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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 251 227
Rank change year-on-year -32 -24 +29
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 165 123 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.91% 1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.29% 7.99% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 81 109
10th Percentile £200 £215 £249
25th Percentile £258 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% -25.58% +26.47%
75th Percentile £497 £500 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £675
England median daily rate £413 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -20.00% +17.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £23.58 £29.15 £30.69
25th Percentile £28.19 £43.68 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.25 £57.00 £55.47
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +2.77% +157.59%
75th Percentile £46.19 £63.94 £66.92
90th Percentile £50.73 £68.78 £74.97
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £53.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -64.82% +181.58%

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 1,603 1,539 1,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.98% 11.38% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,035 1,380
10th Percentile £206 £241 £220
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
England median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 44 49
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +14.32% -49.81%
75th Percentile £25.34 £26.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.58 £62.04
England median hourly rate £35.22 £23.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +53.13% -36.40% -9.59%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -18 20 £401 +0.13% 12
West London -16 4 £190 -24.00% 2
East London 0 1 £145 - 1
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 14 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.45%) Confluence
3 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.79%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (9.09%) Azure
3 13 (7.88%) GitHub
4 12 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 11 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 9 (5.45%) SaaS
7 7 (4.24%) AWS
7 7 (4.24%) GCP
8 4 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.82%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.21%) Figma
10 2 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.21%) IaaS
10 2 (1.21%) PaaS
10 2 (1.21%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.61%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) Wireless
2 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.21%) Internet
3 2 (1.21%) VoIP
3 2 (1.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) DSL
4 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) LAN
4 1 (0.61%) WAN
4 1 (0.61%) WebEx
4 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.42%) Power BI
2 2 (1.21%) Tableau
3 1 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (7.88%) XCUITest
2 12 (7.27%) JIRA
3 10 (6.06%) Appium
4 8 (4.85%) Xcode
5 7 (4.24%) XCTest
6 6 (3.64%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.42%) Selenium
8 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.82%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.82%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.21%) Android Studio
9 2 (1.21%) Git
9 2 (1.21%) GitLab
9 2 (1.21%) Postman
9 2 (1.21%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.21%) Selendroid
10 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.61%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.61%) PyUnit
10 1 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.61%) Finance
3 22 (13.33%) Banking
4 15 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.24%) Retail
7 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.64%) Legal
8 4 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.42%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Billing
9 3 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Military
10 2 (1.21%) Front Office
10 2 (1.21%) Games
10 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Norwegian Language
11 1 (0.61%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (22.42%) Developer
2 31 (18.79%) iOS Developer
3 23 (13.94%) Senior
4 22 (13.33%) IT Support
5 19 (11.52%) Support Engineer
6 15 (9.09%) IT Engineer
6 15 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.48%) Mobile Engineer
8 13 (7.88%) Analyst
9 11 (6.67%) Designer
10 9 (5.45%) Architect
10 9 (5.45%) Mobile Designer
11 8 (4.85%) Desktop Support
11 8 (4.85%) Mobile Developer
12 7 (4.24%) 1st Line Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) Interaction Designer
12 7 (4.24%) Senior Designer
12 7 (4.24%) Senior Mobile Designer
13 6 (3.64%) Deskside Support Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.09%) RESTful
1 15 (9.09%) SwiftUI
2 11 (6.67%) React Native
3 8 (4.85%) Flutter
3 8 (4.85%) REST
4 7 (4.24%) UIKit
5 6 (3.64%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.03%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (2.42%) Android Jetpack
8 3 (1.82%) iOS SDK
9 2 (1.21%) Android SDK
9 2 (1.21%) JSON
9 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (1.21%) OAuth
9 2 (1.21%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.61%) Bazel
10 1 (0.61%) pytest
10 1 (0.61%) React
10 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.21%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.85%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.24%) iPhone
5 6 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.64%) iPad
6 5 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.82%) BYOD
7 3 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.21%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.21%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.21%) NHS
8 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.21%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 97 (58.79%) Android
2 49 (29.70%) Windows
3 34 (20.61%) Mac OS
4 15 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.21%) Linux
5 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.64%) iOS Development
2 34 (20.61%) Agile
3 29 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (16.97%) CI/CD
5 25 (15.15%) Customer Service
6 22 (13.33%) User Experience
7 18 (10.91%) ITSM
7 18 (10.91%) Service Management
8 17 (10.30%) Mobile Development
8 17 (10.30%) Test Automation
9 16 (9.70%) AI
9 16 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (9.09%) ITIL
11 13 (7.88%) DevOps
11 13 (7.88%) Mobile Device Management
11 13 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (7.27%) Data Protection
12 12 (7.27%) MVVM
13 10 (6.06%) E-Commerce
13 10 (6.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.27%) Swift
2 18 (10.91%) Java
2 18 (10.91%) Objective-C
3 17 (10.30%) Kotlin
4 13 (7.88%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.85%) C++
6 6 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.82%) Python
9 3 (1.82%) Ruby
10 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.21%) SQL
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (8.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.88%) Degree
3 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.64%) A+ Certification
5 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ACSP
9 1 (0.61%) ACTC
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.55%) QA
2 20 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.42%) SLA
4 3 (1.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (16.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.42%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.21%) Docker
5 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (7.27%) SCCM
3 5 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.21%) WSUS
6 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (24.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.76%) Apple
3 15 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.64%) VMware
5 4 (2.42%) Google
6 3 (1.82%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.82%) New Relic
6 3 (1.82%) Splunk
7 2 (1.21%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.21%) Okta
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) Interwoven
8 1 (0.61%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.61%) Snow
8 1 (0.61%) Sparx
8 1 (0.61%) Spotify
8 1 (0.61%) Temenos
8 1 (0.61%) YouTube
8 1 (0.61%) Zscaler