Apple Pay Contracts

Apple Pay
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apple Pay skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apple Pay over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 581 717
Rank change year-on-year +82 +136 +137
Contract jobs citing Apple Pay 21 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.007% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £584 - -
25th Percentile - - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £763
90th Percentile £640 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Apple Pay falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Apple Pay
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Apple Pay in the UK

Apple Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Apple Pay in the UK

Apple Pay
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple Pay within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +74 18 £600 - 6
London +51 14 £600 - 4
South West - 4 £580 -
UK excluding London - 4 £580 - 2
Work from Home - 3 - - 1

Apple Pay
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:

Business Applications
1 14 (66.67%) BASE24
2 2 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Google Pay
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) NonStop SQL
General
1 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Development Engineer
1 10 (47.62%) Software Development Engineer
1 10 (47.62%) Software Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) iOS Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Android Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) BASE24 Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) iOS Android Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) BASE24 Expert
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) iOS SDK
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Digital Wallet
2 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) EMV
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) OO
2 9 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) iOS Development
5 2 (9.52%) Android Development
5 2 (9.52%) B2C
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Kanban
5 2 (9.52%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (9.52%) Mobile Development
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (9.52%) Push Notifications
5 2 (9.52%) Scrum
6 1 (4.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 1 (4.76%) Fintech
6 1 (4.76%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.76%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Kotlin
1 2 (9.52%) Swift
2 1 (4.76%) C
2 1 (4.76%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) COBOL
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) ISO 8583
2 12 (57.14%) PSD2
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) XYGATE
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) HP
2 9 (42.86%) Apple
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
3 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
4 3 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Klarna