Apple iOS Contracts

Apple iOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apple iOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apple iOS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 235 268
Rank change year-on-year -35 +33 -9
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 280 449 592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.03% 0.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.87% 7.73% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 280 410
10th Percentile £166 £212 £163
25th Percentile £250 £312 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £465 £423
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +10.12% -15.50%
75th Percentile £538 £616 £575
90th Percentile £713 £825 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £419 £370
% change year-on-year -4.48% +13.05% -7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 16
10th Percentile - £12.25 £17.13
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.36 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £17.72 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -4.22% +12.12%
75th Percentile £21.61 - £26.31
90th Percentile £29.12 £36.16 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.82 £17.29 £18.50
% change year-on-year +8.88% -6.57% +12.12%

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 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apple iOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apple iOS.

Daily rate trend for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apple iOS.

Hourly rate trend for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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
England -35 245 £400 -15.79% 279
London +21 144 £400 -20.00% 132
UK excluding London -60 106 £400 -4.48% 160
Work from Home +10 65 £400 -17.95% 234
North of England -20 50 £379 -23.43% 60
North West -33 26 £358 -55.25% 42
Yorkshire +10 23 £400 +33.33% 13
South East +5 22 £220 -51.11% 28
East of England +44 16 £450 +69.81% 25
Scotland -5 12 £375 -6.25% 9
South West +41 10 £581 +55.00% 22
Midlands -16 4 £290 -22.67% 13
West Midlands -7 3 £400 -11.11% 7
East Midlands -7 1 £180 +20.00% 6
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 5

Apple iOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 38 (13.57%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.07%) Sketch
4 2 (0.71%) InVision
4 2 (0.71%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (11.07%) Azure
3 18 (6.43%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.07%) Google Workspace
5 14 (5.00%) AWS
6 8 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.50%) GitHub
8 6 (2.14%) Figma
8 6 (2.14%) GCP
8 6 (2.14%) Serverless
9 5 (1.79%) SaaS
10 4 (1.43%) Asana
10 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.43%) Slack
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.07%) Apple Pay
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.07%) BrowserStack
11 3 (1.07%) Sauce Labs
11 3 (1.07%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) Firewall
1 10 (3.57%) Internet
2 9 (3.21%) DNS
3 8 (2.86%) VPN
4 7 (2.50%) 2G
4 7 (2.50%) 3G
4 7 (2.50%) 4G
4 7 (2.50%) 5G
4 7 (2.50%) DHCP
4 7 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.71%) Calico
6 2 (0.71%) VoIP
7 1 (0.36%) LAN
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) WebEx
7 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.14%) FileMaker
2 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.07%) MySQL
2 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (8.57%) Git
2 15 (5.36%) JIRA
2 15 (5.36%) Xcode
3 9 (3.21%) Appium
4 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.79%) JUnit
5 5 (1.79%) Selenium
6 4 (1.43%) GitLab
7 3 (1.07%) XCUITest
8 2 (0.71%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.71%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.71%) Maven
8 2 (0.71%) TestNG
9 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) Mockito
9 1 (0.36%) NUnit
9 1 (0.36%) Subversion
9 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.21%) Finance
3 50 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.86%) Banking
5 20 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.43%) Front Office
7 7 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Marketing
10 4 (1.43%) Legal
10 4 (1.43%) Local Government
11 3 (1.07%) Military
11 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Advertising
12 2 (0.71%) Automotive
12 2 (0.71%) Billing
12 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (18.57%) Developer
2 50 (17.86%) Analyst
3 44 (15.71%) Support Engineer
4 42 (15.00%) iOS Developer
5 28 (10.00%) IT Support
6 21 (7.50%) IT Engineer
6 21 (7.50%) Support Analyst
7 20 (7.14%) Product Manager
8 19 (6.79%) IT Support Engineer
9 18 (6.43%) Business Analyst
9 18 (6.43%) Business Manager
9 18 (6.43%) Product Analyst
9 18 (6.43%) Product Business Analyst
10 17 (6.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 17 (6.07%) Architect
11 16 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
12 15 (5.36%) Senior
13 13 (4.64%) Desktop Support
14 12 (4.29%) 1st Line Support
15 11 (3.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.50%) RESTful
2 19 (6.79%) UIKit
3 15 (5.36%) SwiftUI
4 14 (5.00%) React Native
5 9 (3.21%) React
6 8 (2.86%) iOS SDK
7 6 (2.14%) .NET
7 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.14%) Core Data
7 6 (2.14%) REST
8 5 (1.79%) Cocoa
8 5 (1.79%) Cocoa Touch
8 5 (1.79%) CSS
8 5 (1.79%) Flutter
8 5 (1.79%) HTML
8 5 (1.79%) JSON
9 4 (1.43%) AVFoundation
10 3 (1.07%) Android SDK
10 3 (1.07%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 28 (10.00%) iPhone
3 26 (9.29%) Product Ownership
4 21 (7.50%) iPad
5 19 (6.79%) Hedge funds
6 18 (6.43%) Derivative
6 18 (6.43%) Equities
6 18 (6.43%) Fixed Income
6 18 (6.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (6.43%) Smartphone
7 14 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.86%) IoT
8 8 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.50%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.14%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.14%) NHS
11 5 (1.79%) Life Science
11 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 137 (48.93%) Android
2 90 (32.14%) Windows
3 32 (11.43%) Windows 10
4 27 (9.64%) Mac OS
5 17 (6.07%) Linux
6 12 (4.29%) Mac OS X
7 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.71%) VMS
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (26.43%) Agile
3 62 (22.14%) iOS Development
4 48 (17.14%) User Experience
5 46 (16.43%) Asset Management
6 39 (13.93%) Customer Service
7 38 (13.57%) CI/CD
8 25 (8.93%) Mobile Development
9 24 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
10 23 (8.21%) Analytics
11 22 (7.86%) Coaching
11 22 (7.86%) ITSM
12 21 (7.50%) Machine Learning
12 21 (7.50%) Roadmaps
12 21 (7.50%) Test Automation
13 19 (6.79%) Investment Management
14 18 (6.43%) Mobile Application Development
14 18 (6.43%) Mobile Device Management
14 18 (6.43%) Portfolio Management
14 18 (6.43%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.50%) Swift
2 31 (11.07%) Objective-C
3 15 (5.36%) Kotlin
4 10 (3.57%) Java
5 8 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.50%) Python
7 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.07%) Dart
8 3 (1.07%) PHP
9 2 (0.71%) SQL
9 2 (0.71%) VB
9 2 (0.71%) VBScript
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) C#
10 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (13.21%) Degree
2 20 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 20 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.71%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.71%) ACSP
5 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.71%) MCP
5 2 (0.71%) MCSA
5 2 (0.71%) MCSE
6 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.36%) CISSP
6 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMP
6 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.36%) QA
2 12 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.50%) GxP
4 6 (2.14%) NCSC
5 4 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.79%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.43%) vSphere
6 3 (1.07%) Docker
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 25 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.71%) SCCM
3 9 (3.21%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.07%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.07%) Terraform
5 2 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.71%) Istio
5 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) SCOM
6 1 (0.36%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.14%) Apple
3 26 (9.29%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.50%) Google
5 14 (5.00%) Citrix
6 12 (4.29%) Nexthink
7 11 (3.93%) MobileIron
8 7 (2.50%) VMware
9 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.07%) Dell
10 3 (1.07%) HP
11 2 (0.71%) Adobe
11 2 (0.71%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.71%) IBM
11 2 (0.71%) McAfee
11 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.71%) NEC
11 2 (0.71%) Remedy
11 2 (0.71%) SAP
11 2 (0.71%) Symantec