Hybrid/Remote XCTest Contract Job Trends

Apple XCTest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XCTest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 314 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing XCTest 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.016% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.26% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £358 £287 -
25th Percentile £358 £289 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £295 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.58% - -
75th Percentile £376 £302 -
90th Percentile - £305 -
UK median daily rate £368 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -26.50% -28.57% +20.69%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

XCTest 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 1,565 1,536 2,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.37% 12.66% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 984 1,719
10th Percentile £331 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £619
90th Percentile £669 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 71
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.40 £50.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.25 £60.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

XCTest
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

XCTest job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

XCTest
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

XCTest
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Mockito
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
1 4 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) CSS3
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 4 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Swagger
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk