The first table below looks at the demand for iPhone SDK 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 iPhone SDK 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
iPhone SDK
Rank - 546 534
Contract jobs citing iPhone SDK 0 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England - 0.021% 0.038%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.078% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 13
Average daily rate - £340 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £275 £230
% change year-on-year
- +19.56%
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
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%
iPhone SDK
UK

iPhone SDK
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England iPhone SDK Jobs Demand Trend

iPhone SDK
Daily Rate Trend

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

England iPhone SDK Daily Rate Trend

iPhone SDK
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England iPhone SDK Hourly Rate Trend

iPhone SDK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (100.00%) iPhone
2 11 (91.67%) Apple iOS
2 11 (91.67%) iOS SDK
3 10 (83.33%) Android
4 8 (66.67%) Mobile App
4 8 (66.67%) XML
5 7 (58.33%) CSS
5 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
5 7 (58.33%) iPad
6 6 (50.00%) HTML5
6 6 (50.00%) Ajax
6 6 (50.00%) Cocoa
6 6 (50.00%) Apple
7 5 (41.67%) LAMP
8 4 (33.33%) Blackberry
8 4 (33.33%) Windows
8 4 (33.33%) Linux
8 4 (33.33%) Symbian
8 4 (33.33%) ISEB
8 4 (33.33%) Mac OS X
8 4 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
8 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
8 4 (33.33%) bada
8 4 (33.33%) Maemo
9 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
10 2 (16.67%) JSON
10 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (16.67%) TDD
10 2 (16.67%) Xcode

iPhone SDK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (91.67%) iOS SDK
2 8 (66.67%) XML
3 7 (58.33%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) HTML5
4 6 (50.00%) Ajax
4 6 (50.00%) Cocoa
5 5 (41.67%) LAMP
6 2 (16.67%) JSON
6 2 (16.67%) Series 60
7 1 (8.333%) SOAP
7 1 (8.333%) Web Services
7 1 (8.333%) HTML
7 1 (8.333%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) Xcode
3 1 (8.333%) JIRA
3 1 (8.333%) Selenium
3 1 (8.333%) Firebug
3 1 (8.333%) Robotium
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) iOS Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Mobile Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Web Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) iPhone
2 8 (66.67%) Mobile App
3 7 (58.33%) iPad
4 4 (33.33%) Blackberry
5 1 (8.333%) Interactive TV
5 1 (8.333%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Apple iOS
2 10 (83.33%) Android
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Mac OS X
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (33.33%) bada
3 4 (33.33%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (16.67%) TDD
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.333%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) PHP
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Apple
2 4 (33.33%) Symbian
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle