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 21 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 113 130
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Apple 10 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.45% 0.41% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 1.05% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 13
10th Percentile £134 £236 -
25th Percentile £144 £478 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £279 £850 £175
Median % change year-on-year -67.21% +385.71% -58.82%
75th Percentile £481 - £245
90th Percentile £583 - £598
England median daily rate £276 £308 £250
% change year-on-year -10.16% +23.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £17.82 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.63 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £15.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% - -
75th Percentile - £15.88 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £18.08
% change year-on-year +37.66% +1.05% +6.35%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,105 952 1,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 49.84% 39.13% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 539 816
10th Percentile £300 £300 £225
25th Percentile £384 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £586
90th Percentile £675 £675 £658
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 86 92
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.79
25th Percentile £18.87 £11.02 £17.49
Median hourly rate £24.62 £16.06 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.30% -52.76% +68.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £39.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.80 £55.79 £55.77
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in the North West over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in the North West

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Apple
DemandTrendContract 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 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -2 4 £128 -84.94% 12
Cheshire -13 4 £400 -28.57% 3
Merseyside +1 2 £404 +70.90% 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Google Ads
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Advertising
4 1 (10.00%) Electronics
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Italian Language
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Polish Language
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Spanish Language
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) IT Technician
1 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (20.00%) Android
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (40.00%) Inventory Management
3 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Data Science
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Monetization
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (10.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Criteo
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Logitech
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler