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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 224 272
Rank change year-on-year -54 +48 -19
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 277 448 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.04% 0.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.79% 7.81% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 281 397
10th Percentile £165 £213 £163
25th Percentile £250 £325 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £575
90th Percentile £650 £825 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £320
% change year-on-year -5.88% +32.81% -20.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 17
10th Percentile - £12.25 £16.35
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% -1.33%
75th Percentile £21.61 - £26.00
90th Percentile £29.12 £36.16 £82.00
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 4,080 5,733 9,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.95% 13.33% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,681 3,878 6,587
10th Percentile £200 £185 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -7.43% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £690 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 392 419
10th Percentile £15.33 £12.75 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.44 £17.74
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -42.86% +67.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -2.22% -23.21% +46.50%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 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
England -29 242 £400 -15.79% 489
London +19 140 £400 -21.95% 284
UK excluding London -69 107 £400 -5.88% 281
Work from Home +13 70 £400 -15.79% 411
North of England -29 50 £336 -29.37% 69
North West -37 25 £336 -58.06% 52
Yorkshire +10 24 £275 -8.33% 16
South East +9 22 £220 -40.94% 98
East of England +33 15 £450 +69.81% 56
Scotland -4 12 £375 -6.25% 14
South West +39 10 £581 +55.00% 30
Midlands -23 6 £400 -10.11% 22
West Midlands 0 3 £400 -11.11% 11
East Midlands -11 3 £468 +211.67% 9
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 2
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 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 38 (13.72%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.08%) Sketch
4 2 (0.72%) InVision
4 2 (0.72%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) 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 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (13.00%) Azure
3 21 (7.58%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.14%) Google Workspace
5 11 (3.97%) AWS
5 11 (3.97%) Figma
6 8 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.89%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.17%) GCP
7 6 (2.17%) GitHub
7 6 (2.17%) SaaS
8 4 (1.44%) Asana
8 4 (1.44%) Serverless
8 4 (1.44%) Slack
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.08%) Apple Pay
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.72%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.61%) Firewall
1 10 (3.61%) Internet
2 9 (3.25%) DNS
3 8 (2.89%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.89%) VPN
4 7 (2.53%) 2G
4 7 (2.53%) 3G
4 7 (2.53%) 4G
4 7 (2.53%) 5G
4 7 (2.53%) DHCP
4 7 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.72%) Calico
6 2 (0.72%) VoIP
6 2 (0.72%) Wireless
7 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.36%) LAN
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.17%) FileMaker
1 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.08%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.08%) MySQL
2 3 (1.08%) Redis
3 2 (0.72%) Mixpanel
3 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (7.94%) Git
2 15 (5.42%) JIRA
3 13 (4.69%) Xcode
4 8 (2.89%) Appium
5 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.44%) GitLab
6 4 (1.44%) JUnit
6 4 (1.44%) Selenium
7 2 (0.72%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.72%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.72%) Maven
7 2 (0.72%) Postman
7 2 (0.72%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) Mockito
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) TestNG
8 1 (0.36%) XCTest
8 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.61%) Finance
4 24 (8.66%) Banking
5 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.33%) Front Office
7 7 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.17%) Marketing
8 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Legal
9 4 (1.44%) Local Government
9 4 (1.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.08%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Advertising
11 2 (0.72%) Automotive
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (19.49%) Developer
2 44 (15.88%) Analyst
3 43 (15.52%) Support Engineer
4 41 (14.80%) iOS Developer
5 26 (9.39%) IT Support
6 21 (7.58%) Support Analyst
7 19 (6.86%) IT Engineer
7 19 (6.86%) Senior
8 17 (6.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 17 (6.14%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (5.78%) Architect
10 15 (5.42%) 2nd Line Support
10 15 (5.42%) Desktop Support
10 15 (5.42%) Product Manager
11 13 (4.69%) Designer
12 12 (4.33%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.33%) Business Manager
12 12 (4.33%) Product Analyst
12 12 (4.33%) Product Business Analyst
13 11 (3.97%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.22%) RESTful
2 16 (5.78%) UIKit
3 15 (5.42%) SwiftUI
4 12 (4.33%) React
4 12 (4.33%) React Native
5 10 (3.61%) .NET
6 9 (3.25%) iOS SDK
7 7 (2.53%) CSS
7 7 (2.53%) HTML
8 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.17%) REST
9 5 (1.81%) Cocoa
9 5 (1.81%) Cocoa Touch
9 5 (1.81%) Core Data
9 5 (1.81%) Flutter
9 5 (1.81%) JSON
10 3 (1.08%) Laravel
10 3 (1.08%) OAuth
10 3 (1.08%) WPF
10 3 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.58%) Mobile App
2 26 (9.39%) iPhone
3 21 (7.58%) iPad
4 19 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 19 (6.86%) Smartphone
5 14 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.05%) Video Conferencing
6 13 (4.69%) Hedge funds
7 12 (4.33%) Derivative
7 12 (4.33%) Equities
7 12 (4.33%) Fixed Income
7 12 (4.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.89%) IoT
8 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.53%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.17%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.17%) Life Science
10 6 (2.17%) NHS
11 5 (1.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 140 (50.54%) Android
2 90 (32.49%) Windows
3 32 (11.55%) Windows 10
4 26 (9.39%) Mac OS
5 17 (6.14%) Linux
6 12 (4.33%) Mac OS X
7 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.72%) VMS
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (27.44%) Agile
3 58 (20.94%) iOS Development
4 52 (18.77%) User Experience
5 41 (14.80%) Asset Management
6 38 (13.72%) CI/CD
7 36 (13.00%) Customer Service
8 23 (8.30%) Mobile Development
9 22 (7.94%) Coaching
9 22 (7.94%) ITSM
10 20 (7.22%) ITIL
11 19 (6.86%) Test Automation
12 18 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 18 (6.50%) Mobile Application Development
12 18 (6.50%) UX Design
13 17 (6.14%) Analytics
13 17 (6.14%) Incident Management
13 17 (6.14%) Mobile Device Management
13 17 (6.14%) Scrum
14 16 (5.78%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.61%) Swift
2 29 (10.47%) Objective-C
3 13 (4.69%) Kotlin
4 11 (3.97%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.97%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.25%) Java
6 8 (2.89%) Python
7 6 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.81%) C#
9 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.08%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) Dart
10 3 (1.08%) PHP
11 2 (0.72%) SQL
11 2 (0.72%) VB
11 2 (0.72%) VBScript
12 1 (0.36%) Bash
12 1 (0.36%) Rust
12 1 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 32 (11.55%) Degree
2 20 (7.22%) SC Cleared
2 20 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.72%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.72%) ACSP
5 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.72%) MCP
5 2 (0.72%) MCSA
5 2 (0.72%) 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 (5.42%) QA
2 12 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.53%) GxP
4 6 (2.17%) NCSC
5 4 (1.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (22.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.81%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.44%) vSphere
6 3 (1.08%) Docker
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 24 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (6.14%) SCCM
3 9 (3.25%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.08%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.72%) Istio
5 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.72%) Terraform
6 1 (0.36%) SCOM
6 1 (0.36%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.69%) Apple
3 28 (10.11%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.58%) Google
5 15 (5.42%) Citrix
6 12 (4.33%) Nexthink
7 11 (3.97%) MobileIron
8 7 (2.53%) VMware
9 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.08%) Dell
10 3 (1.08%) HP
10 3 (1.08%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.72%) Equitrac
11 2 (0.72%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.72%) IBM
11 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.72%) NEC
11 2 (0.72%) Symantec
11 2 (0.72%) Xamarin