The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 65 70 53
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -17
Contract jobs citing Apple 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.399% 0.112% 0.161%
As % of the Vendors category 0.901% 0.225% 0.455%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £125 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £249 £317 £245
% change year-on-year
-21.49% +29.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -10.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £12.93
% change year-on-year
-15.15% +27.61%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
333 444 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 44.28% 49.72% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 257 102
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £173 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £445 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 26
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £11.40 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £24.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Apple
West Yorkshire

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Apple Daily Rate Trend

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Apple Hourly Rate Trend

Apple
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) iPad
4 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) iPhone
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (20.00%) Xen
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) VBScript
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) MS Excel

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (40.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Web Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Support
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Graphic Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Interface Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iPad
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Beowulf
1 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) ITSM
1 1 (20.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Sun
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Wyse