XCTest Contracts

Apple XCTest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring XCTest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XCTest 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 516 590 710
Rank change year-on-year +74 +120 +134
Contract jobs citing XCTest 3 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.023% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.073% 0.19% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £367 £323 £305
25th Percentile £374 £342 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £405 £325
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +24.62% -31.58%
75th Percentile £398 £471 £338
90th Percentile £399 £494 £345
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £310 -
% change year-on-year +29.03% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

XCTest 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%

XCTest
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XCTest in the UK

XCTest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XCTest in the UK

XCTest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XCTest in the UK

XCTest
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XCTest 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 +56 3 £390 -3.70% 9
Work from Home +51 3 £390 - 3
London +28 2 £383 -5.56% 3
UK excluding London +54 1 £400 +29.03% 7
North of England - 1 £400 - 3
North West - 1 £400 - 3

XCTest
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Material-UI
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Static Code Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Swift
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk