The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 21 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 Glasgow 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 78 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Contract jobs citing Android 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.209% 0.259% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.930% 1.307% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.66% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
215 153 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 22.47% 19.79% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 46 59
Average daily rate £350 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £102 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 6
Average hourly rate £14.00 £26.00 £107.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.15% -75.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Android
Scotland

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) DOM
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) SAX
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) DOM
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) SAX
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
2 1 (33.33%) PHP