The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android 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 Operating Systems category for the Bristol 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 44 59 48
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Contract jobs citing Android 6 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.124% 0.235% 0.155%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.580% 1.515% 1.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £400 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +4.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-15.03% +9.28%
All Operating Systems
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
131 132 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 24.53% 15.53% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 64 35
Average daily rate £310 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £258 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £422 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 21
Average hourly rate £12.50 £21.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.47% +68.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £15.50 £9.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £32.00 £34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Android
South West

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Android across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bristol Android Jobs Demand Trend

Android
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Android across the Bristol region.

Bristol Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Android 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 Android.

1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) CSS
3 7 (38.89%) Apple iOS
4 6 (33.33%) XML
4 6 (33.33%) Eclipse
4 6 (33.33%) HTML5
5 5 (27.78%) iPhone
5 5 (27.78%) Web Services
5 5 (27.78%) REST
5 5 (27.78%) Mobile App
6 4 (22.22%) MVC
6 4 (22.22%) iPad
6 4 (22.22%) jQuery
7 3 (16.67%) Social Network
7 3 (16.67%) Google
7 3 (16.67%) Web Development
7 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
7 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 3 (16.67%) .NET
8 2 (11.11%) C#
8 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (11.11%) IIS
8 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
8 2 (11.11%) Windows
8 2 (11.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (11.11%) Python

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Android 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 Android. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 7 (38.89%) CSS
3 6 (33.33%) XML
3 6 (33.33%) HTML5
4 5 (27.78%) Web Services
4 5 (27.78%) REST
5 4 (22.22%) jQuery
6 3 (16.67%) .NET
7 2 (11.11%) Ajax
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 2 (11.11%) Django
7 2 (11.11%) Ext JS
7 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (11.11%) CSS3
7 2 (11.11%) Backbone.js
7 2 (11.11%) Sass
7 2 (11.11%) LESS
7 2 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
8 1 (5.556%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
1 2 (11.11%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 2 (11.11%) Subversion
3 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.556%) JIRA
4 1 (5.556%) PhoneGap
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
1 1 (5.556%) Games
1 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 11 (61.11%) Android Developer
3 2 (11.11%) UI Programmer
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) UI Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Programmer
4 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) iPhone
1 5 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 4 (22.22%) iPad
3 3 (16.67%) Social Network
4 2 (11.11%) New Media
4 2 (11.11%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (11.11%) Open Source
4 2 (11.11%) Blog
5 1 (5.556%) Handset
5 1 (5.556%) Digital Media
5 1 (5.556%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Apple iOS
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Mac OS X
3 1 (5.556%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) MVC
2 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.556%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (5.556%) Signal Processing
4 1 (5.556%) TDD
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (5.556%) C++
4 1 (5.556%) PHP
4 1 (5.556%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.556%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle
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