The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 29 42 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Android 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.190% 0.721% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.00% 5.172% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £575 £413 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.39% -
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
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
30 58 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 11.90% 13.94% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 24
Average daily rate £314 £315 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.31% -16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £125 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £523 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 11
Average hourly rate £11.50 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.81% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.00 £9.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.10 £18.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Android
East Midlands

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire Android Jobs Demand 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Northampton +6 1 £575 +39.39%
Android
East Midlands

Android
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) iPad
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle