The first table below looks at the demand for the iOS Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iOS Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iOS Developer
Rank 234 285 401
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +116
Contract jobs requiring an iOS Developer 149 118 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.687% 0.439% 0.108%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.745% 0.475% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 86 22
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £264 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 -
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
iOS Developer
England

iOS Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing iOS Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London iOS Developer Jobs Demand Trend

iOS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London iOS Developer Daily Rate Trend

iOS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing iOS Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London iOS Developer Daily Rate Histogram

iOS Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London iOS Developer Hourly Rate Trend

iOS Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +41 49 £400 +23.07%
iOS Developer
England

iOS Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited iOS Developer in their job title 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 with iOS Developer in their job title.

1 324 (99.69%) Apple iOS
2 249 (76.62%) Objective-C
3 169 (52.00%) Xcode
4 164 (50.46%) iPhone
5 152 (46.77%) iPad
6 109 (33.54%) iOS SDK
7 96 (29.54%) Cocoa
8 86 (26.46%) Mobile App
9 78 (24.00%) JSON
10 73 (22.46%) Android
11 71 (21.85%) Cocoa Touch
12 63 (19.38%) OO
13 59 (18.15%) C++
14 58 (17.85%) XML
14 58 (17.85%) Agile Software Development
15 49 (15.08%) Scrum
15 49 (15.08%) Web Services
16 40 (12.31%) Subversion
17 36 (11.08%) Finance
18 35 (10.77%) Mobile Application Development
19 33 (10.15%) RESTful
19 33 (10.15%) Java
20 32 (9.846%) Apple
20 32 (9.846%) Computer Science
21 31 (9.538%) C
22 29 (8.923%) CSS
23 28 (8.615%) Git (software)
23 28 (8.615%) Memory Management
24 27 (8.308%) UIKit
24 27 (8.308%) JavaScript

iOS Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited iOS Developer in their job title 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 with iOS Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 109 (33.54%) iOS SDK
2 96 (29.54%) Cocoa
3 78 (24.00%) JSON
4 71 (21.85%) Cocoa Touch
5 58 (17.85%) XML
6 49 (15.08%) Web Services
7 33 (10.15%) RESTful
8 29 (8.923%) CSS
9 27 (8.308%) UIKit
10 24 (7.385%) SOAP
10 24 (7.385%) OpenGL
10 24 (7.385%) REST
11 20 (6.154%) HTML5
12 16 (4.923%) OpenGL ES
13 15 (4.615%) HTML
14 11 (3.385%) MonoTouch
15 10 (3.077%) CSS3
15 10 (3.077%) .NET
15 10 (3.077%) cocos2d
16 7 (2.154%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (1.846%) CoreMedia CMS
2 4 (1.231%) Drupal
3 1 (0.308%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.308%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.692%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.308%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.308%) Fireworks
2 1 (0.308%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (0.308%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.769%) HTTP
1 9 (2.769%) NFC
2 7 (2.154%) VPN
2 7 (2.154%) DNS
3 3 (0.923%) Internet
3 3 (0.923%) RTP
4 1 (0.308%) SMS
4 1 (0.308%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.231%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.923%) SQLite
2 3 (0.923%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 169 (52.00%) Xcode
2 40 (12.31%) Subversion
3 28 (8.615%) Git (software)
4 18 (5.538%) Mercurial
5 14 (4.308%) GitHub
5 14 (4.308%) Trac
6 11 (3.385%) Balsamiq Mockups
7 8 (2.462%) Hudson
8 6 (1.846%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.923%) Bugzilla
9 3 (0.923%) PhoneGap
9 3 (0.923%) JIRA
10 2 (0.615%) GDB
10 2 (0.615%) Appcelerator Titanium
11 1 (0.308%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.308%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (11.08%) Finance
2 19 (5.846%) Games
3 18 (5.538%) Publishing
4 16 (4.923%) Banking
5 10 (3.077%) Marketing
6 7 (2.154%) Music
7 3 (0.923%) Retail
8 2 (0.615%) Legal
8 2 (0.615%) Music Industry
8 2 (0.615%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.308%) International Banking
9 1 (0.308%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.308%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.308%) Advertising
9 1 (0.308%) Automotive
9 1 (0.308%) Electronics
9 1 (0.308%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 164 (50.46%) iPhone
2 152 (46.77%) iPad
3 86 (26.46%) Mobile App
4 32 (9.846%) Computer Science
5 21 (6.462%) Blackberry
5 21 (6.462%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (6.154%) Digital Media
7 16 (4.923%) Social Media
8 12 (3.692%) Open Source
8 12 (3.692%) N-Tier
9 11 (3.385%) Graphic Design
10 9 (2.769%) Java Card
10 9 (2.769%) 3D Graphics
11 7 (2.154%) Animation
11 7 (2.154%) New Media
12 4 (1.231%) Video on Demand
13 3 (0.923%) Social Gaming
13 3 (0.923%) Mobile Banking
13 3 (0.923%) Mobile Payment
13 3 (0.923%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 324 (99.69%) Apple iOS
2 73 (22.46%) Android
3 20 (6.154%) Windows
4 12 (3.692%) Windows Phone
5 4 (1.231%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (0.615%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.615%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.308%) Windows Phone 7
7 1 (0.308%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (19.38%) OO
2 58 (17.85%) Agile Software Development
3 49 (15.08%) Scrum
4 35 (10.77%) Mobile Application Development
5 28 (8.615%) Memory Management
6 27 (8.308%) Multithreading
6 27 (8.308%) TDD
7 26 (8.000%) OOP
8 20 (6.154%) MVC
9 19 (5.846%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (5.538%) OOD
11 13 (4.000%) SOA
12 12 (3.692%) Unit Testing
13 11 (3.385%) Software Engineering
14 8 (2.462%) Web Development
14 8 (2.462%) Time Management
15 7 (2.154%) Test Automation
15 7 (2.154%) Image Processing
15 7 (2.154%) Data Management
15 7 (2.154%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 249 (76.62%) Objective-C
2 59 (18.15%) C++
3 33 (10.15%) Java
4 31 (9.538%) C
5 27 (8.308%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.308%) C#
7 13 (4.000%) Python
8 10 (3.077%) SQL
9 8 (2.462%) PHP
10 3 (0.923%) PHP5
11 2 (0.615%) Ruby
11 2 (0.615%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (6.154%) Degree
2 1 (0.308%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.615%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.308%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 32 (9.846%) Apple
2 16 (4.923%) Facebook
3 9 (2.769%) Twitter
4 7 (2.154%) Sencha
5 5 (1.538%) Google
6 2 (0.615%) Appcelerator
6 2 (0.615%) Oracle
7 1 (0.308%) SAP
7 1 (0.308%) Symbian
7 1 (0.308%) Adobe
City, London
iOS Developer urgently required by a leading global mobile Digital Media organisation based in central London... The organisation is looking to recruit an iOS Developer to work on...
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
You will be working in a high paced but rewarding environment with one of the UK's top names, involved in the development and review of the iOS...
Vertex Solutions
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
To be considered you will be experienced in and able to carry out the following:- Architect, develop and debug a highly sophisticated mobile consumer application; - Work on a...
TRG
Rate: 400-500 Per Annum Contract
Posted: 23 April 2013
Hounslow, Middlesex
A digital / advertising agency in a really uique market space is looking for an iOS contractor to help them with their native app build for a leading customer...
Prism Digital
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
London, Central London, South East England
In order of preference suitable candidates require the following skills: - Mac OS X GUI app development (Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa) - highly proficient - iOS app development (Xcode, Objective-C,...
Elevate Platform Ltd
Rate: max £350 per day dep on exp
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Key skills: - 2+ years commercial experience as an iOS developer - Objective C and complimentary technologies/languages. - Fluent with XCode and related tools/processes. - Demonstrable iOS iPhone and iPad...
Gregory James
Rate: £380 to £430 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
This leading full-service mobile marketing company, based in the heart of the West End of London, is currently looking for a highly experienced iOS Developer to work...
Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Rate: From £400 to £450 per day DOE
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
The successful iOS Developer will be a pro-active problem solver holding the highest level of skills, including experience in iOS SDK, SOAP, JSON. REST and XML... Key...
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
SOAP, XML, JSON etc... - Strong experience with object-oriented programming - software development experience in Objective-C C/C++, Java, HTML/CSS - Knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Requirements: *Solid commercial experience working specifically with iOS SDK... Objective C, Xcode, Senecha Touch etc... Desirable: *Experience with NFC or Javacard is highly desirable... *Experience of developing N-...
Parallel Consulting
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg
Rate: Competitive benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg LP
Rate: Competitive benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013