Apple Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 252 300
Rank change year-on-year +21 +48 +51
Contract jobs citing Apple 103 143 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.69% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 1.62% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 62 117
10th Percentile £150 £120 £150
25th Percentile £179 £164 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £251 £230
Median % change year-on-year +25.37% +9.24% +2.22%
75th Percentile £500 £378 £280
90th Percentile £658 £545 £361
UK median daily rate £350 £253 £240
% change year-on-year +38.61% +5.21% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 9
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £16.15
25th Percentile £16.53 £16.61 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.72 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -1.99% +7.20%
75th Percentile £20.09 £18.27 -
90th Percentile £24.02 £19.95 £19.38
UK median hourly rate £18.36 £17.72 £18.04
% change year-on-year +3.60% -1.77% +11.95%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,231 8,804 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.77% 42.53% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,960 5,308 7,304
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 948 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.05%
75th Percentile £58.09 £59.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £22.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year +19.67% -49.43% +105.65%

Apple
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Apple as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Apple in the UK excluding London

Apple
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Apple in the UK excluding London

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple in the UK excluding London

Apple
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Apple in the UK excluding London

Apple
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +42 51 £400 +51.23% 41
Yorkshire +45 39 £350 +24.33% 12
South West +40 13 £550 +511.11% 21
Midlands +12 13 £250 +92.31% 34
East of England +47 12 £500 +163.16% 17
East Midlands +9 8 £250 +92.31% 17
North West -1 7 £215 -13.13% 23
West Midlands +12 5 £280 +40.00% 14
Northern Ireland -7 5 £160 -20.00%
South East -35 5 £319 -15.67% 68
North East - 5 £463 - 6
Scotland -1 4 £200 -45.95% 3
Wales - 2 - - 3
Apple
UK

Apple
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (6.80%) nginx
1 7 (6.80%) Traefik
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.97%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (39.81%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.97%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.97%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.89%) Entra ID
1 38 (36.89%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (11.65%) Azure
3 9 (8.74%) AWS
4 7 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (6.80%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Apple Pay
5 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.94%) Google Pay
6 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.97%) GCP
7 1 (0.97%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.65%) DNS
1 12 (11.65%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.83%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (5.83%) Wireless
3 5 (4.85%) DHCP
3 5 (4.85%) Firewall
3 5 (4.85%) LAN
3 5 (4.85%) VPN
3 5 (4.85%) WAN
3 5 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.91%) Internet
4 3 (2.91%) iSCSI
4 3 (2.91%) VoIP
5 2 (1.94%) ATM
5 2 (1.94%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.94%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.97%) Big Data
4 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) GitLab
1 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 58 (56.31%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Banking
4 14 (13.59%) Retail
5 13 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.85%) Finance
7 3 (2.91%) Electronics
7 3 (2.91%) German Language
7 3 (2.91%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.91%) Legal
7 3 (2.91%) Local Government
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.94%) Marketing
8 2 (1.94%) Military
8 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (17.48%) Support Manager
2 17 (16.50%) IT Support
3 14 (13.59%) Support Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Analyst
6 9 (8.74%) 1st Line Support
7 8 (7.77%) 1st Line Support Manager
7 8 (7.77%) Desktop Support
7 8 (7.77%) IT Manager
7 8 (7.77%) IT Support Manager
8 7 (6.80%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Senior
8 7 (6.80%) Support Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (5.83%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) IT Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.80%) cloud-init
1 7 (6.80%) Kafka
1 7 (6.80%) Keycloak
2 3 (2.91%) CSS
2 3 (2.91%) HTML
3 2 (1.94%) Web Services
4 1 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Smartphone
2 15 (14.56%) iPhone
3 7 (6.80%) PKI
4 4 (3.88%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.91%) Blackberry
5 3 (2.91%) IVR
6 2 (1.94%) Anti-Spyware
6 2 (1.94%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.97%) iPad
7 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (52.43%) Windows
2 31 (30.10%) Mac OS
3 22 (21.36%) Apple iOS
4 19 (18.45%) Android
5 18 (17.48%) Windows 10
6 14 (13.59%) Linux
7 8 (7.77%) Windows Server
8 7 (6.80%) CentOS
8 7 (6.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (6.80%) Unix
9 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.94%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.97%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.97%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.98%) Customer Service
2 29 (28.16%) Mobile Device Management
3 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (17.48%) Incident Management
4 18 (17.48%) ITIL
5 16 (15.53%) Agile
5 16 (15.53%) Coaching
6 15 (14.56%) Service Management
7 14 (13.59%) ITSM
8 11 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (10.68%) Service Delivery
9 9 (8.74%) Time Management
10 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.77%) Identity Management
11 7 (6.80%) Customer Requirements
11 7 (6.80%) DevOps
11 7 (6.80%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 7 (6.80%) Observability
11 7 (6.80%) Secrets Management
11 7 (6.80%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.62%) Python
2 10 (9.71%) Bash
2 10 (9.71%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.80%) Go
4 3 (2.91%) VBA
5 1 (0.97%) AppleScript
Qualifications
1 20 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.68%) Degree
4 7 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.80%) DBS Check
5 6 (5.83%) ACSP
6 5 (4.85%) ACTC
7 2 (1.94%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.94%) MCSE
7 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) NCSC
1 7 (6.80%) SLA
2 4 (3.88%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (36.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (2.91%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (35.92%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (11.65%) SCCM
3 7 (6.80%) Consul
3 7 (6.80%) Grafana
3 7 (6.80%) HAProxy
3 7 (6.80%) Istio
3 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.80%) linkerd
3 7 (6.80%) Packer
3 7 (6.80%) Prometheus
3 7 (6.80%) Rancher
3 7 (6.80%) Terraform
3 7 (6.80%) ZABBIX
4 5 (4.85%) AirWatch
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.94%) XenMobile
6 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.97%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 54 (52.43%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.27%) ServiceNow
3 12 (11.65%) Citrix
4 10 (9.71%) Samsung
5 8 (7.77%) Okta
6 7 (6.80%) ESET
6 7 (6.80%) SOTI
6 7 (6.80%) Splunk
7 6 (5.83%) Google
7 6 (5.83%) HP
8 4 (3.88%) Adobe
8 4 (3.88%) VMware
9 3 (2.91%) Cisco
9 3 (2.91%) Dell
9 3 (2.91%) MobileIron
9 3 (2.91%) SAP
10 2 (1.94%) Computacenter
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle
10 2 (1.94%) Remedy
10 2 (1.94%) Salesforce