The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the Hampshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple
Rank 92 87 103
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +16
Contract jobs citing Apple 7 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.450% 0.683% 0.054%
As % of the Vendors category 0.806% 1.249% 0.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £200 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £249 £317 £245
% change year-on-year
-21.49% +29.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.96% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £12.93
% change year-on-year
-15.15% +27.61%
All Vendors
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
869 881 949
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 55.92% 54.72% 51.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 416 335
Average daily rate £365 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 117 136
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.88 £13.38 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £36.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Apple
South East

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Apple Jobs Demand Trend

Apple
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Apple Daily Rate Trend

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apple across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hampshire Apple Daily Rate Histogram

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Apple Hourly Rate Trend

Apple
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Southampton - 5 £200 -
Apple
South East

Apple
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Apple 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.

1 5 (62.50%) Apple iOS
2 4 (50.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) Cocoa
2 4 (50.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) C
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) JSON
3 3 (37.50%) iPhone
3 3 (37.50%) Facebook
3 3 (37.50%) Twitter
3 3 (37.50%) Memory Management
4 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) HPUX
4 2 (25.00%) Solaris
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (25.00%) IPv4
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
5 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Apple 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
1 4 (50.00%) Cocoa
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) IPv4
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) iOS Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) iPhone
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) HPUX
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OO
1 3 (37.50%) Memory Management
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (37.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) Korn
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
1 3 (37.50%) Facebook
1 3 (37.50%) Twitter
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Kaspersky