XCTest Contract Job Trends in England

Apple XCTest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring XCTest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 504 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing XCTest 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.016% 0.023% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £353 £331 -
25th Percentile £358 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% - -
75th Percentile £376 £543 -
90th Percentile - £565 -
UK median daily rate £368 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -26.50% -28.57% +23.89%

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 4,669 4,032 4,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.11% 13.24% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,516 3,416
10th Percentile £325 £344 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £540
% change year-on-year -2.68% -4.86% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 108 210
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.85 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.00 £53.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £88.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

XCTest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XCTest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

XCTest job vacancy trend in England

XCTest
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XCTest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XCTest

XCTest
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XCTest.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XCTest

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 3 December 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 -11 5 £368 -28.47% 2
XCTest
UK

XCTest
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 1 (20.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Mockito
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 5 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) CSS3
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Swagger
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 5 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Architectural Design
2 4 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk