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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 162 167
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing Apple 57 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.42% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 2.96% 0.71% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 20
10th Percentile £149 £271 £149
25th Percentile £150 £487 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £850 £190
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% +347.37% -39.68%
75th Percentile £425 - £234
90th Percentile £588 - £589
England median daily rate £275 £325 £248
% change year-on-year -15.38% +31.31% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £15.89 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.29 -
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.01 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% - -
75th Percentile £18.60 £17.67 -
90th Percentile £18.76 £18.03 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £18.08
% change year-on-year +37.66% +1.05% +6.35%

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 1,924 1,684 2,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.94% 40.75% 44.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 987 1,450
10th Percentile £268 £300 £213
25th Percentile £375 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 137 109
10th Percentile £14.28 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £13.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.06 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.57% -39.40% +32.50%
75th Percentile £60.75 £40.00 £45.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £49.25 £53.39
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +32 48 £375 +30.43% 21
North West -10 6 £279 -67.21% 19
North East -4 3 £275 - 4
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 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 33 (57.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (59.65%) Entra ID
2 30 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (1.75%) AWS
4 1 (1.75%) GCP
4 1 (1.75%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (1.75%) SSL
1 1 (1.75%) VoIP
1 1 (1.75%) VPN
1 1 (1.75%) WebEx
1 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Big Data
1 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
General
1 45 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Retail
3 18 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (22.81%) Banking
5 12 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Finance
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Support Manager
2 13 (22.81%) 1st Line Support
2 13 (22.81%) IT Support
3 12 (21.05%) 1st Line Support Manager
3 12 (21.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 12 (21.05%) IT Manager
3 12 (21.05%) IT Support Manager
4 7 (12.28%) Support Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Support Assistant
6 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Mac Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Mac Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Windows Support Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.33%) iPhone
1 19 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (63.16%) Mac OS
2 21 (36.84%) Windows
3 12 (21.05%) Apple iOS
4 4 (7.02%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) Customer Service
2 23 (40.35%) Incident Management
3 20 (35.09%) ITSM
4 19 (33.33%) ITIL
4 19 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 19 (33.33%) Service Management
5 12 (21.05%) Coaching
6 10 (17.54%) Security Patching
6 10 (17.54%) Service Delivery
7 9 (15.79%) Service Desk Management
8 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.02%) IT Strategy
8 4 (7.02%) User Experience
9 3 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (3.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (3.51%) Customer Experience
10 2 (3.51%) Data Protection
10 2 (3.51%) Time Management
11 1 (1.75%) Application Packaging
11 1 (1.75%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.02%) Bash
1 4 (7.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) ACSP
1 12 (21.05%) ACTC
2 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (59.65%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.02%) SCCM
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 42 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 30 (52.63%) ServiceNow
3 12 (21.05%) Citrix
4 2 (3.51%) BMC
4 2 (3.51%) Okta
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) Criteo
5 1 (1.75%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Logitech
5 1 (1.75%) MobileIron
5 1 (1.75%) Samsung
5 1 (1.75%) Zscaler