The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa 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 Cocoa over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank 55 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.122% 0.184% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.565% 1.600% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
177 125 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.56% 11.50% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 56 61
Average daily rate £325 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.55% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa
Scotland

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Cocoa Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 2 (66.67%) NFC
2 2 (66.67%) Java Card
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) Banking

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NFC
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Java Card
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C