The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Apple iOS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple iOS over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

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.

Apple iOS
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank205370525
Rank change year-on-year
Up+165Up+155
Matching contract IT job ads52321811
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.884 %0.355 %0.020 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.351 %1.716 %0.110 %
Number of daily rates quoted3341186
Average daily rate£330£350£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71 %+27.27 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300-
% change year-on-year
+8.24 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted600
Average hourly rate£40.00--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.00--
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
120201270110029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK20.31 %20.70 %18.21 %
Number of daily rates quoted606461864456
Average daily rate£350£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£215£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£324£306
% change year-on-year
+0.30 %+5.79 %
Number of hourly rates quoted118112531038
Average hourly rate£17.50£16.75£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.47 %+4.68 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.00£16.20£15.50
% change year-on-year
+4.93 %+4.51 %

Apple iOS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Apple iOS Demand Trend

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK.

Apple iOS Daily Rate Trend

Apple iOS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Apple iOS Daily Rate Histogram

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK.

Apple iOS Hourly Rate Trend

Apple iOS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Apple iOS Hourly Rate Histogram

Apple iOS
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+170504£330-5.71 %
LondonUp+117317£350-
City of LondonUp+7968£340-2.85 %
West MidlandsUp+2338£325-
North WestUp+3136£301-
South EastUp+1035£325+8.15 %
East of EnglandNew entry-30£350-
South WestDown-419£303-
ManchesterDown-217£275-
YorkshireDown-317£325+8.33 %
West YorkshireDown-917£325+8.33 %
HertfordshireNew entry-15£350-
BerkshireDown-1513£325+12.06 %
CheshireUp+1612£325-
ScotlandUp+612£250-
East MidlandsNew entry-11£250-
LeedsDown-199£325+4.00 %
CambridgeshireNew entry-9£225-
WarwickshireNew entry-9£325-
CambridgeNew entry-8£225-
WatfordNew entry-7£350-
SurreyUp+66£140-62.66 %
GlasgowUp+66£250-
HampshireNew entry-6£275-
StaffordshireNew entry-6£325-
WindsorNew entry-6£338-
Stoke-on-TrentNew entry-6£325-
GloucestershireNew entry-5--
LeicestershireNew entry-5£200-
CoventryNew entry-5--

Apple iOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apple iOS 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 iOS.

1489 (55.07 %)Android
2402 (45.27 %)iPhone
3347 (39.08 %)Objective-C
4308 (34.68 %)iPad
5194 (21.85 %)JavaScript
6173 (19.48 %)HTML5
7167 (18.81 %)Cocoa
8160 (18.02 %)Blackberry
9158 (17.79 %)Java
10157 (17.68 %)CSS
11146 (16.44 %)Windows
11146 (16.44 %)HTML
12132 (14.86 %)Agile Software Development
13130 (14.64 %)Web Services
14126 (14.19 %)Xcode
15125 (14.08 %)Apple
16104 (11.71 %)iOS SDK
17102 (11.49 %)JSON
1898 (11.04 %)XML
1997 (10.92 %)Finance
2084 (9.459 %)jQuery
2183 (9.347 %)C++
2280 (9.009 %)PHP
2377 (8.671 %)Games
2473 (8.221 %).NET
2569 (7.770 %)OO
2667 (7.545 %)CSS3
2766 (7.432 %)Banking
2864 (7.207 %)SQL
2961 (6.869 %)Ajax

Apple iOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apple iOS 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 iOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1173 (19.48 %)HTML5
2167 (18.81 %)Cocoa
3157 (17.68 %)CSS
4146 (16.44 %)HTML
5130 (14.64 %)Web Services
6104 (11.71 %)iOS SDK
7102 (11.49 %)JSON
898 (11.04 %)XML
984 (9.459 %)jQuery
1073 (8.221 %).NET
1167 (7.545 %)CSS3
1261 (6.869 %)Ajax
1360 (6.757 %)J2ME
1457 (6.419 %)RESTful
1550 (5.631 %)OpenGL
1638 (4.279 %)XHTML
1727 (3.041 %)J2EE
1825 (2.815 %)REST
1921 (2.365 %)Flash
2018 (2.027 %)Spring
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
117 (1.914 %)SharePoint
212 (1.351 %)Tomcat
311 (1.239 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
410 (1.126 %)Apache
59 (1.014 %)IIS
68 (0.901 %)CMS
68 (0.901 %)MS Exchange
77 (0.788 %)ColdFusion
86 (0.676 %)WordPress
86 (0.676 %)Drupal
94 (0.450 %)Exchange Server 2003
103 (0.338 %)RabbitMQ
112 (0.225 %)GlassFish
112 (0.225 %)WebLogic
112 (0.225 %)Facebook Platform
121 (0.113 %)Adobe CQ
121 (0.113 %)Documentum
121 (0.113 %)BizTalk Server
121 (0.113 %)TeamSite
121 (0.113 %)OpenCms
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
136 (4.054 %)Photoshop
221 (2.365 %)MS Office
318 (2.027 %)MS Visio
415 (1.689 %)Adobe Illustrator
415 (1.689 %)InDesign
512 (1.351 %)Fireworks
69 (1.014 %)MS Excel
69 (1.014 %)Doxygen
78 (0.901 %)OmniGraffle
83 (0.338 %)Spreadsheet
92 (0.225 %)MS PowerPoint
92 (0.225 %)3ds Max
101 (0.113 %)MS Project
101 (0.113 %)Maya
101 (0.113 %)CINEMA 4D
101 (0.113 %)GIMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (1.014 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.113 %)SiteCatalyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
134 (3.829 %)Internet
218 (2.027 %)HTTP
315 (1.689 %)VPN
414 (1.577 %)Firewall
57 (0.788 %)Intranet
66 (0.676 %)3G
66 (0.676 %)LDAP
75 (0.563 %)TCP/IP
75 (0.563 %)HTTPS
75 (0.563 %)NAS
84 (0.450 %)Wi-Fi
84 (0.450 %)DNS
84 (0.450 %)GPRS
93 (0.338 %)LAN
93 (0.338 %)DHCP
93 (0.338 %)DVB
93 (0.338 %)NFC
93 (0.338 %)AMQP
102 (0.225 %)RFID
102 (0.225 %)SMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (4.955 %)MySQL
233 (3.716 %)SQLite
329 (3.266 %)SQL Server
42 (0.225 %)MongoDB
42 (0.225 %)SQL Server 2005
51 (0.113 %)Redis
51 (0.113 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51 (0.113 %)SQL Server 2008
51 (0.113 %)SimpleDB
51 (0.113 %)NoSQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1126 (14.19 %)Xcode
228 (3.153 %)PhoneGap
323 (2.590 %)JIRA
421 (2.365 %)Subversion
514 (1.577 %)Selenium
612 (1.351 %)Appcelerator Titanium
710 (1.126 %)Eclipse
89 (1.014 %)Cucumber
97 (0.788 %)Maven
97 (0.788 %)Axure RP
106 (0.676 %)Hudson
115 (0.563 %)Ant
115 (0.563 %)QuickTest Pro
123 (0.338 %)JUnit
123 (0.338 %)Visual Studio
123 (0.338 %)Git (software)
132 (0.225 %)Balsamiq Mockups
132 (0.225 %)EasyMock
132 (0.225 %)GCC
141 (0.113 %)Eclipse RCP
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
197 (10.92 %)Finance
277 (8.671 %)Games
366 (7.432 %)Banking
431 (3.491 %)Retail
530 (3.378 %)Marketing
627 (3.041 %)Music
724 (2.703 %)Telecoms
820 (2.252 %)Investment Banking
917 (1.914 %)Publishing
1013 (1.464 %)Multimedia
1112 (1.351 %)Advertising
125 (0.563 %)Retail Banking
125 (0.563 %)Dutch Language
134 (0.450 %)Automotive
143 (0.338 %)Electronics
152 (0.225 %)Billing
152 (0.225 %)Japanese Language
152 (0.225 %)Interactive Media
152 (0.225 %)German Language
152 (0.225 %)Back Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1672 (75.68 %)Developer
2321 (36.15 %)iOS Developer
3131 (14.75 %)iPhone Developer
4112 (12.61 %)Mobile Developer
565 (7.320 %)Android Developer
654 (6.081 %)Designer
750 (5.631 %)Web Developer
845 (5.068 %)Senior Developer
943 (4.842 %)iPad Developer
1041 (4.617 %)Applications Developer
1132 (3.604 %)Architect
1231 (3.491 %)Senior iOS Developer
1322 (2.477 %)Mobile Applications Developer
1322 (2.477 %)Front-End Developer
1322 (2.477 %)Tester
1418 (2.027 %)Project Manager
1418 (2.027 %)Analyst
1418 (2.027 %)Java Developer
1515 (1.689 %)Junior
1515 (1.689 %)PHP Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1402 (45.27 %)iPhone
2308 (34.68 %)iPad
3160 (18.02 %)Blackberry
431 (3.491 %)Smartphone
529 (3.266 %)Digital Media
621 (2.365 %)Computer Science
720 (2.252 %)Animation
720 (2.252 %)Social Media
815 (1.689 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
914 (1.577 %)Open Source
914 (1.577 %)IPTV
914 (1.577 %)N-Tier
1013 (1.464 %)Video on Demand
1112 (1.351 %)Handset
1211 (1.239 %)WURFL
1211 (1.239 %)RIA
1310 (1.126 %)Mobile Games
148 (0.901 %)Augmented Reality
148 (0.901 %)Graphic Design
156 (0.676 %)W3C
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1489 (55.07 %)Android
2146 (16.44 %)Windows
346 (5.180 %)Windows Phone 7
445 (5.068 %)Windows Mobile
526 (2.928 %)Mac OS X
624 (2.703 %)Windows 7
719 (2.140 %)Linux
818 (2.027 %)BlackBerry OS
916 (1.802 %)UNIX
107 (0.788 %)Windows XP
114 (0.450 %)Windows Server 2008
114 (0.450 %)Windows CE
114 (0.450 %)Windows Server 2003
123 (0.338 %)webOS
132 (0.225 %)Mac OS
132 (0.225 %)Ubuntu
132 (0.225 %)Windows Vista
141 (0.113 %)Embedded Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1132 (14.86 %)Agile Software Development
269 (7.770 %)OO
351 (5.743 %)TDD
448 (5.405 %)Scrum
448 (5.405 %)E-Commerce
542 (4.730 %)Web Development
631 (3.491 %)Web Application Development
729 (3.266 %)Software Engineering
729 (3.266 %)MVC
826 (2.928 %)OOP
925 (2.815 %)Memory Management
1021 (2.365 %)Unit Testing
1120 (2.252 %)Game Development
1219 (2.140 %)SOA
1219 (2.140 %)Multithreading
1315 (1.689 %)SEO
1413 (1.464 %)Project Management
1413 (1.464 %)BDD
1512 (1.351 %)Document Management
1611 (1.239 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1347 (39.08 %)Objective-C
2194 (21.85 %)JavaScript
3158 (17.79 %)Java
483 (9.347 %)C++
580 (9.009 %)PHP
664 (7.207 %)SQL
755 (6.194 %)C#
836 (4.054 %)C
928 (3.153 %)Ruby
1017 (1.914 %)VB.NET
1116 (1.802 %)Python
1211 (1.239 %)VB
1211 (1.239 %)ActionScript
138 (0.901 %)Perl
146 (0.676 %)PL/SQL
155 (0.563 %)CoffeeScript
164 (0.450 %)ActionScript 3.0
173 (0.338 %)VBScript
173 (0.338 %)ActionScript 2.0
182 (0.225 %)PHP5
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
143 (4.842 %)Degree
210 (1.126 %)Security Cleared
33 (0.338 %)CCIA
33 (0.338 %)Citrix Certification
33 (0.338 %)CCEA
41 (0.113 %)ISEB
41 (0.113 %)PRINCE2 Certification
41 (0.113 %)Sun Certification
41 (0.113 %)SC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
133 (3.716 %)QA
21 (0.113 %)WCAG
21 (0.113 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
117 (1.914 %)Active Directory
29 (1.014 %)VMware ESXi
38 (0.901 %)Terminal Services
44 (0.450 %)XenApp
44 (0.450 %)XenDesktop
53 (0.338 %)Terminal Server
53 (0.338 %)VMware ESX
53 (0.338 %)NLBS
53 (0.338 %)Hyper-V
53 (0.338 %)VMware Infrastructure
61 (0.113 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
61 (0.113 %)Varnish
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.338 %)SCVMM
21 (0.113 %)Puppet
21 (0.113 %)OpenView
21 (0.113 %)CA SiteMinder
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1125 (14.08 %)Apple
234 (3.829 %)Symbian
326 (2.928 %)Adobe
424 (2.703 %)Microsoft
523 (2.590 %)Facebook
620 (2.252 %)Oracle
719 (2.140 %)Sencha
719 (2.140 %)Google
814 (1.577 %)Citrix
913 (1.464 %)AccuRev
109 (1.014 %)Twitter
118 (0.901 %)Appcelerator
126 (0.676 %)Omniture
126 (0.676 %)IBM
135 (0.563 %)Sun
135 (0.563 %)Reuters
135 (0.563 %)Bloomberg
135 (0.563 %)NetApp
135 (0.563 %)Zend
144 (0.450 %)Altiris