The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 24 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 East Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 71 71 80
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs citing Android 12 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.957% 0.656% 0.287%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.211% 3.644% 1.342%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
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 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
285 247 298
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 22.73% 18.02% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 106 88
Average daily rate £300 £313 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +3.99%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £139 £135 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 48 49
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -20.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £55.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Android
England

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Android across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands Android Daily Rate Histogram

Android
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +2 6 £350 -
Northamptonshire +13 3 £575 +39.39%
Leicestershire -10 2 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 £250 -
Android
England

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 16 (44.44%) HTML
1 16 (44.44%) jQuery
1 16 (44.44%) HTML5
1 16 (44.44%) Apple iOS
2 15 (41.67%) CSS3
2 15 (41.67%) Java
2 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 15 (41.67%) CSS
3 14 (38.89%) C#
4 13 (36.11%) C++
4 13 (36.11%) C
4 13 (36.11%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (36.11%) Linux
4 13 (36.11%) Bluetooth
4 13 (36.11%) Adobe
4 13 (36.11%) Device Driver
4 13 (36.11%) Streaming Video
4 13 (36.11%) JNI
4 13 (36.11%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (33.33%) Graphic Design
5 12 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 12 (33.33%) Visual Studio
5 12 (33.33%) ASP
6 5 (13.89%) J2EE
7 4 (11.11%) MySQL
7 4 (11.11%) Eclipse
7 4 (11.11%) Web Services
7 4 (11.11%) iPad
8 3 (8.333%) Digital Media
8 3 (8.333%) XML

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 16 (44.44%) HTML
1 16 (44.44%) jQuery
1 16 (44.44%) HTML5
2 15 (41.67%) CSS3
2 15 (41.67%) CSS
3 13 (36.11%) JNI
4 12 (33.33%) ASP
5 5 (13.89%) J2EE
6 4 (11.11%) Web Services
7 3 (8.333%) XML
7 3 (8.333%) .NET
7 3 (8.333%) JSON
7 3 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (5.556%) WebSphere
8 2 (5.556%) XHTML
8 2 (5.556%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (5.556%) Modernizr
8 2 (5.556%) iOS SDK
9 1 (2.778%) REST
9 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) CMS
2 2 (5.556%) WordPress
2 2 (5.556%) DotNetNuke
2 2 (5.556%) Drupal
3 1 (2.778%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (2.778%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.778%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (36.11%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 4 (11.11%) Eclipse
3 2 (5.556%) Xcode
4 1 (2.778%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.778%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.778%) Git (software)
4 1 (2.778%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.778%) JIRA
4 1 (2.778%) Subversion
General
1 2 (5.556%) Retail
1 2 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (2.778%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.778%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (88.89%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Android Developer
3 12 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (8.333%) Architect
5 2 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.556%) iOS Developer
6 1 (2.778%) DotNetNuke Developer
6 1 (2.778%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (2.778%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.778%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.778%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.778%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.778%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.778%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Device Driver
1 13 (36.11%) Streaming Video
2 12 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 4 (11.11%) iPad
4 3 (8.333%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.778%) iPhone
5 1 (2.778%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Apple iOS
2 13 (36.11%) Linux
2 13 (36.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 3 (8.333%) SEO
2 3 (8.333%) Web Design
2 3 (8.333%) TDD
3 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (5.556%) Web Development
3 2 (5.556%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (5.556%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
4 1 (2.778%) Mobile Commerce
4 1 (2.778%) MVC
4 1 (2.778%) Logistics
4 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (2.778%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Java
1 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 14 (38.89%) C#
3 13 (36.11%) C++
3 13 (36.11%) C
4 3 (8.333%) Ruby
5 2 (5.556%) Objective-C
5 2 (5.556%) PHP
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Adobe
2 3 (8.333%) Oracle
3 2 (5.556%) Google
3 2 (5.556%) Facebook
3 2 (5.556%) Twitter
4 1 (2.778%) Apple
4 1 (2.778%) Zend
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