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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 258 216
Rank change year-on-year -21 -42 +41
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 167 122 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.90% 1.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.77% 7.76% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 82 112
10th Percentile £201 £219 £243
25th Percentile £268 £281 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £504 £497 £600
90th Percentile £638 £585 £675
England median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +25.00%
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 1,551 1,572 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.75% 11.54% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,065 1,389
10th Percentile £206 £244 £214
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
England median daily rate £469 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 48
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.93 £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% -56.00%
75th Percentile £25.34 £29.38 £31.72
90th Percentile £54.40 £62.05 £60.43
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +41.30% -24.59% -26.59%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -6 22 £438 +9.38% 15
West London -19 4 £190 -24.00% 3
East London +3 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 12 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.79%) Confluence
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Notion
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.77%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (8.98%) Azure
2 15 (8.98%) GitHub
3 11 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (5.99%) GCP
5 9 (5.39%) OneDrive
6 8 (4.79%) AWS
6 8 (4.79%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.79%) SaaS
7 5 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.40%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.40%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) Bitrise
9 2 (1.20%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.20%) Figma
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) PaaS
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) Wireless
2 3 (1.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.80%) VoIP
2 3 (1.80%) VPN
3 2 (1.20%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) DHCP
4 1 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) DSL
4 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.60%) Firewall
4 1 (0.60%) LAN
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
4 1 (0.60%) WebEx
4 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.80%) Db2
1 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
1 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.80%) Power BI
2 2 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) XCUITest
2 11 (6.59%) JIRA
3 10 (5.99%) Appium
3 10 (5.99%) Xcode
3 10 (5.99%) XCTest
4 7 (4.19%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.40%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.80%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.80%) Selenium
6 3 (1.80%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.20%) Git
7 2 (1.20%) GitLab
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.20%) Selendroid
8 1 (0.60%) CMake
8 1 (0.60%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.60%) MonkeyTalk
8 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.16%) Finance
3 22 (13.17%) Banking
4 12 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.19%) Retail
7 6 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.99%) Legal
9 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Military
9 4 (2.40%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.80%) Billing
10 3 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.20%) Front Office
11 2 (1.20%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.60%) Norwegian Language
12 1 (0.60%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
12 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (22.16%) Developer
2 32 (19.16%) iOS Developer
3 26 (15.57%) Senior
4 17 (10.18%) IT Support
5 14 (8.38%) Analyst
5 14 (8.38%) Support Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Designer
8 10 (5.99%) IT Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Mobile Designer
10 8 (4.79%) Architect
10 8 (4.79%) Mobile Developer
11 7 (4.19%) Desktop Support
11 7 (4.19%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Designer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Mobile Designer
12 6 (3.59%) 1st Line Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.59%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.38%) SwiftUI
2 14 (8.38%) RESTful
3 11 (6.59%) UIKit
4 10 (5.99%) React Native
5 8 (4.79%) Flutter
5 8 (4.79%) REST
6 6 (3.59%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.99%) Jetpack Compose
8 4 (2.40%) Android Jetpack
8 4 (2.40%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.40%) React
9 3 (1.80%) Backbone.js
9 3 (1.80%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.80%) Ember.js
9 3 (1.80%) iOS SDK
9 3 (1.80%) jQuery
9 3 (1.80%) Keras
9 3 (1.80%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.80%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.80%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.56%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.39%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.19%) iPhone
5 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.59%) iPad
6 5 (2.99%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.80%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.20%) BYOD
8 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.20%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.20%) NHS
8 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 99 (59.28%) Android
2 50 (29.94%) Windows
3 35 (20.96%) Mac OS
4 11 (6.59%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.99%) Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.55%) iOS Development
2 35 (20.96%) Agile
3 29 (17.37%) CI/CD
4 26 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (11.98%) Customer Service
5 20 (11.98%) User Experience
6 17 (10.18%) AI
6 17 (10.18%) Test Automation
7 16 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (8.98%) Mobile Development
9 14 (8.38%) ITIL
9 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (7.78%) Data Protection
10 13 (7.78%) Mobile Device Management
10 13 (7.78%) MVVM
11 12 (7.19%) DevOps
11 12 (7.19%) ITSM
11 12 (7.19%) Service Management
12 11 (6.59%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (5.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (29.34%) Swift
2 20 (11.98%) Objective-C
3 19 (11.38%) Java
4 18 (10.78%) Kotlin
5 11 (6.59%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.79%) C++
7 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.99%) SQL
8 4 (2.40%) Python
8 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.80%) Ruby
9 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) Korn
10 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (8.38%) Degree
2 13 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.99%) A+ Certification
4 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.80%) PhD
7 2 (1.20%) ACSP
7 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.60%) ACTC
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.97%) QA
2 20 (11.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.80%) WCAG
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.80%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.20%) Docker
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (9.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.99%) SCCM
3 6 (3.59%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.80%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 36 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.37%) Apple
3 13 (7.78%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.99%) Google
4 5 (2.99%) VMware
5 3 (1.80%) Checkmarx
5 3 (1.80%) New Relic
5 3 (1.80%) Splunk
6 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.20%) Okta
7 1 (0.60%) Brightcove
7 1 (0.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) Interwoven
7 1 (0.60%) MobileIron
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) Snow
7 1 (0.60%) Spotify
7 1 (0.60%) Temenos
7 1 (0.60%) YouTube
7 1 (0.60%) Zscaler