The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple 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 Vendors for the 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple
Rank 105 110 96
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Contract jobs citing Apple 8 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.421% 0.087% 0.275%
As % of the Vendors category 0.917% 0.192% 0.683%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £129 £295 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-56.44% +18.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £266 £319 £250
% change year-on-year
-16.63% +27.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -10.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £16.50 £11.36
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +45.24%
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
872 1044 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 45.94% 45.55% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 517 303
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 68 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.60% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Apple
England

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 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
East Yorkshire - 5 £132 -
West Yorkshire +4 3 £125 -57.62%
Apple
England

Apple
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 3 (30.00%) Mac OS X
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
4 2 (20.00%) MS Office
4 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
5 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (10.00%) MCITP
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (10.00%) Xen
5 1 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
5 1 (10.00%) Beowulf

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 2 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Support
2 2 (20.00%) Web Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Interface Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (10.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (10.00%) Beowulf
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) iPhone
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (10.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Mac OS X
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Web Design
2 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (10.00%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) VBScript
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCITP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (10.00%) Xen
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Symantec
4 1 (10.00%) Wyse
4 1 (10.00%) Sun
4 1 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) EMC