The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 34 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing Android 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.697% 0.379% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.222% 1.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
90 75 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 31.36% 28.41% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 55
Average daily rate £345 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £370 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £13.50 £7.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £67.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Android
South East

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) OO

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) OOP
1 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google