CocoaPods Contract Job Trends

CocoaPods
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CocoaPods skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 - 626
Rank change year-on-year - - +178
Contract jobs citing CocoaPods 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% - 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.098% - 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £333 - £417
25th Percentile £345 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £375 - £530
90th Percentile £473 - £541
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £72.50

All Development Application Skills
UK

CocoaPods 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,107 4,993 6,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 13.32% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,467 3,117 4,420
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 168 244
10th Percentile £16.84 £29.67 £46.18
25th Percentile £42.75 £51.19 £51.44
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68.50 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

CocoaPods
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CocoaPods job vacancy trend in the UK

CocoaPods
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CocoaPods

CocoaPods
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CocoaPods over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CocoaPods in the UK

CocoaPods
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CocoaPods

CocoaPods
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CocoaPods within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 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 - 4 £363 - 1
UK excluding London - 4 £354 - 1
North of England - 3 £358 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £358 -
London - 1 £525 -
Scotland - 1 £350 -
Work from Home - 1 £358 - 1

CocoaPods
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 1 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Firebase
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Xcode
2 3 (60.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Crashlytics
3 1 (20.00%) fastlane
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Mobile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) AVFoundation
2 1 (20.00%) Core Animation
2 1 (20.00%) Core Data
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) RxSwift
2 1 (20.00%) UIKit
2 1 (20.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Animation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Application Security
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Memory Management
3 3 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Android Development
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Development
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 5 (100.00%) Swift
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) Google