Apple Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apple
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Apple products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apple over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 309 395
Rank change year-on-year +48 +86 +90
Contract jobs citing Apple 43 36 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 0.55% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 42
10th Percentile £141 £210 £225
25th Percentile £204 £213 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £360 £280
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +28.57% -34.12%
75th Percentile £563 £425 £500
90th Percentile £675 £479 £586
UK median daily rate £350 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +40.00% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.63 £23.63 -
Median hourly rate £17.75 £23.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% - -
75th Percentile £18.88 £23.88 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.36 £17.72 £18.08
% change year-on-year +3.60% -1.99% +12.19%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Apple falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Apple
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Apple as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apple trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apple.

Apple daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Apple over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Apple daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apple.

Apple hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (11.63%) nginx
1 5 (11.63%) Traefik
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Entra ID
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (18.60%) Azure
4 6 (13.95%) AWS
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (6.98%) Apple Pay
7 2 (4.65%) Google Pay
8 1 (2.33%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
8 1 (2.33%) Google Play
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) DNS
2 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (6.98%) Firewall
4 3 (6.98%) Internet
4 3 (6.98%) iSCSI
4 3 (6.98%) LAN
4 3 (6.98%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (6.98%) WAN
4 3 (6.98%) Wireless
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Git
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Advertising
6 1 (2.33%) Billing
6 1 (2.33%) German Language
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Analyst
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
2 8 (18.60%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Mac Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Service Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Developer
5 3 (6.98%) iOS Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) IT Support
6 2 (4.65%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Mac Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) cloud-init
1 5 (11.63%) Kafka
1 5 (11.63%) Keycloak
2 2 (4.65%) Core Animation
2 2 (4.65%) Core Data
2 2 (4.65%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) EDI
3 1 (2.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) PKI
2 3 (6.98%) iPhone
2 3 (6.98%) IVR
3 2 (4.65%) Animation
3 2 (4.65%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.33%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) EMV
4 1 (2.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 16 (37.21%) Windows
2 13 (30.23%) Apple iOS
3 11 (25.58%) Mac OS
4 10 (23.26%) Android
5 9 (20.93%) Linux
6 6 (13.95%) Unix
7 5 (11.63%) CentOS
7 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
9 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
9 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (4.65%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Customer Service
2 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.93%) ITIL
4 8 (18.60%) Agile
5 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
5 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.95%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (11.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps
7 5 (11.63%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Identity Management
7 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.63%) Observability
7 5 (11.63%) Secrets Management
7 5 (11.63%) Static Application Security Testing
8 4 (9.30%) Project Management
8 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
8 4 (9.30%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.98%) iOS Development
9 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Bash
2 8 (18.60%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Go
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.65%) Objective-C
5 2 (4.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.98%) ACSP
4 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.65%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) SLA
2 5 (11.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (6.98%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (11.63%) Consul
2 5 (11.63%) Grafana
2 5 (11.63%) HAProxy
2 5 (11.63%) Istio
2 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) linkerd
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (11.63%) Packer
2 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
2 5 (11.63%) Rancher
2 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 5 (11.63%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.33%) SCCM
4 1 (2.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Okta
3 5 (11.63%) ESET
3 5 (11.63%) Google
3 5 (11.63%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) OneLogin
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) Samsung
5 2 (4.65%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Citrix
6 1 (2.33%) Criteo
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) HP
6 1 (2.33%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy
6 1 (2.33%) SOTI