The first table below looks at the demand for Cocoa skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cocoa 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 of the Application Development category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Cocoa
Rank 141 152 150
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Cocoa 16 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.511% 0.058% 0.175%
As % of the Application Development category 1.212% 0.164% 0.508%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 3
Average salary £40,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,400 £40,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £40,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1320 1216 1180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 42.17% 35.36% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 799 987 870
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Cocoa
UK

Cocoa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Cocoa Jobs Demand Trend

Cocoa
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Cocoa Salary Trend

Cocoa
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cocoa across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Cocoa Salary Histogram

Cocoa
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cocoa within the Scotland 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -7 13 £40,500 -
Edinburgh +3 3 - -
Cocoa
UK

Cocoa
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cocoa.

1 19 (100.00%) Objective-C
2 15 (78.95%) Xcode
3 12 (63.16%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (57.89%) Java
4 11 (57.89%) Eclipse
4 11 (57.89%) Android
4 11 (57.89%) Mobile App
5 9 (47.37%) Cocoa Touch
6 7 (36.84%) PHP
6 7 (36.84%) REST
7 6 (31.58%) SOAP
7 6 (31.58%) XML
7 6 (31.58%) HTTP
7 6 (31.58%) JSON
8 5 (26.32%) Web Services
8 5 (26.32%) Oracle
8 5 (26.32%) Apple iOS
9 4 (21.05%) iOS SDK
9 4 (21.05%) Finance
10 3 (15.79%) Publishing
10 3 (15.79%) CMS
10 3 (15.79%) Subversion
10 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
10 3 (15.79%) .NET
10 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
10 3 (15.79%) C#
10 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
10 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
10 3 (15.79%) CSS
10 3 (15.79%) Apache

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cocoa. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (47.37%) Cocoa Touch
2 7 (36.84%) REST
3 6 (31.58%) SOAP
3 6 (31.58%) XML
3 6 (31.58%) JSON
4 5 (26.32%) Web Services
5 4 (21.05%) iOS SDK
6 3 (15.79%) jQuery
6 3 (15.79%) RESTful
6 3 (15.79%) .NET
6 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
6 3 (15.79%) CSS
7 2 (10.53%) J2EE
7 2 (10.53%) Middleware
7 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
7 2 (10.53%) HTML
7 2 (10.53%) Java EE
7 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
7 2 (10.53%) Spring
7 2 (10.53%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) ESB
2 2 (10.53%) TeamSite
2 2 (10.53%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) Mule
3 1 (5.263%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
1 3 (15.79%) SQLite
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Xcode
2 11 (57.89%) Eclipse
3 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
4 2 (10.53%) Maven
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) Talend Open Studio
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Publishing
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (73.68%) Mobile Developer
3 9 (47.37%) Applications Developer
3 9 (47.37%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Web Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Java Web Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Web Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Java Mobile Developer
5 3 (15.79%) iOS Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Animation
3 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Android
2 5 (26.32%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
4 1 (5.263%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) OO
3 2 (10.53%) OOD
3 2 (10.53%) SOA
3 2 (10.53%) MVC
3 2 (10.53%) Scrum
3 2 (10.53%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.263%) Workflow
4 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Objective-C
2 11 (57.89%) Java
3 7 (36.84%) PHP
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) C++
6 1 (5.263%) Python
6 1 (5.263%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) JBoss
2 2 (10.53%) IBM
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) TIBCO
2 2 (10.53%) webMethods
2 2 (10.53%) Talend
3 1 (5.263%) Facebook
3 1 (5.263%) Twitter
3 1 (5.263%) Sun