Core Media Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apple Core Media
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Core Media skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Core Media 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £363 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Core Media 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,322 2,800 3,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 17.58% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 1,707 2,460
10th Percentile £325 £340 £325
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 84 143
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.93 £38.10
25th Percentile £44.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.90 £74.00 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%

Core Media
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Core Media job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Core Media
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 Core Media within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North West - 1 £363 - 1
North of England - 1 £363 - 1
Core Media
UK

Core Media
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CocoaPods
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Swift