The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPad in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iPad over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple iPad
Rank 73 65 51
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -14
Contract jobs citing iPad 1 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.135% 0.230% 0.472%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.613% 1.550% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £125 £250 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +8.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £10.00 £8.92
% change year-on-year
+62.50% +12.10%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
163 129 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 22.06% 14.84% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 65 76
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £250 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
Average hourly rate £11.75 £11.00 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.81% -45.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.97 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £13.10 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
iPad
West Yorkshire

iPad
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds iPad Jobs Demand Trend

iPad
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds iPad Daily Rate Trend

iPad
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing iPad 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 iPad.

1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
2 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Cocoa
3 2 (40.00%) Xcode
3 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (40.00%) Memory Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Xen
4 1 (20.00%) XPath
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (20.00%) SQLite
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure

iPad
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing iPad 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 iPad. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (40.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) UIKit
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
1 1 (20.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) iOS Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (20.00%) XPath
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Wyse