The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa Touch skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa Touch over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa Touch
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Cocoa Touch 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year
-46.68% -
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 48 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 19.90% 17.20% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 40
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa Touch
East of England

Cocoa Touch
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Cocoa Touch also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cocoa Touch.

1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App

Cocoa Touch
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Cocoa Touch also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cocoa Touch. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C