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 7 June 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
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 322 326
Rank change year-on-year -146 +4 +58
Contract jobs citing Apple 118 153 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.63% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 1.32% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 103 129
10th Percentile £157 £150 £133
25th Percentile £193 £184 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £273 £265
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% +2.83% +11.58%
75th Percentile £479 £438 £385
90th Percentile £575 £560 £477
UK median daily rate £295 £273 £268
% change year-on-year +8.26% +1.87% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.80 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.10 £15.19
Median hourly rate £20.09 £20.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +17.15% -2.98%
75th Percentile - £24.66 £17.90
90th Percentile £24.28 - £26.00
UK median hourly rate £20.09 £18.36 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.44% +3.60% -1.77%

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 17,181 11,554 15,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.64% 47.48% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,044 7,344 9,957
10th Percentile £313 £278 £264
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £514
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.43% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 913 499 1,041
10th Percentile £15.80 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.83 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.98 £27.40 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.01% +15.13% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £22.58
% change year-on-year +21.50% +18.47% -47.49%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -64 66 £300 +23.08% 105
North of England -111 15 £450 +63.64% 23
East of England -22 12 - - 13
South West -26 12 £400 +93.70% 15
South East -52 8 £361 +67.91% 28
Yorkshire -87 8 £245 +30.67% 8
North West -46 4 £260 +20.93% 14
Midlands -62 4 £120 -58.62% 13
North East -26 3 £450 +5.88% 1
West Midlands -62 3 £119 -68.27% 5
East Midlands -34 1 £163 -35.00% 8
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 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (16.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Actimize
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.85%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.36%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (22.88%) Azure
3 23 (19.49%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.78%) OneDrive
5 7 (5.93%) AWS
6 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.24%) Google Workspace
6 5 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.39%) Firebase
7 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.54%) Apple Pay
8 3 (2.54%) Google Pay
8 3 (2.54%) Slack
9 2 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.85%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.85%) Serverless
10 1 (0.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.78%) VPN
2 7 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (5.08%) Wireless
4 5 (4.24%) DHCP
4 5 (4.24%) DNS
4 5 (4.24%) Skype
4 5 (4.24%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.69%) LAN
5 2 (1.69%) Network Security
5 2 (1.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.85%) Firewall
6 1 (0.85%) Internet
6 1 (0.85%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.85%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.39%) fastlane
1 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
1 4 (3.39%) Xcode
2 3 (2.54%) Git
2 3 (2.54%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
General
1 54 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.56%) Finance
4 12 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Banking
6 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.08%) Retail
7 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.39%) Legal
7 4 (3.39%) Marketing
7 4 (3.39%) Publishing
8 3 (2.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.69%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.69%) Slovak Language
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Bulgarian Language
10 1 (0.85%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.85%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (20.34%) IT Support
2 18 (15.25%) Support Engineer
3 15 (12.71%) Senior
4 13 (11.02%) Analyst
4 13 (11.02%) Mobile Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Desktop Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) IT Engineer
6 11 (9.32%) Desktop Support
7 10 (8.47%) Technical Support
8 8 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Mac Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Developer
9 7 (5.93%) iOS Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Support Analyst
11 5 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (4.24%) Product Manager
12 4 (3.39%) IT Analyst
13 3 (2.54%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
13 3 (2.54%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) RESTful
2 6 (5.08%) SwiftUI
3 5 (4.24%) iOS SDK
3 5 (4.24%) React
4 4 (3.39%) Core Data
4 4 (3.39%) OAuth
4 4 (3.39%) OAuth2
4 4 (3.39%) React Native
4 4 (3.39%) UIKit
5 3 (2.54%) Kafka
5 3 (2.54%) Loki
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.54%) PySpark
5 3 (2.54%) REST
5 3 (2.54%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Mobile App
2 9 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.78%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.08%) iPad
5 5 (4.24%) iPhone
6 4 (3.39%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (3.39%) Blackberry
6 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.39%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.39%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.54%) Derivative
7 3 (2.54%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.54%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.54%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.69%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.69%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 50 (42.37%) Windows
2 42 (35.59%) Apple iOS
3 39 (33.05%) Android
4 30 (25.42%) Mac OS
5 28 (23.73%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.39%) Linux
7 1 (0.85%) CentOS
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (30.51%) Customer Service
3 17 (14.41%) DevOps
4 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (13.56%) Mobile Device Management
4 16 (13.56%) Time Management
5 15 (12.71%) User Experience
6 14 (11.86%) ITIL
7 12 (10.17%) Agile
7 12 (10.17%) Test Automation
8 11 (9.32%) Data Protection
9 10 (8.47%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.47%) Information Security
10 9 (7.63%) Analytics
10 9 (7.63%) iOS Development
11 8 (6.78%) Asset Management
11 8 (6.78%) Customer Experience
11 8 (6.78%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.78%) Service Delivery
12 7 (5.93%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.47%) Python
2 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.78%) Swift
3 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.54%) Java
4 3 (2.54%) Rust
4 3 (2.54%) SQL
4 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.69%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.85%) Bash
6 1 (0.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (9.32%) Degree
5 7 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.08%) ACSP
6 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.69%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.69%) ACTC
9 2 (1.69%) MCSE
10 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.85%) CCSP
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.85%) CISSP
10 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.34%) SLA
2 8 (6.78%) QA
3 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.39%) WCAG
5 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) PSD2
6 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (23.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.69%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.85%) Firmware
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
4 1 (0.85%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.85%) zsh
Systems Management
1 25 (21.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.17%) SCCM
2 12 (10.17%) ServiceCenter
3 11 (9.32%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (2.54%) Grafana
4 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (56.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.34%) Google
3 22 (18.64%) HP
3 22 (18.64%) ServiceNow
4 15 (12.71%) Dell
5 6 (5.08%) Cisco
6 4 (3.39%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.54%) Samsung
8 2 (1.69%) Okta
8 2 (1.69%) Remedy
9 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.85%) Citrix
9 1 (0.85%) McAfee
9 1 (0.85%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.85%) Reuters
9 1 (0.85%) SAP
9 1 (0.85%) Toshiba
9 1 (0.85%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.85%) TSYS
9 1 (0.85%) VMware