The first table below looks at the demand for Apple iOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple iOS 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 Operating Systems category for the Edinburgh 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 iOS
Rank 53 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Apple iOS 4 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.480% 0.368% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.564% 2.500% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £263 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £323 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.32% +7.50%
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 Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
156 160 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.73% 14.72% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 70 54
Average daily rate £375 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £215 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 14
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Apple iOS
Scotland

Apple iOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apple iOS across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Edinburgh Apple iOS Jobs Demand Trend

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apple iOS across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Apple iOS Daily Rate Trend

Apple iOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Apple iOS 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 Apple iOS.

1 5 (62.50%) Objective-C
2 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (50.00%) Android
3 3 (37.50%) iPhone
3 3 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (37.50%) Cocoa Touch
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Cocoa
3 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Xcode
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) iOS SDK
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) Bug Management
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) NFC
4 2 (25.00%) Java Card
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) XPath
5 1 (12.50%) WAI
5 1 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 1 (12.50%) jQuery

Apple iOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Apple iOS 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 Apple iOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) Cocoa Touch
1 3 (37.50%) Cocoa
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) iOS SDK
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) DOM
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Flash
3 1 (12.50%) SAX
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) TeamSite
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) NFC
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Xcode
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) FogBugz
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) iOS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Games Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (37.50%) iPhone
3 2 (25.00%) Java Card
4 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) iPad
4 1 (12.50%) PKI
4 1 (12.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum
1 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (37.50%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (25.00%) Bug Management
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Game Development
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Objective-C
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
3 1 (12.50%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) WAI
1 1 (12.50%) Section 508
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix
Edinburgh & Lothians
3d software engineer java developer c#.net flash programmer actionscript as3 as2 c++ ios objective-c iphone java c#.net c# flash actionscript 3d java c++ c#.net...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Rate: Market rate paid weekly
Posted: 20 May 2013