Apple Pay Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apple Pay
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apple Pay skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 338 -
Rank change year-on-year -89 - -
Contract jobs citing Apple Pay 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.032% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.056% 0.098% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £485 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -19.17% - -17.24%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Apple Pay falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,102 4,070 5,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.68% 32.06% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,835 2,896 3,833
10th Percentile £288 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 158 258
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.63 £60.42
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%

Apple Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apple Pay relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Apple Pay job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Apple Pay
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apple Pay.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apple Pay

Apple Pay
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple Pay within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Scotland - 2 £475 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £495 - 2
North of England - 1 - -
Apple Pay
UK

Apple Pay
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Actimize
1 1 (25.00%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Google Pay
2 2 (50.00%) Stripe
3 1 (25.00%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior WordPress Developer
2 2 (50.00%) WordPress Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) JWT
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Webhook
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Banking
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Expense Management
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Apple
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) GoCardless
3 1 (25.00%) FIS
3 1 (25.00%) TSYS