The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 18 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 Leeds 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 72 74 51
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -23
Contract jobs citing Android 3 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.375% 0.101% 1.201%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.119% 0.459% 6.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
Average daily rate £388 - £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 - £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 - £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
268 218 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 33.50% 21.91% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 115 42
Average daily rate £308 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £190 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 23
Average hourly rate £32.00 £11.40 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+180.70% -24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £8.80 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £30.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Android
West Yorkshire

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Android across the Leeds region.

Leeds Android Hourly Rate Trend

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (20.00%) SQLite
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone
3 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Streaming Video
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Cocoa
3 1 (20.00%) Xcode
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) XHTML
1 1 (20.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Cocoa Touch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Xcode
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Streaming Video
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone
2 1 (20.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Phone
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
Leeds, Yorkshire
For this Android Developer role you will have: - Extensive experience in native Android development - Experience developing enterprise applications with Java, J2EE- Solid Software design and engineering experience and...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £380 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013