The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa Touch skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa Touch 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 of the Application Development category for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa Touch
Rank 183 208 234
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +26
Contract jobs citing Cocoa Touch 18 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.286% 0.064% 0.122%
As % of the Application Development category 1.002% 0.257% 0.441%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 12
Average daily rate £405 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £280 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1796 1946 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.53% 25.01% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1418 1430 2105
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.75 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa Touch
London

Cocoa Touch
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cocoa Touch Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa Touch
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cocoa Touch Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa Touch
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Touch.

1 35 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 33 (94.29%) Objective-C
3 32 (91.43%) Cocoa
3 32 (91.43%) Xcode
3 32 (91.43%) iPhone
4 31 (88.57%) iOS SDK
5 28 (80.00%) Scrum
6 26 (74.29%) Mobile App
7 25 (71.43%) Mobile Application Development
8 13 (37.14%) Finance
8 13 (37.14%) Android
8 13 (37.14%) TDD
9 12 (34.29%) Blackberry
9 12 (34.29%) Windows
9 12 (34.29%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (34.29%) Windows Phone
10 11 (31.43%) MonoTouch
10 11 (31.43%) N-Tier
10 11 (31.43%) SOA
11 9 (25.71%) NFC
11 9 (25.71%) Java Card
12 5 (14.29%) C++
13 4 (11.43%) C
13 4 (11.43%) iPad
13 4 (11.43%) Memory Management
14 3 (8.571%) Sencha Touch
14 3 (8.571%) Sencha
14 3 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
15 2 (5.714%) JSON
15 2 (5.714%) Banking

Cocoa Touch
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Touch. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (91.43%) Cocoa
2 31 (88.57%) iOS SDK
3 11 (31.43%) MonoTouch
4 3 (8.571%) Sencha Touch
5 2 (5.714%) UIKit
5 2 (5.714%) OpenGL
5 2 (5.714%) REST
5 2 (5.714%) JSON
5 2 (5.714%) Web Services
6 1 (2.857%) J2ME
6 1 (2.857%) RESTful
6 1 (2.857%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.857%) OpenGL ES
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.857%) CoreMedia CMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) NFC
2 2 (5.714%) Internet
Development Applications
1 32 (91.43%) Xcode
2 2 (5.714%) GDB
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 2 (5.714%) Banking
3 1 (2.857%) Retail
3 1 (2.857%) Retail Banking
3 1 (2.857%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 35 (100.00%) Developer
2 33 (94.29%) iOS Developer
3 28 (80.00%) Senior iOS Developer
3 28 (80.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.714%) Technical Developer
4 2 (5.714%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (2.857%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (91.43%) iPhone
2 26 (74.29%) Mobile App
3 12 (34.29%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (34.29%) Blackberry
4 11 (31.43%) N-Tier
5 9 (25.71%) Java Card
6 4 (11.43%) iPad
7 1 (2.857%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 13 (37.14%) Android
3 12 (34.29%) Windows Phone
3 12 (34.29%) Windows
4 1 (2.857%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Scrum
2 25 (71.43%) Mobile Application Development
3 13 (37.14%) TDD
4 11 (31.43%) SOA
5 4 (11.43%) Memory Management
6 3 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.714%) OOP
7 2 (5.714%) OO
7 2 (5.714%) OOD
8 1 (2.857%) Multithreading
8 1 (2.857%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) Objective-C
2 5 (14.29%) C++
3 4 (11.43%) C
4 2 (5.714%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (8.571%) Sencha
2 1 (2.857%) Apple
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Posted: 13 May 2013