Cocoa Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa 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 over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank 178 204 216
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +12
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 23 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.364% 0.205% 0.207%
As % of the Application Development category 1.274% 0.811% 0.749%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 15
Average daily rate £405 £294 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.87% -16.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £283 £300 £278
% change year-on-year
-5.83% +8.10%
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		 1806 1972 2672
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.58% 25.25% 27.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1424 1451 2072
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 27 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £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
London

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cocoa Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cocoa Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cocoa across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Cocoa Daily Rate Histogram

Cocoa
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Cocoa Hourly Rate Trend

Cocoa
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cocoa 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.

1 43 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 42 (97.67%) Objective-C
3 41 (95.35%) Xcode
4 38 (88.37%) iPhone
4 38 (88.37%) iOS SDK
5 32 (74.42%) Cocoa Touch
6 28 (65.12%) Scrum
6 28 (65.12%) Mobile App
7 26 (60.47%) Mobile Application Development
8 16 (37.21%) Android
9 13 (30.23%) TDD
9 13 (30.23%) Finance
9 13 (30.23%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (27.91%) Windows Phone
10 12 (27.91%) Blackberry
10 12 (27.91%) Windows
11 11 (25.58%) N-Tier
11 11 (25.58%) SOA
11 11 (25.58%) iPad
11 11 (25.58%) MonoTouch
12 9 (20.93%) NFC
12 9 (20.93%) Java Card
13 5 (11.63%) C++
14 4 (9.302%) Java
14 4 (9.302%) Apple
14 4 (9.302%) OOD
14 4 (9.302%) OO
14 4 (9.302%) Web Services
14 4 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
14 4 (9.302%) Games

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 38 (88.37%) iOS SDK
2 32 (74.42%) Cocoa Touch
3 11 (25.58%) MonoTouch
4 4 (9.302%) Sencha Touch
4 4 (9.302%) Web Services
5 3 (6.977%) OpenGL
5 3 (6.977%) RESTful
6 2 (4.651%) JSON
6 2 (4.651%) REST
7 1 (2.326%) OpenCV
7 1 (2.326%) OpenGL ES
7 1 (2.326%) cocos2d
7 1 (2.326%) Core Animation
7 1 (2.326%) J2ME
7 1 (2.326%) HTML
7 1 (2.326%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.326%) CoreMedia CMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) NFC
2 2 (4.651%) Internet
2 2 (4.651%) RTP
Development Applications
1 41 (95.35%) Xcode
2 2 (4.651%) Subversion
2 2 (4.651%) Git (software)
2 2 (4.651%) Mercurial
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
2 4 (9.302%) Games
3 2 (4.651%) Banking
4 1 (2.326%) Retail
4 1 (2.326%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.326%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 43 (100.00%) Developer
2 41 (95.35%) iOS Developer
3 31 (72.09%) Senior iOS Developer
3 31 (72.09%) Senior Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (4.651%) Android Developer
5 2 (4.651%) Games Developer
5 2 (4.651%) Senior Games Developer
6 1 (2.326%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 38 (88.37%) iPhone
2 28 (65.12%) Mobile App
3 13 (30.23%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (27.91%) Blackberry
5 11 (25.58%) N-Tier
5 11 (25.58%) iPad
6 9 (20.93%) Java Card
7 3 (6.977%) Physics
8 2 (4.651%) Mobile Games
8 2 (4.651%) Video on Demand
8 2 (4.651%) Social Media
9 1 (2.326%) Animation
9 1 (2.326%) Computer Science
9 1 (2.326%) Social Gaming
9 1 (2.326%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 16 (37.21%) Android
3 12 (27.91%) Windows
3 12 (27.91%) Windows Phone
4 1 (2.326%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.326%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Scrum
2 26 (60.47%) Mobile Application Development
3 13 (30.23%) TDD
4 11 (25.58%) SOA
5 4 (9.302%) OO
5 4 (9.302%) OOD
5 4 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (6.977%) Memory Management
6 3 (6.977%) Analytics
7 2 (4.651%) OOP
7 2 (4.651%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.326%) Multithreading
8 1 (2.326%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 42 (97.67%) Objective-C
2 5 (11.63%) C++
3 4 (9.302%) Java
4 2 (4.651%) C
5 1 (2.326%) C#
5 1 (2.326%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.326%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (9.302%) Apple
1 4 (9.302%) Sencha
2 1 (2.326%) Facebook
2 1 (2.326%) Google
Mac OS X Developer - Objective-C, Xcode, Cocoa, Cocos2d
London, City of
In order of preference suitable candidates require the following skills: - Mac OS X GUI app development (Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa) - highly proficient - iOS app development (Xcode, Objective-C,...
Elevate Platform Ltd
Rate: max £350 per day dep on exp
Posted: 16 May 2013
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