XCTest Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apple XCTest
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring XCTest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XCTest 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.028% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 - -
75th Percentile £496 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £407 £514 £507
% change year-on-year -20.78% +1.43% -

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

XCTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 504 255 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.25% 12.26% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 167 155
10th Percentile £314 £347 £260
25th Percentile £402 £405 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +6.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £537
90th Percentile £638 £648 £588
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £20.42 £22.01 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.71 £10.50
Median hourly rate £26.61 £37.85 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -32.71% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.61 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.80 £54.70 £65.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

XCTest
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XCTest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

XCTest job vacancy trend in the Midlands

XCTest
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XCTest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing XCTest

XCTest
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XCTest within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
West Midlands - 1 £489 -
XCTest
England

XCTest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) Bitrise
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Async-Await
1 1 (100.00%) Backends for Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Telematics
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Swift