iPad Contracts

Apple iPad
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPad in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iPad 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 482 521 543
Rank change year-on-year +39 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing iPad 38 61 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.46% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 39 69
10th Percentile £191 £155 £156
25th Percentile £205 £188 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £220 £325
Median % change year-on-year - -32.31% -23.98%
75th Percentile £266 £250 £700
90th Percentile £340 £391 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £200 £210
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 10
10th Percentile - £17.04 -
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.93 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.82 £20.47 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +8.11% -11.95%
75th Percentile £20.69 £49.53 £24.50
90th Percentile - £64.34 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.82 £55.80 £18.08
% change year-on-year -66.27% +208.63% -15.91%

All Generic Skills
UK

iPad falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

iPad
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for iPad in the UK

iPad
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iPad in the UK

iPad
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iPad over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iPad in the UK

iPad
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iPad in the UK

iPad
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iPad 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 +39 33 £234 +5.17% 53
UK excluding London +63 30 £215 +7.50% 47
East of England +36 13 £220 - 5
London +17 8 £275 +10.00% 8
South East +49 7 £588 - 11
Scotland +10 5 £193 -3.75% 1
South West +48 4 £220 +20.55% 1
Work from Home +37 4 - - 32
North of England +17 1 £200 -11.11% 26
North West +16 1 £200 -11.11% 18

iPad
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 12 (31.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Google Workspace
3 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.89%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.89%) Couchbase
1 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.89%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Xcode
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 27 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Support Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) 1st Line Support
3 8 (21.05%) Desktop Support
4 7 (18.42%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) IT Support
6 4 (10.53%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) DBA
8 2 (5.26%) IT Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) IT Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Junior IT Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Junior IT Support
9 1 (2.63%) Junior Support Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
1 3 (7.89%) SwiftUI
1 3 (7.89%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 30 (78.95%) iPhone
2 22 (57.89%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.89%) Credit Risk
4 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.89%) Replication
4 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.26%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.63%) EPoS
6 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 29 (76.32%) Windows
2 21 (55.26%) Apple iOS
3 14 (36.84%) Windows 10
4 3 (7.89%) Android
5 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (63.16%) Customer Service
3 13 (34.21%) ITSM
4 12 (31.58%) Inventory Management
4 12 (31.58%) ITIL
4 12 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (28.95%) Antivirus Management
5 11 (28.95%) Time Management
6 10 (26.32%) Proactive Maintenance
7 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
8 4 (10.53%) Agile
8 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
8 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
9 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (7.89%) Mobile Development
9 3 (7.89%) Prototyping
9 3 (7.89%) Push Notifications
9 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (7.89%) Threat Modelling
9 3 (7.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) Java
1 3 (7.89%) Objective-C
1 3 (7.89%) Scala
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
1 3 (7.89%) Swift
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) ITIL Certification
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.53%) SCCM
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (31.58%) ServiceNow
3 11 (28.95%) Google
3 11 (28.95%) McAfee
3 11 (28.95%) MobileIron
3 11 (28.95%) Nexthink
4 5 (13.16%) Apple
5 3 (7.89%) VMware
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce