XCTest Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apple XCTest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for XCTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XCTest over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 472 620
Rank change year-on-year +130 +148 -152
Contract jobs citing XCTest 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.012% 0.004%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.076% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £305 -
25th Percentile - £313 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -31.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile - £338 £488
90th Percentile - £345 -
UK median daily rate £405 £325 £475
% change year-on-year +24.62% -31.58% +11.76%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

XCTest is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,842 3,965 8,281
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.06% 15.29% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 2,842 5,975
10th Percentile £360 £397 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% +3.38% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 116 102
10th Percentile £26.24 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £53.94 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile - £81.25 £67.45
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%

XCTest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XCTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XCTest trend for jobs with a WFH option

XCTest
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XCTest.

XCTest daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XCTest
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Bitrise
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
1 2 (100.00%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Publishing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React Native
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 2 (100.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) Post-Production
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple