Core Data Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apple Core Data
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Core Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Core Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.043% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £513 £550 -
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

Core Data falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 338 408 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.51% 19.32% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 240 378
10th Percentile £335 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 44
10th Percentile £61.55 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.40 £75.60
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Core Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Core Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Core Data job vacancy trend in the South West

Core Data
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Core Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Core Data

Core Data
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Core Data within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Bristol - 1 £500 -
Core Data
England

Core Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) XCTest
1 1 (100.00%) XCUITest
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Swift