The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPhone 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 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 iPhone
Rank 66 77 65
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -12
Contract jobs citing iPhone 9 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.938% 0.324% 0.575%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.110% 1.606% 3.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £300 £300 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £300 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £300 £342
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
- -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £16.25 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -48.00%
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%
iPhone
North West

iPhone
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester iPhone Jobs Demand Trend

iPhone
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester iPhone Daily Rate Trend

iPhone
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing iPhone across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester iPhone Daily Rate Histogram

iPhone
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester iPhone Hourly Rate Trend

iPhone
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iPhone within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bolton - - - - 1
Stockport - - - -
iPhone
North West

iPhone
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (84.00%) Apple iOS
2 14 (56.00%) Android
3 13 (52.00%) Objective-C
3 13 (52.00%) iPad
3 13 (52.00%) Mobile App
4 11 (44.00%) Cocoa
4 11 (44.00%) Windows
5 7 (28.00%) iOS SDK
6 6 (24.00%) HTML5
6 6 (24.00%) CSS
6 6 (24.00%) XML
6 6 (24.00%) Blackberry
7 5 (20.00%) Apple
7 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
7 5 (20.00%) iPhone SDK
8 4 (16.00%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (16.00%) Ajax
8 4 (16.00%) Java
9 3 (12.00%) MS Office
9 3 (12.00%) Web Services
9 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
9 3 (12.00%) Citrix
9 3 (12.00%) Mac OS X
9 3 (12.00%) Xcode
9 3 (12.00%) LAMP
9 3 (12.00%) Selenium
9 3 (12.00%) Robotium
9 3 (12.00%) Cocoa Touch
9 3 (12.00%) JSON

iPhone
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (44.00%) Cocoa
2 7 (28.00%) iOS SDK
3 6 (24.00%) HTML5
3 6 (24.00%) CSS
3 6 (24.00%) XML
4 5 (20.00%) iPhone SDK
5 4 (16.00%) Ajax
6 3 (12.00%) Web Services
6 3 (12.00%) LAMP
6 3 (12.00%) Cocoa Touch
6 3 (12.00%) JSON
7 2 (8.000%) Series 60
7 2 (8.000%) J2EE
7 2 (8.000%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (8.000%) IBM Notes
2 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Office
2 1 (4.000%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.000%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) VPN
2 1 (4.000%) DNS
2 1 (4.000%) DHCP
2 1 (4.000%) LAN
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Xcode
1 3 (12.00%) Selenium
1 3 (12.00%) Robotium
1 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (12.00%) PhoneGap
2 2 (8.000%) Hudson
2 2 (8.000%) Firebug
3 1 (4.000%) JIRA
3 1 (4.000%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) iOS Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 4 (16.00%) iPhone Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) IT Support
6 2 (8.000%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Architect
7 1 (4.000%) Tester
7 1 (4.000%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Designer
7 1 (4.000%) Windows Support Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) iPad
1 13 (52.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (24.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (8.000%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.000%) Fat Client
3 2 (8.000%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.000%) Semantic Web
4 1 (4.000%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Apple iOS
2 14 (56.00%) Android
3 11 (44.00%) Windows
4 5 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (12.00%) Mac OS X
5 3 (12.00%) bada
5 3 (12.00%) Maemo
6 2 (8.000%) Windows Vista
6 2 (8.000%) Linux
6 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (8.000%) BDD
2 2 (8.000%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (8.000%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (8.000%) Test Automation
2 2 (8.000%) Software Testing
2 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (8.000%) TDD
2 2 (8.000%) Automated Testing
3 1 (4.000%) Scrum
3 1 (4.000%) Web Usability
3 1 (4.000%) Web Development
3 1 (4.000%) Test Scripting
3 1 (4.000%) Manual Testing
3 1 (4.000%) Time Management
3 1 (4.000%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Objective-C
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 2 (8.000%) SQL
5 1 (4.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.000%) ISEB
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.000%) XenDesktop
2 2 (8.000%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Apple
2 3 (12.00%) Citrix
3 2 (8.000%) Lotus
3 2 (8.000%) Symbian
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.000%) Remedy
Manchester, North West
Symbian (S40, S60, 3), iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, OSE, SHP, Bada, Maemo.*Good knowledge of device and app architecture e.g. Android SDK, iPhone SDK, Symbian SDK,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013