The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa over the 3 months to 23 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 Leicestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 59 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.55% 27.44% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 26
Average daily rate £300 £275 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £406 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 20
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa
East Midlands