iOS Development Contracts

iOS Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for iOS Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited iOS Development over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 616 532
Rank change year-on-year +121 -84 -96
Contract jobs citing iOS Development 87 87 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.17% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 58 241
10th Percentile £300 £298 £400
25th Percentile £316 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £530
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.48% +11.58%
75th Percentile £550 £609 £594
90th Percentile £575 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £67.25
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £79.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

iOS Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

iOS Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iOS Development.

Daily rate trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iOS Development over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iOS Development.

Hourly rate trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Development within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 80 £450 -10.00% 59
UK excluding London +80 39 £350 -30.00% 34
London +76 39 £528 +5.65% 32
Work from Home +105 30 £468 -6.40% 29
North of England +53 23 £300 -20.00% 13
Yorkshire - 14 £300 - 3
North West +29 9 £450 - 8
South East +24 5 £375 -25.00% 7
South West +19 5 £375 -46.43% 2
Midlands +25 2 £400 -18.99% 4
West Midlands +19 2 £400 -21.95% 1
East of England +15 2 £305 -35.79% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

iOS Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Drupal
2 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.75%) Azure
1 5 (5.75%) GitHub
2 3 (3.45%) AWS
3 2 (2.30%) Bitrise
4 1 (1.15%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.15%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Xcode
2 13 (14.94%) Git
3 9 (10.34%) XCUITest
4 4 (4.60%) XCTest
5 3 (3.45%) Appium
6 2 (2.30%) CocoaPods
6 2 (2.30%) git-flow
6 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.15%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.15%) Postman
7 1 (1.15%) Selenium
7 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (11.49%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.60%) Banking
2 4 (4.60%) Finance
3 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.45%) Publishing
3 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Games
5 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (85.06%) Developer
2 56 (64.37%) iOS Developer
3 11 (12.64%) Mobile Developer
4 7 (8.05%) React Developer
5 6 (6.90%) Applications Developer
5 6 (6.90%) Senior
6 5 (5.75%) Android Developer
6 5 (5.75%) E-Commerce Developer
6 5 (5.75%) iOS Android Developer
6 5 (5.75%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (2.30%) Architect
9 2 (2.30%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (2.30%) Software Engineer
10 1 (1.15%) Applications Engineer
10 1 (1.15%) Cloud Developer
10 1 (1.15%) Mobile Software Engineer
10 1 (1.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) REST
2 14 (16.09%) SwiftUI
3 12 (13.79%) HTML
4 11 (12.64%) React Native
5 10 (11.49%) CSS
5 10 (11.49%) Node.js
5 10 (11.49%) Web Services
6 9 (10.34%) iOS SDK
6 9 (10.34%) RESTful
6 9 (10.34%) UIKit
7 7 (8.05%) .NET
7 7 (8.05%) HTML5
7 7 (8.05%) React
8 5 (5.75%) Ajax
8 5 (5.75%) CSS3
8 5 (5.75%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET
9 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (4.60%) JSON
9 4 (4.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.15%) Animation
5 1 (1.15%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.15%) Social Media
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 85 (97.70%) Apple iOS
2 31 (35.63%) Android
3 3 (3.45%) Linux
4 2 (2.30%) Windows
5 1 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) Android Development
2 18 (20.69%) Mobile Development
3 11 (12.64%) MVVM
4 10 (11.49%) Web Development
5 9 (10.34%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (10.34%) Software Engineering
6 8 (9.20%) Agile
6 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.90%) Design Patterns
7 6 (6.90%) Fintech
7 6 (6.90%) MVC
8 5 (5.75%) CI/CD
8 5 (5.75%) E-Commerce
8 5 (5.75%) User Experience
9 4 (4.60%) Mentoring
9 4 (4.60%) Mobile Application Development
9 4 (4.60%) OO
9 4 (4.60%) OOP
9 4 (4.60%) Responsive Web Design
9 4 (4.60%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 49 (56.32%) Swift
2 18 (20.69%) Objective-C
3 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.75%) C#
5 4 (4.60%) Java
6 3 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.30%) C++
7 2 (2.30%) PHP
7 2 (2.30%) Python
8 1 (1.15%) C
8 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.30%) Degree
2 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.30%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) Ansible
1 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Apple
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.30%) SAP
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe
3 1 (1.15%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.15%) Databricks
3 1 (1.15%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle
3 1 (1.15%) Xamarin