Apple Contracts in the North West

Apple
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 119 139
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -9
Contract jobs citing Apple 7 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.65% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 1.64% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 14
10th Percentile £178 £122 £150
25th Percentile £208 £210 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £248 £228
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +8.79% -45.67%
75th Percentile £374 £850 £319
90th Percentile £538 - £412
England median daily rate £350 £255 £235
% change year-on-year +37.25% +8.40% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
England median hourly rate £20.51 £17.72 £18.08
% change year-on-year +15.72% -1.99% +12.19%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Apple in the North West

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Apple in the North West

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Apple in the North West

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Apple in the North West

Apple
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 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
Merseyside +8 5 £215 -13.13% 2
Cheshire -8 1 £400 +227.87% 3
Cumbria - 1 - -
Apple
England

Apple
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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Google Ads
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
1 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Android
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) BCP
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Monetization
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Criteo
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Logitech