The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 54 90 73
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -17
Contract jobs citing Android 26 8 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.261% 0.497% 1.443%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.886% 1.946% 5.720%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 11
Average daily rate £400 £300 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -21.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £300 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £36.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.64% -8.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
263 411 472
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 22.87% 25.53% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 170 188
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £135 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 80 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +1.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £43.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Android
South East

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Staines +5 10 £375 -
Redhill - 4 - -
Guildford - 1 - -
Android
South East

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 20 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 15 (37.50%) Mobile App
3 12 (30.00%) iPhone
3 12 (30.00%) Java
4 11 (27.50%) OO
5 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (25.00%) Objective-C
6 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 8 (20.00%) C
6 8 (20.00%) C++
6 8 (20.00%) OpenGL
7 7 (17.50%) CMS
7 7 (17.50%) UML
7 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
7 7 (17.50%) OOD
7 7 (17.50%) Adobe
7 7 (17.50%) iPad
7 7 (17.50%) Adobe CQ
8 6 (15.00%) Facebook
8 6 (15.00%) Degree
8 6 (15.00%) Content Management
8 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (15.00%) Windows
8 6 (15.00%) Oracle
8 6 (15.00%) WebLogic
8 6 (15.00%) Electronics
8 6 (15.00%) Middleware
9 5 (12.50%) CSS
9 5 (12.50%) Ajax
9 5 (12.50%) Mathematics

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 8 (20.00%) OpenGL
2 6 (15.00%) Middleware
3 5 (12.50%) CSS
3 5 (12.50%) Ajax
3 5 (12.50%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) OpenGL ES
4 4 (10.00%) JSON
4 4 (10.00%) Spring
4 4 (10.00%) XHTML
5 3 (7.500%) Cocoa Touch
6 2 (5.000%) iOS SDK
6 2 (5.000%) Sinatra
6 2 (5.000%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (5.000%) Cocoa
7 1 (2.500%) HTML
7 1 (2.500%) XML
7 1 (2.500%) J2ME
7 1 (2.500%) Flash
7 1 (2.500%) Java ME
7 1 (2.500%) JNI
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) CMS
1 7 (17.50%) Adobe CQ
2 6 (15.00%) WebLogic
3 4 (10.00%) Facebook Platform
4 2 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (5.000%) DHCP
2 2 (5.000%) VoIP
2 2 (5.000%) DNS
3 1 (2.500%) Firewall
3 1 (2.500%) IPsec
3 1 (2.500%) MPLS
3 1 (2.500%) WAN
3 1 (2.500%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.000%) Redis
1 2 (5.000%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (5.000%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.500%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) PhoneGap
2 3 (7.500%) Xcode
General
1 6 (15.00%) Electronics
2 3 (7.500%) Games
2 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.000%) Billing
3 2 (5.000%) Marketing
4 1 (2.500%) Finance
4 1 (2.500%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (72.50%) Developer
2 16 (40.00%) Android Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Mobile Developer
4 5 (12.50%) iOS Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Facebook Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Support Analyst
6 3 (7.500%) Analyst
7 2 (5.000%) Senior iOS Developer
7 2 (5.000%) iPhone Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Development Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Ruby Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.500%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.500%) Field Engineer
8 1 (2.500%) Support Technician
8 1 (2.500%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.500%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.500%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 12 (30.00%) iPhone
3 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.50%) iPad
5 5 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 4 (10.00%) Social Network
6 4 (10.00%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (7.500%) Blackberry
8 2 (5.000%) Open Source
8 2 (5.000%) Smartphone
8 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (2.500%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (15.00%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Linux
4 3 (7.500%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.500%) Windows 8
5 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) OO
2 7 (17.50%) UML
2 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
2 7 (17.50%) OOD
3 6 (15.00%) Content Management
3 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
4 4 (10.00%) Memory Management
4 4 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (7.500%) MVC
5 3 (7.500%) Scrum
5 3 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (5.000%) User Stories
6 2 (5.000%) Game Development
6 2 (5.000%) Project Planning
7 1 (2.500%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (2.500%) Configuration Management
7 1 (2.500%) ITIL
7 1 (2.500%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 8 (20.00%) C
3 8 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (5.000%) Ruby
4 2 (5.000%) SQL
5 1 (2.500%) PHP
5 1 (2.500%) C#
5 1 (2.500%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (7.500%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Adobe
2 6 (15.00%) Facebook
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Twitter
4 3 (7.500%) Apple
5 2 (5.000%) SAP
5 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.500%) Perforce
6 1 (2.500%) Cisco
6 1 (2.500%) HP
6 1 (2.500%) Nortel
6 1 (2.500%) NETGEAR