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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 242 227
Rank change year-on-year -42 -15 +24
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 167 125 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.93% 1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.22% 8.14% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 81 106
10th Percentile £193 £215 £250
25th Percentile £258 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £544
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -26.44% +22.19%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £675
England median daily rate £401 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +0.13% -20.00% +17.37%
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 1,634 1,535 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.14% 11.45% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,028 1,377
10th Percentile £208 £231 £225
25th Percentile £351 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -3.25% -8.47%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
England median daily rate £469 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +4.22% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 44 47
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.62
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% -45.00%
75th Percentile £25.34 £25.18 £39.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £58.93 £60.57
England median hourly rate £35.22 £23.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +49.87% -27.69% -12.96%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -8 21 £401 +0.13% 10
West London -20 4 £190 -24.00% 3
East London +1 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 16 (9.58%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Notion
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.36%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (10.18%) Azure
3 16 (9.58%) GitHub
4 13 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (7.19%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.19%) OneDrive
6 9 (5.39%) SaaS
7 7 (4.19%) AWS
7 7 (4.19%) GCP
8 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.80%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.20%) Figma
10 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.20%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.20%) IaaS
10 2 (1.20%) PaaS
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.60%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.40%) Wireless
3 3 (1.80%) DHCP
3 3 (1.80%) DNS
4 2 (1.20%) Internet
4 2 (1.20%) VoIP
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.60%) DSL
5 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.60%) Firewall
5 1 (0.60%) LAN
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.60%) WebEx
5 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.40%) Power BI
2 2 (1.20%) Tableau
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (8.98%) XCUITest
2 12 (7.19%) JIRA
3 9 (5.39%) Appium
3 9 (5.39%) XCTest
4 8 (4.79%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.19%) Xcode
6 5 (2.99%) Selenium
7 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.80%) Git
8 3 (1.80%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.80%) Postman
8 3 (1.80%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.20%) JMeter
9 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.20%) Selendroid
10 1 (0.60%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.60%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (0.60%) CocoaPods
10 1 (0.60%) GitLab
10 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (35.93%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.36%) Finance
3 22 (13.17%) Banking
4 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.19%) Retail
7 6 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.59%) Legal
8 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.40%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.80%) Military
9 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 2 (1.20%) Front Office
10 2 (1.20%) Games
11 1 (0.60%) Local Government
11 1 (0.60%) Norwegian Language
11 1 (0.60%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (22.75%) Developer
2 31 (18.56%) iOS Developer
3 24 (14.37%) IT Support
3 24 (14.37%) Senior
4 22 (13.17%) Support Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) IT Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Analyst
7 11 (6.59%) Designer
8 10 (5.99%) Mobile Developer
9 9 (5.39%) Architect
9 9 (5.39%) Mobile Designer
10 8 (4.79%) Desktop Support
11 7 (4.19%) 1st Line Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Designer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Mobile Designer
12 6 (3.59%) Deskside Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Deskside Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.18%) RESTful
2 14 (8.38%) SwiftUI
3 11 (6.59%) React Native
3 11 (6.59%) REST
4 8 (4.79%) Flutter
5 7 (4.19%) UIKit
6 6 (3.59%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.99%) Jetpack Compose
8 4 (2.40%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (1.80%) JSON
10 2 (1.20%) Android SDK
10 2 (1.20%) iOS SDK
10 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.20%) OAuth
10 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.20%) Playwright
11 1 (0.60%) Express.js
11 1 (0.60%) React
11 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.35%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.79%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.59%) iPhone
6 5 (2.99%) iPad
6 5 (2.99%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.80%) BYOD
8 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.80%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile Games
9 2 (1.20%) NHS
9 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.20%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 96 (57.49%) Android
2 51 (30.54%) Windows
3 36 (21.56%) Mac OS
4 18 (10.78%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.55%) iOS Development
2 35 (20.96%) Agile
3 31 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (17.96%) CI/CD
5 28 (16.77%) Customer Service
6 23 (13.77%) User Experience
7 19 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (11.38%) ITSM
8 18 (10.78%) Mobile Development
8 18 (10.78%) Service Management
9 17 (10.18%) Test Automation
10 16 (9.58%) AI
10 16 (9.58%) DevOps
10 16 (9.58%) ITIL
10 16 (9.58%) Mobile Device Management
11 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (7.78%) MVVM
13 11 (6.59%) Data Protection
13 11 (6.59%) Migration
14 10 (5.99%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.14%) Swift
2 21 (12.57%) Objective-C
3 16 (9.58%) Kotlin
4 15 (8.98%) Java
5 13 (7.78%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.79%) C++
7 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.80%) Ruby
9 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.80%) SQL
10 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.20%) Python
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (7.78%) Degree
1 13 (7.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) A+ Certification
4 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.60%) ACSP
8 1 (0.60%) ACTC
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.37%) QA
2 19 (11.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.59%) SLA
4 3 (1.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (17.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.40%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.20%) Docker
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (7.19%) SCCM
3 4 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.80%) WSUS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (25.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.17%) Apple
3 14 (8.38%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.59%) VMware
5 4 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (1.80%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.80%) New Relic
6 3 (1.80%) Splunk
7 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix
8 1 (0.60%) Interwoven
8 1 (0.60%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.60%) Okta
8 1 (0.60%) Snow
8 1 (0.60%) Sparx
8 1 (0.60%) Spotify
8 1 (0.60%) Temenos
8 1 (0.60%) YouTube