The first table below looks at the demand for iPhone SDK skills 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 iPhone SDK over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Application Development category 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.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
iPhone SDK
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing iPhone SDK 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.083% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.311% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £313 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £255
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +32.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
644 895 763
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.72% 29.39% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 491 435
Average daily rate £300 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £238 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 32
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
iPhone SDK
England

iPhone SDK
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West iPhone SDK Daily Rate Trend

iPhone SDK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 5 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Apple
2 3 (60.00%) LAMP
2 3 (60.00%) Cocoa
2 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) iPad
3 2 (40.00%) bada
3 2 (40.00%) Maemo
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Xcode
3 2 (40.00%) Series 60
3 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Linux

iPhone SDK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 3 (60.00%) LAMP
2 3 (60.00%) Cocoa
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Series 60
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Firebug
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Hudson
1 2 (40.00%) Robotium
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Developer
1 3 (60.00%) iOS Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
2 3 (60.00%) iPad
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (20.00%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) bada
2 2 (40.00%) Maemo
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) Symbian
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