The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa Touch skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cocoa Touch 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 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa Touch
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Cocoa Touch 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year
-46.68% -
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
534 516 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.74% 23.10% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 315 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £211 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Cocoa Touch
England

Cocoa Touch
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Cocoa Touch Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa Touch
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Cocoa Touch Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa Touch
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Cocoa Touch.

1 3 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) iPad
2 2 (66.67%) Memory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms

Cocoa Touch
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Cocoa Touch 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 Cocoa Touch. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Cocoa
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Memory Management
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C