The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa 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 over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank - - 93
Contract jobs citing Cocoa 0 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - 0.318%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-46.68% -
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
554 608 542
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.18% 25.52% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 346 299
Average daily rate £290 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £213 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 19
Average hourly rate £38.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -57.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.60 £17.00 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.01 £21.15 £44.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Cocoa
England

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Cocoa Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Cocoa Daily Rate Trend

Cocoa
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Cocoa Hourly Rate Trend

Cocoa
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cocoa within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
North Yorkshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - - 1
West Yorkshire - - - -
Cocoa
England

Cocoa
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Cocoa 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.

1 5 (100.00%) Xcode
1 5 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
1 5 (100.00%) iPad
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
4 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Cocoa 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) XML
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
1 5 (100.00%) iPad
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (20.00%) OO
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (20.00%) TDD
1 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Objective-C
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