Samsung
4 13 (7.93%) Google
5 8 (4.88%) CyberArk
6 7 (4.27%) BeyondTrust
6 7 (4.27%) Cisco
6 7 (4.27%) Citrix
7 5 (3.05%) Adobe
7 5 (3.05%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.44%) Remedy
9 3 (1.83%) Logitech
9 3 (1.83%) VMware
10 2 (1.22%) Dell
10 2 (1.22%) Klarna
10 2 (1.22%) Okta
10 2 (1.22%) PayPal
11 1 (0.61%) McAfee
11 1 (0.61%) SAP