Objective-C Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Apple Objective-C
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Objective-C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Objective-C 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.41% - 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £367 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.77%
75th Percentile £392 - £548
90th Percentile £397 - -
North West median daily rate £375 £305 £515
% change year-on-year +22.95% -40.78% -20.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £59.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.38 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £68.38 - £73.75
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
North West median hourly rate £65.50 - £72.50

All Programming Languages
Manchester

Objective-C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 388 281 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.86% 26.43% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 200 379
10th Percentile £319 £362 £325
25th Percentile £377 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £565
90th Percentile £624 £589 £659
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £487
% change year-on-year -1.11% -7.60% -4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £63.50 £82.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £93.00 £79.50
North West median hourly rate £62.75 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.46% +40.75% +18.41%

Objective-C
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Objective-C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Objective-C job vacancy trend in Manchester

Objective-C
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Objective-C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Objective-C

Objective-C
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Objective-C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Objective-C

Objective-C
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) CocoaPods
1 3 (60.00%) fastlane
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) XCTest
3 1 (20.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (20.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) SwiftUI
1 3 (60.00%) UIKit
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (20.00%) Core Media
3 1 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) JSON Schema
3 1 (20.00%) OkHttp
3 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (20.00%) Retrofit
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) iOS Development
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) A/B Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (40.00%) MVVM
3 2 (40.00%) Server-Driven UI
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Multivariate Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Swift
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes