Apple Contracts 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 17 May 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 318 385
Rank change year-on-year +1 +67 +35
Contract jobs citing Apple 158 230 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.36% 1.51% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 133 196
10th Percentile £150 £133 £158
25th Percentile £184 £200 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £255 £237
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +7.82% -9.04%
75th Percentile £450 £378 £370
90th Percentile £586 £447 £573
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 14
10th Percentile £16.80 £13.86 £15.86
25th Percentile £18.10 £15.88 £16.22
Median hourly rate £20.51 £17.72 £18.04
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% -1.77% +6.12%
75th Percentile £24.66 £17.78 £18.08
90th Percentile - £22.75 £19.38
UK median hourly rate £18.36 £17.72 £18.04
% change year-on-year +3.60% -1.77% +6.12%

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 11,652 15,274 20,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.61% 41.98% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,503 9,716 13,875
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -3.40% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 1,016 578
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £14.41 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.39 £22.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.97% -38.89% +67.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.70 £63.23
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.40 £21.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year +18.14% -48.56% +94.42%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apple as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple in England.

Daily rate trend for Apple in England

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in England

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 17 May 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 -9 66 £273 +3.81% 187
North of England +51 52 £350 +32.33% 37
Yorkshire +51 42 £269 -4.53% 10
Midlands +13 13 £250 +92.31% 30
East of England +36 12 £500 +163.16% 23
South West +50 10 £378 +320.28% 26
East Midlands +7 8 £250 +100.00% 14
North West +6 7 £215 -13.13% 23
West Midlands +6 5 £280 +40.00% 14
South East -24 3 £138 -63.48% 64
North East - 3 £450 - 4
Apple
UK

Apple
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) nginx
3 3 (1.90%) Traefik
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 56 (35.44%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.63%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.63%) Maya
4 1 (0.63%) QuarkXPress
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.34%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (31.01%) Entra ID
3 19 (12.03%) Azure
4 10 (6.33%) AWS
5 5 (3.16%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.53%) Apple Pay
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (1.90%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) GCP
8 2 (1.27%) Google Pay
8 2 (1.27%) Slack
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) Wireless
2 7 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (3.80%) Firewall
3 6 (3.80%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (3.80%) VPN
4 5 (3.16%) DNS
4 5 (3.16%) Internet
4 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.53%) LAN
5 4 (2.53%) WAN
6 3 (1.90%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.27%) WebEx
8 1 (0.63%) DHCP
8 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.63%) Skype
8 1 (0.63%) SSL
8 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.63%) Big Data
3 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.63%) FileMaker
3 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.16%) JIRA
2 4 (2.53%) GitLab
3 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) Git
4 1 (0.63%) Pa11y
General
1 85 (53.80%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (13.29%) Retail
5 16 (10.13%) Banking
6 8 (5.06%) Finance
7 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.16%) Military
9 4 (2.53%) Legal
9 4 (2.53%) Marketing
10 3 (1.90%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Advertising
11 2 (1.27%) Back Office
11 2 (1.27%) Electronics
11 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (15.82%) Support Manager
2 24 (15.19%) Support Engineer
3 21 (13.29%) IT Support
4 18 (11.39%) Mac Engineer
5 15 (9.49%) Analyst
6 13 (8.23%) 1st Line Support
7 12 (7.59%) 1st Line Support Manager
7 12 (7.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) IT Manager
7 12 (7.59%) IT Support Manager
7 12 (7.59%) Senior
8 11 (6.96%) Desktop Support
9 8 (5.06%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (5.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.43%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (4.43%) Senior Mac Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.90%) cloud-init
1 3 (1.90%) CSS
1 3 (1.90%) HTML
1 3 (1.90%) Kafka
1 3 (1.90%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.27%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.63%) EDI
3 1 (0.63%) REST
3 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.63%) UIKit
3 1 (0.63%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.72%) iPhone
2 22 (13.92%) Smartphone
3 7 (4.43%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.43%) iPad
3 7 (4.43%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.53%) PKI
5 3 (1.90%) IVR
6 2 (1.27%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.63%) BYOD
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.63%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 76 (48.10%) Windows
2 65 (41.14%) Mac OS
3 42 (26.58%) Apple iOS
4 32 (20.25%) Android
5 16 (10.13%) Windows 10
6 12 (7.59%) Linux
7 6 (3.80%) Mac OS X
8 5 (3.16%) Unix
9 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
10 3 (1.90%) CentOS
10 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.63%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.28%) Customer Service
2 38 (24.05%) Mobile Device Management
2 38 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (21.52%) ITIL
4 25 (15.82%) Agile
4 25 (15.82%) Service Management
5 22 (13.92%) ITSM
6 20 (12.66%) Incident Management
7 14 (8.86%) Coaching
7 14 (8.86%) Security Patching
7 14 (8.86%) Service Delivery
7 14 (8.86%) Time Management
8 10 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (5.06%) Break/Fix
9 8 (5.06%) Computer Science
9 8 (5.06%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (5.06%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (5.06%) PRINCE2
10 7 (4.43%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.39%) Bash
1 18 (11.39%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.13%) Python
3 3 (1.90%) Go
3 3 (1.90%) Swift
3 3 (1.90%) VBA
4 2 (1.27%) AppleScript
4 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.63%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (22.15%) SC Cleared
1 35 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.23%) ACSP
2 13 (8.23%) Degree
3 7 (4.43%) ACTC
4 6 (3.80%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.90%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) MCP
7 2 (1.27%) MCSE
8 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.33%) SLA
2 7 (4.43%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) NCSC
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (34.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.16%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (36.08%) Jamf Pro
2 16 (10.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (8.86%) SCCM
4 4 (2.53%) Terraform
5 3 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.90%) Consul
5 3 (1.90%) Grafana
5 3 (1.90%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.90%) Istio
5 3 (1.90%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.90%) linkerd
5 3 (1.90%) Packer
5 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.90%) Rancher
5 3 (1.90%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.63%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.63%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 79 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (22.78%) ServiceNow
3 14 (8.86%) Citrix
4 12 (7.59%) Cisco
4 12 (7.59%) Google
4 12 (7.59%) Samsung
5 8 (5.06%) Dell
5 8 (5.06%) HP
5 8 (5.06%) SOTI
6 7 (4.43%) Okta
7 4 (2.53%) ESET
7 4 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.90%) SAP
8 3 (1.90%) Splunk
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.27%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle
10 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.63%) F5