The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa Touch skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa Touch over the 3 months to 21 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 England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa Touch
Rank 458 516 519
Rank change year-on-year
+58 +3
Contract jobs citing Cocoa Touch 54 41 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.128% 0.077% 0.065%
As % of the Application Development category 0.469% 0.291% 0.231%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 32
Average daily rate £400 £328 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.13% -6.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £271 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.68% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year
-46.68% -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11520 14071 15553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.23% 26.30% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7359 8460 9198
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 364 548
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa Touch
UK

Cocoa Touch
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Cocoa Touch Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa Touch
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cocoa Touch across the England region.

England Cocoa Touch Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa Touch
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cocoa Touch across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Cocoa Touch Daily Rate Histogram

Cocoa Touch
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cocoa Touch across the England region.

England Cocoa Touch Hourly Rate Trend

Cocoa Touch
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cocoa Touch within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +30 39 £403 +15.00%
South East +30 7 £400 +52.38%
East of England +12 3 - -
North West +10 3 £350 +7.69%
West Midlands +12 1 £425 +13.33%
North East +10 1 £350 -12.50%
Cocoa Touch
UK

Cocoa Touch
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Touch.

1 117 (98.32%) Objective-C
2 112 (94.12%) Apple iOS
3 99 (83.19%) Cocoa
4 78 (65.55%) Xcode
5 73 (61.34%) iPhone
6 58 (48.74%) Mobile App
7 45 (37.82%) iPad
8 43 (36.13%) iOS SDK
9 42 (35.29%) Android
10 39 (32.77%) Mobile Application Development
11 37 (31.09%) Scrum
12 27 (22.69%) Agile Software Development
12 27 (22.69%) TDD
13 26 (21.85%) Windows
14 24 (20.17%) Blackberry
15 22 (18.49%) OO
16 20 (16.81%) C++
17 17 (14.29%) JSON
18 16 (13.45%) Memory Management
18 16 (13.45%) C
19 15 (12.61%) XML
19 15 (12.61%) Finance
20 14 (11.76%) Windows Phone
21 13 (10.92%) Web Services
21 13 (10.92%) SOA
21 13 (10.92%) Apple
22 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
22 12 (10.08%) UIKit
22 12 (10.08%) Enterprise Software
23 11 (9.244%) Facebook

Cocoa Touch
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Touch. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 99 (83.19%) Cocoa
2 43 (36.13%) iOS SDK
3 17 (14.29%) JSON
4 15 (12.61%) XML
5 13 (10.92%) Web Services
6 12 (10.08%) UIKit
7 11 (9.244%) MonoTouch
8 7 (5.882%) HTML
9 6 (5.042%) HTML5
9 6 (5.042%) OpenGL
10 4 (3.361%) Core Animation
10 4 (3.361%) CSS
11 3 (2.521%) SOAP
11 3 (2.521%) CSS3
11 3 (2.521%) Sencha Touch
12 2 (1.681%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 2 (1.681%) REST
12 2 (1.681%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (1.681%) RESTful
12 2 (1.681%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.521%) Facebook Platform
2 1 (0.840%) CoreMedia CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.361%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.563%) NFC
2 3 (2.521%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.681%) Internet
4 1 (0.840%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.521%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 78 (65.55%) Xcode
2 8 (6.723%) Subversion
3 6 (5.042%) Selenium
3 6 (5.042%) JIRA
3 6 (5.042%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.521%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.681%) PhoneGap
5 2 (1.681%) GDB
6 1 (0.840%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (12.61%) Finance
2 7 (5.882%) Games
3 4 (3.361%) Publishing
4 3 (2.521%) Banking
5 2 (1.681%) Retail
6 1 (0.840%) Automotive
6 1 (0.840%) Advertising
6 1 (0.840%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.840%) Music
6 1 (0.840%) Music Industry
6 1 (0.840%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.840%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 113 (94.96%) Developer
2 97 (81.51%) iOS Developer
3 31 (26.05%) Senior Developer
3 31 (26.05%) Senior iOS Developer
4 8 (6.723%) Android Developer
4 8 (6.723%) Mobile Developer
5 6 (5.042%) iPhone Developer
6 5 (4.202%) Tester
6 5 (4.202%) Senior Tester
7 4 (3.361%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (2.521%) Analyst
9 2 (1.681%) Technical Developer
9 2 (1.681%) Developer Analyst
9 2 (1.681%) Applications Developer
10 1 (0.840%) Programmer
10 1 (0.840%) Architect
10 1 (0.840%) Software Engineer
10 1 (0.840%) Technical Engineer
10 1 (0.840%) QA Engineer
10 1 (0.840%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 73 (61.34%) iPhone
2 58 (48.74%) Mobile App
3 45 (37.82%) iPad
4 24 (20.17%) Blackberry
5 12 (10.08%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (9.244%) N-Tier
7 10 (8.403%) Computer Science
8 9 (7.563%) Java Card
9 6 (5.042%) Video on Demand
10 4 (3.361%) IPTV
10 4 (3.361%) Animation
11 3 (2.521%) STB
12 2 (1.681%) Digital Media
12 2 (1.681%) Open Source
12 2 (1.681%) Graphic Design
12 2 (1.681%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.681%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.840%) BBC
13 1 (0.840%) E-Learning
13 1 (0.840%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 112 (94.12%) Apple iOS
2 42 (35.29%) Android
3 26 (21.85%) Windows
4 14 (11.76%) Windows Phone
5 2 (1.681%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.840%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.77%) Mobile Application Development
2 37 (31.09%) Scrum
3 27 (22.69%) Agile Software Development
3 27 (22.69%) TDD
4 22 (18.49%) OO
5 16 (13.45%) Memory Management
6 13 (10.92%) SOA
7 10 (8.403%) MVC
8 8 (6.723%) User Stories
9 7 (5.882%) Multithreading
10 6 (5.042%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (5.042%) Test Scripting
10 6 (5.042%) Software Engineering
10 6 (5.042%) Regression Testing
11 5 (4.202%) OOA/OOD
12 4 (3.361%) BDD
12 4 (3.361%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (3.361%) OOD
12 4 (3.361%) DRM
13 3 (2.521%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 117 (98.32%) Objective-C
2 20 (16.81%) C++
3 16 (13.45%) C
4 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.563%) SQL
6 5 (4.202%) Java
7 4 (3.361%) PHP
8 3 (2.521%) Python
8 3 (2.521%) Perl
8 3 (2.521%) Ruby
9 2 (1.681%) HLSL
9 2 (1.681%) GLSL
9 2 (1.681%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (5.042%) Degree
1 6 (5.042%) ISTQB
1 6 (5.042%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.681%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Apple
2 11 (9.244%) Facebook
3 7 (5.882%) Twitter
3 7 (5.882%) Symbian
4 5 (4.202%) Sencha
5 2 (1.681%) Adobe
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