The first table below looks at the demand for iPhone 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 iPhone SDK over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iPhone SDK
Rank - - 68
Contract jobs citing iPhone SDK 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - 0.098%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £338 £230
% change year-on-year
- +46.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
291 392 287
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.89% 29.86% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 230 156
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 12
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%
iPhone SDK
North West

iPhone SDK
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester iPhone SDK Jobs Demand Trend

iPhone SDK
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester iPhone SDK Daily Rate Trend

iPhone SDK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing iPhone 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 iPhone SDK.

1 9 (100.00%) Android
1 9 (100.00%) iPhone
1 9 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 9 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 6 (66.67%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) CSS
3 5 (55.56%) Apple
3 5 (55.56%) LAMP
3 5 (55.56%) Cocoa
3 5 (55.56%) Objective-C
3 5 (55.56%) Ajax
3 5 (55.56%) HTML5
3 5 (55.56%) iPad
3 5 (55.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (44.44%) bada
4 4 (44.44%) Maemo
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Mobile
4 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
4 4 (44.44%) Blackberry
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Symbian
4 4 (44.44%) ISEB
4 4 (44.44%) Mac OS X
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (22.22%) Series 60
6 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum

iPhone SDK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing iPhone 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 iPhone SDK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 6 (66.67%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) CSS
3 5 (55.56%) LAMP
3 5 (55.56%) Cocoa
3 5 (55.56%) Ajax
3 5 (55.56%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Series 60
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Xcode
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Firebug
2 1 (11.11%) Robotium
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) iOS Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Mobile Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Web Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) iPhone
2 5 (55.56%) iPad
2 5 (55.56%) Mobile App
3 4 (44.44%) Blackberry
4 1 (11.11%) Interactive TV
4 1 (11.11%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Android
1 9 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (44.44%) bada
2 4 (44.44%) Maemo
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Mobile
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Objective-C
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
1 4 (44.44%) ISEB
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Apple
2 4 (44.44%) Symbian