The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Chester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Android 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 0.775% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.500% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
40 33 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 31.01% 29.20% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 12
Average daily rate £300 £388 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +29.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £330 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £550 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Android
Cheshire

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) MyEclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) MyEclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe