The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 105 110 88
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -22
Contract jobs citing Android 8 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.421% 0.087% 0.715%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.581% 0.445% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
Average daily rate £388 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+55.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £250 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £250 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-15.03% +9.28%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
506 449 364
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 26.66% 19.59% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 207 139
Average daily rate £325 £298 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.24% -8.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 71 59
Average hourly rate £12.88 £12.75 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.98% -17.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Android
England

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +5 4 £388 +55.00%
South Yorkshire - 4 - -
Android
England

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 17 (62.96%) Apple iOS
2 13 (48.15%) iPhone
2 13 (48.15%) Java
3 12 (44.44%) Mobile App
4 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
5 8 (29.63%) Objective-C
6 6 (22.22%) Windows
6 6 (22.22%) OO
7 5 (18.52%) CSS
7 5 (18.52%) MVC
7 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (18.52%) TDD
7 5 (18.52%) Xcode
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (18.52%) iPad
8 4 (14.81%) Memory Management
8 4 (14.81%) HTML5
8 4 (14.81%) KnockoutJS
8 4 (14.81%) Cocoa Touch
8 4 (14.81%) Multithreading
8 4 (14.81%) Groovy
8 4 (14.81%) Grails
8 4 (14.81%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (14.81%) Subversion
8 4 (14.81%) Information Management
8 4 (14.81%) Scrum
8 4 (14.81%) Cocoa
8 4 (14.81%) Automated Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) OOA/OOD

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 (18.52%) CSS
2 4 (14.81%) HTML
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) Cocoa
2 4 (14.81%) Grails
2 4 (14.81%) HTML5
2 4 (14.81%) KnockoutJS
2 4 (14.81%) Cocoa Touch
3 3 (11.11%) iOS SDK
3 3 (11.11%) LAMP
3 3 (11.11%) Web Services
4 2 (7.407%) JSON
4 2 (7.407%) Node.js
4 2 (7.407%) Sass
4 2 (7.407%) Modernizr
4 2 (7.407%) Apache Cordova
5 1 (3.704%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (3.704%) REST
5 1 (3.704%) CSS3
5 1 (3.704%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.704%) SQLite
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (3.704%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Xcode
2 4 (14.81%) Subversion
3 3 (11.11%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.704%) PhoneGap
4 1 (3.704%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
1 1 (3.704%) Banking
1 1 (3.704%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Mobile Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Android Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 4 (14.81%) iOS Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Service Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.704%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) iPhone
2 12 (44.44%) Mobile App
3 5 (18.52%) iPad
4 4 (14.81%) Blackberry
5 2 (7.407%) E-Learning
6 1 (3.704%) Client/Server
6 1 (3.704%) Handset
6 1 (3.704%) Streaming Video
6 1 (3.704%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Apple iOS
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (7.407%) Linux
4 1 (3.704%) Windows CE
4 1 (3.704%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.704%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) OO
2 5 (18.52%) MVC
2 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (18.52%) TDD
2 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (14.81%) Multithreading
3 4 (14.81%) Memory Management
3 4 (14.81%) Mobile Application Development
3 4 (14.81%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (14.81%) Information Management
3 4 (14.81%) Automated Testing
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) Scrum
4 3 (11.11%) OOP
4 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.704%) OOD
5 1 (3.704%) Project Management
5 1 (3.704%) UML
5 1 (3.704%) Web Development
5 1 (3.704%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 8 (29.63%) Objective-C
4 4 (14.81%) Groovy
4 4 (14.81%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) PHP
6 2 (7.407%) SQL
6 2 (7.407%) C
7 1 (3.704%) Python
7 1 (3.704%) Embedded C
7 1 (3.704%) Embedded C++
7 1 (3.704%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.704%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle
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