UIKit Contracts

Apple UIKit Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring UIKit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UIKit 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 501 572 708
Rank change year-on-year +71 +136 +119
Contract jobs citing UIKit 19 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.023% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.11% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 5
10th Percentile £419 £469 £445
25th Percentile £463 - £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £675
90th Percentile - £600 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £310 £476
% change year-on-year +61.29% -34.87% -8.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

UIKit 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%

UIKit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UIKit in the UK

UIKit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UIKit in the UK

UIKit
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for UIKit in the UK

UIKit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UIKit in the UK

UIKit
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 UIKit 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 +57 10 £488 -15.22% 13
UK excluding London +71 9 £500 +61.29% 9
London +35 6 £461 -19.83% 8
Scotland - 5 £500 -
Work from Home +43 4 £488 - 8
North of England - 4 £525 - 3
North West - 4 £525 - 3

UIKit
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) BigCommerce
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Xcode
2 6 (31.58%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) XCTest
3 1 (5.26%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
1 9 (47.37%) iOS Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Android Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) SwiftUI
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) AVFoundation
3 3 (15.79%) Core Data
3 3 (15.79%) iOS SDK
4 2 (10.53%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (10.53%) OpenCV
5 1 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (5.26%) Android SDK
5 1 (5.26%) CarPlay
5 1 (5.26%) Core Animation
5 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Mobile App
2 4 (21.05%) Virtual Team
3 3 (15.79%) Credit Risk
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (15.79%) iPad
3 3 (15.79%) iPhone
4 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.26%) Animation
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (26.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) iOS Development
2 9 (47.37%) Mobile Development
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) TDD
5 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (26.32%) MVVM
5 5 (26.32%) Scrum
6 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) MVC
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Push Notifications
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) User Experience
6 4 (21.05%) UX Design
7 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
7 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
7 3 (15.79%) SOLID
7 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) Swift
2 13 (68.42%) Objective-C
3 3 (15.79%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.26%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe
1 1 (5.26%) Apple
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.26%) SAP
1 1 (5.26%) Sitecore