The first table below looks at the demand for Objective-C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Objective-C 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 Programming Languages category for the Hertfordshire 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 Objective-C
Rank 58 71 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Objective-C 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.153% 0.104% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.364% 0.246% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £213 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £309 £290
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-46.68% +165.62%
All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
275 407 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 42.05% 42.26% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 163 109
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 37 56
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.55 £31.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Objective-C
East of England

Objective-C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Objective-C across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Hertfordshire Objective-C Jobs Demand Trend

Objective-C
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Objective-C Daily Rate Trend

Objective-C
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Objective-C 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 Objective-C.

1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML

Objective-C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Objective-C 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 Objective-C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript