The first table below looks at the demand for Objective-C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Objective-C over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Objective-C
Rank 58 54 68
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +14
Contract jobs citing Objective-C 5 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.680% 1.358% 0.313%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.381% 4.280% 0.980%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 1
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £280
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +11.60%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
210 257 306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 28.57% 31.73% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 141 169
Average daily rate £350 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £459 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.90 £13.50 £15.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £36.00 £46.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Objective-C
North West

Objective-C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Objective-C Jobs Demand Trend

Objective-C
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Objective-C Daily Rate Trend

Objective-C
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Objective-C across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire Objective-C Daily Rate Histogram

Objective-C
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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warrington -6 2 £275 -12.69%
Objective-C
North West

Objective-C
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (60.00%) iPhone
3 2 (40.00%) iPad
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (20.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 1 (20.00%) Appcelerator
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) HTML

Objective-C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) iPad Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) iPhone
2 2 (40.00%) iPad
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Appcelerator