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 4 July 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
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 325 330
Rank change year-on-year -143 +5 +50
Contract jobs citing Apple 143 172 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.65% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 1.38% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 110 129
10th Percentile £158 £150 £133
25th Percentile £175 £184 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £275 £275
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £478 £418
90th Percentile £575 £560 £500
UK median daily rate £275 £275 £275
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 16
10th Percentile £19.27 £18.10 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.90 £18.41 £14.88
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.66 £17.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% +44.44% -5.15%
75th Percentile £24.28 £25.15 £17.73
90th Percentile £25.75 - £20.14
UK median hourly rate £20.09 £24.66 £17.07
% change year-on-year -18.53% +44.44% -5.15%

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 17,953 12,491 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.83% 47.42% 42.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,399 7,913 10,118
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £501 £514
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.63% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 576 1,048
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.40 £17.50 £14.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.93 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.65
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.03% -39.14%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -59 79 £226 -17.25% 81
North of England -112 20 £450 +12.50% 26
South West -28 14 £388 +87.65% 13
South East -48 13 £387 +79.88% 34
Yorkshire -90 12 £510 +27.50% 6
East of England -31 10 £500 - 8
Midlands -63 6 £120 -52.00% 21
West Midlands -65 5 £119 -60.33% 4
North East -36 4 £450 +5.88% 2
North West -40 4 £260 -15.45% 18
East Midlands -21 1 £163 -35.00% 17
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 22 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.40%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Actimize
1 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.70%) Shopify
1 1 (0.70%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.87%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (25.17%) Entra ID
3 31 (21.68%) Azure
4 9 (6.29%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.90%) AWS
6 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.50%) Firebase
6 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.80%) Apple Pay
7 4 (2.80%) Google Pay
7 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.10%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.10%) Slack
9 2 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.40%) SaaS
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.70%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.70%) Google Play
10 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (6.99%) VPN
3 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.50%) Internet
4 5 (3.50%) Skype
5 4 (2.80%) DHCP
5 4 (2.80%) DNS
5 4 (2.80%) Wireless
6 3 (2.10%) Network Security
7 2 (1.40%) Firewall
7 2 (1.40%) LAN
7 2 (1.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.70%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.70%) SSL
8 1 (0.70%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) fastlane
1 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.50%) Xcode
2 2 (1.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.70%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.70%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) XCTest
3 1 (0.70%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.99%) Finance
4 9 (6.29%) Retail
5 8 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.90%) Banking
7 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.80%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.80%) Legal
9 4 (2.80%) Marketing
10 3 (2.10%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.10%) Billing
11 2 (1.40%) Publishing
11 2 (1.40%) Slovak Language
12 1 (0.70%) Aviation
12 1 (0.70%) Bulgarian Language
12 1 (0.70%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (20.98%) IT Support
2 27 (18.88%) Support Engineer
3 23 (16.08%) IT Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) IT Support Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Analyst
6 13 (9.09%) Mac Engineer
7 11 (7.69%) Senior
8 10 (6.99%) Desktop Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Desktop Support
8 10 (6.99%) Mobile Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Developer
9 9 (6.29%) iOS Developer
10 8 (5.59%) Technical Support
11 6 (4.20%) Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Help Desk Analyst
11 6 (4.20%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support
12 5 (3.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 4 (2.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.59%) SwiftUI
2 7 (4.90%) RESTful
3 6 (4.20%) iOS SDK
3 6 (4.20%) UIKit
4 5 (3.50%) Core Data
5 4 (2.80%) React
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.10%) PySpark
7 1 (0.70%) JSON
7 1 (0.70%) Kafka
7 1 (0.70%) Loki
7 1 (0.70%) OAuth
7 1 (0.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.70%) React Native
7 1 (0.70%) REST
7 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Onboarding
2 16 (11.19%) Mobile App
3 10 (6.99%) iPad
3 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.99%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (5.59%) iPhone
4 8 (5.59%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.80%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.80%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.80%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.80%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (2.10%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.40%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.40%) Mobile Computing
7 2 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 73 (51.05%) Windows
2 52 (36.36%) Mac OS
3 41 (28.67%) Apple iOS
4 39 (27.27%) Android
5 32 (22.38%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.50%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.80%) Linux
8 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.70%) CentOS
9 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.87%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (29.37%) Customer Service
3 24 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (16.08%) ITIL
5 20 (13.99%) Agile
6 19 (13.29%) Mobile Device Management
7 17 (11.89%) DevOps
8 16 (11.19%) User Experience
9 14 (9.79%) Asset Management
9 14 (9.79%) Information Security
9 14 (9.79%) Time Management
10 12 (8.39%) CI/CD
10 12 (8.39%) Customer Experience
11 11 (7.69%) AI
11 11 (7.69%) Change Management
11 11 (7.69%) Data Protection
11 11 (7.69%) iOS Development
11 11 (7.69%) ITSM
12 10 (6.99%) Analytics
12 10 (6.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.99%) Swift
2 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.29%) Python
3 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.10%) Java
4 3 (2.10%) SQL
5 2 (1.40%) Bash
5 2 (1.40%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.70%) Korn
6 1 (0.70%) Rust
6 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) Degree
4 12 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.29%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.20%) ACSP
6 6 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.40%) ACTC
9 2 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.40%) MCSE
10 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.70%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.08%) SLA
2 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.20%) QA
3 5 (3.50%) WCAG
4 4 (2.80%) NCSC
4 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (1.40%) PSD2
6 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 42 (29.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.40%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Firmware
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
4 1 (0.70%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.70%) zsh
Systems Management
1 36 (25.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (16.08%) Jamf Pro
3 15 (10.49%) SCCM
4 9 (6.29%) ServiceCenter
5 5 (3.50%) Terraform
6 3 (2.10%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.40%) Grafana
7 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.70%) Ansible
8 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.70%) Puppet
8 1 (0.70%) systemd
8 1 (0.70%) yum
Vendors
1 80 (55.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 21 (14.69%) HP
4 18 (12.59%) Google
5 11 (7.69%) Dell
6 9 (6.29%) Samsung
7 6 (4.20%) Cisco
7 6 (4.20%) Citrix
7 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
8 5 (3.50%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (3.50%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.10%) VMware
10 2 (1.40%) Klarna
10 2 (1.40%) Okta
10 2 (1.40%) PayPal
10 2 (1.40%) Remedy
11 1 (0.70%) FIS
11 1 (0.70%) Meraki
11 1 (0.70%) Snow
11 1 (0.70%) YouTube