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 13 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
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 327 322
Rank change year-on-year -156 -5 +56
Contract jobs citing Apple 125 158 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 1.36% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 103 127
10th Percentile £158 £150 £133
25th Percentile £190 £184 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £273 £275
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -0.91% +15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £388
90th Percentile £575 £560 £500
UK median daily rate £306 £273 £275
% change year-on-year +12.39% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 15
10th Percentile £18.42 £16.80 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.10 £14.75
Median hourly rate £20.09 £20.51 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +18.63% -4.19%
75th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £17.75
90th Percentile £24.42 - £20.51
UK median hourly rate £20.09 £18.36 £17.50
% change year-on-year +9.44% +4.89% -2.98%

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 17,337 11,653 15,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.60% 47.38% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,121 7,399 9,964
10th Percentile £313 £276 £268
25th Percentile £413 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.52% -1.49%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £515
% change year-on-year -0.60% -2.33% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 515 1,047
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.21 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% +13.38% -37.66%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.38 £59.75
90th Percentile £79.56 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.80
% change year-on-year +23.48% +10.59% -44.00%

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 13 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 13 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 -48 71 £275 +15.79% 52
North of England -100 16 £450 +44.00% 13
South West -19 12 £400 +93.70% 13
South East -54 11 £413 +91.86% 25
East of England -29 10 - - 9
Yorkshire -88 8 £245 -8.84% 3
North East -35 4 £450 +5.88%
North West -37 4 £260 +20.93% 10
Midlands -70 4 £120 -58.62% 17
West Midlands -58 3 £119 -68.27% 2
East Midlands -27 1 £163 -35.00% 15
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 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.60%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Actimize
1 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.80%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 39 (31.20%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (23.20%) Azure
3 25 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.20%) AWS
4 9 (7.20%) OneDrive
5 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.00%) Firebase
6 5 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.20%) Apple Pay
7 4 (3.20%) Google Pay
7 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.40%) Slack
9 2 (1.60%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.80%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.80%) Serverless
10 1 (0.80%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) VPN
2 7 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (4.80%) DNS
3 6 (4.80%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.80%) Wireless
4 5 (4.00%) DHCP
4 5 (4.00%) Skype
5 2 (1.60%) Firewall
5 2 (1.60%) LAN
5 2 (1.60%) Network Security
5 2 (1.60%) WAN
6 1 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.80%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.80%) Internet
6 1 (0.80%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.80%) SSL
6 1 (0.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) fastlane
1 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.00%) Xcode
2 3 (2.40%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.80%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) XCTest
3 1 (0.80%) XCUITest
General
1 51 (40.80%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.80%) Finance
4 10 (8.00%) Banking
4 10 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.60%) Retail
6 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.00%) Publishing
7 4 (3.20%) Legal
7 4 (3.20%) Marketing
8 3 (2.40%) Billing
8 3 (2.40%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.60%) Slovak Language
10 1 (0.80%) Aviation
10 1 (0.80%) Bulgarian Language
10 1 (0.80%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) IT Support
2 19 (15.20%) Support Engineer
3 15 (12.00%) Senior
4 14 (11.20%) IT Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Analyst
5 13 (10.40%) Mobile Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Desktop Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Desktop Support
8 10 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Developer
9 9 (7.20%) iOS Developer
10 8 (6.40%) Mac Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Technical Support
11 7 (5.60%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Product Manager
13 5 (4.00%) Support Analyst
14 4 (3.20%) 2nd Line Support
14 4 (3.20%) Help Desk Analyst
15 3 (2.40%) Desktop Support Analyst
15 3 (2.40%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) RESTful
2 8 (6.40%) SwiftUI
3 6 (4.80%) iOS SDK
3 6 (4.80%) React
3 6 (4.80%) UIKit
4 5 (4.00%) Core Data
5 4 (3.20%) OAuth
5 4 (3.20%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.20%) React Native
6 3 (2.40%) Kafka
6 3 (2.40%) Loki
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.40%) PySpark
6 3 (2.40%) REST
6 3 (2.40%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.80%) JSON
7 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.80%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 9 (7.20%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.60%) iPad
6 6 (4.80%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (4.00%) iPhone
8 4 (3.20%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (3.20%) Blackberry
8 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (3.20%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (3.20%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.40%) Derivative
9 3 (2.40%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (2.40%) Energy Derivatives
9 3 (2.40%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (43.20%) Windows
2 45 (36.00%) Apple iOS
3 40 (32.00%) Android
4 35 (28.00%) Mac OS
5 28 (22.40%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.00%) Linux
7 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.80%) CentOS
8 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (28.00%) Customer Service
3 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (15.20%) DevOps
4 17 (13.60%) ITIL
4 17 (13.60%) Mobile Device Management
4 17 (13.60%) User Experience
5 15 (12.00%) Time Management
6 14 (11.20%) Agile
6 14 (11.20%) Test Automation
7 12 (9.60%) CI/CD
8 11 (8.80%) Data Protection
8 11 (8.80%) Information Security
8 11 (8.80%) iOS Development
9 10 (8.00%) Analytics
10 9 (7.20%) AI
10 9 (7.20%) Asset Management
10 9 (7.20%) Customer Experience
10 9 (7.20%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.20%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.80%) Python
2 10 (8.00%) Swift
3 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.40%) Java
5 3 (2.40%) Rust
5 3 (2.40%) SQL
5 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.60%) Bash
6 2 (1.60%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) Degree
3 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.80%) ACSP
5 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.60%) ACTC
8 2 (1.60%) MCSE
9 1 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.80%) CCSP
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CISSP
9 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.40%) SLA
2 8 (6.40%) QA
3 6 (4.80%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.00%) WCAG
5 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.60%) PSD2
7 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.80%) GDPR
7 1 (0.80%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.60%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.80%) Firmware
4 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) vSphere
4 1 (0.80%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.80%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (21.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (10.40%) SCCM
3 12 (9.60%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (8.00%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (3.20%) Grafana
5 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.20%) Terraform
6 1 (0.80%) Ansible
6 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.80%) Puppet
6 1 (0.80%) systemd
6 1 (0.80%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (53.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.00%) Google
3 24 (19.20%) ServiceNow
4 20 (16.00%) HP
5 13 (10.40%) Dell
6 6 (4.80%) Cisco
7 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.40%) Samsung
9 2 (1.60%) Klarna
9 2 (1.60%) Okta
9 2 (1.60%) PayPal
9 2 (1.60%) Remedy
10 1 (0.80%) Citrix
10 1 (0.80%) McAfee
10 1 (0.80%) MobileIron
10 1 (0.80%) Reuters
10 1 (0.80%) Toshiba
10 1 (0.80%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.80%) TSYS
10 1 (0.80%) VMware