Hybrid/Remote UIKit Contract Job Trends

Apple UIKit Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring UIKit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 306 370
Rank change year-on-year -5 +64 +172
Contract jobs citing UIKit 3 8 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.069% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.28% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £376 £440 £453
25th Percentile £377 £465 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £417 £597 £528
90th Percentile £422 £600 £553
UK median daily rate £480 £563 £450
% change year-on-year -14.67% +25.00% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 - £72.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

UIKit falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,712 2,872 4,148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 24.63% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,766 1,894 3,006
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 24 45
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.48 £40.12
25th Percentile £41.00 £26.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £91.88 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

UIKit
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UIKit and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

UIKit job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

UIKit
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UIKit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UIKit

UIKit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Firebase
2 1 (33.33%) Bitrise
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CocoaPods
1 1 (33.33%) fastlane
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Xcode
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) SwiftUI
2 2 (66.67%) Core Data
3 1 (33.33%) AVFoundation
3 1 (33.33%) Core Animation
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) tvOS
2 1 (33.33%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) iOS Development
1 2 (66.67%) MVVM
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Multivariate Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Push Notifications
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Swift
2 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple