The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Android over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

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.

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Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank181234445
Rank change year-on-year
Up+53Up+211
Matching contract IT job ads59646091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.007 %0.750 %0.165 %
As % of the Operating Systems category4.958 %3.622 %0.907 %
Number of daily rates quoted35519240
Average daily rate£340£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61 %-7.14 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£228
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£411£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£350
% change year-on-year
--7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted404212
Average hourly rate£38.25£35.00£31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.28 %+11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£29.50£17.50£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£60.00£45.00£38.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50£35.00£22.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %+55.55 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
120201270110029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK20.31 %20.70 %18.21 %
Number of daily rates quoted606461864456
Average daily rate£350£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£215£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£324£306
% change year-on-year
+0.30 %+5.79 %
Number of hourly rates quoted118112531038
Average hourly rate£17.50£16.75£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.47 %+4.68 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.00£16.20£15.50
% change year-on-year
+4.93 %+4.51 %

Android
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Android within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Android Demand Trend

Android
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Android within the UK.

Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Android within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Android Daily Rate Histogram

Android
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Android within the UK.

Android Hourly Rate Trend

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Android within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Android Hourly Rate Histogram

Android
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+51575£343+5.38 %
LondonUp+59378£350+7.69 %
City of LondonUp+6076£314-3.46 %
South EastDown-1766£325-7.14 %
East of EnglandUp+1943£350-12.50 %
North WestUp+3042£317+15.22 %
West MidlandsUp+321£325+44.44 %
ManchesterDown-321£288+9.52 %
CambridgeshireDown-618£338-15.62 %
CambridgeNew entry-18£338-
HertfordshireUp+617£350-9.67 %
CheshireUp+2116£325+8.33 %
South WestDown-1515£338-11.47 %
BerkshireDown-1914£288-6.50 %
BuckinghamshireUp+312£394+12.50 %
SurreyDown-1710£375-6.25 %
GloucestershireNew entry-10£350-
MiddlesexUp+119£400-
East MidlandsUp+29£300-
WatfordNew entry-8£350-
WalesUp+117£200-38.46 %
WarringtonUp+57£317+5.62 %
HampshireDown-27£300-
SalfordNew entry-7£275-
StainesUp+196--
BedfordshireUp+116£275-
ScotlandNo change06£263-
OxfordshireDown-46£300-0.16 %
StaffordshireNew entry-6£325-
St AlbansNew entry-6£350-

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1489 (43.74 %)Apple iOS
2368 (32.92 %)iPhone
3362 (32.38 %)Java
4271 (24.24 %)Blackberry
5217 (19.41 %)JavaScript
6203 (18.16 %)Windows
7194 (17.35 %)Agile Software Development
8191 (17.08 %)CSS
9182 (16.28 %)C++
10175 (15.65 %)HTML
11172 (15.38 %)iPad
12163 (14.58 %)HTML5
13137 (12.25 %)Objective-C
14136 (12.16 %)J2ME
15131 (11.72 %)XML
16118 (10.55 %)Linux
17107 (9.571 %)C
17107 (9.571 %)Degree
18103 (9.213 %)Finance
19101 (9.034 %)OO
20100 (8.945 %)Telecoms
2197 (8.676 %).NET
2291 (8.140 %)PHP
2390 (8.050 %)Web Services
2487 (7.782 %)Handset
2584 (7.513 %)SQL
2682 (7.335 %)C#
2781 (7.245 %)jQuery
2878 (6.977 %)Banking
2977 (6.887 %)Apple

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1191 (17.08 %)CSS
2175 (15.65 %)HTML
3163 (14.58 %)HTML5
4136 (12.16 %)J2ME
5131 (11.72 %)XML
697 (8.676 %).NET
790 (8.050 %)Web Services
881 (7.245 %)jQuery
974 (6.619 %)Ajax
974 (6.619 %)RESTful
1073 (6.530 %)CSS3
1172 (6.440 %)JSON
1256 (5.009 %)Cocoa
1353 (4.741 %)XHTML
1450 (4.472 %)OpenGL
1546 (4.114 %)iOS SDK
1637 (3.309 %)REST
1736 (3.220 %)ASP.NET
1832 (2.862 %)J2EE
1928 (2.504 %)SOAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (1.431 %)SharePoint
213 (1.163 %)CMS
213 (1.163 %)Apache
312 (1.073 %)Tomcat
410 (0.894 %)IIS
410 (0.894 %)MS Exchange
58 (0.716 %)Exchange Server 2003
67 (0.626 %)ColdFusion
76 (0.537 %)Drupal
85 (0.447 %)WordPress
93 (0.268 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
93 (0.268 %)SharePoint 2010
102 (0.179 %)Exchange Server 2010
102 (0.179 %)Facebook Platform
102 (0.179 %)Joomla!
102 (0.179 %)Exchange Server 2007
102 (0.179 %)GlassFish
102 (0.179 %)Lotus Domino
111 (0.089 %)iPlanet
111 (0.089 %)Documentum
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
145 (4.025 %)Photoshop
228 (2.504 %)MS Visio
324 (2.147 %)Adobe Illustrator
324 (2.147 %)MS Office
414 (1.252 %)InDesign
414 (1.252 %)Fireworks
512 (1.073 %)MS Excel
68 (0.716 %)OmniGraffle
68 (0.716 %)Doxygen
76 (0.537 %)AutoCAD
76 (0.537 %)Acrobat
82 (0.179 %)MS Project
82 (0.179 %)SPSS
91 (0.089 %)Quicktime
91 (0.089 %)MS PowerPoint
91 (0.089 %)GIMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (0.805 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.089 %)SiteCatalyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
134 (3.041 %)Internet
229 (2.594 %)HTTP
229 (2.594 %)TCP/IP
323 (2.057 %)VoIP
421 (1.878 %)NFC
514 (1.252 %)SMS
613 (1.163 %)DNS
712 (1.073 %)DHCP
712 (1.073 %)LAN
712 (1.073 %)WAN
712 (1.073 %)Wi-Fi
811 (0.984 %)Firewall
811 (0.984 %)Bluetooth
811 (0.984 %)VPN
910 (0.894 %)Wireshark
108 (0.716 %)SSL
108 (0.716 %)SAN
117 (0.626 %)Intranet
117 (0.626 %)TCAP
117 (0.626 %)INAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
147 (4.204 %)MySQL
245 (4.025 %)SQL Server
335 (3.131 %)SQLite
410 (0.894 %)SQL Server 2005
410 (0.894 %)RDBMS
58 (0.716 %)SQL Server 2008
62 (0.179 %)MongoDB
62 (0.179 %)Xcelsius
62 (0.179 %)Crystal Reports
62 (0.179 %)SQL Server 2000
71 (0.089 %)PostgreSQL
71 (0.089 %)Data Mining
71 (0.089 %)MS Access
71 (0.089 %)SQL Server Integration Services
71 (0.089 %)CouchDB
71 (0.089 %)SimpleDB
71 (0.089 %)NoSQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
147 (4.204 %)Subversion
239 (3.488 %)Xcode
333 (2.952 %)Eclipse
429 (2.594 %)PhoneGap
527 (2.415 %)Git (software)
622 (1.968 %)JIRA
719 (1.699 %)Maven
815 (1.342 %)Selenium
913 (1.163 %)Visual Studio
1011 (0.984 %)Ant
1011 (0.984 %)JUnit
1011 (0.984 %)Appcelerator Titanium
1110 (0.894 %)Hudson
128 (0.716 %)Axure RP
137 (0.626 %)QuickTest Pro
146 (0.537 %)Cucumber
155 (0.447 %)Mercurial
164 (0.358 %)Dreamweaver
164 (0.358 %)TestDirector
173 (0.268 %)Firebug
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1103 (9.213 %)Finance
2100 (8.945 %)Telecoms
378 (6.977 %)Banking
464 (5.725 %)Games
552 (4.651 %)Retail
649 (4.383 %)Electronics
731 (2.773 %)Music
823 (2.057 %)Multimedia
920 (1.789 %)Marketing
1013 (1.163 %)Publishing
1111 (0.984 %)Investment Banking
1210 (0.894 %)Advertising
137 (0.626 %)Back Office
137 (0.626 %)Automotive
137 (0.626 %)Retail Banking
146 (0.537 %)German Language
153 (0.268 %)Italian Language
153 (0.268 %)Spanish Language
162 (0.179 %)Billing
162 (0.179 %)Interactive Media
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1712 (63.69 %)Developer
2290 (25.94 %)Android Developer
3126 (11.27 %)Mobile Developer
476 (6.798 %)iOS Developer
574 (6.619 %)Web Developer
662 (5.546 %)Applications Developer
760 (5.367 %)Designer
851 (4.562 %)Analyst
947 (4.204 %)iPhone Developer
1044 (3.936 %)Tester
1143 (3.846 %)Java Developer
1143 (3.846 %)Mobile Applications Developer
1242 (3.757 %)Software Engineer
1334 (3.041 %)Architect
1432 (2.862 %)Linux Engineer
1531 (2.773 %)Senior Developer
1630 (2.683 %)Blackberry Developer
1726 (2.326 %)Test Analyst
1824 (2.147 %)Front-End Developer
1922 (1.968 %)Consultant
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1368 (32.92 %)iPhone
2271 (24.24 %)Blackberry
3172 (15.38 %)iPad
487 (7.782 %)Handset
575 (6.708 %)Computer Science
655 (4.919 %)Smartphone
737 (3.309 %)Device Driver
826 (2.326 %)Mathematics
925 (2.236 %)Open Source
1024 (2.147 %)Digital Media
1118 (1.610 %)Graphic Design
1216 (1.431 %)Social Media
1315 (1.342 %)3D Graphics
1414 (1.252 %)N-Tier
1512 (1.073 %)Video on Demand
1512 (1.073 %)Mobile Games
1611 (0.984 %)IPTV
1611 (0.984 %)Statistics
1611 (0.984 %)RIA
1611 (0.984 %)WURFL
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1489 (43.74 %)Apple iOS
2203 (18.16 %)Windows
3118 (10.55 %)Linux
474 (6.619 %)Windows Mobile
573 (6.530 %)Windows Phone 7
627 (2.415 %)Windows XP
725 (2.236 %)Embedded Linux
821 (1.878 %)Windows 7
920 (1.789 %)BlackBerry OS
1013 (1.163 %)Windows Server 2003
1112 (1.073 %)Windows CE
1210 (0.894 %)UNIX
138 (0.716 %)Windows Vista
147 (0.626 %)Mac OS X
154 (0.358 %)Windows Server 2008
163 (0.268 %)Ubuntu
163 (0.268 %)webOS
163 (0.268 %)Oracle Linux
171 (0.089 %)Debian
171 (0.089 %)AIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1194 (17.35 %)Agile Software Development
2101 (9.034 %)OO
364 (5.725 %)TDD
451 (4.562 %)Scrum
451 (4.562 %)Web Development
451 (4.562 %)Unit Testing
549 (4.383 %)E-Commerce
644 (3.936 %)MVC
738 (3.399 %)UML
738 (3.399 %)Configuration Management
738 (3.399 %)Web Application Development
837 (3.309 %)OOP
932 (2.862 %)User Acceptance Testing
1028 (2.504 %)Test Scripting
1127 (2.415 %)Project Management
1127 (2.415 %)Multithreading
1127 (2.415 %)System Testing
1225 (2.236 %)Test Management
1323 (2.057 %)OOD
1421 (1.878 %)Use Case
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1362 (32.38 %)Java
2217 (19.41 %)JavaScript
3182 (16.28 %)C++
4137 (12.25 %)Objective-C
5107 (9.571 %)C
691 (8.140 %)PHP
784 (7.513 %)SQL
882 (7.335 %)C#
931 (2.773 %)Ruby
1027 (2.415 %)VB.NET
1118 (1.610 %)Python
1215 (1.342 %)Embedded C
1215 (1.342 %)VB
1313 (1.163 %)Perl
1313 (1.163 %)Bash shell
1411 (0.984 %)Embedded C++
159 (0.805 %)ActionScript
165 (0.447 %)CoffeeScript
174 (0.358 %)ActionScript 3.0
183 (0.268 %)VBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1107 (9.571 %)Degree
232 (2.862 %)ISEB
317 (1.521 %)Security Cleared
46 (0.537 %)SC Cleared
46 (0.537 %)MCSE
46 (0.537 %)Microsoft Certification
52 (0.179 %)MCITP
52 (0.179 %)CCA
52 (0.179 %)Citrix Certification
52 (0.179 %)Cisco Certification
52 (0.179 %)Sun Certification
52 (0.179 %)CCNA
61 (0.089 %)PRINCE2 Certification
61 (0.089 %)ITIL Certification
61 (0.089 %)ISTQB
61 (0.089 %)MCTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
149 (4.383 %)QA
21 (0.089 %)WCAG
21 (0.089 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
128 (2.504 %)Active Directory
29 (0.805 %)VMware ESXi
36 (0.537 %)Terminal Services
44 (0.358 %)VMware Infrastructure
52 (0.179 %)UAG
52 (0.179 %)Hyper-V
52 (0.179 %)Squid
61 (0.089 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
61 (0.089 %)XenApp
61 (0.089 %)XenDesktop
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
125 (2.236 %)HP Quality Center
26 (0.537 %)SCCM
26 (0.537 %)DameWare
26 (0.537 %)Norton AntiVirus
31 (0.089 %)OpenView
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
177 (6.887 %)Apple
261 (5.456 %)Symbian
339 (3.488 %)Microsoft
429 (2.594 %)Google
526 (2.326 %)Facebook
526 (2.326 %)Adobe
624 (2.147 %)Oracle
722 (1.968 %)Perforce
814 (1.252 %)Sencha
913 (1.163 %)AccuRev
1010 (0.894 %)Twitter
1010 (0.894 %)HP
1010 (0.894 %)Cisco
117 (0.626 %)Nokia
117 (0.626 %)Appcelerator
126 (0.537 %)VMware
126 (0.537 %)LANDesk
126 (0.537 %)Sun
126 (0.537 %)Symantec
135 (0.447 %)Sony