The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington 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 Warrington 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 15 10 17
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +7
Contract jobs citing Android 6 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 4.724% 7.292% 1.124%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 41.18% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
Average daily rate £279 £317 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.03% +5.62%
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 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-15.03% +9.28%
All Operating Systems
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
21 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 16.54% 17.71% 8.989%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 1
Average daily rate £283 £319 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.37% +6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £25.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Android
Cheshire

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington Android Daily Rate Trend

Android
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Android across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Warrington Android Daily Rate Histogram

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (80.00%) .NET Framework
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
1 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) Photoshop
1 8 (80.00%) iPad
2 4 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Contact Management
2 4 (40.00%) LINQ
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) SMS
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) iPhone
5 1 (10.00%) Games
5 1 (10.00%) Objective-C

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 (80.00%) .NET Framework
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) LINQ
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) iPad
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Contact Management
2 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
1 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared