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 9 December 2025, 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
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 324 360
Rank change year-on-year -31 +36 +57
Contract jobs citing Apple 194 191 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.32% 1.38% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 112 140
10th Percentile £152 £157 £140
25th Percentile £170 £229 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £245
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +42.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £466 £389
90th Percentile £553 £671 £500
UK median daily rate £285 £350 £250
% change year-on-year -18.57% +40.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 14
10th Percentile £18.78 £14.90 £17.39
25th Percentile £20.98 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.14 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year +31.40% -19.83% +40.44%
75th Percentile - £23.92 £24.75
90th Percentile - £25.56 £29.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £23.88
% change year-on-year +55.34% -32.19% +40.44%

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 14,722 13,832 17,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.54% 45.62% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,552 8,396 11,261
10th Percentile £288 £300 £252
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 418 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.08 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +7 112 £325 +8.33% 64
North of England -10 50 £290 -60.00% 47
Yorkshire -17 30 £500 -31.03% 18
North West -10 14 £175 -55.41% 24
South East -39 12 £213 -37.50% 66
Midlands -40 11 £158 -64.92% 18
East Midlands -10 8 £158 - 11
North East -1 6 £175 -76.67% 6
South West -16 3 £200 -65.52% 17
West Midlands -41 3 £200 -55.46% 7
East of England -14 2 £189 -41.92% 21
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 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.06%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) CMS
4 2 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (33.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.52%) Maya
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (51.55%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (15.46%) Entra ID
3 25 (12.89%) Azure
4 9 (4.64%) OneDrive
5 7 (3.61%) Slack
6 5 (2.58%) Apple Pay
6 5 (2.58%) Firebase
7 4 (2.06%) SaaS
8 3 (1.55%) Google Pay
8 3 (1.55%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.03%) AWS
9 2 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.03%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.52%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.52%) Bitrise
10 1 (0.52%) Figma
10 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.52%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 51 (26.29%) Wireless
2 14 (7.22%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (2.58%) DHCP
3 5 (2.58%) DNS
3 5 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.58%) VPN
4 3 (1.55%) Network Security
5 2 (1.03%) IP Telephony
5 2 (1.03%) LAN
5 2 (1.03%) SSL
5 2 (1.03%) VoIP
5 2 (1.03%) WebEx
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.52%) Firewall
6 1 (0.52%) IPv4
6 1 (0.52%) NAS
6 1 (0.52%) SAN
6 1 (0.52%) VLAN
6 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.55%) SQLite
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Git
1 9 (4.64%) JIRA
2 6 (3.09%) Xcode
3 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) CocoaPods
4 2 (1.03%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.03%) fastlane
5 1 (0.52%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.52%) Appium
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 71 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.71%) Finance
3 37 (19.07%) Public Sector
4 34 (17.53%) Banking
5 27 (13.92%) Electronics
6 26 (13.40%) Marketing
7 24 (12.37%) Manufacturing
7 24 (12.37%) Telecoms
8 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.09%) Retail
11 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Legal
12 2 (1.03%) Military
12 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.52%) Polish Language
13 1 (0.52%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (23.20%) Support Engineer
2 43 (22.16%) IT Support
3 28 (14.43%) Mac Engineer
4 27 (13.92%) 2nd Line Support
4 27 (13.92%) Desktop Support
5 24 (12.37%) IT Engineer
6 23 (11.86%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 23 (11.86%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 19 (9.79%) Analyst
8 17 (8.76%) Senior
9 15 (7.73%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Developer
11 13 (6.70%) Support Analyst
12 10 (5.15%) iOS Developer
12 10 (5.15%) Support Manager
13 9 (4.64%) Desktop Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Field Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Deployment Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Senior Mac Engineer
15 7 (3.61%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.12%) RESTful
2 4 (2.06%) Core Animation
2 4 (2.06%) Core Data
2 4 (2.06%) SwiftUI
2 4 (2.06%) UIKit
3 3 (1.55%) AVFoundation
3 3 (1.55%) Material Design
4 2 (1.03%) .NET
4 2 (1.03%) RxSwift
4 2 (1.03%) Universal Windows Platform
4 2 (1.03%) XMPP
5 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.52%) FHIR
5 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.68%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.25%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.25%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.61%) iPhone
4 6 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.09%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (2.58%) Smartphone
6 4 (2.06%) iPad
7 3 (1.55%) Animation
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.52%) CMDB
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile Wallet
9 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 112 (57.73%) Mac OS
2 74 (38.14%) Android
3 71 (36.60%) Windows
4 40 (20.62%) Apple iOS
5 34 (17.53%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.58%) Mac OS X
6 5 (2.58%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.03%) tvOS
7 2 (1.03%) Unix
8 1 (0.52%) Linux
8 1 (0.52%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.13%) Customer Service
2 25 (12.89%) Programme Management
3 24 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (12.37%) Digital Marketing
4 21 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (10.82%) User Experience
5 20 (10.31%) ITSM
6 16 (8.25%) Mobile Device Management
7 13 (6.70%) CI/CD
7 13 (6.70%) ITIL
7 13 (6.70%) Mentoring
8 11 (5.67%) Agile
8 11 (5.67%) Coaching
9 10 (5.15%) Break/Fix
9 10 (5.15%) iOS Development
10 9 (4.64%) MVVM
10 9 (4.64%) Zero Trust
11 8 (4.12%) Customer Experience
11 8 (4.12%) Incident Management
11 8 (4.12%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.76%) Bash
2 11 (5.67%) Swift
3 8 (4.12%) Objective-C
4 6 (3.09%) Python
5 4 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.55%) Java
6 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.55%) SQL
7 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.52%) C
8 1 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 69 (35.57%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.73%) ACSP
4 15 (7.73%) ACTC
5 14 (7.22%) Degree
6 4 (2.06%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.03%) MCSE
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.52%) MCP
9 1 (0.52%) MCSA
9 1 (0.52%) MOS
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.31%) SLA
2 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.52%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (26.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Firmware
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (26.80%) Jamf Pro
2 27 (13.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (11.34%) SCCM
4 10 (5.15%) AirWatch
5 5 (2.58%) Terraform
6 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 76 (39.18%) Microsoft
2 64 (32.99%) HP
3 56 (28.87%) Dell
4 55 (28.35%) Cisco
5 35 (18.04%) ServiceNow
6 25 (12.89%) SAP
7 17 (8.76%) Google
8 6 (3.09%) MobileIron
8 6 (3.09%) Okta
9 5 (2.58%) Remedy
10 4 (2.06%) Adobe
10 4 (2.06%) BMC
10 4 (2.06%) Oracle
10 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.06%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.03%) Altiris
11 2 (1.03%) Citrix
11 2 (1.03%) VMware
12 1 (0.52%) Planview
12 1 (0.52%) Telerik