Apple Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the North West 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple
Rank 108 114 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Apple 10 18 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.429% 0.579% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.945% 1.112% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 0
Average daily rate £235 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £239 £318 £250
% change year-on-year
-24.80% +27.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +13.79%
All Vendors
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 1058 1618 1418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 45.39% 52.01% 46.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 736 683
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £489 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 79 97
Average hourly rate £19.04 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.80% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.84 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £29.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Apple
England

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apple across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

North West Apple Jobs Demand Trend

Apple
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Apple Daily Rate Trend

Apple
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apple across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Apple Daily Rate Histogram

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Apple Hourly Rate Trend

Apple
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Manchester +7 10 £235 -14.54%
Apple
England

Apple
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Apple 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 Apple.

1 14 (58.33%) Android
1 14 (58.33%) Apple iOS
2 13 (54.17%) Mobile App
2 13 (54.17%) CSS
3 12 (50.00%) Objective-C
3 12 (50.00%) HTML5
4 11 (45.83%) XML
5 8 (33.33%) iOS SDK
6 7 (29.17%) iPad
6 7 (29.17%) iPhone
6 7 (29.17%) Java
6 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
6 7 (29.17%) Photoshop
6 7 (29.17%) Web Services
6 7 (29.17%) Adobe
6 7 (29.17%) Cocoa
7 6 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (25.00%) InDesign
7 6 (25.00%) Ajax
7 6 (25.00%) JSON
7 6 (25.00%) Zend
7 6 (25.00%) OOP
7 6 (25.00%) PHP
8 5 (20.83%) iPhone SDK
8 5 (20.83%) BDD
8 5 (20.83%) RESTful
8 5 (20.83%) Photography
8 5 (20.83%) TDD
8 5 (20.83%) MVC
8 5 (20.83%) LAMP

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Apple 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 Apple. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (54.17%) CSS
2 12 (50.00%) HTML5
3 11 (45.83%) XML
4 8 (33.33%) iOS SDK
5 7 (29.17%) Web Services
5 7 (29.17%) Cocoa
6 6 (25.00%) Ajax
6 6 (25.00%) JSON
7 5 (20.83%) iPhone SDK
7 5 (20.83%) RESTful
7 5 (20.83%) LAMP
8 3 (12.50%) jQuery
9 2 (8.333%) HTML
10 1 (4.167%) SOAP
10 1 (4.167%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Photoshop
2 6 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (25.00%) InDesign
3 4 (16.67%) Acrobat
3 4 (16.67%) QuarkXPress
4 1 (4.167%) Adobe After Effects
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (4.167%) LAN
2 1 (4.167%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 3 (12.50%) QUnit
2 2 (8.333%) PhoneGap
2 2 (8.333%) PHPUnit
2 2 (8.333%) Subversion
2 2 (8.333%) Ant
3 1 (4.167%) Xcode
3 1 (4.167%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (8.333%) Advertising
2 1 (4.167%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Marketing
2 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Mobile Developer
3 6 (25.00%) iOS Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Android Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Designer
5 2 (8.333%) Creative Director
5 2 (8.333%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) PHP Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Photoshop Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Artist
6 1 (4.167%) Art Director
6 1 (4.167%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Mobile App
2 7 (29.17%) iPad
2 7 (29.17%) iPhone
3 5 (20.83%) Photography
4 2 (8.333%) Linked Data
4 2 (8.333%) Digital Media
4 2 (8.333%) New Media
4 2 (8.333%) Semantic Web
4 2 (8.333%) Smartphone
4 2 (8.333%) BBC
5 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
5 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
5 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
5 1 (4.167%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Android
1 14 (58.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (8.333%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.167%) Linux
4 1 (4.167%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) OOP
2 5 (20.83%) BDD
2 5 (20.83%) TDD
2 5 (20.83%) MVC
3 4 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (12.50%) Scrum
4 3 (12.50%) Content Management
4 3 (12.50%) Kanban
5 2 (8.333%) Progressive Enhancement
5 2 (8.333%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (8.333%) Performance Management
5 2 (8.333%) Web Development
5 2 (8.333%) Test-First Development
5 2 (8.333%) RDF
6 1 (4.167%) OO
6 1 (4.167%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 7 (29.17%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 6 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (4.167%) C#
4 1 (4.167%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Adobe
2 6 (25.00%) Zend
3 4 (16.67%) Quark
4 1 (4.167%) Citrix
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