The first table below looks at the demand for iOS SDK 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 iOS SDK over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple iOS SDK
Rank 71 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing iOS SDK 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.219% 0.231% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.714% 0.765% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £235 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.54% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
280 392 290
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.63% 30.13% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 158
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 £185
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 18 12 14
Average hourly rate £33.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.00
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%
iOS SDK
North West

iOS SDK
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester iOS SDK Jobs Demand Trend

iOS SDK
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester iOS SDK Daily Rate Trend

iOS SDK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing iOS SDK 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 iOS SDK.

1 12 (100.00%) Android
1 12 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 11 (91.67%) iPhone
3 9 (75.00%) iPhone SDK
4 8 (66.67%) HTML5
4 8 (66.67%) Mobile App
4 8 (66.67%) CSS
4 8 (66.67%) Apple
5 7 (58.33%) XML
5 7 (58.33%) Cocoa
5 7 (58.33%) iPad
5 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
6 6 (50.00%) Windows
7 5 (41.67%) LAMP
7 5 (41.67%) Ajax
8 4 (33.33%) bada
8 4 (33.33%) Maemo
8 4 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
8 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
8 4 (33.33%) Linux
8 4 (33.33%) Blackberry
8 4 (33.33%) Symbian
8 4 (33.33%) ISEB
8 4 (33.33%) Mac OS X
9 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (25.00%) TDD
9 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
10 2 (16.67%) Series 60

iOS SDK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing iOS SDK 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 iOS SDK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) iPhone SDK
2 8 (66.67%) HTML5
2 8 (66.67%) CSS
3 7 (58.33%) XML
3 7 (58.33%) Cocoa
4 5 (41.67%) Ajax
4 5 (41.67%) LAMP
5 2 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (16.67%) Series 60
6 1 (8.333%) JSON
6 1 (8.333%) HTML
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) PhoneGap
3 1 (8.333%) Robotium
3 1 (8.333%) Xcode
3 1 (8.333%) JIRA
3 1 (8.333%) Selenium
3 1 (8.333%) Firebug
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Mobile Developer
3 5 (41.67%) iOS Developer
3 5 (41.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Web Tester
5 1 (8.333%) Web Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) iPhone
2 8 (66.67%) Mobile App
3 7 (58.33%) iPad
4 4 (33.33%) Blackberry
5 1 (8.333%) Interactive TV
5 1 (8.333%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Android
1 12 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Mac OS X
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (33.33%) bada
3 4 (33.33%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (25.00%) TDD
1 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (8.333%) OOP
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.333%) BDD
3 1 (8.333%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Apple
2 4 (33.33%) Symbian