The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 11 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Android 4 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 12.90% 7.353% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% 33.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 16.13% 22.06% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 2
Average daily rate £330 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Android
Staffordshire

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 10 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
3 5 (50.00%) iPhone
3 5 (50.00%) iOS SDK
3 5 (50.00%) JSON
3 5 (50.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Objective-C
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (30.00%) CSS
5 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
5 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
5 3 (30.00%) SOA
5 3 (30.00%) XML
5 3 (30.00%) XSLT
5 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) XHTML
5 3 (30.00%) Ajax
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (30.00%) SEO
5 3 (30.00%) Games
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Document Management
5 3 (30.00%) JIRA

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 5 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) XSLT
3 3 (30.00%) XHTML
3 3 (30.00%) Ajax
3 3 (30.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) CSS3
3 3 (30.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Mobile Developer
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Developer
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) iPhone
1 5 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (30.00%) WURFL
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (30.00%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) SOA
2 3 (30.00%) SEO
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) Document Management
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) AccuRev