Apple iOS Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Apple iOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apple iOS over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Apple iOS England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	154	126	114
Rank change year-on-year	-28	-12
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS	347	420	474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.67%	1.96%	2.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category	8.37%	8.99%	9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	267	319	344
Median daily rate	£438	£435	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+0.57%	+2.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£222	£275	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£550	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£363	£350	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.57%	-3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	11
Median hourly rate	£30.84	£125.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-75.33%	+557.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£20.89	£125.00	£17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.78	£125.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£21.50	£16.14
% change year-on-year	-18.60%	+33.25%

Apple iOS is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	4147	4671	5024
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	19.98%	21.85%	21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted	2914	3331	3372
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£217	£220	£190
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£563
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£345
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+5.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted	110	95	184
Median hourly rate	£19.00	£16.25	£19.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+16.92%	-16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.15	£12.50	£12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£40.00	£47.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.00	£16.20
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	+4.93%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Apple iOS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

Job vacancy trend for Apple iOS in London

Apple iOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Apple iOS in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Apple iOS in London

Apple iOS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apple iOS in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in London

Apple iOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Apple iOS in London

Apple iOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apple iOS in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-9	65	£425	-5.55%	29
Westminster	-	5	£220	-
Hammersmith	-	3	£450	-
Twickenham	+2	1	£250	+47.05%
Canary Wharf	-	1	£500	-
Mayfair	-	1	£463	-
Apple iOS England

Apple iOS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Apple iOS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Apple iOS.

1	426 (59.50%)	Android
2	329 (45.95%)	Agile Software Development
3	292 (40.78%)	iOS Development
4	215 (30.03%)	Mobile App
5	214 (29.89%)	Apple Swift
6	184 (25.70%)	Objective-C
7	150 (20.95%)	TDD
8	138 (19.27%)	Test Automation
9	135 (18.85%)	JavaScript
10	129 (18.02%)	User Experience
11	122 (17.04%)	HTML
12	117 (16.34%)	Finance
13	115 (16.06%)	Java
14	110 (15.36%)	Android Development
15	109 (15.22%)	Apple

16	104 (14.53%)	CSS
17	103 (14.39%)	Windows
18	99 (13.83%)	Scrum
18	99 (13.83%)	Git (software)
19	91 (12.71%)	REST
20	80 (11.17%)	JIRA
21	79 (11.03%)	RESTful
22	77 (10.75%)	HTML5
23	75 (10.47%)	Mobile Development
24	69 (9.64%)	QA
25	65 (9.08%)	Banking
26	61 (8.52%)	iPhone
27	60 (8.38%)	Web Services
28	59 (8.24%)	BDD
29	58 (8.10%)	Continuous Integration

Apple iOS
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	30 (4.19%)	Confluence
2	15 (2.09%)	Apache
2	15 (2.09%)	JBoss
3	12 (1.68%)	SharePoint
4	5 (0.70%)	Apache Spark
4	5 (0.70%)	CMS
4	5 (0.70%)	IBM Notes
4	5 (0.70%)	MS Exchange
4	5 (0.70%)	Mule
4	5 (0.70%)	WebSphere
5	4 (0.56%)	Cloud Foundry
6	3 (0.42%)	Apache Solr
6	3 (0.42%)	Documentum
6	3 (0.42%)	NetWeaver
6	3 (0.42%)	SAP Portal
6	3 (0.42%)	SharePoint 2013
6	3 (0.42%)	Skype for Business
6	3 (0.42%)	Tomcat
7	2 (0.28%)	Apache Pig
7	2 (0.28%)	Elasticsearch

Applications
1	26 (3.63%)	InVision
2	24 (3.35%)	Microsoft Office
3	17 (2.37%)	Photoshop
4	11 (1.54%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	9 (1.26%)	Microsoft Excel
5	9 (1.26%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	4 (0.56%)	UXPin
7	3 (0.42%)	Adobe Creative Suite
8	2 (0.28%)	OmniGraffle
9	1 (0.14%)	MS Visio
9	1 (0.14%)	UserZoom

Business Applications
1	7 (0.98%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.14%)	RMDS

Cloud Services
1	31 (4.33%)	Office 365
2	23 (3.21%)	Amazon AWS
3	22 (3.07%)	Microsoft Azure
4	15 (2.09%)	GitHub
5	13 (1.82%)	G Suite
6	12 (1.68%)	OneDrive
7	6 (0.84%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	6 (0.84%)	Heroku
7	6 (0.84%)	TestFlight
8	5 (0.70%)	Firebase
8	5 (0.70%)	Google Play
9	4 (0.56%)	SaaS
10	3 (0.42%)	PaaS
11	2 (0.28%)	Amazon EC2
11	2 (0.28%)	Amazon Kinesis
11	2 (0.28%)	Azure Active Directory
11	2 (0.28%)	Cloud Computing
11	2 (0.28%)	iTunes
12	1 (0.14%)	AWS Lambda
12	1 (0.14%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	21 (2.93%)	Network Security
2	13 (1.82%)	Skype
3	12 (1.68%)	Internet
4	9 (1.26%)	HTTP
4	9 (1.26%)	LAN
4	9 (1.26%)	TCP/IP
5	8 (1.12%)	SSL
6	7 (0.98%)	DNS
6	7 (0.98%)	Wi-Fi
6	7 (0.98%)	Wireless
7	6 (0.84%)	DHCP
7	6 (0.84%)	VPN
8	4 (0.56%)	4G
8	4 (0.56%)	Ethernet
8	4 (0.56%)	Unified Communications
9	3 (0.42%)	Remote Desktop
9	3 (0.42%)	WLAN
10	2 (0.28%)	SMS
10	2 (0.28%)	VoIP
10	2 (0.28%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	23 (3.21%)	MongoDB
2	19 (2.65%)	SQL Server
3	12 (1.68%)	MySQL
4	10 (1.40%)	MariaDB
4	10 (1.40%)	SQLite
5	9 (1.26%)	PostgreSQL
6	8 (1.12%)	Apache Cassandra
7	7 (0.98%)	CouchDB
8	6 (0.84%)	NoSQL
8	6 (0.84%)	Relational Database
9	5 (0.70%)	Big Data
10	4 (0.56%)	Azure SQL Database
10	4 (0.56%)	RDBMS
11	3 (0.42%)	Apache Hive
11	3 (0.42%)	Hadoop
11	3 (0.42%)	HBase
11	3 (0.42%)	SQL Server 2012
12	2 (0.28%)	Amazon RDS
12	2 (0.28%)	DataStax
12	2 (0.28%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	99 (13.83%)	Git (software)
2	80 (11.17%)	JIRA
3	55 (7.68%)	Jenkins
3	55 (7.68%)	Xcode
4	27 (3.77%)	Selenium
5	25 (3.49%)	Cucumber
6	22 (3.07%)	Appium
6	22 (3.07%)	Axure RP
7	21 (2.93%)	Subversion
8	19 (2.65%)	git-flow
9	18 (2.51%)	Calabash
10	14 (1.96%)	Android Studio
11	13 (1.82%)	Bitbucket
12	10 (1.40%)	CocoaPods
13	9 (1.26%)	WebDriver
14	8 (1.12%)	webpack
15	7 (0.98%)	Balsamiq Mockups
15	7 (0.98%)	JUnit
15	7 (0.98%)	Maven
15	7 (0.98%)	TeamCity

General
1	117 (16.34%)	Finance
2	65 (9.08%)	Banking
3	51 (7.12%)	Retail
4	28 (3.91%)	Marketing
5	10 (1.40%)	Telecoms
6	9 (1.26%)	Electronics
7	8 (1.12%)	Multimedia
8	7 (0.98%)	Advertising
8	7 (0.98%)	Games
8	7 (0.98%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (0.84%)	Financial Institution
9	6 (0.84%)	Investment Banking
10	5 (0.70%)	Legal
10	5 (0.70%)	Pharmaceutical
10	5 (0.70%)	Retail Banking
11	4 (0.56%)	Billing
11	4 (0.56%)	Law
12	3 (0.42%)	Back Office
12	3 (0.42%)	Publishing
13	2 (0.28%)	Corporate Banking

Job Titles
1	393 (54.89%)	Developer
2	236 (32.96%)	iOS Developer
3	62 (8.66%)	Android Developer
4	56 (7.82%)	Designer
5	44 (6.15%)	Analyst
5	44 (6.15%)	Senior Developer
6	37 (5.17%)	Senior iOS Developer
7	34 (4.75%)	iOS Android Developer
8	32 (4.47%)	Mobile Developer
9	31 (4.33%)	QA Engineer
10	27 (3.77%)	UX Designer
11	26 (3.63%)	Applications Developer
12	24 (3.35%)	Architect
12	24 (3.35%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12	24 (3.35%)	Tester
12	24 (3.35%)	UI Designer
13	23 (3.21%)	JavaScript Developer
14	22 (3.07%)	Xamarin Developer
15	15 (2.09%)	Android Engineer
15	15 (2.09%)	Mobile Designer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	122 (17.04%)	HTML
2	104 (14.53%)	CSS
3	91 (12.71%)	REST
4	79 (11.03%)	RESTful
5	77 (10.75%)	HTML5
6	60 (8.38%)	Web Services
7	53 (7.40%)	AngularJS
8	47 (6.56%)	JSON
9	45 (6.28%)	Core Data
10	44 (6.15%)	CSS3
10	44 (6.15%)	jQuery
10	44 (6.15%)	Node.js
11	43 (6.01%)	.NET
12	41 (5.73%)	Cocoa
13	38 (5.31%)	React
14	37 (5.17%)	React Native
15	36 (5.03%)	iOS SDK
16	35 (4.89%)	SOAP
17	28 (3.91%)	Apache Cordova
18	22 (3.07%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	215 (30.03%)	Mobile App
2	129 (18.02%)	User Experience
3	61 (8.52%)	iPhone
4	47 (6.56%)	iPad
5	45 (6.28%)	Greenfield Project
6	33 (4.61%)	Analytical Skills
7	24 (3.35%)	Computer Science
8	23 (3.21%)	Blackberry
9	22 (3.07%)	Fintech
9	22 (3.07%)	Smartphone
10	20 (2.79%)	Animation
11	15 (2.09%)	Algorithms
12	13 (1.82%)	Enterprise Software
13	11 (1.54%)	Data Structures
13	11 (1.54%)	Mobile Banking
13	11 (1.54%)	Social Media
14	10 (1.40%)	Management Information System
14	10 (1.40%)	Private Cloud
15	9 (1.26%)	STB
15	9 (1.26%)	Streaming Video

Operating Systems
1	426 (59.50%)	Android
2	103 (14.39%)	Windows
3	30 (4.19%)	Windows 7
4	29 (4.05%)	Windows 10
5	26 (3.63%)	Linux
6	18 (2.51%)	Unix
7	16 (2.23%)	Mac OS X
8	13 (1.82%)	Mac OS
9	10 (1.40%)	Windows Mobile
10	8 (1.12%)	Windows Server
11	7 (0.98%)	Windows 8
12	5 (0.70%)	Windows Phone
13	3 (0.42%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13	3 (0.42%)	Ubuntu
13	3 (0.42%)	Windows Server 2008
14	2 (0.28%)	CentOS
14	2 (0.28%)	Mac OS X Server
14	2 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2012
15	1 (0.14%)	webOS
15	1 (0.14%)	Windows Phone 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	329 (45.95%)	Agile Software Development
2	292 (40.78%)	iOS Development
3	150 (20.95%)	TDD
4	138 (19.27%)	Test Automation
5	110 (15.36%)	Android Development
6	99 (13.83%)	Scrum
7	75 (10.47%)	Mobile Development
8	59 (8.24%)	BDD
9	58 (8.10%)	Continuous Integration
10	57 (7.96%)	Software Engineering
11	49 (6.84%)	E-Commerce
11	49 (6.84%)	OO
12	37 (5.17%)	DevOps
13	36 (5.03%)	Front End Development
13	36 (5.03%)	Mobile Application Development
14	35 (4.89%)	Unit Testing
15	34 (4.75%)	Pair Programming
16	29 (4.05%)	MVC
17	28 (3.91%)	OOP
18	27 (3.77%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	214 (29.89%)	Apple Swift
2	184 (25.70%)	Objective-C
3	135 (18.85%)	JavaScript
4	115 (16.06%)	Java
5	41 (5.73%)	Python
6	40 (5.59%)	C#
7	35 (4.89%)	SQL
8	31 (4.33%)	C++
9	26 (3.63%)	Ruby
10	16 (2.23%)	C
10	16 (2.23%)	PHP
11	11 (1.54%)	Go
12	8 (1.12%)	Scala
13	6 (0.84%)	Perl
14	5 (0.70%)	XAML
15	4 (0.56%)	ES6
15	4 (0.56%)	GraphQL
15	4 (0.56%)	PowerShell
15	4 (0.56%)	Shell Script
16	3 (0.42%)	Bash Shell

Qualifications
1	55 (7.68%)	Degree
2	18 (2.51%)	Security Cleared
3	14 (1.96%)	Computer Science Degree
4	12 (1.68%)	Master's Degree
5	6 (0.84%)	Microsoft Certification
5	6 (0.84%)	SC Cleared
6	5 (0.70%)	ISEB
6	5 (0.70%)	ITIL Certification
6	5 (0.70%)	MCSE
7	4 (0.56%)	A+ Certification
7	4 (0.56%)	CTC Cleared
7	4 (0.56%)	ISEB Practitioner
7	4 (0.56%)	MCSA
8	3 (0.42%)	ACDT
8	3 (0.42%)	ACHDS
8	3 (0.42%)	ACTC
8	3 (0.42%)	BPSS Clearance
8	3 (0.42%)	MCDST
8	3 (0.42%)	MCP
8	3 (0.42%)	Network+ Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	69 (9.64%)	QA
2	6 (0.84%)	SLA
3	5 (0.70%)	WAI
3	5 (0.70%)	WCAG
4	3 (0.42%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	2 (0.28%)	PMO
6	1 (0.14%)	FedRAMP
6	1 (0.14%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	1 (0.14%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	37 (5.17%)	Active Directory
2	19 (2.65%)	Docker
3	3 (0.42%)	Apache Flume
3	3 (0.42%)	BitLocker
3	3 (0.42%)	Virtual Desktop
3	3 (0.42%)	Virtual Servers
3	3 (0.42%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	3 (0.42%)	XenApp
4	2 (0.28%)	HDFS
4	2 (0.28%)	VirtualBox
4	2 (0.28%)	VMware ESXi
4	2 (0.28%)	XenDesktop
5	1 (0.14%)	Apache ZooKeeper
5	1 (0.14%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	24 (3.35%)	HockeyApp
2	21 (2.93%)	SCCM
3	7 (0.98%)	HP Quality Center
4	4 (0.56%)	Microsoft Intune
5	3 (0.42%)	Norton AntiVirus
6	2 (0.28%)	AirWatch
6	2 (0.28%)	Business Desktop Deployment
6	2 (0.28%)	Jamf Pro
6	2 (0.28%)	Kibana
6	2 (0.28%)	logstash
6	2 (0.28%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
7	1 (0.14%)	Control-M
7	1 (0.14%)	Hadoop YARN
7	1 (0.14%)	Kubernetes
7	1 (0.14%)	Nagios
7	1 (0.14%)	Oozie
7	1 (0.14%)	Puppet
7	1 (0.14%)	WSUS
7	1 (0.14%)	XenMobile
7	1 (0.14%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	109 (15.22%)	Apple
2	48 (6.70%)	Microsoft
3	43 (6.01%)	Google
4	39 (5.45%)	Xamarin
5	26 (3.63%)	Adobe
6	14 (1.96%)	Citrix
7	12 (1.68%)	SAP
8	11 (1.54%)	IBM
9	8 (1.12%)	Pega
10	7 (0.98%)	Facebook
10	7 (0.98%)	HP
10	7 (0.98%)	MobileIron
11	6 (0.84%)	AppDynamics
11	6 (0.84%)	Oracle
11	6 (0.84%)	Telerik
12	5 (0.70%)	Lotus
12	5 (0.70%)	Twitter
12	5 (0.70%)	VMware
13	4 (0.56%)	Atlassian
13	4 (0.56%)	Symantec