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 22 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
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 336 350
Rank change year-on-year -136 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing Apple 161 185 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 1.42% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 118 113
10th Percentile £162 £150 £135
25th Percentile £200 £184 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £276 £300
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -7.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £430
90th Percentile £578 £560 £563
UK median daily rate £275 £275 £300
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 7
10th Percentile £15.24 £18.10 £15.22
25th Percentile £18.85 £18.87 £15.42
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +37.66% +1.05%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £26.00
90th Percentile - - £33.20
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.51% +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 19,093 13,035 14,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.24% 43.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,008 8,247 9,162
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -4.57% -
75th Percentile £615 £618 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £522
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.26% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 640 712
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -10.97% -29.38%
75th Percentile £65.58 £48.13 £62.86
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +20.36% -8.55% -33.73%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -64 88 £275 -1.79% 42
North of England -106 23 £450 +12.50% 19
Midlands -43 17 £175 -30.00% 20
South West -36 16 £388 +87.65% 8
Yorkshire -74 13 £510 +27.50% 2
South East -67 11 £481 +123.84% 30
East Midlands -15 9 £275 +10.00% 14
West Midlands -43 8 £120 -73.33% 6
North West -52 6 £325 +16.59% 17
East of England -28 4 £500 - 7
North East -42 4 £450 +63.64%
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 (16.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (16.15%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.62%) Maya
5 1 (0.62%) Steinberg Cubase
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Actimize
1 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.62%) Shopify
1 1 (0.62%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.02%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (27.95%) Entra ID
3 35 (21.74%) Azure
4 8 (4.97%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.35%) AWS
5 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.11%) Firebase
6 5 (3.11%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.48%) Apple Pay
7 4 (2.48%) Google Pay
8 3 (1.86%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.86%) SaaS
9 2 (1.24%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.62%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.62%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.45%) VPN
1 12 (7.45%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (4.35%) Skype
2 7 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.35%) WAN
3 6 (3.73%) Internet
4 5 (3.11%) LAN
5 4 (2.48%) Firewall
6 3 (1.86%) DHCP
6 3 (1.86%) DNS
6 3 (1.86%) Network Security
6 3 (1.86%) Wireless
7 2 (1.24%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.11%) fastlane
1 5 (3.11%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.11%) Xcode
2 2 (1.24%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.62%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.62%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) XCTest
3 1 (0.62%) XCUITest
General
1 55 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.91%) Finance
4 12 (7.45%) Retail
5 9 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.97%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.11%) Banking
7 5 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.48%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.86%) Electronics
9 3 (1.86%) Legal
9 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.24%) Billing
10 2 (1.24%) Slovak Language
11 1 (0.62%) Law
11 1 (0.62%) Military
11 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (20.50%) Support Engineer
2 31 (19.25%) IT Engineer
2 31 (19.25%) IT Support
3 23 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 13 (8.07%) Mac Engineer
5 12 (7.45%) Analyst
6 10 (6.21%) Developer
6 10 (6.21%) Senior
6 10 (6.21%) Support Specialist
7 9 (5.59%) Architect
7 9 (5.59%) Desktop Engineer
7 9 (5.59%) Desktop Support
7 9 (5.59%) iOS Developer
8 8 (4.97%) Mobile Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Help Desk Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Lead
10 5 (3.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (3.11%) Product Manager
11 4 (2.48%) Active Directory Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.35%) RESTful
2 6 (3.73%) SwiftUI
2 6 (3.73%) UIKit
3 5 (3.11%) Core Data
3 5 (3.11%) iOS SDK
3 5 (3.11%) Terraform
4 4 (2.48%) React
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.86%) PySpark
6 1 (0.62%) JSON
6 1 (0.62%) Kafka
6 1 (0.62%) Loki
6 1 (0.62%) REST
6 1 (0.62%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.62%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.42%) Mobile App
2 19 (11.80%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.83%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (6.83%) Virtual Team
4 10 (6.21%) iPad
4 10 (6.21%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.59%) iPhone
6 7 (4.35%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.48%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (1.86%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.86%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.86%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.86%) Thin Client
10 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 92 (57.14%) Windows
2 66 (40.99%) Mac OS
3 48 (29.81%) Apple iOS
4 41 (25.47%) Android
5 40 (24.84%) Windows 10
6 7 (4.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.86%) Linux
8 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.62%) CentOS
9 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.27%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (29.19%) Customer Service
3 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (14.91%) ITIL
5 23 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 22 (13.66%) ITSM
7 20 (12.42%) Agile
7 20 (12.42%) User Experience
8 19 (11.80%) Asset Management
8 19 (11.80%) DevOps
9 18 (11.18%) Mobile Device Management
10 17 (10.56%) Service Management
11 16 (9.94%) AI
12 15 (9.32%) Information Security
12 15 (9.32%) Time Management
13 13 (8.07%) Change Management
14 12 (7.45%) Identity Management
14 12 (7.45%) Inventory Management
15 11 (6.83%) Generative AI
15 11 (6.83%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.83%) Python
3 10 (6.21%) Swift
4 6 (3.73%) Bash
5 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.48%) Objective-C
7 3 (1.86%) Java
7 3 (1.86%) SQL
8 1 (0.62%) Korn
8 1 (0.62%) Rust
8 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.42%) Degree
4 12 (7.45%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.11%) ACSP
9 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.62%) ACTC
11 1 (0.62%) CCSP
11 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.62%) CISSP
11 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.18%) SLA
2 11 (6.83%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.11%) WCAG
4 4 (2.48%) NCSC
4 4 (2.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.24%) GDPR
5 2 (1.24%) PSD2
6 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 51 (31.68%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.86%) Firmware
4 2 (1.24%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.24%) zsh
5 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (27.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (18.01%) Jamf Pro
3 17 (10.56%) SCCM
4 4 (2.48%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.86%) WSUS
6 2 (1.24%) Grafana
6 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.24%) ServiceCenter
6 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.62%) Ansible
7 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.62%) Puppet
7 1 (0.62%) systemd
7 1 (0.62%) yum
Vendors
1 96 (59.63%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.01%) ServiceNow
3 18 (11.18%) HP
4 16 (9.94%) Google
4 16 (9.94%) Samsung
5 8 (4.97%) CyberArk
6 7 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
6 7 (4.35%) Citrix
7 5 (3.11%) Cisco
7 5 (3.11%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.86%) Remedy
9 2 (1.24%) Dell
9 2 (1.24%) Klarna
9 2 (1.24%) Logitech
9 2 (1.24%) PayPal
9 2 (1.24%) VMware
10 1 (0.62%) Okta
10 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.62%) Spotify
10 1 (0.62%) YouTube