Apple iOS Contract Job Trends in London

Apple iOS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Apple iOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 247 203
Rank change year-on-year -49 -44 +33
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 167 129 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.96% 1.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.64% 8.31% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 83 122
10th Percentile £182 £242 £243
25th Percentile £228 £325 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -15.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £599
90th Percentile £638 £604 £675
England median daily rate £375 £400 £438
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £23.50 £32.38 £35.69
25th Percentile £28.00 £51.75 £51.55
Median hourly rate £37.50 £57.50 £64.47
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -10.80% +143.26%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £70.44
90th Percentile £52.30 £68.70 £76.09
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £49.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -61.98% +86.79%

All Operating Systems
London

Apple iOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,732 1,552 2,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.57% 11.59% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,002 1,333
10th Percentile £208 £218 £225
25th Percentile £350 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £716 £734 £725
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 54 29
10th Percentile £18.59 £18.87 £20.50
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -6.85% -38.41%
75th Percentile £47.50 £25.23 £61.43
90th Percentile £57.90 £58.93 £84.94
England median hourly rate £32.29 £24.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +34.54% -60.93% +28.43%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apple iOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Apple iOS job vacancy trend in London

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apple iOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple iOS in London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in London

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apple iOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apple iOS in London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apple iOS in London

Apple iOS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the London region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Central London -16 20 £401 -17.42% 23
West London -14 6 £190 -24.00% 6
Apple iOS
England

Apple iOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 21 (12.57%) SharePoint
2 16 (9.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.20%) Notion
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Eikon
1 1 (0.60%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.16%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (12.57%) Azure
3 16 (9.58%) GitHub
3 16 (9.58%) OneDrive
4 14 (8.38%) Entra ID
4 14 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.79%) GCP
5 8 (4.79%) SaaS
6 7 (4.19%) AWS
7 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.80%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.80%) Sentry
9 2 (1.20%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.20%) Figma
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.60%) Bitrise
10 1 (0.60%) Miro
10 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.59%) DHCP
1 6 (3.59%) DNS
2 5 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.80%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (1.80%) HTTP
3 3 (1.80%) VoIP
4 2 (1.20%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.20%) Internet
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.60%) Firewall
5 1 (0.60%) SMTP
5 1 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.40%) Power BI
2 2 (1.20%) Tableau
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) JIRA
1 13 (7.78%) XCUITest
2 11 (6.59%) Xcode
3 10 (5.99%) CircleCI
3 10 (5.99%) XCTest
4 8 (4.79%) Appium
5 5 (2.99%) Charles Proxy
6 4 (2.40%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (2.40%) Selenium
7 3 (1.80%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.80%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.80%) Git
7 3 (1.80%) Gradle
7 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.80%) Postman
7 3 (1.80%) Selendroid
8 2 (1.20%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.20%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.60%) fastlane
9 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (41.92%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.36%) Finance
3 20 (11.98%) Banking
4 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Legal
6 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.59%) Retail
9 5 (2.99%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.40%) Marketing
10 4 (2.40%) Military
11 3 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Electronics
12 2 (1.20%) Front Office
12 2 (1.20%) Games
13 1 (0.60%) Billing
13 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (20.36%) Developer
2 30 (17.96%) IT Support
3 27 (16.17%) iOS Developer
4 25 (14.97%) Support Engineer
5 22 (13.17%) IT Engineer
5 22 (13.17%) IT Support Engineer
5 22 (13.17%) Senior
6 16 (9.58%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) Analyst
8 10 (5.99%) Mobile Developer
9 9 (5.39%) Designer
10 8 (4.79%) 1st Line Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Desktop Support
11 7 (4.19%) 1st Line Support
11 7 (4.19%) 1st Line Support Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Deskside Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Deskside Support
11 7 (4.19%) Deskside Support Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (4.19%) Mobile Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) RESTful
2 13 (7.78%) REST
2 13 (7.78%) SwiftUI
3 9 (5.39%) React Native
3 9 (5.39%) UIKit
4 8 (4.79%) GraphQL
5 6 (3.59%) iOS SDK
6 5 (2.99%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (2.99%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (2.40%) Flutter
8 3 (1.80%) OAuth
8 3 (1.80%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.80%) OpenID
9 2 (1.20%) Android SDK
9 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.20%) JSON
9 2 (1.20%) Playwright
9 2 (1.20%) React
9 2 (1.20%) Spring
9 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (25.75%) Mobile App
2 17 (10.18%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.19%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.19%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.59%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.40%) iPad
6 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.80%) BYOD
7 3 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.80%) IoT
7 3 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.80%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.80%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.20%) iPhone
8 2 (1.20%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.20%) NHS
8 2 (1.20%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 102 (61.08%) Android
2 59 (35.33%) Windows
3 34 (20.36%) macOS
4 27 (16.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.60%) Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.75%) Customer Service
2 37 (22.16%) iOS Development
3 33 (19.76%) Agile
3 33 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (16.17%) CI/CD
5 25 (14.97%) User Experience
6 24 (14.37%) ITIL
7 23 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (13.77%) ITSM
7 23 (13.77%) Service Management
8 21 (12.57%) Test Automation
9 19 (11.38%) Mobile Development
10 16 (9.58%) AI
10 16 (9.58%) DevOps
11 14 (8.38%) Mobile Device Management
11 14 (8.38%) MVVM
11 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (6.59%) Migration
14 10 (5.99%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.54%) Swift
2 22 (13.17%) Objective-C
3 16 (9.58%) Kotlin
4 13 (7.78%) Java
4 13 (7.78%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.79%) C++
6 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.40%) Python
8 4 (2.40%) SQL
9 3 (1.80%) Ruby
9 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (8.38%) Degree
1 14 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.19%) A+ Certification
4 6 (3.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) ACSP
7 1 (0.60%) ACTC
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.16%) QA
2 20 (11.98%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.19%) SLA
4 3 (1.80%) GDPR
4 3 (1.80%) PERC
4 3 (1.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (19.16%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.20%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (14.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (7.78%) SCCM
3 5 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.80%) WSUS
6 1 (0.60%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (32.34%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.17%) Apple
3 12 (7.19%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.19%) VMware
5 5 (2.99%) Google
6 4 (2.40%) New Relic
6 4 (2.40%) Splunk
7 3 (1.80%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.80%) Tealium
8 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.60%) mParticle
9 1 (0.60%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.60%) Samsung
9 1 (0.60%) Snow
9 1 (0.60%) Sparx
9 1 (0.60%) YouTube