iOS SDK Contracts

Apple iOS SDK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring iOS SDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iOS SDK 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 512 562 709
Rank change year-on-year +50 +147 +84
Contract jobs citing iOS SDK 8 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.046% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.22% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 6
10th Percentile - £355 £456
25th Percentile £463 £428 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £566
90th Percentile - £614 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

iOS SDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

iOS SDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for iOS SDK in the UK

iOS SDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iOS SDK in the UK

iOS SDK
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iOS SDK in the UK

iOS SDK
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iOS SDK 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 +46 6 £550 +10.00% 14
UK excluding London +64 4 £550 +22.22% 9
Work from Home +33 2 £475 -5.00% 5
London +28 2 £475 -5.00% 7
North West - 2 £550 - 3
South West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 £550 - 3

iOS SDK
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 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Apple Pay
1 1 (12.50%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Android Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) iOS Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 2 (25.00%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Android Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Rust Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (37.50%) Android SDK
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) UIKit
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) AVFoundation
2 2 (25.00%) Cocoa
2 2 (25.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 2 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 2 (25.00%) SwiftUI
3 1 (12.50%) Core Data
3 1 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) EMV
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) iOS Development
2 3 (37.50%) Android Development
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) MVVM
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Image Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) SOLID
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) B2B
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Swift
2 4 (50.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
4 1 (12.50%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Apple