The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa 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 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank - - 53
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - - 0.328%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.460%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £283 £300 £278
% change year-on-year
-5.83% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year
-46.68% -
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
265 240 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.01% 26.97% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 158 78
Average daily rate £290 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.33% -57.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa
West Yorkshire

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Cocoa Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Cocoa Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Cocoa 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 Cocoa.

1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) iPad
1 3 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) iPad
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C