The first table below looks at the demand for Xcode 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 Xcode over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Xcode
Rank 172 216 225
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +9
Contract jobs citing Xcode 31 2 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.486% 0.025% 0.204%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.949% 0.307% 1.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 2 19
Average daily rate £390 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £310 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £390 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £293
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +11.11%
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 Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Xcode
London

Xcode
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Xcode Jobs Demand Trend

Xcode
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Xcode Daily Rate Trend

Xcode
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Xcode across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Xcode Daily Rate Histogram

Xcode
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Xcode 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 Xcode.

1 54 (98.18%) Objective-C
2 53 (96.36%) Apple iOS
3 44 (80.00%) iOS SDK
4 43 (78.18%) iPhone
5 39 (70.91%) Cocoa
6 29 (52.73%) Cocoa Touch
6 29 (52.73%) Mobile App
7 27 (49.09%) Scrum
8 24 (43.64%) Mobile Application Development
9 18 (32.73%) iPad
9 18 (32.73%) Android
10 14 (25.45%) TDD
11 13 (23.64%) Blackberry
11 13 (23.64%) Windows
11 13 (23.64%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (21.82%) Windows Phone
13 11 (20.00%) MonoTouch
13 11 (20.00%) SOA
13 11 (20.00%) N-Tier
13 11 (20.00%) Finance
14 9 (16.36%) NFC
14 9 (16.36%) Java Card
14 9 (16.36%) C++
15 6 (10.91%) Java
15 6 (10.91%) Web Services
15 6 (10.91%) OO
16 5 (9.091%) OOD
16 5 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
17 4 (7.273%) Subversion
17 4 (7.273%) HTML5

Xcode
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Xcode 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 Xcode. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (80.00%) iOS SDK
2 39 (70.91%) Cocoa
3 29 (52.73%) Cocoa Touch
4 11 (20.00%) MonoTouch
5 6 (10.91%) Web Services
6 4 (7.273%) HTML5
6 4 (7.273%) REST
6 4 (7.273%) JSON
6 4 (7.273%) CSS
7 3 (5.455%) .NET
7 3 (5.455%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.455%) RESTful
7 3 (5.455%) Sencha Touch
8 2 (3.636%) cocos2d
8 2 (3.636%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.636%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (3.636%) jQuery
8 2 (3.636%) SOAP
8 2 (3.636%) XML
9 1 (1.818%) OpenGL
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) NFC
2 2 (3.636%) Internet
2 2 (3.636%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.455%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.273%) Subversion
2 3 (5.455%) Git (software)
2 3 (5.455%) Mercurial
2 3 (5.455%) GitHub
3 1 (1.818%) PhoneGap
3 1 (1.818%) Hudson
3 1 (1.818%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.818%) Trac
General
1 11 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (7.273%) Games
3 2 (3.636%) Banking
4 1 (1.818%) Automotive
4 1 (1.818%) Music
4 1 (1.818%) Music Industry
4 1 (1.818%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.818%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (96.36%) Developer
2 48 (87.27%) iOS Developer
3 33 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 33 (60.00%) Senior iOS Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Android Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Senior Games Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Games Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Web Applications Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Web Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Applications Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Architect
6 1 (1.818%) Software Engineer
6 1 (1.818%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (1.818%) Mac Developer
6 1 (1.818%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 43 (78.18%) iPhone
2 29 (52.73%) Mobile App
3 18 (32.73%) iPad
4 13 (23.64%) Blackberry
4 13 (23.64%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (20.00%) N-Tier
6 9 (16.36%) Java Card
7 3 (5.455%) Physics
8 2 (3.636%) Digital Media
8 2 (3.636%) Video on Demand
8 2 (3.636%) Computer Science
8 2 (3.636%) Mobile Games
9 1 (1.818%) Animation
9 1 (1.818%) Social Media
9 1 (1.818%) Social Gaming
9 1 (1.818%) Open Source
9 1 (1.818%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 53 (96.36%) Apple iOS
2 18 (32.73%) Android
3 13 (23.64%) Windows
4 12 (21.82%) Windows Phone
5 2 (3.636%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.818%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (1.818%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Scrum
2 24 (43.64%) Mobile Application Development
3 14 (25.45%) TDD
4 11 (20.00%) SOA
5 6 (10.91%) OO
6 5 (9.091%) OOD
6 5 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (7.273%) Memory Management
7 4 (7.273%) OOP
8 3 (5.455%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.455%) Asset Management
8 3 (5.455%) Multithreading
8 3 (5.455%) Analytics
9 2 (3.636%) Software Engineering
9 2 (3.636%) Web Design
9 2 (3.636%) E-Commerce
10 1 (1.818%) Pair Programming
10 1 (1.818%) MVC
10 1 (1.818%) Continuous Integration
10 1 (1.818%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (98.18%) Objective-C
2 9 (16.36%) C++
3 6 (10.91%) Java
4 4 (7.273%) C
5 3 (5.455%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.818%) Assembly Language
6 1 (1.818%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (7.273%) Apple
2 3 (5.455%) Sencha
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