iOS Developer Contracts

iOS Developer
UK

The median iOS Developer daily rate in the UK is £408 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 623 606
Rank change year-on-year +108 -17 -70
Contract jobs requiring an iOS Developer 64 61 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 41 173
10th Percentile - £263 £400
25th Percentile £300 £338 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £518 £613 £594
90th Percentile £555 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £305 £475 £534
% change year-on-year -35.79% -11.01% +25.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £57.88
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £61.43 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

iOS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured iOS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iOS Developer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +105 59 £403 -15.26% 22
UK excluding London +72 33 £305 -35.79% 10
London +86 26 £500 +11.11% 13
North of England +48 24 £300 -29.41% 8
Work from Home +94 18 £450 -14.29% 6
Yorkshire +36 16 £300 -36.84% 2
North West +21 8 £450 - 5
South East +12 3 - -
East of England - 2 £305 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Midlands +25 1 £450 -5.26%
South West +9 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

iOS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, iOS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring iOS Developer in the job title.

1 63 (98.44%) Apple iOS
1 63 (98.44%) iOS Development
2 40 (62.50%) Swift
3 18 (28.13%) SwiftUI
4 14 (21.88%) Mobile App
5 11 (17.19%) MVVM
5 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
6 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
7 9 (14.06%) Android Development
7 9 (14.06%) Mobile Development
7 9 (14.06%) Android
7 9 (14.06%) REST
7 9 (14.06%) Xcode
8 8 (12.50%) RESTful
9 7 (10.94%) iOS SDK
9 7 (10.94%) Objective-C
9 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
10 6 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (9.38%) XCUITest
10 6 (9.38%) Node.js
11 5 (7.81%) Agile
11 5 (7.81%) Design Patterns
11 5 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (7.81%) SOLID
11 5 (7.81%) User Experience
11 5 (7.81%) DevOps
12 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
12 4 (6.25%) Mobile Application Development
12 4 (6.25%) Responsive Web Design
12 4 (6.25%) NoSQL

iOS Developer Skill Set
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 4 (6.25%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) GitHub
3 2 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.56%) Firebase
4 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Xcode
2 6 (9.38%) XCUITest
3 4 (6.25%) fastlane
4 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.13%) Appium
5 2 (3.13%) Git
5 2 (3.13%) Postman
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) CocoaPods
6 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.56%) XCTest
General
1 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.25%) Banking
3 3 (4.69%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Publishing
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) SwiftUI
2 9 (14.06%) REST
3 8 (12.50%) RESTful
4 7 (10.94%) iOS SDK
5 6 (9.38%) Node.js
6 4 (6.25%) .NET
6 4 (6.25%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (6.25%) Bazel
6 4 (6.25%) CSS
6 4 (6.25%) HTML
6 4 (6.25%) Vue
6 4 (6.25%) Web Services
7 3 (4.69%) UIKit
8 2 (3.13%) React Native
8 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.56%) AVFoundation
9 1 (1.56%) OpenAPI
9 1 (1.56%) React
9 1 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (98.44%) Apple iOS
2 9 (14.06%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (98.44%) iOS Development
2 11 (17.19%) MVVM
2 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
3 9 (14.06%) Android Development
3 9 (14.06%) Mobile Development
4 6 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (7.81%) Agile
5 5 (7.81%) Design Patterns
5 5 (7.81%) DevOps
5 5 (7.81%) SOLID
5 5 (7.81%) User Experience
6 4 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 4 (6.25%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (6.25%) MVC
6 4 (6.25%) OO
6 4 (6.25%) OOP
6 4 (6.25%) Software Testing
6 4 (6.25%) TDD
6 4 (6.25%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (62.50%) Swift
2 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
2 7 (10.94%) Objective-C
3 4 (6.25%) C#
3 4 (6.25%) Ruby
4 3 (4.69%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) C
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.56%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.56%) PHP
5 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.13%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe