iOS Development Contract Job Trends in Manchester

iOS Software Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring iOS Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 77 99
Rank change year-on-year -11 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing iOS Development 4 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.33% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.53% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £361 £391 £427
25th Percentile £367 £393 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £395 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -9.71% -16.67%
75th Percentile £392 £398 £452
90th Percentile £397 £399 £466
North West median daily rate £378 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -16.11% +2.86% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £63.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £61.00 - £72.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

iOS Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 945 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.80% 89.49% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 562 983
10th Percentile £310 £294 £302
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £682 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 36 50
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.42 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -0.76% -14.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.56 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.00 £75.70
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £30.95 £36.73
% change year-on-year +5.01% -15.72% +42.29%

iOS Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing iOS Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

iOS Development job vacancy trend in Manchester

iOS Development
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing iOS Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing iOS Development

iOS Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing iOS Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing iOS Development

iOS Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) CocoaPods
2 1 (25.00%) fastlane
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) XCTest
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) iOS Developer
1 2 (50.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (25.00%) Core Media
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Server-Driven UI
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Swift
2 3 (75.00%) Objective-C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA