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 3 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
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 321 329
Rank change year-on-year -145 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Apple 167 187 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.68% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.45% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 120 111
10th Percentile £158 £150 £141
25th Percentile £200 £185 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £280 £315
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -11.11% +26.00%
75th Percentile £477 £500 £441
90th Percentile £575 £556 £575
UK median daily rate £275 £278 £300
% change year-on-year -0.90% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 7
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.10 £15.22
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £15.42
Median hourly rate £22.39 £25.15 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +37.66% -0.27%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £26.00
90th Percentile £25.93 - £33.20
UK median hourly rate £22.39 £25.15 £18.14
% change year-on-year -10.96% +38.68% -1.01%

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 18,991 12,894 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.11% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,891 8,177 8,988
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £706 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,041 615 651
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.31 £63.93
90th Percentile £83.25 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -55 91 £226 -19.10% 170
North of England -102 23 £450 +12.50% 29
Midlands -40 19 £188 -25.00% 18
South West -29 18 £388 +87.65% 9
Yorkshire -81 13 £510 +27.50% 5
South East -65 11 £481 +123.84% 35
East Midlands -15 10 £275 +10.00% 10
West Midlands -44 9 £121 -73.11% 8
North West -47 6 £325 +127.67% 23
North East -41 4 £450 +63.64% 1
East of England -28 3 £500 -5.66% 16
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 27 (16.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.80%) CMS
4 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 28 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.20%) Steinberg Cubase
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.60%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Actimize
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
1 1 (0.60%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 60 (35.93%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (27.54%) Entra ID
3 34 (20.36%) Azure
4 8 (4.79%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (3.59%) AWS
7 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.99%) Firebase
7 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.40%) Apple Pay
8 4 (2.40%) Google Pay
8 4 (2.40%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.80%) SaaS
10 2 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.60%) Google Gemini
11 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.78%) VPN
1 13 (7.78%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (4.79%) Skype
2 8 (4.79%) WAN
3 7 (4.19%) Internet
3 7 (4.19%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.59%) LAN
5 4 (2.40%) Firewall
6 3 (1.80%) DHCP
6 3 (1.80%) DNS
6 3 (1.80%) Network Security
6 3 (1.80%) Wireless
7 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.60%) SSL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.99%) fastlane
1 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.99%) Xcode
2 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.60%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.60%) XCTest
3 1 (0.60%) XCUITest
General
1 58 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.77%) Finance
4 13 (7.78%) Retail
5 9 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.99%) Banking
7 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.40%) Electronics
8 4 (2.40%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.40%) Marketing
9 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.80%) Legal
9 3 (1.80%) Publishing
10 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Slovak Language
Job Titles
1 34 (20.36%) Support Engineer
2 32 (19.16%) IT Engineer
2 32 (19.16%) IT Support
3 24 (14.37%) IT Support Engineer
4 13 (7.78%) Mac Engineer
5 12 (7.19%) Analyst
5 12 (7.19%) Support Specialist
6 10 (5.99%) Desktop Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Developer
7 9 (5.39%) Architect
7 9 (5.39%) Desktop Support
7 9 (5.39%) iOS Developer
7 9 (5.39%) Senior
8 8 (4.79%) Mobile Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Help Desk Analyst
9 6 (3.59%) Lead
10 5 (2.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (2.99%) IT Support Specialist
10 5 (2.99%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) RESTful
1 6 (3.59%) SwiftUI
1 6 (3.59%) UIKit
2 5 (2.99%) Core Data
2 5 (2.99%) iOS SDK
3 4 (2.40%) Terraform
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (1.80%) React
5 2 (1.20%) CSS
5 2 (1.20%) HTML
5 2 (1.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.60%) JSON
6 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) Onboarding
2 20 (11.98%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.19%) Virtual Team
4 11 (6.59%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (5.99%) iPad
5 10 (5.99%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.39%) iPhone
7 7 (4.19%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.40%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.40%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (1.80%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
10 3 (1.80%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.80%) Thin Client
11 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 98 (58.68%) Windows
2 69 (41.32%) Mac OS
3 47 (28.14%) Apple iOS
4 43 (25.75%) Windows 10
5 42 (25.15%) Android
6 7 (4.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.80%) Linux
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.53%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (28.74%) Customer Service
3 28 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (14.97%) ITIL
5 24 (14.37%) Customer Experience
6 22 (13.17%) ITSM
7 20 (11.98%) User Experience
8 19 (11.38%) Agile
8 19 (11.38%) Asset Management
8 19 (11.38%) Service Management
9 18 (10.78%) DevOps
9 18 (10.78%) Mobile Device Management
10 17 (10.18%) AI
11 15 (8.98%) Information Security
11 15 (8.98%) Time Management
12 13 (7.78%) Inventory Management
13 12 (7.19%) Change Management
13 12 (7.19%) Identity Management
14 11 (6.59%) Service Delivery
15 10 (5.99%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.78%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.99%) Swift
3 9 (5.39%) Python
4 6 (3.59%) Bash
4 6 (3.59%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.40%) Objective-C
6 2 (1.20%) Java
6 2 (1.20%) SQL
7 1 (0.60%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.98%) Degree
4 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.99%) ACSP
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.20%) MCSE
10 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.60%) ACTC
10 1 (0.60%) CCSP
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CISSP
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.78%) SLA
2 11 (6.59%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.99%) WCAG
4 4 (2.40%) NCSC
4 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.20%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) PSD2
6 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 54 (32.34%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.80%) Firmware
4 2 (1.20%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.20%) zsh
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (26.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (17.37%) Jamf Pro
3 17 (10.18%) SCCM
4 4 (2.40%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.80%) WSUS
6 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.60%) Ansible
7 1 (0.60%) Grafana
7 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.60%) Puppet
7 1 (0.60%) ServiceCenter
7 1 (0.60%) systemd
7 1 (0.60%) yum
Vendors
1 99 (59.28%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.37%) ServiceNow
3 18 (10.78%) HP
4 17 (10.18%) Samsung
5 15 (8.98%) Google
6 8 (4.79%) CyberArk
7 7 (4.19%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (4.19%) Cisco
7 7 (4.19%) Citrix
8 5 (2.99%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.40%) Remedy
10 3 (1.80%) Adobe
10 3 (1.80%) Logitech
10 3 (1.80%) VMware
11 2 (1.20%) Dell
11 2 (1.20%) Klarna
11 2 (1.20%) PayPal
12 1 (0.60%) Computacenter
12 1 (0.60%) McAfee
12 1 (0.60%) SAP