Apple Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apple
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 100 113 135
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +19
Contract jobs citing Apple 2 32 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% 1.19% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 2.49% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 11
10th Percentile - - £170
25th Percentile - £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £370
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% +64.44%
75th Percentile - £494 £592
90th Percentile - £550 £594
South East median daily rate £319 £378 £236
% change year-on-year -15.67% +60.51% -5.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Median hourly rate £24.66 £26.88 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +48.64% -
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £26.88 £18.08
% change year-on-year -8.24% +48.64% -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Apple as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Apple in the Thames Valley

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Apple in the Thames Valley

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Apple in the Thames Valley

Apple
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +14 1 - - 8
Buckinghamshire +7 1 - - 17
Apple
South East

Apple
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow