Objective-C 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 Objective-C 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 Objective-C over the 3 months to 17 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 Programming Languages 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Objective-C
Rank 101 105 125
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +20
Contract jobs citing Objective-C 16 27 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.697% 0.853% 0.227%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.105% 2.519% 0.771%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 1
Average daily rate £300 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £309 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-46.68% +165.62%
All Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 760 1072 908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 33.09% 33.85% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 601 502
Average daily rate £315 £315 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 48 47
Average hourly rate £34.00 £21.86 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.53% -20.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.88 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Objective-C
England

Objective-C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Objective-C Jobs Demand Trend

Objective-C
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Objective-C Daily Rate Trend

Objective-C
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Objective-C across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Objective-C Daily Rate Histogram

Objective-C
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Objective-C Hourly Rate Trend

Objective-C
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Objective-C within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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 +12 9 £300 +9.09%
Cheshire -1 5 £275 -15.38%
Objective-C
England

Objective-C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Objective-C 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 Objective-C.

1 35 (92.11%) Apple iOS
2 21 (55.26%) Mobile App
3 20 (52.63%) Android
4 18 (47.37%) iPhone
5 15 (39.47%) iPad
5 15 (39.47%) Java
6 14 (36.84%) Cocoa
6 14 (36.84%) HTML5
7 12 (31.58%) CSS
7 12 (31.58%) Apple
8 11 (28.95%) XML
8 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
9 7 (18.42%) JSON
9 7 (18.42%) iOS SDK
9 7 (18.42%) PHP
9 7 (18.42%) HTML
10 6 (15.79%) C#
10 6 (15.79%) Web Services
10 6 (15.79%) Finance
10 6 (15.79%) Ajax
10 6 (15.79%) jQuery
11 5 (13.16%) iPhone SDK
11 5 (13.16%) LAMP
11 5 (13.16%) MVC
11 5 (13.16%) Scrum
11 5 (13.16%) OOP
11 5 (13.16%) C++
11 5 (13.16%) .NET
11 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET
11 5 (13.16%) HTTP

Objective-C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Objective-C 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 Objective-C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (36.84%) Cocoa
1 14 (36.84%) HTML5
2 12 (31.58%) CSS
3 11 (28.95%) XML
4 7 (18.42%) HTML
4 7 (18.42%) JSON
4 7 (18.42%) iOS SDK
5 6 (15.79%) Ajax
5 6 (15.79%) jQuery
5 6 (15.79%) Web Services
6 5 (13.16%) .NET
6 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET
6 5 (13.16%) LAMP
6 5 (13.16%) iPhone SDK
7 4 (10.53%) RESTful
7 4 (10.53%) Cocoa Touch
8 2 (5.263%) XSLT
9 1 (2.632%) JMS
9 1 (2.632%) Spring
9 1 (2.632%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) Apache
2 1 (2.632%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.632%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.263%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Xcode
1 4 (10.53%) PhoneGap
2 3 (7.895%) QUnit
3 2 (5.263%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 2 (5.263%) Git (software)
3 2 (5.263%) PHPUnit
3 2 (5.263%) Subversion
3 2 (5.263%) Ant
4 1 (2.632%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.632%) Maven
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 1 (2.632%) Games
2 1 (2.632%) Music
2 1 (2.632%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 33 (86.84%) Developer
2 19 (50.00%) iOS Developer
3 12 (31.58%) Mobile Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Android Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Web Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Development Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Applications Development Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Applications Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Web Development Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Web Manager
7 2 (5.263%) iPhone Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Salesforce.com Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Application Development Manager
7 2 (5.263%) CRM Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Junior Developer
8 1 (2.632%) Junior
8 1 (2.632%) iPad Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Mobile App
2 18 (47.37%) iPhone
3 15 (39.47%) iPad
4 3 (7.895%) BBC
5 2 (5.263%) Smartphone
5 2 (5.263%) Blackberry
5 2 (5.263%) Linked Data
5 2 (5.263%) Semantic Web
5 2 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.632%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.632%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 35 (92.11%) Apple iOS
2 20 (52.63%) Android
3 4 (10.53%) Windows
3 4 (10.53%) Linux
4 2 (5.263%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (2.632%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.16%) OOP
1 5 (13.16%) MVC
1 5 (13.16%) Scrum
2 4 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (10.53%) TDD
2 4 (10.53%) BDD
3 3 (7.895%) Kanban
3 3 (7.895%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (7.895%) Content Management
4 2 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (5.263%) Web Development
4 2 (5.263%) Unit Testing
4 2 (5.263%) Test-First Development
4 2 (5.263%) CRM
4 2 (5.263%) RDF
4 2 (5.263%) Progressive Enhancement
4 2 (5.263%) Web Application Development
5 1 (2.632%) OO
5 1 (2.632%) Web Testing
5 1 (2.632%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Java
2 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.42%) PHP
4 6 (15.79%) C#
5 5 (13.16%) C++
6 1 (2.632%) C
6 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.632%) Ruby
6 1 (2.632%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (7.895%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Apple
2 4 (10.53%) Zend
3 2 (5.263%) Sage
3 2 (5.263%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (5.263%) Siebel
3 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.632%) Appcelerator
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