The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple 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 Vendors for the Birmingham 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple
Rank 41 52 44
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing Apple 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.457% 0.163% 0.200%
As % of the Vendors category 0.917% 0.340% 0.433%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £266 £319 £250
% change year-on-year
-16.63% +27.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £16.50 £11.36
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +45.24%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
218 294 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 49.77% 47.96% 46.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 135 112
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £194 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 25
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.15% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.26 £10.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £32.70 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Apple
West Midlands

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Apple Jobs Demand Trend

Apple
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Apple Daily Rate Trend

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Apple Hourly Rate Trend

Apple
Top 29 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) GLSL
2 1 (50.00%) HLSL
2 1 (50.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 1 (50.00%) UIKit
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) ABAP
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (50.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (50.00%) OpenGL
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Cocoa
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Animation
2 1 (50.00%) SAP ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Core Animation

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) OpenGL
1 1 (50.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (50.00%) Core Animation
1 1 (50.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (50.00%) Animation
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
1 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (50.00%) GLSL
1 1 (50.00%) HLSL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase
1 1 (50.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (50.00%) SAP