The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPad in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iPad over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple iPad
Rank 89 90 66
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -24
Contract jobs citing iPad 2 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.158% 0.247% 0.714%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.803% 1.770% 3.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
Average daily rate £125 £295 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-57.62% +18.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £278
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £12.25 -
% change year-on-year
+30.61% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
249 226 223
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 19.62% 13.97% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 120 95
Average daily rate £300 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £213 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 19
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.25 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% +17.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £8.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.40 £27.50 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
iPad
Yorkshire

iPad
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing iPad across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

West Yorkshire iPad Jobs Demand Trend

iPad
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire iPad Daily Rate Trend

iPad
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire iPad Hourly Rate Trend

iPad
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iPad within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds -9 1 £125 -50.00%
Huddersfield - 1 - -
iPad
Yorkshire

iPad
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing iPad 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 iPad.

1 11 (100.00%) iPhone
2 9 (81.82%) Apple iOS
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Xcode
3 5 (45.45%) Objective-C
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Android
4 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
4 4 (36.36%) Cocoa Touch
4 4 (36.36%) Mobile App
4 4 (36.36%) Mobile Application Development
4 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (36.36%) MVC
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Cocoa
4 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
4 4 (36.36%) Subversion
4 4 (36.36%) Automated Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (36.36%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) XML
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 2 (18.18%) DNS
6 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft

iPad
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing iPad 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 iPad. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (36.36%) Cocoa
1 4 (36.36%) Cocoa Touch
2 2 (18.18%) UIKit
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) REST
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) GWT
3 1 (9.091%) HTML5
3 1 (9.091%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) SSL
2 1 (9.091%) 3G
2 1 (9.091%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQLite
1 2 (18.18%) CouchDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Xcode
2 4 (36.36%) Subversion
3 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
4 1 (9.091%) PhoneGap
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
1 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
1 7 (63.64%) iOS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Support Technician
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) iPhone
2 4 (36.36%) Mobile App
3 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
4 1 (9.091%) Handset
4 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
4 1 (9.091%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (9.091%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Apple iOS
2 5 (45.45%) Android
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
5 1 (9.091%) Linux
5 1 (9.091%) Mac OS X
5 1 (9.091%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) TDD
1 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
2 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
2 4 (36.36%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (36.36%) Automated Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
4 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) Service Management
4 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Objective-C
2 2 (18.18%) XPath
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) VBScript
3 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) MCSE
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.091%) Xen
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) DameWare
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
2 1 (9.091%) Avaya
2 1 (9.091%) Apple
2 1 (9.091%) Wyse
2 1 (9.091%) VMware