The first table below looks at the demand for the iOS Developer role 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 iOS Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iOS Developer
Rank 164 183 235
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +52
Contract jobs requiring an iOS Developer 46 29 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.678% 0.375% 0.160%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.734% 0.409% 0.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 18 16
Average daily rate £388 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.31% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £271 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £320 £350
% change year-on-year
- -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £44.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
iOS Developer
London

iOS Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing iOS Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London iOS Developer Jobs Demand Trend

iOS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London iOS Developer Daily Rate Trend

iOS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing iOS Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London iOS Developer Daily Rate Histogram

iOS Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London iOS Developer Hourly Rate Trend

iOS Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited iOS Developer in their job title 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 with iOS Developer in their job title.

1 86 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 61 (70.93%) Objective-C
3 50 (58.14%) iPhone
4 40 (46.51%) Xcode
5 37 (43.02%) iOS SDK
6 32 (37.21%) Cocoa
7 28 (32.56%) Android
7 28 (32.56%) iPad
8 25 (29.07%) Mobile App
9 24 (27.91%) Scrum
10 23 (26.74%) Cocoa Touch
11 21 (24.42%) TDD
12 20 (23.26%) Mobile Application Development
13 14 (16.28%) JSON
13 14 (16.28%) Blackberry
13 14 (16.28%) Windows
13 14 (16.28%) OO
14 13 (15.12%) Apple
14 13 (15.12%) Agile Software Development
15 11 (12.79%) Finance
15 11 (12.79%) SOA
15 11 (12.79%) N-Tier
15 11 (12.79%) Windows Phone
15 11 (12.79%) MonoTouch
16 10 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (11.63%) XML
16 10 (11.63%) Subversion
17 9 (10.47%) C++
17 9 (10.47%) RESTful
17 9 (10.47%) NFC

iOS Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited iOS Developer in their job title 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 with iOS Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (43.02%) iOS SDK
2 32 (37.21%) Cocoa
3 23 (26.74%) Cocoa Touch
4 14 (16.28%) JSON
5 11 (12.79%) MonoTouch
6 10 (11.63%) XML
7 9 (10.47%) RESTful
8 8 (9.302%) Web Services
9 5 (5.814%) HTML
9 5 (5.814%) CSS
10 4 (4.651%) HTML5
10 4 (4.651%) UIKit
10 4 (4.651%) Sencha Touch
10 4 (4.651%) .NET
11 3 (3.488%) OpenGL
12 2 (2.326%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (2.326%) Core Animation
12 2 (2.326%) CSS3
12 2 (2.326%) REST
12 2 (2.326%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.163%) CoreMedia CMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) NFC
2 5 (5.814%) HTTP
3 4 (4.651%) VPN
3 4 (4.651%) DNS
4 2 (2.326%) RTP
5 1 (1.163%) SMS
5 1 (1.163%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.326%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.163%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (46.51%) Xcode
2 10 (11.63%) Subversion
3 6 (6.977%) Hudson
3 6 (6.977%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.651%) Git (software)
5 3 (3.488%) Mercurial
6 2 (2.326%) GDB
7 1 (1.163%) PhoneGap
7 1 (1.163%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (1.163%) GitHub
7 1 (1.163%) Trac
General
1 11 (12.79%) Finance
2 6 (6.977%) Banking
2 6 (6.977%) Games
3 2 (2.326%) Publishing
4 1 (1.163%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (58.14%) iPhone
2 28 (32.56%) iPad
3 25 (29.07%) Mobile App
4 14 (16.28%) Blackberry
5 11 (12.79%) N-Tier
6 10 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (10.47%) Java Card
8 6 (6.977%) Computer Science
9 4 (4.651%) Physics
10 3 (3.488%) Mobile Games
10 3 (3.488%) Digital Media
10 3 (3.488%) Social Media
11 2 (2.326%) Social Gaming
11 2 (2.326%) Open Source
11 2 (2.326%) Video on Demand
11 2 (2.326%) Data Integration
11 2 (2.326%) Animation
12 1 (1.163%) Smartphone
12 1 (1.163%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 28 (32.56%) Android
3 14 (16.28%) Windows
4 11 (12.79%) Windows Phone
5 3 (3.488%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (2.326%) Linux
7 1 (1.163%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.91%) Scrum
2 21 (24.42%) TDD
3 20 (23.26%) Mobile Application Development
4 14 (16.28%) OO
5 13 (15.12%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (12.79%) SOA
7 9 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (8.140%) Multithreading
9 4 (4.651%) Unit Testing
9 4 (4.651%) Analytics
9 4 (4.651%) OOD
9 4 (4.651%) Data Management
10 3 (3.488%) Software Engineering
10 3 (3.488%) MVC
10 3 (3.488%) OOP
10 3 (3.488%) Memory Management
11 2 (2.326%) BDD
11 2 (2.326%) Image Processing
11 2 (2.326%) E-Commerce
11 2 (2.326%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (70.93%) Objective-C
2 9 (10.47%) C++
3 7 (8.140%) Java
4 6 (6.977%) C
5 3 (3.488%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.488%) SQL
6 1 (1.163%) C#
6 1 (1.163%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (5.814%) Degree
2 2 (2.326%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (1.163%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Apple
2 4 (4.651%) Sencha
3 3 (3.488%) Google
4 1 (1.163%) Appcelerator
4 1 (1.163%) Facebook
City, London
An iOS developer with a strong background in an Agile/Scrum environment is required to join a new and exciting project in a company with a great start-...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
An iOS developer with a strong background in an Agile/Scrum environment is required to join a new and exciting project in a company with a great start-...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
iOS Developer, CONTRACT, LONDON, ASAP, 3+ months, £400-450My client is looking to rapidly expand their iOS team ASAP.
Mint
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013