Xcode Contract Job Trends

Apple Xcode
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Xcode skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 512 550
Rank change year-on-year -124 +38 +86
Contract jobs citing Xcode 24 39 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.12% 0.034%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.39% 0.79% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 10
10th Percentile £204 £204 £414
25th Percentile £288 £345 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £368 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -31.53% +13.16%
75th Percentile £475 £388 £575
90th Percentile - £402 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £368 £450
% change year-on-year +17.19% -18.22% +9.22%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Xcode 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 6,231 4,956 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.64% 14.97% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,997 3,338 3,281
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 112 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.03 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

Xcode
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Xcode job vacancy trend in the UK

Xcode
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Xcode
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xcode over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Xcode
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xcode within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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 -122 23 £363 -1.49% 8
UK excluding London -112 15 £431 +17.19% 2
London -78 8 £333 -10.44% 7
South West - 7 £438 -
Work from Home -72 5 £208 -44.11% 2
South East -64 4 £208 - 1
North of England -77 4 £450 +20.00%
North East - 4 £450 -

Xcode
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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) GitHub
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Firebase
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
4 3 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
1 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 7 (29.17%) XCTest
2 7 (29.17%) XCUITest
3 6 (25.00%) fastlane
4 5 (20.83%) Android Studio
4 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (12.50%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
5 3 (12.50%) JIRA
6 1 (4.17%) Appium
6 1 (4.17%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (4.17%) Postman
6 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Developer
1 18 (75.00%) iOS Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior iOS Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) UX Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) SwiftUI
2 10 (41.67%) RESTful
3 7 (29.17%) UIKit
4 5 (20.83%) Core Data
4 5 (20.83%) iOS SDK
5 3 (12.50%) Ajax
5 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (12.50%) CSS
5 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 3 (12.50%) React
6 1 (4.17%) Core Media
6 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
6 1 (4.17%) REST
6 1 (4.17%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Apple iOS
2 5 (20.83%) Android
3 4 (16.67%) Windows
4 3 (12.50%) Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) iOS Development
2 13 (54.17%) MVVM
2 13 (54.17%) Test Automation
3 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) TDD
5 9 (37.50%) Scrum
5 9 (37.50%) User Experience
6 8 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 6 (25.00%) Async-Await
7 6 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (25.00%) Kanban
8 5 (20.83%) Analytics
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) Mobile Application Development
8 5 (20.83%) OWASP
8 5 (20.83%) Technical Analysis
8 5 (20.83%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Swift
2 6 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 3 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (12.50%) Ruby
5 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (20.83%) WCAG
3 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Apple
1 6 (25.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.83%) Dynatrace
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) Checkmarx
4 3 (12.50%) New Relic
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle