XCTest Contract Job Trends

Apple XCTest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring XCTest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 554 642
Rank change year-on-year -4 +88 +202
Contract jobs citing XCTest 7 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.031% 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.14% 0.24% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 2
10th Percentile £358 £299 -
25th Percentile £359 £353 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% -28.57% +23.89%
75th Percentile £386 £541 -
90th Percentile £397 £555 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £305 -
% change year-on-year +31.15% - -

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 4,965 5,092 6,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 13.26% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 3,251 4,675
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £719 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 176 243
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.62 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.19 £53.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.77%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

XCTest
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

XCTest
Top 6 Contract Job 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 21 September 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
Work from Home +30 7 £368 +24.58% 3
England +11 7 £368 -26.50% 8
London +17 6 £368 -26.50% 4
UK excluding London +11 1 £400 +31.15% 5
North West -8 1 £400 +31.15%
North of England -24 1 £400 +31.15%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Database
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (85.71%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
1 6 (85.71%) Mockito
1 6 (85.71%) Postman
1 6 (85.71%) REST Assured
1 6 (85.71%) SoapUI
1 6 (85.71%) SonarQube
1 6 (85.71%) Subversion
1 6 (85.71%) Xcode
2 1 (14.29%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) COBOL Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (14.29%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
1 6 (85.71%) Bootstrap
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) CSS3
1 6 (85.71%) Hibernate
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) HTML5
1 6 (85.71%) J2EE
1 6 (85.71%) JPA
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Material-UI
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) SOAP
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (85.71%) Spring MVC
1 6 (85.71%) Swagger
1 6 (85.71%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (14.29%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Architectural Design
2 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
2 6 (85.71%) Concurrent Programming
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Front End Development
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Multithreading
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) SDLC
2 6 (85.71%) Software Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Static Code Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Groovy
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) Shell Script
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 2 (28.57%) JCL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Swift
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) CA Agile Central
1 6 (85.71%) Dynatrace
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk