Android Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 20 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 North West 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 77 96 123
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +27
Contract jobs citing Android 42 40 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.813% 1.260% 0.299%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.836% 5.626% 1.304%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 3
Average daily rate £362 £315 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% +14.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £262 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £339 £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.66% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 536 711 690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.13% 22.39% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 281 372
Average daily rate £290 £318 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.66% +7.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £175 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £458 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 70 70
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +32.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Android
England

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Android across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West Android Daily Rate Histogram

Android
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Android Hourly Rate Trend

Android
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +9 18 £420 +29.07%
Manchester +3 11 £313 +13.63%
Merseyside +3 4 £200 -39.39%
Lancashire - 4 £350 -
Android
England

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 67 (71.28%) Apple iOS
2 38 (40.43%) Mobile App
3 36 (38.30%) Java
4 32 (34.04%) Windows
5 31 (32.98%) JavaScript
6 25 (26.60%) HTML5
7 23 (24.47%) CSS
7 23 (24.47%) Blackberry
8 22 (23.40%) .NET
9 21 (22.34%) iPhone
10 20 (21.28%) HTML
10 20 (21.28%) Objective-C
11 19 (20.21%) XML
12 18 (19.15%) iPad
13 17 (18.09%) Web Services
13 17 (18.09%) C#
13 17 (18.09%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (17.02%) JSON
15 15 (15.96%) jQuery
15 15 (15.96%) SQL
16 14 (14.89%) Apple
17 13 (13.83%) SQL Server
17 13 (13.83%) .NET Framework
17 13 (13.83%) Windows Mobile
18 12 (12.77%) iOS SDK
18 12 (12.77%) J2EE
19 11 (11.70%) C++
19 11 (11.70%) OOP
19 11 (11.70%) TDD
20 10 (10.64%) Ajax

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 25 (26.60%) HTML5
2 23 (24.47%) CSS
3 22 (23.40%) .NET
4 20 (21.28%) HTML
5 19 (20.21%) XML
6 17 (18.09%) Web Services
7 16 (17.02%) JSON
8 15 (15.96%) jQuery
9 13 (13.83%) .NET Framework
10 12 (12.77%) iOS SDK
10 12 (12.77%) J2EE
11 10 (10.64%) ASP.NET
11 10 (10.64%) Ajax
12 9 (9.574%) iPhone SDK
13 8 (8.511%) Cocoa
14 6 (6.383%) RESTful
14 6 (6.383%) CSS3
15 5 (5.319%) LAMP
15 5 (5.319%) ASP
16 4 (4.255%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.128%) Apache
2 1 (1.064%) CMS
2 1 (1.064%) Joomla!
2 1 (1.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Photoshop
2 4 (4.255%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.064%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.447%) HTTP
2 6 (6.383%) NFC
3 5 (5.319%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.255%) SMS
5 3 (3.191%) TELNET
5 3 (3.191%) SNMP
6 2 (2.128%) Internet
6 2 (2.128%) Wireless
7 1 (1.064%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.511%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (4.255%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (3.191%) MySQL
4 3 (3.191%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.128%) SQLite
5 2 (2.128%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.064%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Eclipse
2 7 (7.447%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.319%) Git (software)
4 4 (4.255%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.255%) PhoneGap
4 4 (4.255%) Xcode
4 4 (4.255%) Selenium
5 3 (3.191%) JUnit
5 3 (3.191%) Subversion
5 3 (3.191%) JIRA
5 3 (3.191%) TestNG
5 3 (3.191%) QUnit
6 2 (2.128%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.128%) MyEclipse
6 2 (2.128%) Mercurial
6 2 (2.128%) PHPUnit
6 2 (2.128%) Ant
7 1 (1.064%) Firebug
7 1 (1.064%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (1.064%) Robotium
General
1 5 (5.319%) Finance
2 3 (3.191%) Banking
3 2 (2.128%) Games
4 1 (1.064%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (69.15%) Developer
2 25 (26.60%) Mobile Developer
3 16 (17.02%) Android Developer
4 15 (15.96%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 13 (13.83%) Web Developer
6 9 (9.574%) Applications Developer
7 8 (8.511%) iOS Developer
8 7 (7.447%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.383%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.319%) Security Consultant
10 5 (5.319%) Consultant
10 5 (5.319%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.255%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.255%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.255%) Development Manager
12 3 (3.191%) C# Developer
12 3 (3.191%) Web Applications Developer
12 3 (3.191%) Designer
13 2 (2.128%) Web Development Manager
13 2 (2.128%) Applications Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 38 (40.43%) Mobile App
2 23 (24.47%) Blackberry
3 21 (22.34%) iPhone
4 18 (19.15%) iPad
5 5 (5.319%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.319%) Cryptography
6 4 (4.255%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.255%) NHS
7 3 (3.191%) BBC
7 3 (3.191%) Handset
7 3 (3.191%) Semantic Web
7 3 (3.191%) Smartphone
8 2 (2.128%) EMV
8 2 (2.128%) PKI
8 2 (2.128%) Digital Media
8 2 (2.128%) Linked Data
9 1 (1.064%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (1.064%) Interactive TV
9 1 (1.064%) Streaming Video
9 1 (1.064%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 67 (71.28%) Apple iOS
2 32 (34.04%) Windows
3 13 (13.83%) Windows Mobile
4 10 (10.64%) Windows 8
5 9 (9.574%) Linux
6 4 (4.255%) Mac OS X
6 4 (4.255%) bada
6 4 (4.255%) Maemo
7 3 (3.191%) Windows Phone
8 1 (1.064%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.09%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (11.70%) TDD
2 11 (11.70%) OOP
3 10 (10.64%) Scrum
4 9 (9.574%) MVC
4 9 (9.574%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (9.574%) Security Architecture
5 6 (6.383%) BDD
5 6 (6.383%) OO
6 5 (5.319%) Web Development
6 5 (5.319%) Unit Testing
7 4 (4.255%) E-Commerce
7 4 (4.255%) Contact Management
8 3 (3.191%) Content Management
8 3 (3.191%) Network Design
8 3 (3.191%) Software Testing
8 3 (3.191%) Time Management
8 3 (3.191%) Kanban
8 3 (3.191%) Web Application Development
8 3 (3.191%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) Java
2 31 (32.98%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.28%) Objective-C
4 17 (18.09%) C#
5 15 (15.96%) SQL
6 11 (11.70%) C++
7 10 (10.64%) PHP
8 8 (8.511%) VB.NET
9 5 (5.319%) T-SQL
10 4 (4.255%) VBScript
10 4 (4.255%) VB
11 3 (3.191%) C
12 1 (1.064%) PHP5
12 1 (1.064%) VBA
12 1 (1.064%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.064%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.255%) ISEB
1 4 (4.255%) Sun Certification
1 4 (4.255%) ISTQB
2 2 (2.128%) Degree
3 1 (1.064%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.064%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.064%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Apple
2 7 (7.447%) Zend
3 6 (6.383%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.319%) Symbian
5 4 (4.255%) Oracle
6 3 (3.191%) Adobe
6 3 (3.191%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.064%) Nokia
7 1 (1.064%) McAfee
7 1 (1.064%) SolidWorks
7 1 (1.064%) Twitter
7 1 (1.064%) Xamarin
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