The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Apple iOS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Apple iOS over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

Apple iOS
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank202499743
Rank change year-on-year
Up+297Up+244
Matching permanent IT job ads15514069
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.280 %0.333 %0.009 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.801 %1.337 %0.039 %
Number of salaries quoted14163519
Average salary£42,500£40,000£50,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-20.79 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£28,100£46,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£32,500£50,000
% change year-on-year
+23.07 %-35.00 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
323033036123292
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.65 %24.88 %24.46 %
Number of salaries quoted277292559119492
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Apple iOS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Apple iOS Demand Trend

Apple iOS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK.

Apple iOS Salary Trend

Apple iOS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Apple iOS over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Apple iOS Salary Histogram

Apple iOS
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+3131512£44,000+10.00 %
LondonUp+253986£50,000+11.11 %
South EastUp+105189£40,000+25.00 %
City of LondonUp+94122£45,000-
North WestUp+4383£40,000+33.33 %
East of EnglandUp+4560£37,500+10.29 %
YorkshireUp+2957£38,500+28.33 %
BerkshireUp+1053£43,750+28.67 %
West MidlandsUp+3547£42,500+41.66 %
South WestUp+1546£40,000+14.28 %
HampshireUp+3145£42,500+21.42 %
ManchesterUp+3143£30,000-3.22 %
CheshireUp+1639£45,000+50.00 %
East MidlandsUp+2733£35,000-
WarringtonUp+433£42,500+41.66 %
OxfordshireUp+1426£36,250+15.07 %
ScotlandUp+1024£27,000-25.00 %
North YorkshireNew entry-24£40,000-
BristolUp+1223£40,000+33.33 %
West YorkshireDown-1623£32,500+26.21 %
YorkNew entry-21£40,000-
StaffordshireUp+1419£42,500+41.66 %
BrightonNew entry-19£35,000-
East SussexNew entry-19£35,000-
Stoke-on-TrentNew entry-18£42,500-
BracknellNew entry-17£40,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+2716£35,000+27.27 %
CambridgeUp+1316£38,250+9.28 %
CambridgeshireUp+816£38,250+2.00 %
BasingstokeNo change016£42,500-

Apple iOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Apple iOS 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 Apple iOS.

11951 (68.10 %)Android
21040 (36.30 %)iPhone
31022 (35.67 %)Objective-C
4999 (34.87 %)JavaScript
5956 (33.37 %)CSS
6916 (31.97 %)Java
7780 (27.23 %)HTML
8751 (26.21 %)HTML5
9699 (24.40 %)iPad
10595 (20.77 %)Windows
11545 (19.02 %)Degree
12495 (17.28 %)C++
13494 (17.24 %)C#
14491 (17.14 %)jQuery
15490 (17.10 %)Blackberry
16489 (17.07 %)XML
17481 (16.79 %)OO
18467 (16.30 %).NET
19430 (15.01 %)PHP
20419 (14.62 %)Agile Software Development
21414 (14.45 %)Cocoa
22396 (13.82 %)Web Services
23381 (13.30 %)Xcode
24365 (12.74 %)Apple
25340 (11.87 %)SQL
26339 (11.83 %)iOS SDK
26339 (11.83 %)Computer Science
27337 (11.76 %)Linux
28330 (11.52 %)Ajax
29291 (10.16 %)Games

Apple iOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Apple iOS 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 Apple iOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1956 (33.37 %)CSS
2780 (27.23 %)HTML
3751 (26.21 %)HTML5
4491 (17.14 %)jQuery
5489 (17.07 %)XML
6467 (16.30 %).NET
7414 (14.45 %)Cocoa
8396 (13.82 %)Web Services
9339 (11.83 %)iOS SDK
10330 (11.52 %)Ajax
11278 (9.703 %)JSON
12275 (9.599 %)CSS3
13231 (8.063 %)ASP.NET
14226 (7.888 %)Flash
15185 (6.457 %)XHTML
16166 (5.794 %)REST
17144 (5.026 %)Ruby on Rails
18138 (4.817 %)RESTful
19126 (4.398 %)LAMP
20124 (4.328 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1125 (4.363 %)CMS
2100 (3.490 %)Apache
351 (1.780 %)WordPress
435 (1.222 %)Adobe CQ
531 (1.082 %)Drupal
625 (0.873 %)Magento
723 (0.803 %)IIS
822 (0.768 %)Umbraco
919 (0.663 %)BizTalk Server
919 (0.663 %)ColdFusion
919 (0.663 %)Tomcat
1015 (0.524 %)SharePoint
1112 (0.419 %)nginx
1112 (0.419 %)GlassFish
1210 (0.349 %)Joomla!
1210 (0.349 %)Confluence
139 (0.314 %)MS Exchange
139 (0.314 %)Facebook Platform
148 (0.279 %)SharePoint 2010
157 (0.244 %)ExpressionEngine
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1178 (6.213 %)Photoshop
2127 (4.433 %)MS Visio
384 (2.932 %)MS Excel
474 (2.583 %)Adobe Illustrator
533 (1.152 %)MS Office
627 (0.942 %)Fireworks
719 (0.663 %)OmniGraffle
814 (0.489 %)MS PowerPoint
913 (0.454 %)InDesign
107 (0.244 %)Adobe Premiere
107 (0.244 %)Adobe After Effects
115 (0.175 %)GIMP
124 (0.140 %)Doxygen
133 (0.105 %)MS Project
133 (0.105 %)Google Apps
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
126 (0.908 %)Google Analytics
24 (0.140 %)WebTrends
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1145 (5.061 %)HTTP
299 (3.455 %)Internet
322 (0.768 %)SSL
421 (0.733 %)Wireless
518 (0.628 %)SNMP
518 (0.628 %)DNS
616 (0.558 %)TCP/IP
616 (0.558 %)VPN
715 (0.524 %)SMS
810 (0.349 %)Wi-Fi
810 (0.349 %)RTP
810 (0.349 %)Intranet
810 (0.349 %)DHCP
99 (0.314 %)SSH
108 (0.279 %)Extranet
117 (0.244 %)Broadband
125 (0.175 %)Bluetooth
134 (0.140 %)Asterisk PBX
134 (0.140 %)Firewall
134 (0.140 %)VoIP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1277 (9.668 %)MySQL
2182 (6.353 %)SQL Server
370 (2.443 %)SQLite
440 (1.396 %)SQL Server 2008
539 (1.361 %)GIS
638 (1.326 %)RDBMS
729 (1.012 %)MongoDB
828 (0.977 %)SQL Server 2005
925 (0.873 %)Redis
1017 (0.593 %)Apache Cassandra
119 (0.314 %)Data Warehouse
128 (0.279 %)PostgreSQL
136 (0.209 %)NoSQL
145 (0.175 %)SQL Server 2000
154 (0.140 %)DTS
154 (0.140 %)SQL Server Integration Services
162 (0.070 %)Hadoop
171 (0.035 %)Firebird
171 (0.035 %)Crystal Reports
171 (0.035 %)BusinessObjects
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1381 (13.30 %)Xcode
2240 (8.377 %)Subversion
3225 (7.853 %)Git (software)
4108 (3.770 %)JIRA
595 (3.316 %)Eclipse
678 (2.723 %)Selenium
771 (2.478 %)Visual Studio
866 (2.304 %)Mercurial
940 (1.396 %)Ant
940 (1.396 %)JUnit
1036 (1.257 %)Cucumber
1135 (1.222 %)Team Foundation Server
1234 (1.187 %)Maven
1234 (1.187 %)Hudson
1325 (0.873 %)QuickTest Pro
1421 (0.733 %)Robotium
1519 (0.663 %)LoadRunner
1519 (0.663 %)FitNesse
1519 (0.663 %)PHPUnit
1617 (0.593 %)MonkeyTalk
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1291 (10.16 %)Games
2249 (8.691 %)Finance
3194 (6.771 %)Marketing
4107 (3.735 %)Retail
4107 (3.735 %)Telecoms
5106 (3.700 %)Banking
682 (2.862 %)Publishing
744 (1.536 %)Multimedia
836 (1.257 %)Advertising
931 (1.082 %)Music
1020 (0.698 %)Investment Banking
1113 (0.454 %)Music Industry
1211 (0.384 %)Retail Banking
1310 (0.349 %)Legal
149 (0.314 %)Electronics
158 (0.279 %)Back Office
167 (0.244 %)Billing
167 (0.244 %)Pharmaceutical
167 (0.244 %)Front Office
176 (0.209 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12094 (73.09 %)Developer
2638 (22.27 %)iOS Developer
3463 (16.16 %)Mobile Developer
4349 (12.18 %)Senior Developer
5299 (10.44 %)iPhone Developer
6235 (8.202 %)Web Developer
7173 (6.038 %)Applications Developer
8137 (4.782 %)Software Developer
9135 (4.712 %)Software Engineer
10129 (4.503 %)Lead Developer
10129 (4.503 %).NET Developer
11126 (4.398 %)Android Developer
12123 (4.293 %)Designer
13106 (3.700 %)PHP Developer
1498 (3.421 %)Junior
1596 (3.351 %)Analyst
1690 (3.141 %)Front-End Developer
1690 (3.141 %)Senior iOS Developer
1788 (3.072 %)Architect
1886 (3.002 %)C# Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11040 (36.30 %)iPhone
2699 (24.40 %)iPad
3490 (17.10 %)Blackberry
4339 (11.83 %)Computer Science
5236 (8.237 %)Social Media
6112 (3.909 %)Open Source
795 (3.316 %)Social Network
870 (2.443 %)Smartphone
967 (2.339 %)Mathematics
967 (2.339 %)Web 2.0
1065 (2.269 %)Visualisation
1159 (2.059 %)Augmented Reality
1159 (2.059 %)Digital Media
1254 (1.885 %)Animation
1350 (1.745 %)Client/Server
1447 (1.640 %)Social Gaming
1447 (1.640 %)Online Games
1545 (1.571 %)Physics
1643 (1.501 %)Handset
1737 (1.291 %)SaaS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11951 (68.10 %)Android
2595 (20.77 %)Windows
3337 (11.76 %)Linux
4210 (7.330 %)Windows Mobile
5152 (5.305 %)Mac OS X
685 (2.967 %)Windows Phone 7
770 (2.443 %)UNIX
858 (2.024 %)Mac OS
941 (1.431 %)BlackBerry OS
1035 (1.222 %)Windows 7
1127 (0.942 %)Windows XP
1220 (0.698 %)webOS
1316 (0.558 %)Windows 2000
1316 (0.558 %)Windows NT
1415 (0.524 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
157 (0.244 %)Debian
157 (0.244 %)MeeGo
166 (0.209 %)Windows Server 2008
166 (0.209 %)Windows Server 2003
175 (0.175 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1481 (16.79 %)OO
2419 (14.62 %)Agile Software Development
3279 (9.738 %)MVC
4216 (7.539 %)OOP
5210 (7.330 %)E-Commerce
6195 (6.806 %)Scrum
7189 (6.597 %)TDD
8172 (6.003 %)Web Development
9165 (5.759 %)Unit Testing
10136 (4.747 %)Project Management
11114 (3.979 %)Memory Management
12102 (3.560 %)Continuous Integration
1399 (3.455 %)Content Management
1498 (3.421 %)OOD
1588 (3.072 %)Multithreading
1684 (2.932 %)SEO
1780 (2.792 %)UML
1873 (2.548 %)SOA
1972 (2.513 %)Software Engineering
2064 (2.234 %)Digital Marketing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11022 (35.67 %)Objective-C
2999 (34.87 %)JavaScript
3916 (31.97 %)Java
4495 (17.28 %)C++
5494 (17.24 %)C#
6430 (15.01 %)PHP
7340 (11.87 %)SQL
8262 (9.145 %)C
9233 (8.133 %)Ruby
10164 (5.724 %)ActionScript
11122 (4.258 %)Python
12108 (3.770 %)PHP5
1382 (2.862 %)ActionScript 3.0
1475 (2.618 %)VB.NET
1553 (1.850 %)Perl
1652 (1.815 %)XPath
1721 (0.733 %)VC++
1820 (0.698 %)ActionScript 2.0
1820 (0.698 %)Scala
1914 (0.489 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1545 (19.02 %)Degree
228 (0.977 %)ISEB
322 (0.768 %)Security Cleared
417 (0.593 %)DV Cleared
511 (0.384 %)Microsoft Certification
610 (0.349 %)ISTQB
610 (0.349 %)PhD
76 (0.209 %)MCSE
84 (0.140 %)SC Cleared
93 (0.105 %)MCITP
93 (0.105 %)MCSA
102 (0.070 %)PRINCE2 Certification
111 (0.035 %)MBA
111 (0.035 %)GIAC
111 (0.035 %)CISSP
111 (0.035 %)A+ Certification
111 (0.035 %)PMP
111 (0.035 %)PMI Certification
111 (0.035 %)OSCP
111 (0.035 %)MCPD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1146 (5.096 %)QA
213 (0.454 %)JTAG
34 (0.140 %)WCAG
34 (0.140 %)SLA
43 (0.105 %)ISO 9001
43 (0.105 %)TickIT
51 (0.035 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
114 (0.489 %)Active Directory
210 (0.349 %)Varnish
35 (0.175 %)VMware Infrastructure
43 (0.105 %)Xsan
43 (0.105 %)WebMarshal
51 (0.035 %)VMware Workstation
51 (0.035 %)vSphere
51 (0.035 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
51 (0.035 %)Hyper-V
51 (0.035 %)Postfix
51 (0.035 %)Sendmail
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.105 %)Backup Exec
13 (0.105 %)Puppet
21 (0.035 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1365 (12.74 %)Apple
2207 (7.225 %)Facebook
3181 (6.318 %)Google
4171 (5.969 %)Symbian
5130 (4.538 %)Twitter
6116 (4.049 %)Microsoft
7112 (3.909 %)Adobe
857 (1.990 %)Zend
932 (1.117 %)Oracle
1026 (0.908 %)hybris
1026 (0.908 %)AccuRev
1026 (0.908 %)Endeca
1026 (0.908 %)FatWire
1124 (0.838 %)Sony
1223 (0.803 %)Red Hat
1319 (0.663 %)SAP
1415 (0.524 %)Yahoo!
1512 (0.419 %)Nokia
1611 (0.384 %)BT
179 (0.314 %)Omniture