Xcode Contracts

Apple Xcode
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Xcode skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xcode over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 577 688
Rank change year-on-year +75 +111 +59
Contract jobs citing Xcode 17 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.053% 0.042%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.41% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 18
10th Percentile £358 £395 £300
25th Percentile £368 £433 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -6.10% -2.38%
75th Percentile £650 £563 £563
90th Percentile - £575 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Xcode
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xcode over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Top 5 Contract 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 30 April 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 +51 10 £383 -19.47% 13
London +33 10 £383 -23.99% 5
Work from Home +49 7 £375 -16.67% 9
UK excluding London +47 3 - - 14
Scotland +11 3 - - 4

Xcode
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) BrowserStack
1 2 (11.76%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (5.88%) Figma
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) JUnit
3 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) Subversion
4 2 (11.76%) Appium
4 2 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) Mockito
4 2 (11.76%) Postman
4 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
4 2 (11.76%) SoapUI
4 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.76%) TestNG
4 2 (11.76%) XCTest
4 2 (11.76%) XCUITest
5 1 (5.88%) Android Studio
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) NUnit
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) iOS Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) UIKit
2 6 (35.29%) SwiftUI
3 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
3 3 (17.65%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) Bootstrap
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) CSS3
4 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) HTML5
4 2 (11.76%) J2EE
4 2 (11.76%) JPA
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Swagger
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Mobile App
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Team
3 3 (17.65%) Credit Risk
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (17.65%) iPad
3 3 (17.65%) iPhone
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.88%) Animation
5 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Apple iOS
2 5 (29.41%) Android
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) iOS Development
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 9 (52.94%) Mobile Development
4 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) User Experience
6 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 5 (29.41%) MVC
6 5 (29.41%) Scrum
6 5 (29.41%) TDD
6 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 5 (29.41%) UX Design
7 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
8 3 (17.65%) BDD
8 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
8 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
8 3 (17.65%) MVVM
8 3 (17.65%) Rapid Prototyping
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Swift
2 11 (64.71%) Objective-C
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Groovy
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) COBOL
5 1 (5.88%) JCL
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk