Xcode Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple Xcode
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Xcode skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xcode over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 386 433
Rank change year-on-year +42 +47 +57
Contract jobs citing Xcode 15 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.029% 0.026%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.74% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile - £345 £234
25th Percentile £204 £396 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £291 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -35.28% +5.88% -22.73%
75th Percentile £375 £456 £503
90th Percentile £388 £468 £513
UK median daily rate £375 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -9.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,038 2,340 3,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.75% 11.32% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,465 2,090
10th Percentile £313 £340 £330
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £655 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 214 169
10th Percentile £21.69 £40.00 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +10.47%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.97 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +13.64%

Xcode
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Xcode in the UK excluding London

Xcode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Xcode in the UK excluding London

Xcode
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xcode in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Xcode in the UK excluding London

Xcode
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Xcode in the UK excluding London

Xcode
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 Xcode within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Scotland - 6 - - 2
North West +13 4 £375 -16.67% 2
North of England +9 4 £375 -16.67% 4
South East +40 3 £208 - 10
Midlands +7 2 £400 -11.11% 1
West Midlands +6 2 £400 -11.11%
Xcode
UK

Xcode
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
1 3 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Gradle
2 5 (33.33%) Android Studio
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (20.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Finance
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) iOS Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) UX Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) SwiftUI
2 6 (40.00%) UIKit
3 4 (26.67%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) React
4 3 (20.00%) Ajax
4 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (13.33%) Jest
5 2 (13.33%) React Native
5 2 (13.33%) Redux
5 2 (13.33%) REST
6 1 (6.67%) .NET
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (40.00%) Credit Risk
2 6 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (40.00%) iPad
2 6 (40.00%) iPhone
2 6 (40.00%) Virtual Team
3 4 (26.67%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Android
2 12 (80.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 12 (80.00%) UX Design
3 11 (73.33%) Agile
3 11 (73.33%) Mobile Development
4 10 (66.67%) BDD
4 10 (66.67%) iOS Development
4 10 (66.67%) Scrum
4 10 (66.67%) TDD
5 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (46.67%) Design Patterns
6 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (40.00%) Biometrics
7 6 (40.00%) Build Automation
7 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (40.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (40.00%) MVC
7 6 (40.00%) MVVM
7 6 (40.00%) Rapid Prototyping
7 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Objective-C
1 10 (66.67%) Swift
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) Java
3 7 (46.67%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) C
4 4 (26.67%) C++
4 4 (26.67%) Kotlin
4 4 (26.67%) Ruby
4 4 (26.67%) Scala
5 3 (20.00%) Perl
6 2 (13.33%) JSX
6 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk