The first table below looks at the demand for Xcode 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 Xcode 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 of the Development Applications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Xcode
Rank 115 121 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Xcode 3 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.129% 0.354% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.186% 4.382% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 0
Average daily rate £325 £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £293
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year
-46.68% -
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
253 251 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.85% 8.068% 7.213%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 130 115
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £416 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.93 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.62% -13.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £16.15 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £128.00 £33.32 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Xcode
England

Xcode
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Xcode Jobs Demand Trend

Xcode
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Xcode Daily Rate Trend

Xcode
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xcode 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 +8 3 £325 +18.18%
Xcode
England

Xcode
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 4 (66.67%) Android
2 4 (66.67%) Objective-C
3 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
3 3 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (33.33%) iPhone
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Cocoa
5 1 (16.67%) Series 60
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Handset
5 1 (16.67%) Games
5 1 (16.67%) Interactive TV
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) C#

Xcode
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) Cocoa
3 1 (16.67%) Series 60
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) iOS SDK
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) iPhone SDK
3 1 (16.67%) Cocoa Touch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Firebug
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Robotium
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (33.33%) iPhone
3 1 (16.67%) Handset
3 1 (16.67%) Interactive TV
3 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (16.67%) Social Network
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic Web
3 1 (16.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (66.67%) Android
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) bada
4 1 (16.67%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Symbian
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
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