The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple over the 3 months to 23 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 Somerset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple
Rank 19 32 34
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +2
Contract jobs citing Apple 12 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 6.897% 1.775% 0.575%
As % of the Vendors category 12.63% 3.191% 0.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £239 £315 £250
% change year-on-year
-24.20% +26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
Average hourly rate £10.00 £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +13.79%
All Vendors
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
95 94 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 54.60% 55.62% 62.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 52 46
Average daily rate £303 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.98% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £240 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £440 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 17
Average hourly rate £10.00 £12.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Apple
South West

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Apple Daily Rate Trend

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Taunton - 12 - -
Apple
South West

Apple
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 19 (95.00%) MS Office
1 19 (95.00%) Windows
1 19 (95.00%) Windows XP
1 19 (95.00%) Active Directory
1 19 (95.00%) Blackberry
1 19 (95.00%) SCCM
1 19 (95.00%) Kaspersky
1 19 (95.00%) Windows 7
2 12 (60.00%) Video Conferencing
2 12 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (60.00%) VMware
2 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 7 (35.00%) McAfee
4 1 (5.000%) CSS
4 1 (5.000%) XML
4 1 (5.000%) Ajax
4 1 (5.000%) iPhone
4 1 (5.000%) Cocoa
4 1 (5.000%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.000%) iPhone SDK
4 1 (5.000%) HTML5
4 1 (5.000%) iPad
4 1 (5.000%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.000%) iOS SDK
4 1 (5.000%) Mobile App

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (5.000%) CSS
1 1 (5.000%) XML
1 1 (5.000%) Ajax
1 1 (5.000%) Cocoa
1 1 (5.000%) iPhone SDK
1 1 (5.000%) HTML5
1 1 (5.000%) iOS SDK
Applications
1 19 (95.00%) MS Office
2 12 (60.00%) MS Excel
Job Titles
1 19 (95.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 11 (55.00%) Help Desk Support
3 9 (45.00%) Helpdesk Technician
3 9 (45.00%) Support Technician
3 9 (45.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
3 9 (45.00%) Help Desk Support Technician
3 9 (45.00%) Service Desk Technician
4 8 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (40.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Developer
5 1 (5.000%) iOS Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Blackberry
2 12 (60.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.000%) iPhone
3 1 (5.000%) iPad
3 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Windows
1 19 (95.00%) Windows XP
1 19 (95.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.000%) Apple iOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.000%) Objective-C
System Software
1 19 (95.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) Kaspersky
2 12 (60.00%) VMware
2 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (35.00%) McAfee