The first table below looks at the demand for Apple iOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple iOS over the 3 months to 17 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 Operating Systems category for the Berkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple iOS
Rank 103 127 107
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -20
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 20 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.826% 0.394% 0.605%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.032% 2.335% 2.826%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 4
Average daily rate £309 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £162 £288 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £360 £332
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £88.19 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.58 £41.25 -
% change year-on-year
-40.41% -
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
496 514 637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.50% 16.86% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 200 213
Average daily rate £325 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £476 £435 £442
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 39
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -12.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £44.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Apple iOS
South East

Apple iOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apple iOS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Berkshire Apple iOS Jobs Demand Trend

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apple iOS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Apple iOS Daily Rate Trend

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apple iOS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Apple iOS Daily Rate Histogram

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apple iOS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Apple iOS Hourly Rate Trend

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apple iOS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Apple iOS Hourly Rate Histogram

Apple iOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 10 £363 -
Wokingham +2 2 £265 -7.82%
Slough -9 2 £163 -48.41%
Apple iOS
South East

Apple iOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Apple iOS 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 Apple iOS.

1 30 (73.17%) Android
2 20 (48.78%) Mobile App
3 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
4 13 (31.71%) HTML
4 13 (31.71%) HTML5
5 12 (29.27%) iPad
5 12 (29.27%) CSS
6 11 (26.83%) XML
7 10 (24.39%) Windows
7 10 (24.39%) iPhone
7 10 (24.39%) Objective-C
8 9 (21.95%) JSON
8 9 (21.95%) QA
8 9 (21.95%) Java
8 9 (21.95%) Blackberry
9 7 (17.07%) Ajax
9 7 (17.07%) Xcode
10 6 (14.63%) C#
10 6 (14.63%) Web Services
11 5 (12.20%) .NET
11 5 (12.20%) MVC
11 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
11 5 (12.20%) Finance
11 5 (12.20%) Selenium
11 5 (12.20%) iOS SDK
12 4 (9.756%) REST
12 4 (9.756%) Digital Media
12 4 (9.756%) CSS3
12 4 (9.756%) Test Strategy
12 4 (9.756%) Automation Testing

Apple iOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Apple iOS 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 Apple iOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (31.71%) HTML
1 13 (31.71%) HTML5
2 12 (29.27%) CSS
3 11 (26.83%) XML
4 9 (21.95%) JSON
5 7 (17.07%) Ajax
6 6 (14.63%) Web Services
7 5 (12.20%) iOS SDK
7 5 (12.20%) .NET
8 4 (9.756%) SOAP
8 4 (9.756%) jQuery
8 4 (9.756%) REST
8 4 (9.756%) CSS3
9 3 (7.317%) Sencha Touch
9 3 (7.317%) Cocoa
10 2 (4.878%) Spring
10 2 (4.878%) Struts
10 2 (4.878%) soapUI
10 2 (4.878%) Struts2
11 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) CMS
2 1 (2.439%) IIS
2 1 (2.439%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Office
2 2 (4.878%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.439%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.439%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.439%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.878%) UMTS
1 2 (4.878%) VoIP
1 2 (4.878%) HTTP
1 2 (4.878%) Wireshark
1 2 (4.878%) LTE
1 2 (4.878%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.439%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Xcode
2 5 (12.20%) Selenium
3 4 (9.756%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.878%) LoadRunner
4 2 (4.878%) Subversion
4 2 (4.878%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.439%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.439%) JIRA
5 1 (2.439%) Bugzilla
General
1 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
1 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 2 (4.878%) Publishing
2 2 (4.878%) Games
2 2 (4.878%) Financial Institution
2 2 (4.878%) Marketing
3 1 (2.439%) Retail
3 1 (2.439%) Automotive
3 1 (2.439%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) iOS Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Test Analyst
5 4 (9.756%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Android Developer
6 3 (7.317%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.878%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Tester
7 2 (4.878%) Author
7 2 (4.878%) Technical Author
7 2 (4.878%) Desktop Support
7 2 (4.878%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.439%) Senior Tester
8 1 (2.439%) Desktop Engineer
8 1 (2.439%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Web Applications Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (48.78%) Mobile App
2 12 (29.27%) iPad
3 10 (24.39%) iPhone
4 9 (21.95%) Blackberry
5 4 (9.756%) Digital Media
6 3 (7.317%) Handset
6 3 (7.317%) Smartphone
7 2 (4.878%) Client/Server
7 2 (4.878%) Replication
7 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
7 2 (4.878%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (2.439%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (2.439%) Open Source
8 1 (2.439%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (2.439%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 30 (73.17%) Android
2 10 (24.39%) Windows
3 2 (4.878%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.439%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.439%) Linux
4 1 (2.439%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.439%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (12.20%) MVC
2 4 (9.756%) Test Strategy
2 4 (9.756%) Automation Testing
2 4 (9.756%) OO
3 3 (7.317%) Automated Testing
3 3 (7.317%) Load Testing
3 3 (7.317%) Stress Testing
3 3 (7.317%) Analytics
4 2 (4.878%) Content Management
4 2 (4.878%) Web Application Development
4 2 (4.878%) Unit Testing
4 2 (4.878%) Multithreading
4 2 (4.878%) Manual Testing
4 2 (4.878%) Web Development
4 2 (4.878%) Resource Management
4 2 (4.878%) Service Management
5 1 (2.439%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.439%) Project Management
5 1 (2.439%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.439%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
2 10 (24.39%) Objective-C
3 9 (21.95%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) C#
5 3 (7.317%) C++
6 2 (4.878%) VB
7 1 (2.439%) Ruby
7 1 (2.439%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (2.439%) ISEB
1 1 (2.439%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.439%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.439%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (9.756%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.317%) Sencha
3 2 (4.878%) Google
3 2 (4.878%) Vignette
4 1 (2.439%) Facebook
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Required Skillsets; * Experience in an operator test environment, in particular Radio performance and functionality: * Experience in all major platforms and OSs (including Android, iOS/MAC, Blackberry and Win) *...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £150.00 - £180.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013