Apple iOS Contracts in the North West

Apple iOS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Apple iOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apple iOS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 62 115
Rank change year-on-year -32 +53 -10
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 26 76 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.32% 2.76% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.81% 21.41% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 52 28
10th Percentile £193 £319 £173
25th Percentile £199 £442 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £800 £450
Median % change year-on-year -55.25% +77.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £484 £850 £600
90th Percentile £515 - £638
England median daily rate £400 £468 £416
% change year-on-year -14.53% +12.43% -16.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
England median hourly rate £18.82 £17.72 £18.50
% change year-on-year +6.21% -4.22% +12.12%

All Operating Systems
North West

Apple iOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Apple iOS in the North West

Apple iOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple iOS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Apple iOS in the North West

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in the North West

Apple iOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple iOS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Apple iOS in the North West

Apple iOS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the North West 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
Manchester -26 14 £220 -72.50% 33
Cheshire -11 5 £313 -3.69% 13
Merseyside +6 3 £400 +60.00% 2
Lancashire - 3 £550 - 11
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
Apple iOS
England

Apple iOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) InVision
1 2 (7.69%) UserZoom
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) npm
5 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) 2G
1 7 (26.92%) 3G
1 7 (26.92%) 4G
1 7 (26.92%) 5G
2 2 (7.69%) Calico
2 2 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) DHCP
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Axure RP
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) XCTest
3 1 (3.85%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) iOS Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) ForgeRock Architect
3 2 (7.69%) IT Support
3 2 (7.69%) Service Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Android Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
4 1 (3.85%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) IT Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior
4 1 (3.85%) User Researcher
4 1 (3.85%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) UIKit
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) AVFoundation
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) iOS SDK
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 2 (7.69%) OpenCV
3 2 (7.69%) Software Packaging
4 1 (3.85%) CarPlay
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) RAML
4 1 (3.85%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Smartphone
2 7 (26.92%) IoT
3 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
4 3 (11.54%) Driving Licence
5 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) iPhone
6 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (84.62%) Android
2 6 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Mac OS
4 2 (7.69%) Linux
5 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Agile
1 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
2 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 4 (15.38%) Data Security
2 4 (15.38%) iOS Development
2 4 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
2 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (15.38%) Time Management
2 4 (15.38%) Validation
3 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (11.54%) Image Processing
3 3 (11.54%) Migration
3 3 (11.54%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
3 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (11.54%) TDD
4 2 (7.69%) Co-Creation
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (7.69%) Sequence Diagram
4 2 (7.69%) Task Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
1 3 (11.54%) Swift
2 2 (7.69%) Java
2 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.85%) VB
3 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.85%) MCP
2 1 (3.85%) MCSA
2 1 (3.85%) MCSE
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) Istio
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (7.69%) Dell
3 2 (7.69%) ForgeRock
3 2 (7.69%) HP
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
3 2 (7.69%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Apple
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) McAfee
4 1 (3.85%) Optimizely
4 1 (3.85%) Symantec
4 1 (3.85%) VMware