The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicestershire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 30 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Android 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.476% 1.408% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.564% 8.824% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-15.03% +9.28%
All Operating Systems
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
39 34 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 18.57% 15.96% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 3
Average daily rate £300 £200 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -38.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £10.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -61.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.85 £8.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £18.00 £36.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Android
East Midlands

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Zend