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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 328 422
Rank change year-on-year +18 +94 +181
Contract jobs citing XCTest 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.016% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.45% 0.12% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £358 £287 -
25th Percentile £359 £289 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £295 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.58% - -
75th Percentile £386 £302 -
90th Percentile £397 £305 -
UK median daily rate £368 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -26.50% -28.57% +23.89%

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 1,561 1,639 2,821
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.19% 13.07% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,088 2,053
10th Percentile £325 £342 £360
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £606 £635
90th Percentile £664 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 90
10th Percentile £41.60 £24.24 £47.38
25th Percentile - £55.48 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.51 £84.36
90th Percentile £71.63 £72.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

XCTest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XCTest trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

XCTest
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Database
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (85.71%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
1 6 (85.71%) Mockito
1 6 (85.71%) Postman
1 6 (85.71%) REST Assured
1 6 (85.71%) SoapUI
1 6 (85.71%) SonarQube
1 6 (85.71%) Subversion
1 6 (85.71%) Xcode
2 1 (14.29%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) COBOL Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (14.29%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
1 6 (85.71%) Bootstrap
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) CSS3
1 6 (85.71%) Hibernate
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) HTML5
1 6 (85.71%) J2EE
1 6 (85.71%) JPA
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Material-UI
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) SOAP
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (85.71%) Spring MVC
1 6 (85.71%) Swagger
1 6 (85.71%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (14.29%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Architectural Design
2 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
2 6 (85.71%) Concurrent Programming
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Front End Development
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Multithreading
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) SDLC
2 6 (85.71%) Software Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Static Code Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Groovy
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) Shell Script
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 2 (28.57%) JCL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Swift
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) CA Agile Central
1 6 (85.71%) Dynatrace
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk