The first table below looks at the demand for Objective-C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Objective-C 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 Programming Languages category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Objective-C
Rank 75 75 70
Rank change year-on-year
0 -5
Permanent jobs citing Objective-C 9 15 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.840% 1.101% 1.976%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.525% 2.249% 4.711%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 28
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £31,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
590 667 658
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 55.09% 48.97% 41.94%
Number of salaries quoted 360 515 476
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Objective-C
Scotland

Objective-C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Objective-C across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Edinburgh Objective-C Jobs Demand Trend

Objective-C
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Objective-C across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Objective-C Salary Trend

Objective-C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Objective-C 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Objective-C.

1 12 (75.00%) Android
2 10 (62.50%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) C#
3 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 9 (56.25%) CSS
4 8 (50.00%) XML
4 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (50.00%) .NET
4 8 (50.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (43.75%) RESTful
5 7 (43.75%) HTML5
5 7 (43.75%) JSON
5 7 (43.75%) Web Services
6 6 (37.50%) Cocoa
6 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
6 6 (37.50%) jQuery
7 5 (31.25%) iOS SDK
7 5 (31.25%) CSS3
7 5 (31.25%) Eclipse
7 5 (31.25%) Xcode
7 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (25.00%) HTML
8 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
8 4 (25.00%) Subversion
8 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
9 3 (18.75%) Cocoa Touch
9 3 (18.75%) Web Development
9 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
9 3 (18.75%) Scrum
9 3 (18.75%) SQLite

Objective-C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Objective-C also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Objective-C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (56.25%) CSS
2 8 (50.00%) XML
2 8 (50.00%) .NET
3 7 (43.75%) RESTful
3 7 (43.75%) HTML5
3 7 (43.75%) JSON
3 7 (43.75%) Web Services
4 6 (37.50%) Cocoa
4 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 6 (37.50%) jQuery
5 5 (31.25%) iOS SDK
5 5 (31.25%) CSS3
6 4 (25.00%) HTML
7 3 (18.75%) Cocoa Touch
8 2 (12.50%) Middleware
8 2 (12.50%) J2EE
8 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 2 (12.50%) Spring
8 2 (12.50%) JSF
8 2 (12.50%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) CMS
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) TeamSite
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Mule
2 2 (12.50%) ESB
3 1 (6.250%) Drupal
3 1 (6.250%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQLite
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Eclipse
1 5 (31.25%) Xcode
2 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (25.00%) Subversion
3 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (12.50%) Talend Open Studio
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.250%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (18.75%) Publishing
2 2 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Senior Developer
3 9 (56.25%) Web Developer
4 8 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
5 6 (37.50%) Mobile Developer
6 5 (31.25%) Senior Java Web Developer
6 5 (31.25%) Java Web Developer
6 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
6 5 (31.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (18.75%) Java Mobile Developer
8 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
8 2 (12.50%) Android Developer
8 2 (12.50%) iOS Developer
9 1 (6.250%) Senior iOS Developer
9 1 (6.250%) Agile .NET Developer
9 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
9 1 (6.250%) Senior .NET Developer
9 1 (6.250%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (6.250%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) iPad
3 1 (6.250%) iPhone
3 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.250%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Android
2 8 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Web Development
1 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
1 3 (18.75%) Scrum
1 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (18.75%) MVC
2 2 (12.50%) OO
2 2 (12.50%) OOD
2 2 (12.50%) SOA
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
3 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.250%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (6.250%) Content Management
3 1 (6.250%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) C++
5 1 (6.250%) Ruby
5 1 (6.250%) PHP
5 1 (6.250%) SQL
5 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) JBoss
2 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 2 (12.50%) webMethods
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Talend
3 1 (6.250%) Facebook
3 1 (6.250%) Twitter
3 1 (6.250%) Sitecore
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.250%) Sun
Edinburgh, Scotland
The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience: *Java development experience *Exposure to Objective-C/C# *Oracle/SQL Server *Android *Any ASP.NET exposure If you...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013