The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa Touch skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa Touch 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 of the Application Development category for the London 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 Cocoa Touch
Rank 338 388 405
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +17
Contract jobs citing Cocoa Touch 39 27 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.180% 0.100% 0.119%
As % of the Application Development category 0.616% 0.358% 0.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 34
Average daily rate £405 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £269 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 107 136
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.95 £17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa Touch
England

Cocoa Touch
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Cocoa Touch Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa Touch
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Cocoa Touch Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa Touch
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cocoa Touch across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Cocoa Touch Daily Rate Histogram

Cocoa Touch
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cocoa Touch within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +28 18 £405 +35.00%
Hounslow - 1 - -
Cocoa Touch
England

Cocoa Touch
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Touch.

1 86 (98.85%) Objective-C
2 80 (91.95%) Apple iOS
3 70 (80.46%) Cocoa
4 58 (66.67%) Xcode
5 50 (57.47%) iPhone
6 43 (49.43%) Mobile App
7 37 (42.53%) iOS SDK
8 32 (36.78%) Mobile Application Development
9 30 (34.48%) Scrum
10 29 (33.33%) Android
11 28 (32.18%) iPad
12 24 (27.59%) Windows
13 23 (26.44%) TDD
14 22 (25.29%) Blackberry
15 21 (24.14%) Agile Software Development
16 18 (20.69%) C++
17 14 (16.09%) Windows Phone
18 13 (14.94%) OO
18 13 (14.94%) SOA
19 12 (13.79%) Finance
20 11 (12.64%) N-Tier
20 11 (12.64%) MonoTouch
21 10 (11.49%) Enterprise Software
21 10 (11.49%) C
21 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
22 9 (10.34%) Memory Management
22 9 (10.34%) NFC
22 9 (10.34%) Java Card
23 8 (9.195%) XML
24 7 (8.046%) SQL

Cocoa Touch
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 70 (80.46%) Cocoa
2 37 (42.53%) iOS SDK
3 11 (12.64%) MonoTouch
4 8 (9.195%) XML
5 7 (8.046%) HTML
5 7 (8.046%) JSON
5 7 (8.046%) UIKit
6 6 (6.897%) Web Services
7 3 (3.448%) OpenGL
7 3 (3.448%) HTML5
7 3 (3.448%) Sencha Touch
8 2 (2.299%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (2.299%) REST
8 2 (2.299%) Adobe AIR
8 2 (2.299%) Apache Flex
8 2 (2.299%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.299%) .NET
8 2 (2.299%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.299%) CSS
8 2 (2.299%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.149%) CMS
1 1 (1.149%) Magento
1 1 (1.149%) Drupal
1 1 (1.149%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.149%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) NFC
2 3 (3.448%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.299%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.448%) SQLite
2 1 (1.149%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (66.67%) Xcode
2 6 (6.897%) Cucumber
2 6 (6.897%) JIRA
2 6 (6.897%) Selenium
3 2 (2.299%) PhoneGap
3 2 (2.299%) GDB
3 2 (2.299%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.299%) Subversion
4 1 (1.149%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (13.79%) Finance
2 5 (5.747%) Games
3 4 (4.598%) Publishing
4 3 (3.448%) Banking
5 2 (2.299%) Marketing
5 2 (2.299%) Retail
6 1 (1.149%) Automotive
6 1 (1.149%) Advertising
6 1 (1.149%) Music
6 1 (1.149%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.149%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (91.95%) Developer
2 69 (79.31%) iOS Developer
3 28 (32.18%) Senior iOS Developer
3 28 (32.18%) Senior Developer
4 7 (8.046%) Android Developer
5 5 (5.747%) Senior Tester
5 5 (5.747%) Tester
5 5 (5.747%) iPhone Developer
6 4 (4.598%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (2.299%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 2 (2.299%) Technical Developer
7 2 (2.299%) Applications Developer
8 1 (1.149%) Development Manager
8 1 (1.149%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) QA Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) Architect
8 1 (1.149%) PHP Development Manager
8 1 (1.149%) Agile Tester
8 1 (1.149%) Senior Agile Tester
8 1 (1.149%) Senior iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 50 (57.47%) iPhone
2 43 (49.43%) Mobile App
3 28 (32.18%) iPad
4 22 (25.29%) Blackberry
5 11 (12.64%) N-Tier
6 10 (11.49%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (10.34%) Java Card
8 6 (6.897%) Video on Demand
8 6 (6.897%) Computer Science
9 4 (4.598%) IPTV
10 3 (3.448%) STB
11 2 (2.299%) Digital Media
11 2 (2.299%) Open Source
12 1 (1.149%) E-Learning
12 1 (1.149%) Graphic Design
12 1 (1.149%) Animation
12 1 (1.149%) Client/Server
12 1 (1.149%) Augmented Reality
12 1 (1.149%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.149%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (91.95%) Apple iOS
2 29 (33.33%) Android
3 24 (27.59%) Windows
4 14 (16.09%) Windows Phone
5 2 (2.299%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (1.149%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.78%) Mobile Application Development
2 30 (34.48%) Scrum
3 23 (26.44%) TDD
4 21 (24.14%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (14.94%) OO
5 13 (14.94%) SOA
6 9 (10.34%) Memory Management
7 6 (6.897%) User Stories
7 6 (6.897%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (6.897%) Test Scripting
7 6 (6.897%) Regression Testing
8 5 (5.747%) MVC
9 4 (4.598%) BDD
9 4 (4.598%) DRM
9 4 (4.598%) OOD
10 3 (3.448%) OOP
10 3 (3.448%) Manual Testing
11 2 (2.299%) Functional Testing
11 2 (2.299%) Automation Testing
11 2 (2.299%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 86 (98.85%) Objective-C
2 18 (20.69%) C++
3 10 (11.49%) C
3 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.046%) SQL
5 4 (4.598%) Java
6 3 (3.448%) Ruby
6 3 (3.448%) Perl
6 3 (3.448%) Python
7 2 (2.299%) C#
8 1 (1.149%) PHP
8 1 (1.149%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.897%) ISEB
1 6 (6.897%) ISTQB
2 5 (5.747%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.299%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (8.046%) Symbian
2 5 (5.747%) Sencha
2 5 (5.747%) Facebook
3 3 (3.448%) Apple
3 3 (3.448%) Adobe
4 1 (1.149%) Twitter
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