XCTest Contracts in England

Apple XCTest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring XCTest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XCTest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 532 651
Rank change year-on-year +50 +119 +120
Contract jobs citing XCTest 3 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.027% 0.004%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.091% 0.23% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £367 £323 £305
25th Percentile £374 £342 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £405 £325
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +24.62% -31.58%
75th Percentile £398 £471 £338
90th Percentile £399 £494 £345
UK median daily rate £390 £405 £325
% change year-on-year -3.70% +24.62% -31.58%

All Development Application Skills
England

XCTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

XCTest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for XCTest in England

XCTest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for XCTest in England

XCTest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for XCTest in England

XCTest
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 XCTest within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +31 2 £383 -5.56% 5
North West - 1 £400 - 2
North of England - 1 £400 - 2
XCTest
UK

XCTest
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Material-UI
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Static Code Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Swift
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk