The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPad in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iPad over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple iPad
Rank 70 77 68
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -9
Contract jobs citing iPad 5 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.521% 0.324% 0.288%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.283% 1.606% 1.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £12.00 £8.92
% change year-on-year
+41.66% +34.52%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
219 249 189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 22.84% 20.18% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 95 82
Average daily rate £324 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.55% +0.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £438 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 24
Average hourly rate £13.75 £21.50 £11.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.04% +89.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £17.80 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.34 £23.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
iPad
North West

iPad
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester iPad Jobs Demand Trend

iPad
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester iPad Daily Rate Trend

iPad
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester iPad Hourly Rate Trend

iPad
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing iPad 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 iPad.

1 13 (81.25%) iPhone
2 11 (68.75%) Apple iOS
2 11 (68.75%) Objective-C
2 11 (68.75%) Mobile App
3 10 (62.50%) Cocoa
4 7 (43.75%) Android
4 7 (43.75%) Windows
5 6 (37.50%) CSS
5 6 (37.50%) HTML5
6 5 (31.25%) iOS SDK
6 5 (31.25%) MS Office
6 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 5 (31.25%) Apple
7 4 (25.00%) XML
7 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
8 3 (18.75%) iPhone SDK
8 3 (18.75%) PhoneGap
8 3 (18.75%) Ajax
8 3 (18.75%) LAMP
8 3 (18.75%) VPN
8 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
8 3 (18.75%) ITIL
8 3 (18.75%) Web Services
8 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) Blackberry
8 3 (18.75%) Citrix
8 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow

iPad
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing iPad 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 iPad. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (62.50%) Cocoa
2 6 (37.50%) CSS
2 6 (37.50%) HTML5
3 5 (31.25%) iOS SDK
4 4 (25.00%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) iPhone SDK
5 3 (18.75%) Ajax
5 3 (18.75%) LAMP
5 3 (18.75%) Web Services
6 2 (12.50%) Cocoa Touch
7 1 (6.250%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (12.50%) IBM Notes
2 1 (6.250%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Office
2 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) PhoneGap
2 1 (6.250%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (6.250%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) iOS Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) IT Support
7 1 (6.250%) iPhone Developer
7 1 (6.250%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (6.250%) Team Leader
7 1 (6.250%) Support Team Leader
7 1 (6.250%) 1st Line Support
7 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) iPhone
2 11 (68.75%) Mobile App
3 3 (18.75%) Blackberry
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (12.50%) Thin Client
4 2 (12.50%) Fat Client
5 1 (6.250%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Apple iOS
2 7 (43.75%) Android
2 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (6.250%) Change Control
2 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (6.250%) Change Management
2 1 (6.250%) Scrum
2 1 (6.250%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Objective-C
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.250%) PHP
3 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
2 2 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Apple
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Lotus
4 1 (6.250%) Avaya