The first table below looks at the demand for UIKit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UIKit 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 Application Development 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UIKit Framework
Rank 500 570 583
Rank change year-on-year
+70 +13
Contract jobs citing UIKit 29 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.063% 0.024% 0.002%
As % of the Application Development category 0.229% 0.094% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 1
Average daily rate £350 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.66 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

UIKit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UIKit within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

UIKit Jobs Demand Trend

UIKit
Daily Rate Trend

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

UIKit Daily Rate Trend

UIKit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UIKit within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

UIKit Daily Rate Histogram

UIKit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UIKit Hourly Rate Trend

UIKit
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UIKit within the UK 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
England +56 23 £350 +7.69%
London +49 16 £350 +2.94%
Scotland -3 6 £250 -
Glasgow -9 6 £250 -
East of England - 4 - -
Essex - 4 - -
Brentwood - 4 - -
Birmingham - 2 £425 -
West Midlands - 2 £425 -
City of London - 2 £350 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £350 -
Tyne and Wear - 1 £350 -
North East - 1 £350 -

UIKit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing UIKit 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 UIKit.

1 46 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 42 (91.30%) Objective-C
3 36 (78.26%) Xcode
4 25 (54.35%) JSON
5 22 (47.83%) XML
6 19 (41.30%) Cocoa
7 18 (39.13%) iPhone
7 18 (39.13%) iPad
8 17 (36.96%) OO
9 14 (30.43%) C++
9 14 (30.43%) Cocoa Touch
10 12 (26.09%) Multithreading
11 10 (21.74%) Core Animation
12 9 (19.57%) Animation
12 9 (19.57%) Web Services
13 8 (17.39%) OOP
13 8 (17.39%) C
13 8 (17.39%) Android
14 7 (15.22%) Memory Management
14 7 (15.22%) Git (software)
14 7 (15.22%) Agile Software Development
14 7 (15.22%) Subversion
15 6 (13.04%) SQL
15 6 (13.04%) Apple
15 6 (13.04%) MVC
15 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
16 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
17 4 (8.696%) Drupal
17 4 (8.696%) TDD
17 4 (8.696%) HTML

UIKit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing UIKit 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 UIKit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (54.35%) JSON
2 22 (47.83%) XML
3 19 (41.30%) Cocoa
4 14 (30.43%) Cocoa Touch
5 10 (21.74%) Core Animation
6 9 (19.57%) Web Services
7 4 (8.696%) HTML
7 4 (8.696%) CSS
7 4 (8.696%) SOAP
7 4 (8.696%) iOS SDK
8 3 (6.522%) REST
9 2 (4.348%) OpenGL
9 2 (4.348%) HTML5
10 1 (2.174%) WebKit
10 1 (2.174%) XHTML
10 1 (2.174%) WML
10 1 (2.174%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (2.174%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.696%) Drupal
1 4 (8.696%) Facebook Platform
2 1 (2.174%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) SQLite
2 2 (4.348%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.348%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 36 (78.26%) Xcode
2 7 (15.22%) Git (software)
2 7 (15.22%) Subversion
3 2 (4.348%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.348%) Hudson
3 2 (4.348%) GDB
3 2 (4.348%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.174%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 1 (2.174%) Trac
4 1 (2.174%) GitHub
General
1 3 (6.522%) Finance
1 3 (6.522%) Publishing
2 1 (2.174%) Advertising
2 1 (2.174%) Banking
2 1 (2.174%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (100.00%) Developer
2 43 (93.48%) iOS Developer
3 4 (8.696%) iPhone Developer
3 4 (8.696%) Analyst
4 3 (6.522%) Senior iOS Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Senior Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (4.348%) iPad Developer
5 2 (4.348%) Technical Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Senior iPhone Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) iPhone
1 18 (39.13%) iPad
2 9 (19.57%) Animation
3 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
4 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.348%) Blackberry
6 1 (2.174%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.174%) Open Source
6 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.174%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (2.174%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.174%) Graphic Design
6 1 (2.174%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (17.39%) Android
3 2 (4.348%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (4.348%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) OO
2 12 (26.09%) Multithreading
3 8 (17.39%) OOP
4 7 (15.22%) Memory Management
4 7 (15.22%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (13.04%) MVC
6 4 (8.696%) TDD
7 3 (6.522%) Web Development
8 2 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.348%) Refactoring
8 2 (4.348%) Project Planning
8 2 (4.348%) Scrum
8 2 (4.348%) Change Management
8 2 (4.348%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.348%) OOD
8 2 (4.348%) BDD
9 1 (2.174%) E-Commerce
9 1 (2.174%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (2.174%) Software Engineering
9 1 (2.174%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (91.30%) Objective-C
2 14 (30.43%) C++
3 8 (17.39%) C
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.696%) PHP
6 2 (4.348%) XPath
6 2 (4.348%) Java
6 2 (4.348%) HLSL
6 2 (4.348%) GLSL
7 1 (2.174%) Python
7 1 (2.174%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (4.348%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Apple
2 4 (8.696%) Facebook
2 4 (8.696%) Twitter