The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPhone in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iPhone over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple iPhone
Rank 40 53 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing iPhone 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.915% 0.479% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.545% 3.571% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £240 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £305 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.63% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-8.57% -36.36%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
88 84 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.14% 13.42% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 43
Average daily rate £340 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +3.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £523 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.25 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.07% +9.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.15 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £92.20 £19.15 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
iPhone
West Midlands

iPhone
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham iPhone Jobs Demand Trend

iPhone
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham iPhone Daily Rate Trend

iPhone
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing iPhone 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 iPhone.

1 5 (83.33%) Android
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) Objective-C
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) PhoneGap
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) iPad
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
4 2 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Back Office
5 1 (16.67%) Handset
5 1 (16.67%) Cocoa
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Google
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) QA
5 1 (16.67%) GWT

iPhone
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing iPhone 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 iPhone. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) Cocoa
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) GWT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) PhoneGap
2 2 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) iPhone Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
2 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (33.33%) iPad
2 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (16.67%) Handset
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Android
2 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) TDD
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
Birmingham, West Midlands
Mobile Applications Developer required to assist in the development of a greenfield eCommerce applications Essentials: - Objective C (iPhone) - Android Desirable: - Blackberry - Windows Mobile This is an excellent opportunity...
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Posted: 15 May 2013