The first table below looks at the demand for Core Animation 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 Core Animation 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Core Animation
Rank - - 235
Contract jobs citing Core Animation 0 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - - 0.062%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+19.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1838 2048 2689
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.59% 25.67% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1451 1521 2090
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -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 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Core Animation
London

Core Animation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Core Animation Jobs Demand Trend

Core Animation
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Core Animation Daily Rate Trend

Core Animation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Core Animation 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 Core Animation.

1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Animation
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Sencha Touch
2 1 (50.00%) UIKit
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Sencha
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Cocoa
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode

Core Animation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Core Animation 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 Core Animation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 1 (50.00%) Sencha Touch
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) WML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Animation
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sencha
1 1 (50.00%) Apple