The first table below looks at the demand for Core Animation 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 Core Animation over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Core Animation
Rank 504 551 554
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +3
Contract jobs citing Core Animation 6 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.014% 0.013% 0.032%
As % of the Application Development category 0.053% 0.050% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 15
Average daily rate £413 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £315 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £335 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+19.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11360 14029 15876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.33% 26.29% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7272 8431 9356
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 351 353 555
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 £17.50 £15.00 £18.70
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%
Core Animation
UK

Core Animation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Core Animation Jobs Demand Trend

Core Animation
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Core Animation Daily Rate Trend

Core Animation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Core Animation across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Core Animation Daily Rate Histogram

Core Animation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Core Animation within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +23 3 £475 +35.71%
West Midlands - 2 £425 -
North East - 1 £350 -
Core Animation
UK

Core Animation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Core Animation 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 Core Animation.

1 13 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 13 (100.00%) Animation
1 13 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 10 (76.92%) Xcode
3 9 (69.23%) UIKit
4 8 (61.54%) Mobile App
5 7 (53.85%) Cocoa
5 7 (53.85%) OO
6 6 (46.15%) Apple
6 6 (46.15%) XML
6 6 (46.15%) C
6 6 (46.15%) OOP
6 6 (46.15%) MVC
6 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (46.15%) JSON
6 6 (46.15%) Android
7 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
7 5 (38.46%) Multithreading
7 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
7 5 (38.46%) Subversion
8 4 (30.77%) C++
8 4 (30.77%) HTML
8 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
8 4 (30.77%) CSS
8 4 (30.77%) iPad
8 4 (30.77%) iOS SDK
8 4 (30.77%) iPhone
8 4 (30.77%) Cocoa Touch
9 3 (23.08%) Sencha
9 3 (23.08%) Mobile Application Development

Core Animation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Core Animation 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 Core Animation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (69.23%) UIKit
2 7 (53.85%) Cocoa
3 6 (46.15%) JSON
3 6 (46.15%) XML
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) CSS
4 4 (30.77%) iOS SDK
4 4 (30.77%) Cocoa Touch
5 3 (23.08%) Sencha Touch
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) OpenGL
6 2 (15.38%) SOAP
7 1 (7.692%) WML
7 1 (7.692%) XHTML
7 1 (7.692%) WebKit
7 1 (7.692%) HTML5
7 1 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Xcode
2 5 (38.46%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) Git (software)
3 2 (15.38%) Hudson
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.692%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Publishing
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) iOS Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.692%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Animation
2 8 (61.54%) Mobile App
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) iPhone
4 4 (30.77%) iPad
5 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
7 1 (7.692%) BBC
7 1 (7.692%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (7.692%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (46.15%) Android
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) OO
2 6 (46.15%) MVC
2 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (46.15%) OOP
3 5 (38.46%) Multithreading
3 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
4 3 (23.08%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 1 (7.692%) Brand Management
6 1 (7.692%) Scrum
6 1 (7.692%) OOD
6 1 (7.692%) HOOD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Objective-C
2 6 (46.15%) C
3 4 (30.77%) C++
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) GLSL
4 2 (15.38%) HLSL
5 1 (7.692%) Ruby
5 1 (7.692%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Apple
2 3 (23.08%) Sencha