Xcode Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apple Xcode
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 339 435
Rank change year-on-year +43 +96 +151
Contract jobs citing Xcode 10 4 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.028% 0.085%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 0.23% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 15
10th Percentile £359 £433 £320
25th Percentile £359 £444 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £395 £488 £629
90th Percentile £405 £510 £713
UK median daily rate £375 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -9.09%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Xcode falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,611 1,712 3,407
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.79% 12.09% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,199 2,424
10th Percentile £327 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £650
90th Percentile £688 £702 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 102
10th Percentile £51.00 £15.45 £39.82
25th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £51.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £66.09
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.44% +10.15%
75th Percentile £68.58 £65.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.31% +4.00% +13.64%

Xcode
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Xcode trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Xcode
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Xcode daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Xcode
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Xcode hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Xcode
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 1 (10.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (60.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
2 7 (70.00%) JIRA
3 6 (60.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (60.00%) JUnit
3 6 (60.00%) Maven
3 6 (60.00%) Mockito
3 6 (60.00%) Postman
3 6 (60.00%) REST Assured
3 6 (60.00%) SoapUI
3 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (60.00%) Subversion
3 6 (60.00%) XCTest
4 2 (20.00%) Android Studio
4 2 (20.00%) Gradle
5 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 2 (20.00%) iOS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (20.00%) React Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) REST
2 6 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (60.00%) Bootstrap
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) CSS3
2 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) HTML5
2 6 (60.00%) J2EE
2 6 (60.00%) JPA
2 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 6 (60.00%) Material-UI
2 6 (60.00%) SOAP
2 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (60.00%) Spring Cloud
2 6 (60.00%) Spring MVC
2 6 (60.00%) Swagger
2 6 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (10.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (30.00%) Android
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (10.00%) tvOS
4 1 (10.00%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Code Quality
3 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (60.00%) Architectural Design
4 6 (60.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
4 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
4 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (60.00%) Microservices
4 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
4 6 (60.00%) MVC
4 6 (60.00%) SDLC
4 6 (60.00%) Software Architecture
4 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
4 6 (60.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 6 (60.00%) TDD
5 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) Groovy
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) COBOL
3 2 (20.00%) JCL
3 2 (20.00%) JSX
3 2 (20.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (20.00%) Swift
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) CA Agile Central
1 6 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Apple