Apple iOS Contract Job Trends

Apple iOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apple iOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 284 209
Rank change year-on-year -48 -75 +80
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 344 264 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.89% 1.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.20% 6.39% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 156 296
10th Percentile £193 £181 £228
25th Percentile £275 £248 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £481 £600
90th Percentile £638 £584 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.65% +64.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 16
10th Percentile £21.69 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £29.69 £16.95 £16.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% +6.21% -6.74%
75th Percentile £34.12 £20.69 £43.25
90th Percentile £35.22 £21.67 £64.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% +7.53% -5.39%

All Operating Systems
UK

Apple iOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,779 4,134 5,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 13.98% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,698 3,883
10th Percentile £188 £200 £186
25th Percentile £316 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 201 416
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £15.73
Median hourly rate £27.94 £22.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -7.56% -49.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £18.87 £24.18
% change year-on-year +45.73% -21.96% -40.43%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apple iOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apple iOS job vacancy trend in the UK

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apple iOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apple iOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 6 months to 14 June 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
England -59 294 £438 +9.38% 77
London -38 150 £402 +0.50% 34
UK excluding London -94 146 £425 +6.25% 50
Work from Home -5 111 £500 +25.00% 30
North of England -76 49 £425 +15.96% 16
South East -54 37 £210 -4.55% 16
South West -3 30 £550 -10.20% 5
Yorkshire -45 28 £190 +26.67% 4
Scotland -18 14 £550 +46.67% 2
Midlands -50 14 £270 -32.50% 7
North West -62 14 £444 +18.33% 4
North East -26 10 £450 -18.18% 8
West Midlands -49 9 £557 +39.27% 4
East of England -38 7 £295 -34.44% 4
East Midlands -21 5 £225 -51.87% 3
Wales - 1 £300 -

Apple iOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 31 (9.01%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.20%) Confluence
3 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.16%) Sketch
4 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.58%) Notion
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 86 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 79 (22.97%) Azure
3 39 (11.34%) Entra ID
4 37 (10.76%) AWS
5 27 (7.85%) GitHub
6 23 (6.69%) GCP
7 19 (5.52%) OneDrive
8 14 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.07%) Google Workspace
9 13 (3.78%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.62%) SaaS
11 8 (2.33%) Figma
12 7 (2.03%) Firebase
12 7 (2.03%) IaaS
12 7 (2.03%) PaaS
13 6 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.45%) Sauce Labs
15 4 (1.16%) Bitrise
16 3 (0.87%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.81%) DNS
2 18 (5.23%) VPN
3 17 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.36%) DHCP
5 11 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.91%) VoIP
7 9 (2.62%) Wireless
8 7 (2.03%) LAN
8 7 (2.03%) WAN
9 4 (1.16%) Internet
10 2 (0.58%) DSL
10 2 (0.58%) Firewall
10 2 (0.58%) WAAS
11 1 (0.29%) 4G
11 1 (0.29%) 5G
11 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.29%) Skype
11 1 (0.29%) SMS
11 1 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.62%) Power BI
2 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.87%) Db2
3 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.58%) GIS
4 2 (0.58%) Tableau
5 1 (0.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (7.27%) Xcode
2 22 (6.40%) XCUITest
3 20 (5.81%) XCTest
4 19 (5.52%) JIRA
5 13 (3.78%) Git
6 10 (2.91%) Appium
7 9 (2.62%) fastlane
8 8 (2.33%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.74%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.45%) Android Studio
11 4 (1.16%) CocoaPods
11 4 (1.16%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.87%) GitLab
12 3 (0.87%) JUnit
12 3 (0.87%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (0.87%) Postman
12 3 (0.87%) PyCharm
12 3 (0.87%) PyUnit
13 2 (0.58%) Gradle
13 2 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 127 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.01%) Finance
5 26 (7.56%) Banking
6 11 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.03%) Military
7 7 (2.03%) Publishing
8 6 (1.74%) Italian Language
9 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.16%) Retail
11 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Billing
12 2 (0.58%) Front Office
12 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Law
12 2 (0.58%) Legal
12 2 (0.58%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Slovak Language
Job Titles
1 81 (23.55%) Developer
2 54 (15.70%) iOS Developer
3 53 (15.41%) Senior
4 39 (11.34%) IT Support
5 36 (10.47%) Analyst
5 36 (10.47%) Architect
6 28 (8.14%) Mobile Engineer
7 27 (7.85%) Mobile Developer
8 26 (7.56%) Support Engineer
9 18 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (4.94%) Desktop Support
11 16 (4.65%) IT Engineer
11 16 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
12 15 (4.36%) Lead
13 14 (4.07%) Mobile Architect
14 12 (3.49%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.49%) Service Desk Analyst
15 11 (3.20%) Designer
15 11 (3.20%) Service Analyst
15 11 (3.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.43%) SwiftUI
2 24 (6.98%) React Native
3 23 (6.69%) RESTful
4 19 (5.52%) UIKit
5 17 (4.94%) Flutter
6 16 (4.65%) iOS SDK
7 9 (2.62%) OAuth
7 9 (2.62%) React
8 8 (2.33%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.33%) REST
9 7 (2.03%) Android Jetpack
9 7 (2.03%) GraphQL
9 7 (2.03%) Jetpack Compose
10 6 (1.74%) Core Data
11 5 (1.45%) Android SDK
11 5 (1.45%) JSON
12 4 (1.16%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.16%) Core Media
12 4 (1.16%) OpenID
12 4 (1.16%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 82 (23.84%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.81%) Smartphone
3 19 (5.52%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.07%) Blackberry
5 11 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.33%) iPhone
7 8 (2.33%) Mobile Banking
7 8 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.74%) iPad
10 5 (1.45%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.45%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (1.16%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.87%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 225 (65.41%) Android
2 143 (41.57%) Windows
3 74 (21.51%) Mac OS
4 35 (10.17%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.62%) Linux
6 4 (1.16%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.87%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (22.67%) iOS Development
3 54 (15.70%) Mobile Device Management
4 53 (15.41%) Agile
5 49 (14.24%) User Experience
6 48 (13.95%) CI/CD
7 41 (11.92%) Customer Service
7 41 (11.92%) ITIL
7 41 (11.92%) Test Automation
8 35 (10.17%) Mobile Development
9 34 (9.88%) AI
10 33 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (9.59%) ITSM
10 33 (9.59%) MVVM
11 29 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (6.98%) Analytics
12 24 (6.98%) Architectural Patterns
13 23 (6.69%) Data Protection
13 23 (6.69%) DevOps
13 23 (6.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (25.29%) Swift
2 37 (10.76%) Kotlin
3 32 (9.30%) Java
4 24 (6.98%) Objective-C
5 17 (4.94%) Python
6 15 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.20%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.33%) SQL
9 5 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.16%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) C#
11 2 (0.58%) Dart
11 2 (0.58%) Ruby
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) Korn
12 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 65 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.43%) Degree
4 10 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.45%) CISSP
7 3 (0.87%) ACSP
7 3 (0.87%) PhD
8 2 (0.58%) SANS
9 1 (0.29%) ACTC
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.85%) QA
2 26 (7.56%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.20%) WCAG
4 5 (1.45%) SLA
5 3 (0.87%) NCSC
6 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) GxP
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (15.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.74%) BitLocker
2 6 (1.74%) Docker
3 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (18.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.10%) Jamf Pro
3 17 (4.94%) SCCM
4 6 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.45%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 113 (32.85%) Microsoft
2 50 (14.53%) Apple
3 31 (9.01%) ServiceNow
4 21 (6.10%) Google
5 19 (5.52%) Citrix
6 18 (5.23%) MobileIron
7 17 (4.94%) VMware
8 8 (2.33%) Splunk
9 6 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.45%) Remedy
11 4 (1.16%) Adobe
11 4 (1.16%) SAP
12 3 (0.87%) HP
12 3 (0.87%) New Relic
12 3 (0.87%) Virgin Media
13 2 (0.58%) Checkmarx
13 2 (0.58%) Okta
13 2 (0.58%) Xamarin