Apple Contracts in the North of England

Apple
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Apple products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apple over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 165 197
Rank change year-on-year +49 +32 -29
Contract jobs citing Apple 50 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.52% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 2.98% 0.98% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 19
10th Percentile - £131 £149
25th Percentile £150 £210 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £265 £220
Median % change year-on-year +51.23% +20.23% -13.73%
75th Percentile £456 £850 £308
90th Percentile £738 - £370
England median daily rate £350 £255 £235
% change year-on-year +37.25% +8.40% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile - £16.72 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.49 -
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% - -
75th Percentile £18.41 £17.73 -
90th Percentile £18.47 £17.93 -
England median hourly rate £20.51 £17.72 £18.08
% change year-on-year +15.72% -1.99% +12.19%

All Vendors
North of England

Apple falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,679 2,042 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.96% 42.83% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,194 1,581
10th Percentile £230 £250 £248
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £564 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 212 66
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.24 £12.53 £19.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +96.52%
75th Percentile £59.65 £21.08 £49.05
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.15 £54.88
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Apple as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Apple in the North of England

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Apple in the North of England

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in the North of England

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Apple in the North of England

Apple
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +44 38 £375 +33.21% 22
North West +6 7 £215 -13.13% 33
North East - 5 £463 - 9
Apple
England

Apple
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) nginx
1 7 (14.00%) Traefik
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (56.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) Entra ID
2 21 (42.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (16.00%) AWS
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (14.00%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (14.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.00%) Azure
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) DNS
1 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 3 (6.00%) Internet
3 3 (6.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (6.00%) LAN
3 3 (6.00%) WAN
3 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (6.00%) Wireless
4 1 (2.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) GitLab
1 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 32 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Retail
3 13 (26.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (22.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Advertising
7 1 (2.00%) Finance
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Support Manager
2 10 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) IT Support
3 8 (16.00%) 1st Line Support
3 8 (16.00%) 1st Line Support Manager
3 8 (16.00%) IT Manager
3 8 (16.00%) IT Support Manager
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 7 (14.00%) Support Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) Support Assistant
7 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Technical Support Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) cloud-init
1 7 (14.00%) Kafka
1 7 (14.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) iPhone
1 13 (26.00%) Smartphone
2 7 (14.00%) PKI
3 3 (6.00%) IVR
4 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.00%) Mac OS
2 19 (38.00%) Windows
3 13 (26.00%) Apple iOS
4 10 (20.00%) Linux
5 7 (14.00%) CentOS
5 7 (14.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (14.00%) Unix
6 5 (10.00%) Android
7 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
7 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Customer Service
2 20 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 17 (34.00%) ITIL
4 14 (28.00%) ITSM
4 14 (28.00%) Service Management
5 13 (26.00%) Incident Management
6 11 (22.00%) Coaching
7 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.00%) Service Delivery
8 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
8 7 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (14.00%) DevOps
8 7 (14.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 7 (14.00%) Identity Management
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.00%) Observability
8 7 (14.00%) Secrets Management
8 7 (14.00%) Static Application Security Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Security Patching
9 5 (10.00%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Bash
1 8 (16.00%) Python
2 7 (14.00%) Go
3 1 (2.00%) AppleScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) ACSP
3 5 (10.00%) ACTC
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) NCSC
2 3 (6.00%) SLA
3 2 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (14.00%) Consul
2 7 (14.00%) Grafana
2 7 (14.00%) HAProxy
2 7 (14.00%) Istio
2 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) linkerd
2 7 (14.00%) Packer
2 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
2 7 (14.00%) Rancher
2 7 (14.00%) Terraform
2 7 (14.00%) ZABBIX
3 4 (8.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (36.00%) ServiceNow
3 11 (22.00%) Citrix
4 7 (14.00%) ESET
4 7 (14.00%) Okta
4 7 (14.00%) Splunk
5 3 (6.00%) Samsung
6 2 (4.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) Adobe
7 1 (2.00%) Criteo
7 1 (2.00%) Databricks
7 1 (2.00%) Logitech
7 1 (2.00%) MobileIron