Android Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 110 99 109
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +10
Contract jobs citing Android 10 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.410% 0.227% 0.178%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.815% 1.253% 0.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Average daily rate £320 £263 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.90% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-15.03% +9.28%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 551 479 505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.59% 18.08% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 192 168
Average daily rate £360 £320 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £120 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 36
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +41.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £31.70 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Android
UK

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Edinburgh +10 4 £350 +27.27%
Glasgow -20 2 £275 +10.00%
Stirling - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £350 -
Android
UK

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (59.09%) Apple iOS
2 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 11 (50.00%) CSS
4 10 (45.45%) Java
5 9 (40.91%) HTML
6 8 (36.36%) HTML5
6 8 (36.36%) Mobile App
7 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (27.27%) .NET
8 6 (27.27%) Oracle
8 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
8 6 (27.27%) Scrum
9 5 (22.73%) JavaBeans
9 5 (22.73%) Web Services
9 5 (22.73%) JSF
9 5 (22.73%) Degree
9 5 (22.73%) iPhone
9 5 (22.73%) JPA
9 5 (22.73%) Facelets
10 4 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
10 4 (18.18%) jQuery
10 4 (18.18%) XML
10 4 (18.18%) Windows
10 4 (18.18%) OO
10 4 (18.18%) SQL
10 4 (18.18%) Extreme Programming
11 3 (13.64%) Finance
11 3 (13.64%) MVC
11 3 (13.64%) Games
11 3 (13.64%) W3C

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 11 (50.00%) CSS
2 9 (40.91%) HTML
3 8 (36.36%) HTML5
4 6 (27.27%) .NET
4 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
5 5 (22.73%) JavaBeans
5 5 (22.73%) Web Services
5 5 (22.73%) JSF
5 5 (22.73%) JPA
5 5 (22.73%) Facelets
6 4 (18.18%) jQuery
6 4 (18.18%) XML
7 3 (13.64%) Servlets
7 3 (13.64%) CSS3
8 2 (9.091%) iOS SDK
8 2 (9.091%) Flash
8 2 (9.091%) RESTful
8 2 (9.091%) SOAP
8 2 (9.091%) JSP
8 2 (9.091%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) CMS
2 1 (4.545%) Apache
2 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.545%) TeamSite
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.545%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) SSL
1 1 (4.545%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JUnit
1 3 (13.64%) Subversion
2 2 (9.091%) Selenium
2 2 (9.091%) PhoneGap
3 1 (4.545%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 1 (4.545%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (4.545%) Robotium
3 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.545%) FogBugz
3 1 (4.545%) Maven
3 1 (4.545%) HttpUnit
3 1 (4.545%) JIRA
3 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.545%) JMeter
3 1 (4.545%) Xcode
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Games
2 2 (9.091%) Banking
2 2 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Designer
5 1 (4.545%) Applications Tester
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.545%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (4.545%) iPhone Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.545%) iOS Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Games Developer
5 1 (4.545%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 5 (22.73%) iPhone
3 3 (13.64%) W3C
4 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.545%) Handset
4 1 (4.545%) PKI
4 1 (4.545%) Streaming Media
4 1 (4.545%) Animation
4 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
4 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.545%) Java Card
4 1 (4.545%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.545%) Open Source
4 1 (4.545%) iPad
4 1 (4.545%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Apple iOS
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) Scrum
3 4 (18.18%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (18.18%) OO
3 4 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (13.64%) MVC
4 3 (13.64%) UML
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Web Development
5 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.091%) Enterprise Content Management
5 2 (9.091%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (9.091%) Project Management
5 2 (9.091%) Content Management
6 1 (4.545%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (4.545%) OOP
6 1 (4.545%) TDD
6 1 (4.545%) BDD
6 1 (4.545%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.091%) ActionScript
5 2 (9.091%) PHP
5 2 (9.091%) C++
5 2 (9.091%) Objective-C
5 2 (9.091%) XPath
5 2 (9.091%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (4.545%) C#
6 1 (4.545%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) WAI
1 1 (4.545%) QA
1 1 (4.545%) Section 508
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (9.091%) JBoss
3 1 (4.545%) Adobe
3 1 (4.545%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) Citrix
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