Apple XCTest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring XCTest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited XCTest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 894 979
Rank change year-on-year +214 +85 +202
Permanent jobs citing XCTest 12 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.22% 0.021% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £60,000 - £56,625
25th Percentile £66,250 - £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.16%
75th Percentile £114,713 - £73,438
90th Percentile £140,677 - £75,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £122,773 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

XCTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,477 9,582 15,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.52% 9.73% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 6,757 9,176
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

XCTest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XCTest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XCTest in the UK

XCTest
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XCTest.

Salary trend for XCTest in the UK

XCTest
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XCTest over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for XCTest in the UK

XCTest
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XCTest within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +180 8 £75,000 - 9
UK excluding London +215 7 £122,773 - 7
Work from Home +200 6 £93,886 - 3
London +114 5 £75,000 - 3
Scotland - 4 £122,773 -
South West - 3 - - 1

XCTest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Xcode
2 6 (50.00%) Git
3 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (25.00%) GitLab
4 3 (25.00%) XCUITest
5 2 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 2 (16.67%) Maven
5 2 (16.67%) Mockito
5 2 (16.67%) Postman
5 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Private Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) iOS Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) iOS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) SwiftUI
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) CSS3
2 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) HTML5
2 2 (16.67%) J2EE
2 2 (16.67%) JPA
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Material-UI
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 2 (16.67%) Swagger
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (25.00%) W3C
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Animation
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (25.00%) Android
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) TDD
4 7 (58.33%) iOS Development
5 6 (50.00%) BDD
5 6 (50.00%) MVVM
5 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (41.67%) MVC
6 5 (41.67%) Software Architecture
7 4 (33.33%) Mobile Development
7 4 (33.33%) User Experience
8 3 (25.00%) Analytics
8 3 (25.00%) Coaching
8 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
8 3 (25.00%) DevOps
8 3 (25.00%) Digital Customer Experience
8 3 (25.00%) Pair Programming
8 3 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Swift
2 4 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk