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 28 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
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 323 349
Rank change year-on-year -145 +26 +32
Contract jobs citing Apple 169 199 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.72% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.51% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 130 116
10th Percentile £158 £150 £158
25th Percentile £200 £184 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £280 £308
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -8.94% +23.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £432
90th Percentile £588 £560 £541
UK median daily rate £275 £280 £308
% change year-on-year -1.79% -8.94% +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 6
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.87 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.67 £23.20 £15.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £17.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +45.97% -8.55%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £27.07
90th Percentile £26.10 - £34.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £16.19
% change year-on-year -12.52% +55.34% -14.07%

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 19,123 13,193 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.45% 47.56% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,798 8,404 8,716
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £623 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £703 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,181 631 560
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.84 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.37 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -28.14% -20.27%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.39% -19.52% -28.75%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -72 92 £275 -1.79% 257
North of England -114 21 £450 +12.50% 32
Midlands -34 19 £200 -20.00% 38
South West -31 16 £375 +81.60% 14
South East -60 12 £550 +155.81% 35
Yorkshire -82 12 £510 +27.50% 7
East Midlands -10 10 £275 +74.60% 21
West Midlands -41 9 £148 -60.53% 17
East of England -24 7 £775 +46.23% 32
North West -59 5 £368 +110.00% 21
North East -37 4 £450 +63.64% 4
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 (14.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.14%) CMS
4 6 (3.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.59%) nginx
5 1 (0.59%) Traefik
Applications
1 25 (14.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.18%) Steinberg Cubase
5 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.59%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.59%) Monis
2 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.28%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (30.18%) Entra ID
3 35 (20.71%) Azure
4 7 (4.14%) AWS
4 7 (4.14%) OneDrive
5 6 (3.55%) Adobe Analytics
5 6 (3.55%) Google Workspace
6 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.37%) Firebase
7 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.37%) SaaS
8 3 (1.78%) Apple Pay
8 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.78%) Google Docs
8 3 (1.78%) Google Pay
9 2 (1.18%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.59%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.69%) VPN
1 13 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (4.73%) Skype
2 8 (4.73%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.14%) Internet
3 7 (4.14%) WAN
4 5 (2.96%) DNS
4 5 (2.96%) LAN
5 4 (2.37%) Firewall
6 3 (1.78%) DHCP
6 3 (1.78%) Network Security
6 3 (1.78%) Wireless
7 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.37%) fastlane
2 4 (2.37%) Xcode
3 2 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.59%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) XCTest
4 1 (0.59%) XCUITest
General
1 59 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.61%) Finance
4 12 (7.10%) Retail
5 11 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (4.14%) Publishing
9 6 (3.55%) Advertising
9 6 (3.55%) Marketing
10 5 (2.96%) Banking
10 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.37%) Electronics
11 4 (2.37%) Health Technology
11 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.78%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.18%) Legal
13 2 (1.18%) Military
13 2 (1.18%) Slovak Language
Job Titles
1 35 (20.71%) Support Engineer
2 32 (18.93%) IT Engineer
2 32 (18.93%) IT Support
3 24 (14.20%) IT Support Engineer
4 15 (8.88%) Mac Engineer
5 14 (8.28%) Support Specialist
6 10 (5.92%) Analyst
7 9 (5.33%) Developer
7 9 (5.33%) Senior
8 8 (4.73%) Architect
8 8 (4.73%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) iOS Developer
8 8 (4.73%) Mobile Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Desktop Support
9 7 (4.14%) Lead
10 6 (3.55%) Help Desk Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (2.96%) Team Leader
11 5 (2.96%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) CSS
1 6 (3.55%) HTML
2 5 (2.96%) RESTful
2 5 (2.96%) SwiftUI
2 5 (2.96%) Terraform
2 5 (2.96%) UIKit
3 4 (2.37%) Core Data
3 4 (2.37%) iOS SDK
4 3 (1.78%) React
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.59%) cloud-init
6 1 (0.59%) JSON
6 1 (0.59%) Kafka
6 1 (0.59%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.59%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Onboarding
2 20 (11.83%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.10%) Virtual Team
4 11 (6.51%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (5.33%) iPad
5 9 (5.33%) iPhone
6 8 (4.73%) Driving Licence
6 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.55%) Replication
8 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.96%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.37%) PKI
10 3 (1.78%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.78%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.78%) Digital Wallet
10 3 (1.78%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.78%) Thin Client
10 3 (1.78%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 95 (56.21%) Windows
2 71 (42.01%) Mac OS
3 46 (27.22%) Apple iOS
4 42 (24.85%) Windows 10
5 37 (21.89%) Android
6 7 (4.14%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.78%) Linux
8 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.59%) CentOS
9 1 (0.59%) Unix
9 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (34.32%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (28.40%) Customer Service
3 31 (18.34%) ITIL
4 26 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (15.38%) ITSM
5 25 (14.79%) Service Management
6 23 (13.61%) Customer Experience
7 21 (12.43%) AI
8 19 (11.24%) Agile
8 19 (11.24%) Asset Management
9 18 (10.65%) DevOps
9 18 (10.65%) Mobile Device Management
10 16 (9.47%) User Experience
11 14 (8.28%) Identity Management
11 14 (8.28%) Information Security
11 14 (8.28%) Time Management
12 12 (7.10%) Change Management
12 12 (7.10%) Inventory Management
13 11 (6.51%) Analytics
13 11 (6.51%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.28%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.33%) Swift
4 8 (4.73%) Python
5 7 (4.14%) Bash
6 4 (2.37%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.59%) Go
7 1 (0.59%) Korn
7 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.83%) Degree
4 13 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.37%) ACSP
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.59%) ACTC
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.59%) CCSP
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.59%) CISSP
10 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) SLA
2 11 (6.51%) QA
3 5 (2.96%) NCSC
4 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.37%) WCAG
5 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.59%) GDPR
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.78%) Firmware
4 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.18%) zsh
5 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (27.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (17.75%) Jamf Pro
3 17 (10.06%) SCCM
4 4 (2.37%) AirWatch
4 4 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.78%) WSUS
6 2 (1.18%) Grafana
6 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.59%) Ansible
7 1 (0.59%) Consul
7 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.59%) Istio
7 1 (0.59%) linkerd
7 1 (0.59%) Packer
7 1 (0.59%) Puppet
7 1 (0.59%) Rancher
7 1 (0.59%) systemd
7 1 (0.59%) yum
7 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (60.36%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.34%) ServiceNow
3 18 (10.65%) Samsung
4 17 (10.06%) HP
5 15 (8.88%) Google
6 8 (4.73%) CyberArk
7 7 (4.14%) Adobe
7 7 (4.14%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (4.14%) Cisco
7 7 (4.14%) Citrix
8 6 (3.55%) Remedy
9 4 (2.37%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.37%) VMware
10 3 (1.78%) Dell
10 3 (1.78%) Logitech
11 2 (1.18%) Klarna
11 2 (1.18%) Okta
11 2 (1.18%) PayPal
12 1 (0.59%) ESET
12 1 (0.59%) Snow