The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 107 73 77
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +4
Permanent jobs citing Android 16 59 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.889% 2.938% 2.544%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.957% 9.736% 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 16 57 41
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £105,000 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
541 606 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.07% 30.18% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 434 547 387
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,250 £50,000 £48,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Android
North West

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Android Jobs Demand Trend

Android
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Android across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Android Salary Trend

Android
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Android across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Android Salary Histogram

Android
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Knutsford - 5 £100,000 -
Macclesfield - 4 £22,500 -
Warrington -17 3 £35,000 -12.50%
Chester -15 2 £35,000 +62.79%
Android
North West

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Android.

1 31 (72.09%) Apple iOS
2 24 (55.81%) HTML
3 18 (41.86%) CSS
4 17 (39.53%) JavaScript
4 17 (39.53%) Mobile App
5 16 (37.21%) Java
5 16 (37.21%) E-Commerce
6 14 (32.56%) HTML5
7 11 (25.58%) iPhone
7 11 (25.58%) SQL
7 11 (25.58%) Windows
7 11 (25.58%) Flash
8 10 (23.26%) PHP
9 9 (20.93%) Internet
9 9 (20.93%) Banking
9 9 (20.93%) Windows Phone
9 9 (20.93%) Mobile Application Development
10 8 (18.60%) jQuery
10 8 (18.60%) Finance
10 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
11 7 (16.28%) .NET
11 7 (16.28%) C#
12 6 (13.95%) Adobe
12 6 (13.95%) VoIP
12 6 (13.95%) C++
12 6 (13.95%) C
12 6 (13.95%) J2EE
12 6 (13.95%) MySQL
12 6 (13.95%) Linux
12 6 (13.95%) Wi-Fi

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Android. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (55.81%) HTML
2 18 (41.86%) CSS
3 14 (32.56%) HTML5
4 11 (25.58%) Flash
5 8 (18.60%) jQuery
6 7 (16.28%) .NET
7 6 (13.95%) J2EE
7 6 (13.95%) Ajax
8 5 (11.63%) OpenAL
8 5 (11.63%) Qt
8 5 (11.63%) BREW
8 5 (11.63%) JSON
8 5 (11.63%) J2ME
8 5 (11.63%) Web Services
8 5 (11.63%) SVG
8 5 (11.63%) OpenGL
8 5 (11.63%) Middleware
9 4 (9.302%) XML
9 4 (9.302%) Open Graph
10 2 (4.651%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.95%) WordPress
2 5 (11.63%) Magento
3 4 (9.302%) nginx
4 2 (4.651%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) MS Office
2 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.326%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) Internet
2 6 (13.95%) VoIP
2 6 (13.95%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (11.63%) NFC
3 5 (11.63%) WLAN
3 5 (11.63%) Bluetooth
3 5 (11.63%) GPRS
3 5 (11.63%) GSM
3 5 (11.63%) UMTS
3 5 (11.63%) DVB
4 2 (4.651%) VPN
4 2 (4.651%) HTTP
5 1 (2.326%) Firewall
5 1 (2.326%) SNMP
5 1 (2.326%) DNS
5 1 (2.326%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.95%) MySQL
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.326%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (2.326%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (20.93%) Banking
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Marketing
3 6 (13.95%) Multimedia
4 5 (11.63%) Electronics
5 3 (6.977%) Legal
6 2 (4.651%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.651%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.326%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (67.44%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Web Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Software Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Security Engineer
4 4 (9.302%) Junior
4 4 (9.302%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.302%) C# Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Junior C# Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Junior .NET Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Junior Developer
4 4 (9.302%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Junior C# .NET Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (6.977%) Android Developer
5 3 (6.977%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (6.977%) Senior Architect
5 3 (6.977%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (39.53%) Mobile App
2 11 (25.58%) iPhone
3 5 (11.63%) Speech Recognition
3 5 (11.63%) Device Driver
3 5 (11.63%) MPEG
4 3 (6.977%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.326%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.326%) iPad
5 1 (2.326%) PKI
5 1 (2.326%) PDA
5 1 (2.326%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Apple iOS
2 11 (25.58%) Windows
3 9 (20.93%) Windows Phone
4 6 (13.95%) Linux
5 5 (11.63%) Windows 7
5 5 (11.63%) Windows Phone 7
5 5 (11.63%) Windows 8
5 5 (11.63%) Windows Phone 8
5 5 (11.63%) Windows Mobile
5 5 (11.63%) Nucleus RTOS
6 2 (4.651%) UNIX
7 1 (2.326%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) E-Commerce
2 9 (20.93%) Mobile Application Development
3 6 (13.95%) Security Architecture
4 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (11.63%) Internet Marketing
4 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (11.63%) DRM
4 5 (11.63%) Project Management
4 5 (11.63%) Mobile Commerce
5 4 (9.302%) Software Engineering
6 3 (6.977%) Web Development
6 3 (6.977%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (6.977%) Web Design
6 3 (6.977%) Information Security
6 3 (6.977%) Scrum
7 2 (4.651%) OOP
7 2 (4.651%) MVC
7 2 (4.651%) TDD
7 2 (4.651%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.651%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) JavaScript
2 16 (37.21%) Java
3 11 (25.58%) SQL
4 10 (23.26%) PHP
5 7 (16.28%) C#
6 6 (13.95%) C++
6 6 (13.95%) C
7 3 (6.977%) VB
8 1 (2.326%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.326%) Ruby
8 1 (2.326%) VB6
8 1 (2.326%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.326%) Python
8 1 (2.326%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.326%) Perl
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Adobe
2 4 (9.302%) Facebook
2 4 (9.302%) Twitter
3 2 (4.651%) Apple
3 2 (4.651%) Zend
4 1 (2.326%) Oracle
4 1 (2.326%) Microsoft
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