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

Apple Cocoa
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank644578672
Rank change year-on-year
Down-66Up+94
Matching permanent IT job ads24429280
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.201 %0.239 %0.084 %
As % of the Application Development category0.481 %0.597 %0.220 %
Number of salaries quoted23126558
Average salary£42,500£41,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.40 %-7.77 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£35,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28 %-22.22 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
507084893836309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.84 %40.11 %38.13 %
Number of salaries quoted450904320731294
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
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 %-

Cocoa
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cocoa within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cocoa Demand Trend

Cocoa
Salary Trend

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

Cocoa Salary Trend

Cocoa
Salary Histogram

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

Cocoa Salary Histogram

Cocoa
Top 30 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 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
EnglandDown-40239£42,500+2.40 %
LondonDown-74117£50,000+5.26 %
South EastDown-1647£42,500-22.72 %
HampshireUp+1023£42,500+3.65 %
North WestDown-2122£35,500+2.89 %
ManchesterDown-821£35,500+2.89 %
South WestUp+115£40,000-1.23 %
BerkshireDown-4515£40,000-27.27 %
West MidlandsUp+214£45,000+5.88 %
City of LondonDown-2612£40,000-20.00 %
BracknellNew entry-12£40,000-
YorkshireDown-1111£32,500+8.33 %
West YorkshireDown-1811£32,500+44.44 %
BristolUp+410£40,000-1.23 %
East of EnglandDown-39£35,000+9.37 %
OxfordshireNew entry-7£40,000-
OxfordNew entry-7£40,000-
WarwickshireNew entry-6£38,750-
BasingstokeNew entry-5£45,000-
GloucestershireNew entry-5£42,500-
EssexDown-124£35,000+11.11 %
FarehamNew entry-4£30,000-
LeedsDown-213£38,500+71.11 %
CirencesterNew entry-3£31,500-
Leamington SpaNew entry-3£35,000-
Southend-on-SeaNew entry-3£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+192£57,500+74.24 %
ScotlandUp+52£40,000-3.03 %
CambridgeNo change02£47,500+35.71 %
East MidlandsDown-12£31,250+25.00 %

Cocoa
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1473 (91.67 %)Objective-C
2414 (80.23 %)Apple iOS
3399 (77.33 %)iPhone
4294 (56.98 %)iPad
5240 (46.51 %)Android
6230 (44.57 %)Xcode
7166 (32.17 %)Java
8136 (26.36 %)iOS SDK
9128 (24.81 %)Apple
10108 (20.93 %)XML
1195 (18.41 %)OO
1291 (17.64 %)JavaScript
1389 (17.25 %)JSON
1488 (17.05 %)Degree
1574 (14.34 %)HTML
1574 (14.34 %)Web Services
1673 (14.15 %)C++
1673 (14.15 %)Blackberry
1771 (13.76 %)Git (software)
1868 (13.18 %)CSS
1967 (12.98 %)PHP
2065 (12.60 %)jQuery
2163 (12.21 %)J2ME
2262 (12.02 %)Windows
2359 (11.43 %)HTML5
2458 (11.24 %)C
2552 (10.08 %)Unit Testing
2552 (10.08 %)Web Development
2651 (9.884 %)Windows Mobile
2651 (9.884 %)REST

Cocoa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1136 (26.36 %)iOS SDK
2108 (20.93 %)XML
389 (17.25 %)JSON
474 (14.34 %)HTML
474 (14.34 %)Web Services
568 (13.18 %)CSS
665 (12.60 %)jQuery
763 (12.21 %)J2ME
859 (11.43 %)HTML5
951 (9.884 %)REST
1048 (9.302 %)OpenGL
1144 (8.527 %)Ajax
1242 (8.140 %).NET
1338 (7.364 %)Ruby on Rails
1437 (7.171 %)Flash
1533 (6.395 %)Hibernate
1631 (6.008 %)Spring
1727 (5.233 %)RESTful
1823 (4.457 %)CSS3
1823 (4.457 %)XHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
128 (5.426 %)CMS
28 (1.550 %)GlassFish
28 (1.550 %)Facebook Platform
37 (1.357 %)WordPress
44 (0.775 %)Apache
44 (0.775 %)Confluence
53 (0.581 %)WebLogic
62 (0.388 %)Joomla!
71 (0.194 %)SharePoint 2010
71 (0.194 %)SharePoint
71 (0.194 %)Amazon AWS
71 (0.194 %)ExpressionEngine
71 (0.194 %)Drupal
71 (0.194 %)OpenCms
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
126 (5.039 %)Photoshop
221 (4.070 %)Adobe Illustrator
315 (2.907 %)MS Visio
47 (1.357 %)MS Excel
47 (1.357 %)Adobe After Effects
47 (1.357 %)InDesign
47 (1.357 %)Adobe Premiere
51 (0.194 %)Paint Shop Pro
51 (0.194 %)GIMP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
119 (3.682 %)HTTP
214 (2.713 %)Internet
313 (2.519 %)Wireless
49 (1.744 %)Wi-Fi
57 (1.357 %)RTP
66 (1.163 %)Intranet
66 (1.163 %)Extranet
74 (0.775 %)Asterisk PBX
74 (0.775 %)802.11
74 (0.775 %)WLAN
74 (0.775 %)LAN
74 (0.775 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
138 (7.364 %)SQLite
231 (6.008 %)MySQL
310 (1.938 %)PostgreSQL
48 (1.550 %)MongoDB
56 (1.163 %)RDBMS
65 (0.969 %)SQL Server
74 (0.775 %)NoSQL
83 (0.581 %)Oracle 8/8i
83 (0.581 %)Oracle 10g
91 (0.194 %)SQL Server 2000
91 (0.194 %)SQL Server 2008
91 (0.194 %)SQL Server 2005
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1230 (44.57 %)Xcode
271 (13.76 %)Git (software)
349 (9.496 %)Subversion
418 (3.488 %)JIRA
515 (2.907 %)Mercurial
68 (1.550 %)EasyMock
68 (1.550 %)Maven
68 (1.550 %)Ant
68 (1.550 %)JUnit
68 (1.550 %)Hudson
75 (0.969 %)PhoneGap
84 (0.775 %)IntelliJ
93 (0.581 %)Eclipse
93 (0.581 %)Visual Studio
93 (0.581 %)Flash Builder
102 (0.388 %)Appcelerator Titanium
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
145 (8.721 %)Finance
235 (6.783 %)Telecoms
328 (5.426 %)Retail
328 (5.426 %)Marketing
427 (5.233 %)Games
513 (2.519 %)Publishing
69 (1.744 %)Banking
78 (1.550 %)Advertising
87 (1.357 %)Front Office
96 (1.163 %)Pharmaceutical
103 (0.581 %)French Language
103 (0.581 %)German Language
112 (0.388 %)Multimedia
112 (0.388 %)Interactive Media
121 (0.194 %)Music
121 (0.194 %)Retail Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1482 (93.41 %)Developer
2263 (50.97 %)iOS Developer
3152 (29.46 %)iPhone Developer
468 (13.18 %)Mobile Developer
545 (8.721 %)Senior Developer
642 (8.140 %)Applications Developer
737 (7.171 %)iPad Developer
829 (5.620 %)Java Developer
925 (4.845 %)Senior iOS Developer
1017 (3.295 %)Android Developer
1116 (3.101 %)Lead Developer
1214 (2.713 %)UI Developer
1214 (2.713 %)UI Programmer
1313 (2.519 %)iPhone Applications Developer
1412 (2.326 %)Mobile Applications Developer
1412 (2.326 %)Junior
1511 (2.132 %)Graduate
1610 (1.938 %)Software Developer
1610 (1.938 %)Web Developer
179 (1.744 %)Junior Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1399 (77.33 %)iPhone
2294 (56.98 %)iPad
373 (14.15 %)Blackberry
434 (6.589 %)Computer Science
521 (4.070 %)Animation
620 (3.876 %)Social Media
716 (3.101 %)Smartphone
815 (2.907 %)Augmented Reality
914 (2.713 %)Client/Server
1012 (2.326 %)Social Network
1111 (2.132 %)Digital Media
1210 (1.938 %)Mathematics
139 (1.744 %)Streaming Media
148 (1.550 %)Handset
148 (1.550 %)Open Source
156 (1.163 %)Blog
156 (1.163 %)Cryptography
165 (0.969 %)Web 2.0
172 (0.388 %)E-Learning
172 (0.388 %)IPTV
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1414 (80.23 %)Apple iOS
2240 (46.51 %)Android
362 (12.02 %)Windows
451 (9.884 %)Windows Mobile
530 (5.814 %)Mac OS X
623 (4.457 %)Linux
715 (2.907 %)Mac OS
814 (2.713 %)webOS
98 (1.550 %)UNIX
107 (1.357 %)Windows Phone 7
115 (0.969 %)MeeGo
124 (0.775 %)CentOS
131 (0.194 %)VMS
131 (0.194 %)Windows 7
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
195 (18.41 %)OO
252 (10.08 %)Unit Testing
252 (10.08 %)Web Development
351 (9.884 %)Memory Management
449 (9.496 %)Agile Software Development
539 (7.558 %)Scrum
638 (7.364 %)MVC
734 (6.589 %)TDD
828 (5.426 %)Multithreading
927 (5.233 %)OOP
1025 (4.845 %)OOD
1123 (4.457 %)Project Management
1219 (3.682 %)UML
1318 (3.488 %)E-Commerce
1416 (3.101 %)Software Engineering
1514 (2.713 %)Web Accessibility
1514 (2.713 %)Web Design
1514 (2.713 %)OOA/OOD
1610 (1.938 %)Workflow
179 (1.744 %)Content Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1473 (91.67 %)Objective-C
2166 (32.17 %)Java
391 (17.64 %)JavaScript
473 (14.15 %)C++
567 (12.98 %)PHP
658 (11.24 %)C
744 (8.527 %)SQL
842 (8.140 %)Ruby
842 (8.140 %)C#
915 (2.907 %)Python
915 (2.907 %)ActionScript
1014 (2.713 %)XPath
115 (0.969 %)Embedded C
124 (0.775 %)Groovy
124 (0.775 %)Perl
124 (0.775 %)VC++
133 (0.581 %)PHP5
142 (0.388 %)ActionScript 3.0
151 (0.194 %)Shell Script
151 (0.194 %)AppleScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
188 (17.05 %)Degree
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (1.550 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.775 %)VMware Infrastructure
14 (0.775 %)Active Directory
21 (0.194 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.194 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1128 (24.81 %)Apple
242 (8.140 %)Facebook
330 (5.814 %)Google
428 (5.426 %)Symbian
514 (2.713 %)ATG
613 (2.519 %)Twitter
712 (2.326 %)Zend
811 (2.132 %)Adobe
96 (1.163 %)Oracle
104 (0.775 %)Red Hat
104 (0.775 %)VMware
104 (0.775 %)Microsoft
113 (0.581 %)JBoss
113 (0.581 %)Nokia
122 (0.388 %)Appcelerator
131 (0.194 %)Sencha
131 (0.194 %)Sony
131 (0.194 %)Cognizant
131 (0.194 %)Panasonic
131 (0.194 %)Yahoo!