Apple iOS Contract Job Trends in the North West

Apple iOS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Apple iOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 95 63
Rank change year-on-year -57 -32 +58
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 27 40 59
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.69% 1.82% 2.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.48% 13.99% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 51
10th Percentile £173 £203 £310
25th Percentile £300 £368 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £393 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.30% -15.03% -10.19%
75th Percentile £475 £473 £850
90th Percentile £554 £502 -
England median daily rate £400 £400 £475
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £77.00 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +308.06% - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £53.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -64.82% +103.81%

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 493 286 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 13.05% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 201 180
10th Percentile £173 £185 £192
25th Percentile £295 £270 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -15.73% +5.95%
75th Percentile £525 £492 £588
90th Percentile £610 £625 £825
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 24
10th Percentile £16.88 £13.00 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.20 £15.91
Median hourly rate £46.25 £17.44 £18.10
Median % change year-on-year +165.19% -3.63% -19.57%
75th Percentile £178.75 £18.87 £24.18
90th Percentile - - £45.45
England median hourly rate £38.00 £25.15 £57.25
% change year-on-year +51.09% -56.07% +22.62%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apple iOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Apple iOS job vacancy trend in the North West

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Apple iOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Apple iOS

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 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in the North West

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Apple iOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Apple iOS

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 16 September 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
Manchester -33 12 £400 - 52
Cheshire -13 8 £363 -3.97% 5
Merseyside -18 7 £300 -6.98% 3
Apple iOS
England

Apple iOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) Firebase
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.70%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DHCP
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) CocoaPods
1 2 (7.41%) fastlane
2 1 (3.70%) Appium
2 1 (3.70%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
2 1 (3.70%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Police
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Mobile Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) QA Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Security Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Senior QA Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Applications Packager
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) iOS Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Flutter
1 3 (11.11%) REST
1 3 (11.11%) SwiftUI
2 2 (7.41%) UIKit
3 1 (3.70%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.70%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.11%) IoT
2 3 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.70%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Android
2 13 (48.15%) Windows
3 9 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) User Experience
2 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Analytics
3 6 (22.22%) iOS Development
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (18.52%) Data Analytics
4 5 (18.52%) Information Security
4 5 (18.52%) ITSM
4 5 (18.52%) QA Automation
5 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
5 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Mobile Development
5 4 (14.81%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) Swift
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) Kotlin
5 3 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (7.41%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
1 5 (18.52%) CISSP
2 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) ACSP
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) SLA
3 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Firmware
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.70%) AirWatch
2 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (18.52%) BeyondTrust
3 5 (18.52%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (18.52%) Remedy
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 3 (11.11%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) Bomgar
5 1 (3.70%) SAP