The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 67 86 72
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -14
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 6 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.636% 0.231% 0.198%
As % of the Application Development category 2.069% 0.771% 0.712%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £285 £358 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.27% -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
290 389 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.72% 29.92% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 232 153
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 13
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa
North West

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Cocoa Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cocoa across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester Cocoa Daily Rate Histogram

Cocoa
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 14 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 14 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 13 (92.86%) iPhone
3 12 (85.71%) iPad
3 12 (85.71%) Mobile App
4 8 (57.14%) HTML5
4 8 (57.14%) Android
4 8 (57.14%) CSS
5 7 (50.00%) Apple
5 7 (50.00%) iOS SDK
6 6 (42.86%) XML
7 5 (35.71%) Ajax
7 5 (35.71%) LAMP
7 5 (35.71%) iPhone SDK
8 4 (28.57%) Cocoa Touch
9 3 (21.43%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (21.43%) PhoneGap
9 3 (21.43%) Web Services
9 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
10 2 (14.29%) Windows
10 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (7.143%) Appcelerator Titanium
11 1 (7.143%) PHP
11 1 (7.143%) C
11 1 (7.143%) C++
11 1 (7.143%) Xcode
11 1 (7.143%) JSON

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (57.14%) HTML5
1 8 (57.14%) CSS
2 7 (50.00%) iOS SDK
3 6 (42.86%) XML
4 5 (35.71%) Ajax
4 5 (35.71%) LAMP
4 5 (35.71%) iPhone SDK
5 4 (28.57%) Cocoa Touch
6 3 (21.43%) Web Services
7 1 (7.143%) JSON
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) PhoneGap
2 1 (7.143%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (7.143%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (78.57%) iOS Developer
3 8 (57.14%) Mobile Developer
4 6 (42.86%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (7.143%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) iPhone
2 12 (85.71%) iPad
2 12 (85.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (57.14%) Android
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.143%) PHP
3 1 (7.143%) C
3 1 (7.143%) C++
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Apple