watchOS Contracts

Apple watchOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring watchOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited watchOS over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing watchOS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.023% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Operating Systems
UK

watchOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,392 5,797 8,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 13.76% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,835 3,795 6,064
10th Percentile £200 £190 £188
25th Percentile £313 £320 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 418 395
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.63
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -41.18% +88.89%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.95 £31.25 £29.30
% change year-on-year -29.76% +6.66% +46.50%

watchOS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for watchOS in the UK

watchOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for watchOS in the UK

watchOS
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing watchOS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 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
London - 1 £400 - 2
England - 1 £400 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £400 - 2

watchOS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AVFoundation
1 1 (100.00%) Core Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Core Data
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Swift
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple