The first table below looks at the demand for Objective-C 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 Objective-C 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 Programming Languages 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 Objective-C
Rank 116 129 122
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -7
Contract jobs citing Objective-C 4 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.167% 0.191% 0.235%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.558% 0.850% 0.752%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
Average daily rate £390 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £325 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £338 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £290
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-46.68% +165.62%
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
717 706 931
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.94% 22.45% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 341 378
Average daily rate £375 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 12 90
Average hourly rate £34.00 £36.25 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.20% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.65 £18.50 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
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South East

Objective-C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Objective-C across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Berkshire Objective-C Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Objective-C Daily Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Objective-C 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 - 3 £370 -
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South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (70.00%) Xcode
3 6 (60.00%) JSON
3 6 (60.00%) Android
4 5 (50.00%) iPhone
4 5 (50.00%) iPad
4 5 (50.00%) XML
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (40.00%) Java
5 4 (40.00%) iOS SDK
6 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (30.00%) Cocoa
6 3 (30.00%) HTML
6 3 (30.00%) C#
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
6 3 (30.00%) QA
6 3 (30.00%) Selenium
6 3 (30.00%) Stress Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Web Services
7 2 (20.00%) Replication
7 2 (20.00%) MVC
7 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
7 2 (20.00%) Ajax
7 2 (20.00%) VoIP
7 2 (20.00%) HTTP
7 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
7 2 (20.00%) C++
7 2 (20.00%) VB

Objective-C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) JSON
2 5 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) iOS SDK
4 3 (30.00%) Cocoa
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) Ajax
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) CSS
5 2 (20.00%) SOAP
5 2 (20.00%) soapUI
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) Cocoa Touch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Xcode
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) iOS Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) iPhone
1 5 (50.00%) iPad
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (60.00%) Android
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA