Mobile Applications Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Mobile Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mobile Applications Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mobile Application Developer
Rank 478 522 555
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Applications Developer 63 43 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.136% 0.074% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.148% 0.080% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 13
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £377
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £320 £313
% change year-on-year
-2.34% +2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Mobile Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mobile Applications Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Mobile Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Mobile Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mobile Applications Developer within the UK.

Mobile Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Mobile Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mobile Applications Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Mobile Applications Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Mobile Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mobile Applications Developer within the UK.

Mobile Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Mobile Applications Developer
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 Mobile Applications Developer within the UK 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
England +62 61 £325 -
London +53 38 £325 -1.51%
City of London +30 12 £325 -7.14%
East of England +19 6 £475 +58.33%
North West +13 5 £280 -30.00%
South East +12 5 £260 -18.75%
Birmingham +15 4 £313 +30.20%
West Midlands +9 4 £313 +30.20%
Hertfordshire +9 3 £475 +46.15%
South West +31 2 £425 -
Reading +15 2 - -
Berkshire +14 2 - -
Cheshire +5 2 £275 -
Suffolk - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Manchester - 2 £305 -
Ipswich - 2 - -
Warrington - 2 £275 -
Scotland - 2 £350 -
Hampshire -6 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £463 -
Wiltshire - 1 £425 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £260 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 - -

Mobile Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Mobile Applications Developer in their job title 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 with Mobile Applications Developer in their job title.

1 109 (91.60%) Mobile App
2 84 (70.59%) Android
3 79 (66.39%) Apple iOS
4 40 (33.61%) Java
4 40 (33.61%) Objective-C
4 40 (33.61%) HTML5
5 37 (31.09%) Windows
6 36 (30.25%) JavaScript
7 35 (29.41%) CSS
8 27 (22.69%) iPhone
9 23 (19.33%) Windows Mobile
10 22 (18.49%) Web Services
10 22 (18.49%) OO
11 20 (16.81%) XML
12 19 (15.97%) CSS3
13 18 (15.13%) iPad
13 18 (15.13%) .NET
13 18 (15.13%) Blackberry
14 16 (13.45%) HTML
14 16 (13.45%) JSON
15 15 (12.61%) Agile Software Development
15 15 (12.61%) jQuery
15 15 (12.61%) Mobile Application Development
16 14 (11.76%) iOS SDK
16 14 (11.76%) PhoneGap
16 14 (11.76%) Cocoa
17 13 (10.92%) Ajax
17 13 (10.92%) Apple
18 12 (10.08%) C++
18 12 (10.08%) SQL

Mobile Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Mobile Applications Developer in their job title 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 with Mobile Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (33.61%) HTML5
2 35 (29.41%) CSS
3 22 (18.49%) Web Services
4 20 (16.81%) XML
5 19 (15.97%) CSS3
6 18 (15.13%) .NET
7 16 (13.45%) HTML
7 16 (13.45%) JSON
8 15 (12.61%) jQuery
9 14 (11.76%) iOS SDK
9 14 (11.76%) Cocoa
10 13 (10.92%) Ajax
11 8 (6.723%) REST
12 7 (5.882%) WCF
12 7 (5.882%) iPhone SDK
12 7 (5.882%) ASP.NET
13 6 (5.042%) SOAP
14 5 (4.202%) Spring
14 5 (4.202%) LAMP
14 5 (4.202%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.521%) CMS
1 3 (2.521%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.681%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (0.840%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (0.840%) Windows Azure
3 1 (0.840%) Apache
3 1 (0.840%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (2.521%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.840%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (0.840%) MS Office
2 1 (0.840%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.403%) HTTP
2 3 (2.521%) NFC
2 3 (2.521%) Internet
2 3 (2.521%) SSL
3 2 (1.681%) SMS
3 2 (1.681%) 3G
4 1 (0.840%) 4G
4 1 (0.840%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.681%) SQLite
2 1 (0.840%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) PhoneGap
2 10 (8.403%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 5 (4.202%) Subversion
4 3 (2.521%) Xcode
5 2 (1.681%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.681%) WebLogic Workshop
5 2 (1.681%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.681%) Maven
5 2 (1.681%) GitHub
6 1 (0.840%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.840%) Ant
General
1 7 (5.882%) Music
1 7 (5.882%) Finance
2 6 (5.042%) Telecoms
2 6 (5.042%) Marketing
3 5 (4.202%) Banking
4 2 (1.681%) Games
4 2 (1.681%) Publishing
4 2 (1.681%) Legal
4 2 (1.681%) Billing
5 1 (0.840%) Retail
5 1 (0.840%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.840%) Music Industry
5 1 (0.840%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.840%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.840%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 109 (91.60%) Mobile App
2 27 (22.69%) iPhone
3 18 (15.13%) iPad
3 18 (15.13%) Blackberry
4 10 (8.403%) Handset
5 8 (6.723%) Smartphone
6 7 (5.882%) Computer Science
7 4 (3.361%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (2.521%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.521%) Streaming Video
9 2 (1.681%) IPTV
9 2 (1.681%) Open Source
9 2 (1.681%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.840%) Social Media
10 1 (0.840%) Inversion of Control
10 1 (0.840%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.840%) FMCG
10 1 (0.840%) Streaming Music
10 1 (0.840%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 84 (70.59%) Android
2 79 (66.39%) Apple iOS
3 37 (31.09%) Windows
4 23 (19.33%) Windows Mobile
5 6 (5.042%) Windows Phone
6 5 (4.202%) Windows 8
7 4 (3.361%) Windows CE
8 2 (1.681%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.681%) Windows Phone 8
9 1 (0.840%) Windows Phone 7
9 1 (0.840%) BlackBerry OS
9 1 (0.840%) Linux
9 1 (0.840%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.49%) OO
2 15 (12.61%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (12.61%) Mobile Application Development
3 9 (7.563%) Multithreading
3 9 (7.563%) TDD
4 8 (6.723%) E-Commerce
4 8 (6.723%) Software Engineering
4 8 (6.723%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (4.202%) Content Management
6 5 (4.202%) Scrum
7 4 (3.361%) OOP
7 4 (3.361%) MVC
7 4 (3.361%) Automated Testing
7 4 (3.361%) Release Management
7 4 (3.361%) Web Application Development
7 4 (3.361%) Memory Management
8 3 (2.521%) BDD
8 3 (2.521%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (2.521%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.61%) Java
1 40 (33.61%) Objective-C
2 36 (30.25%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.08%) C++
3 12 (10.08%) SQL
4 10 (8.403%) C#
5 7 (5.882%) C
6 3 (2.521%) VC++
6 3 (2.521%) PHP
7 1 (0.840%) VB
7 1 (0.840%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.840%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 8 (6.723%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.840%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.840%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.840%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Apple
2 7 (5.882%) Oracle
3 4 (3.361%) Facebook
3 4 (3.361%) Sencha
4 3 (2.521%) Twitter
4 3 (2.521%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.521%) Adobe
5 2 (1.681%) Symantec
5 2 (1.681%) JBoss
5 2 (1.681%) Google
6 1 (0.840%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.840%) Appcelerator
6 1 (0.840%) VMware
6 1 (0.840%) Nokia
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