The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the High Wycombe region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 20 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 High Wycombe 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 14 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing Android 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in High Wycombe 4.082% 4.082% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.524% 9.524% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £290 £328 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.45% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £315 £313
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +0.80%
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
High Wycombe
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
21 21 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in High Wycombe 42.86% 42.86% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 3
Average daily rate £293 £175 £228
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+67.14% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £95 £95
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
Average hourly rate £12.95 £12.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.60% +13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.35 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £13.80 £95.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Android
Buckinghamshire

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Xamarin
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe 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%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Xamarin