Apple Contracts in London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apple over the 3 months to 28 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

Apple England / London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	271	277	278
Rank change year-on-year	+6	+1
Contract jobs citing Apple	156	162	159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	0.75%	0.75%	0.69%
As % of the Vendors category	1.82%	1.81%	1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	133	113	98
Median daily rate	£265	£370	£331
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-28.37%	+11.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£100	£138	£170
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£549	£570	£580
UK excluding London median daily rate	£250	£325	£325
% change year-on-year	-23.07%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	11	14
Median hourly rate	£14.75	£17.50	£17.68
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.71%	-0.99%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£9.95	£10.75	£11.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£26.25	£20.00	£84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.25	£19.75	£14.50
% change year-on-year	-27.84%	+36.20%

Apple is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	8586	8975	10145
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	41.35%	41.34%	44.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	9279	10928	11590
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£263	£263	£248
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£638	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£360
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted	228	194	452
Median hourly rate	£23.75	£18.00	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	-10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.51	£10.83	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.33	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£21.00	£18.07
% change year-on-year	-16.66%	+16.21%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Apple as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Apple in London

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apple in London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Apple in London

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Apple in London

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apple in London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Apple in London

Apple
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 within the London region over the 3 months to 28 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	+1	27	£225	-49.43%	6
Uxbridge	-	11	£70	-	1
West End of London	-	4	£516	-	3
Stockley Park	-	3	£70	-
Westminster	-	3	£250	-
Canary Wharf	-	1	£300	-
Paddington	-	1	£200	-
Chiswick	-	1	-	-
Mayfair	-	1	£463	-
Apple England

Apple
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Apple 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.

1	146 (53.28%)	Windows
2	109 (39.78%)	Apple iOS
3	86 (31.39%)	Active Directory
4	81 (29.56%)	Android
5	78 (28.47%)	Microsoft
6	69 (25.18%)	Agile Software Development
7	65 (23.72%)	Windows 7
8	55 (20.07%)	Microsoft Office
9	51 (18.61%)	Apple Swift
10	50 (18.25%)	Finance
11	48 (17.52%)	Mobile App
12	47 (17.15%)	Test Automation
13	45 (16.42%)	Google
14	44 (16.06%)	Office 365
15	43 (15.69%)	iOS Development

16	41 (14.96%)	ITIL
17	40 (14.60%)	Objective-C
17	40 (14.60%)	Windows 10
18	37 (13.50%)	Citrix
19	31 (11.31%)	REST
20	29 (10.58%)	Xcode
20	29 (10.58%)	Banking
20	29 (10.58%)	Mac OS X
21	28 (10.22%)	SCCM
21	28 (10.22%)	Core Data
22	26 (9.49%)	User Experience
22	26 (9.49%)	Blackberry
22	26 (9.49%)	Cisco
23	25 (9.12%)	VPN
23	25 (9.12%)	Git (software)

Apple
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	16 (5.84%)	SharePoint
2	15 (5.47%)	Confluence
3	11 (4.01%)	Skype for Business
4	7 (2.55%)	IBM Notes
5	6 (2.19%)	MS Exchange
6	4 (1.46%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
6	4 (1.46%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	3 (1.09%)	Apache Spark
7	3 (1.09%)	SharePoint 2013
8	1 (0.36%)	CMS
8	1 (0.36%)	Exchange Server 2013

Applications
1	55 (20.07%)	Microsoft Office
2	6 (2.19%)	InVision
3	5 (1.82%)	Microsoft Excel
3	5 (1.82%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	4 (1.46%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	4 (1.46%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	3 (1.09%)	InDesign
5	3 (1.09%)	SOLIDWORKS
6	2 (0.73%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.73%)	MS Visio
7	1 (0.36%)	CINEMA 4D
7	1 (0.36%)	Photoshop
7	1 (0.36%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	10 (3.65%)	Remedy ITSM
2	1 (0.36%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	44 (16.06%)	Office 365
2	20 (7.30%)	G Suite
3	8 (2.92%)	Microsoft Azure
4	6 (2.19%)	Amazon AWS
5	5 (1.82%)	Google Play
6	4 (1.46%)	OneDrive
7	3 (1.09%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
7	3 (1.09%)	GitHub
7	3 (1.09%)	Google Drive
7	3 (1.09%)	SaaS
8	2 (0.73%)	Azure Active Directory
9	1 (0.36%)	Mimecast
9	1 (0.36%)	TestFlight

Communications & Networking
1	25 (9.12%)	VPN
2	19 (6.93%)	TCP/IP
3	16 (5.84%)	LAN
4	15 (5.47%)	DNS
5	14 (5.11%)	DHCP
5	14 (5.11%)	Firewall
5	14 (5.11%)	Wireless
6	11 (4.01%)	WAN
7	10 (3.65%)	Skype
8	8 (2.92%)	Internet
8	8 (2.92%)	SSL
9	7 (2.55%)	Wi-Fi
10	5 (1.82%)	PBX
10	5 (1.82%)	VoIP
11	4 (1.46%)	Network Security
11	4 (1.46%)	Remote Desktop
11	4 (1.46%)	Unified Communications
12	3 (1.09%)	Ethernet
12	3 (1.09%)	FTP
12	3 (1.09%)	HTTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	10 (3.65%)	MongoDB
1	10 (3.65%)	PostgreSQL
2	7 (2.55%)	Relational Database
3	6 (2.19%)	MySQL
3	6 (2.19%)	NoSQL
4	5 (1.82%)	Apache Cassandra
4	5 (1.82%)	SQL Server
5	3 (1.09%)	Big Data
5	3 (1.09%)	Hadoop
5	3 (1.09%)	HBase
6	2 (0.73%)	Mixpanel
6	2 (0.73%)	RDBMS
7	1 (0.36%)	FileMaker
7	1 (0.36%)	OLTP
7	1 (0.36%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	29 (10.58%)	Xcode
2	25 (9.12%)	Git (software)
3	20 (7.30%)	JIRA
4	8 (2.92%)	Jenkins
4	8 (2.92%)	Selenium
4	8 (2.92%)	Subversion
5	7 (2.55%)	Axure RP
5	7 (2.55%)	Bitbucket
5	7 (2.55%)	JUnit
6	6 (2.19%)	Android Studio
6	6 (2.19%)	Cucumber
7	5 (1.82%)	Capybara
7	5 (1.82%)	webpack
8	4 (1.46%)	CocoaPods
9	3 (1.09%)	CircleCI
9	3 (1.09%)	Fiddler
9	3 (1.09%)	git-flow
9	3 (1.09%)	Travis CI
10	2 (0.73%)	Mercurial
10	2 (0.73%)	TeamCity

General
1	50 (18.25%)	Finance
2	29 (10.58%)	Banking
3	15 (5.47%)	Retail
4	9 (3.28%)	Investment Banking
5	8 (2.92%)	Front Office
6	5 (1.82%)	Law
6	5 (1.82%)	Legal
7	4 (1.46%)	Advertising
7	4 (1.46%)	Marketing
8	2 (0.73%)	Back Office
8	2 (0.73%)	Publishing
8	2 (0.73%)	Retail Banking
8	2 (0.73%)	Telecoms
9	1 (0.36%)	Billing
9	1 (0.36%)	Electronics
9	1 (0.36%)	Games
9	1 (0.36%)	Interactive Media
9	1 (0.36%)	Manufacturing
9	1 (0.36%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	66 (24.09%)	Developer
2	43 (15.69%)	Analyst
3	39 (14.23%)	iOS Developer
4	31 (11.31%)	Desktop Support
4	31 (11.31%)	Support Engineer
5	23 (8.39%)	IT Support
6	22 (8.03%)	2nd Line Support
7	20 (7.30%)	Mac Engineer
8	19 (6.93%)	Service Analyst
8	19 (6.93%)	Service Desk Analyst
9	15 (5.47%)	QA Engineer
10	14 (5.11%)	IT Engineer
10	14 (5.11%)	Service Desk Engineer
10	14 (5.11%)	Support Analyst
10	14 (5.11%)	Windows Engineer
11	13 (4.74%)	IT Support Engineer
11	13 (4.74%)	Mobile Developer
12	12 (4.38%)	2nd Line Engineer
12	12 (4.38%)	2nd Line Support Engineer
12	12 (4.38%)	Windows Support Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	31 (11.31%)	REST
2	28 (10.22%)	Core Data
3	20 (7.30%)	JSON
4	16 (5.84%)	HTML
5	13 (4.74%)	React Native
5	13 (4.74%)	RESTful
6	12 (4.38%)	Apache Cordova
6	12 (4.38%)	React
7	11 (4.01%)	CSS
7	11 (4.01%)	HTML5
7	11 (4.01%)	PhoneGap
7	11 (4.01%)	SOAP
8	10 (3.65%)	Cocoa
8	10 (3.65%)	Core Animation
9	9 (3.28%)	UIKit
10	8 (2.92%)	Cocoa Touch
11	7 (2.55%)	AngularJS
11	7 (2.55%)	iOS SDK
11	7 (2.55%)	jQuery
12	6 (2.19%)	CSS3

Miscellaneous
1	48 (17.52%)	Mobile App
2	26 (9.49%)	Blackberry
2	26 (9.49%)	User Experience
3	19 (6.93%)	iPad
3	19 (6.93%)	iPhone
4	16 (5.84%)	Smartphone
5	15 (5.47%)	Analytical Skills
6	14 (5.11%)	Video Conferencing
7	10 (3.65%)	Management Information System
8	9 (3.28%)	Animation
8	9 (3.28%)	Computer Science
9	5 (1.82%)	BYOD
9	5 (1.82%)	Data Centre
9	5 (1.82%)	N-Tier
9	5 (1.82%)	PKI
9	5 (1.82%)	Social Media
10	4 (1.46%)	Equities
10	4 (1.46%)	Fintech
10	4 (1.46%)	Greenfield Project
11	3 (1.09%)	RSA SecurID

Operating Systems
1	146 (53.28%)	Windows
2	109 (39.78%)	Apple iOS
3	81 (29.56%)	Android
4	65 (23.72%)	Windows 7
5	40 (14.60%)	Windows 10
6	29 (10.58%)	Mac OS X
7	23 (8.39%)	Unix
8	21 (7.66%)	Windows Server
9	20 (7.30%)	Mac OS
10	17 (6.20%)	Linux
11	16 (5.84%)	Windows 8
12	14 (5.11%)	Windows Server 2008
13	11 (4.01%)	Windows Server 2012
14	8 (2.92%)	Windows XP
15	7 (2.55%)	Windows Server 2003
16	6 (2.19%)	Windows Phone
17	2 (0.73%)	CentOS
17	2 (0.73%)	Mac OS X Server
17	2 (0.73%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18	1 (0.36%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	69 (25.18%)	Agile Software Development
2	47 (17.15%)	Test Automation
3	43 (15.69%)	iOS Development
4	41 (14.96%)	ITIL
5	24 (8.76%)	Mobile Development
6	21 (7.66%)	ITSM
7	19 (6.93%)	TDD
8	18 (6.57%)	Migration
9	16 (5.84%)	Android Development
9	16 (5.84%)	Scrum
10	15 (5.47%)	ITIL V3
10	15 (5.47%)	OO
10	15 (5.47%)	Wealth Management
11	14 (5.11%)	Change Management
12	13 (4.74%)	Prototyping
13	12 (4.38%)	Continuous Integration
14	11 (4.01%)	Asset Management
14	11 (4.01%)	Continuous Improvement
14	11 (4.01%)	Front End Development
14	11 (4.01%)	Workflow

Programming Languages
1	51 (18.61%)	Apple Swift
2	40 (14.60%)	Objective-C
3	18 (6.57%)	Java
4	15 (5.47%)	JavaScript
4	15 (5.47%)	Python
4	15 (5.47%)	SQL
5	7 (2.55%)	Go
6	6 (2.19%)	C++
7	5 (1.82%)	C
7	5 (1.82%)	PowerShell
8	3 (1.09%)	Bash Shell
8	3 (1.09%)	C#
8	3 (1.09%)	JSX
8	3 (1.09%)	Perl
8	3 (1.09%)	Ruby
8	3 (1.09%)	Shell Script
9	1 (0.36%)	ActionScript
9	1 (0.36%)	ES6
9	1 (0.36%)	T-SQL
9	1 (0.36%)	VC++

Qualifications
1	20 (7.30%)	Degree
2	17 (6.20%)	Microsoft Certification
3	15 (5.47%)	Security Cleared
4	13 (4.74%)	SC Cleared
5	10 (3.65%)	CTC Cleared
6	9 (3.28%)	MCSE
7	8 (2.92%)	MCP
8	7 (2.55%)	Computer Science Degree
9	6 (2.19%)	CCNA
9	6 (2.19%)	Cisco Certification
9	6 (2.19%)	DBS Check
10	5 (1.82%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	4 (1.46%)	ISEB
11	4 (1.46%)	MCSA
11	4 (1.46%)	Microsoft Certified Architect
12	3 (1.09%)	BPSS Clearance
12	3 (1.09%)	CISSP
12	3 (1.09%)	DV Cleared
12	3 (1.09%)	ITIL Certification
12	3 (1.09%)	MCSM

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (7.66%)	QA
2	12 (4.38%)	SLA
3	2 (0.73%)	TARGET2
4	1 (0.36%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	1 (0.36%)	ISO 9001

System Software
1	86 (31.39%)	Active Directory
2	11 (4.01%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	8 (2.92%)	Docker
3	8 (2.92%)	Virtual Desktop
3	8 (2.92%)	XenApp
4	5 (1.82%)	Hyper-V
4	5 (1.82%)	VMware ESXi
5	3 (1.09%)	Terminal Services
5	3 (1.09%)	Virtual Servers
5	3 (1.09%)	vSphere
6	2 (0.73%)	Citrix Presentation Server
6	2 (0.73%)	VirtualBox
7	1 (0.36%)	BitLocker
7	1 (0.36%)	Microsoft App-V
7	1 (0.36%)	Xen
7	1 (0.36%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	28 (10.22%)	SCCM
2	20 (7.30%)	HockeyApp
3	10 (3.65%)	ServiceCenter
4	9 (3.28%)	AirWatch
5	6 (2.19%)	Jamf Pro
6	5 (1.82%)	SCOM
7	2 (0.73%)	Cisco CUCM
7	2 (0.73%)	Microsoft Intune
7	2 (0.73%)	Norton AntiVirus
7	2 (0.73%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
7	2 (0.73%)	WSUS
8	1 (0.36%)	Ansible
8	1 (0.36%)	Cisco CME
8	1 (0.36%)	McAfee ePO
8	1 (0.36%)	Opscode Chef
8	1 (0.36%)	Puppet
8	1 (0.36%)	XenMobile

Vendors
1	78 (28.47%)	Microsoft
2	45 (16.42%)	Google
3	37 (13.50%)	Citrix
4	26 (9.49%)	Cisco
5	20 (7.30%)	VMware
6	19 (6.93%)	HP
7	17 (6.20%)	Adobe
8	11 (4.01%)	Remedy
9	10 (3.65%)	BMC
9	10 (3.65%)	CA
9	10 (3.65%)	MobileIron
9	10 (3.65%)	Peregrine
10	9 (3.28%)	Dell
11	8 (2.92%)	Telerik
12	7 (2.55%)	Lotus
12	7 (2.55%)	Sybase
13	6 (2.19%)	LANDesk
13	6 (2.19%)	Oracle
13	6 (2.19%)	ServiceNow
13	6 (2.19%)	Toshiba