Xcode Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apple Xcode
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Xcode skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Xcode 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.038% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £358 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -37.74% +21.05% -13.64%

All Development Application Skills
South West

Xcode falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 356 218 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.52% 11.50% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 127 240
10th Percentile £402 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £469 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £649 £628
90th Percentile £738 £729 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 56
10th Percentile £15.74 £61.25 £47.62
25th Percentile £59.84 £61.81 £56.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.01 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +1.55% -
75th Percentile £68.92 £70.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £88.44 £79.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Xcode
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Xcode job vacancy trend in the South West

Xcode
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Xcode
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 Xcode within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Bristol - 1 £500 -
Xcode
England

Xcode
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%) 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%) Core Data
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