The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa 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 Cocoa over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank 118 133 123
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -10
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 2 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.084% 0.064% 0.202%
As % of the Application Development category 0.385% 0.370% 0.821%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
Average daily rate £395 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £325 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £325 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
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
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
519 541 731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.67% 17.20% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 247 310
Average daily rate £388 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa
South East

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cocoa across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire Cocoa Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Cocoa Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cocoa within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 1 £390 -
Cocoa
South East

Cocoa
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Cocoa 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.

1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) iPad
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (33.33%) Cocoa Touch
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) XML

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Cocoa 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) iOS SDK
1 1 (33.33%) Cocoa Touch
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) iPad
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Android
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) Java