Apple Xcode
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Xcode skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Xcode over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 661 741
Rank change year-on-year +112 +80 -107
Contract jobs citing Xcode 22 26 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.046% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.43% 0.31% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 75
10th Percentile £395 £295 £413
25th Percentile £433 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -6.98% +8.59%
75th Percentile £563 £556 £588
90th Percentile £575 £590 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £531
% change year-on-year +2.86% -17.65% +26.87%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Xcode 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 requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,140 8,407 15,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.76% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,932 11,071
10th Percentile £355 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 229 206
10th Percentile £32.23 £42.61 £37.12
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +14.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £75.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

Xcode
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xcode over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Xcode in the UK

Xcode
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xcode within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +110 21 £475 - 16
London +96 11 £503 +0.65% 6
UK excluding London +65 10 £450 +2.86% 10
Work from Home +102 8 £450 -14.29% 6
North of England +38 6 £450 -5.26% 6
North West - 5 £450 - 2
South East +32 1 - - 3
Midlands +23 1 £450 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
East of England - 1 £310 -
Scotland - 1 £575 -

Xcode
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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) Firebase
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) XCUITest
3 2 (9.09%) Android Studio
3 2 (9.09%) CocoaPods
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) XCTest
4 1 (4.55%) Mocha
4 1 (4.55%) Postman
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Banking
1 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 13 (59.09%) iOS Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Tester
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (4.55%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead iOS Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) React Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) RESTful
2 6 (27.27%) iOS SDK
3 5 (22.73%) JSON
3 5 (22.73%) REST
3 5 (22.73%) UIKit
4 3 (13.64%) SwiftUI
5 2 (9.09%) Cocoa Touch
6 1 (4.55%) .NET
6 1 (4.55%) AVFoundation
6 1 (4.55%) HTML
6 1 (4.55%) Jest
6 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (4.55%) React Native
6 1 (4.55%) Redux
6 1 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.55%) Swagger
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
6 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) iOS Development
2 6 (27.27%) Mobile Development
3 3 (13.64%) Agile
3 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (13.64%) Data Management
3 3 (13.64%) MVVM
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.55%) API Integration
5 1 (4.55%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (4.55%) Async-Await
5 1 (4.55%) Code Quality
5 1 (4.55%) Defect Management
5 1 (4.55%) Design Patterns
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (4.55%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) Swift
2 9 (40.91%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.55%) C
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker