The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iPad in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited iPad 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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 iPad
Rank 108 108 86
Rank change year-on-year
0 -22
Contract jobs citing iPad 2 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.108% 0.179% 0.656%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.515% 1.258% 3.279%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 11
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 £280
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £10.00 £8.92
% change year-on-year
+62.50% +12.10%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
388 318 366
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 20.88% 14.23% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 171 153
Average daily rate £313 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £204 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £459 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 29
Average hourly rate £12.50 £21.00 £24.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.47% -15.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.05 £11.00 £10.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £48.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
iPad
England

iPad
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +1 2 £125 -57.62%
iPad
England

iPad
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 6 (54.55%) XML
3 6 (54.55%) Cocoa
3 6 (54.55%) Xcode
3 6 (54.55%) Objective-C
4 4 (36.36%) JSON
5 3 (27.27%) Cocoa Touch
5 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (18.18%) UIKit
6 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
6 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Subversion
6 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Android
6 2 (18.18%) REST
6 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
6 2 (18.18%) CouchDB
6 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
6 2 (18.18%) Memory Management
6 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) XPath
6 2 (18.18%) SQLite
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Multithreading

iPad
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 6 (54.55%) XML
1 6 (54.55%) Cocoa
2 4 (36.36%) JSON
3 3 (27.27%) Cocoa Touch
4 2 (18.18%) UIKit
4 2 (18.18%) REST
4 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 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 Excel
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) 3G
2 1 (9.091%) SSL
2 1 (9.091%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) CouchDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Xcode
2 2 (18.18%) Subversion
2 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) iOS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Support
3 1 (9.091%) Support Technician
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) iPhone Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) iPhone
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
3 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
4 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
4 1 (9.091%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Apple iOS
2 2 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (9.091%) Mac OS X
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
1 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (18.18%) TDD
1 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
1 2 (18.18%) MVC
1 2 (18.18%) Memory Management
1 2 (18.18%) Scrum
1 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
1 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
1 2 (18.18%) Change Management
1 2 (18.18%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (18.18%) OO
2 1 (9.091%) ITSM
2 1 (9.091%) Service Management
2 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) 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%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.091%) MCSE
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) Xen
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
York, North Yorkshire
Contractor required for 3 months to Developer software for iPhone/iPad... iOS Developer required with the following experience... Experience of CoreData and data formats such as XML and...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 24 May 2013
York, North Yorkshire
Full lifecycle experience, be highly technical and hands-on * Good understanding of Object Oriented approach, processes and methods Responsibilities: * Develop software for iPhone/iPad * Work independently at the...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 24 May 2013