The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Android over the 3 months to 20 June 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 75 98 158
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +60
Permanent jobs citing Android 1504 1373 945
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 3.353% 2.629% 1.571%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.17% 9.695% 6.234%
Number of salaries quoted 1351 1201 868
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.63% +1.42%
All Operating Systems
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12355 14162 15160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 27.55% 27.11% 25.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10569 12338 12725
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Android
England

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Android Salary Trend

Android
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Android across the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +57 427 £52,500 +5.00% 60
Hammersmith -1 9 £42,500 -0.58%
Canary Wharf +14 7 £31,500 -
Twickenham - 4 £43,750 - 1
Croydon +7 2 £31,000 -27.05%
Chiswick +5 2 £80,000 - 1
Docklands, London - 2 £72,500 -
Ealing - 2 £35,000 -
Feltham - 1 £40,000 -
Southall - 1 £20,000 -
Beckenham - 1 £50,000 -
Bromley - 1 £45,000 -
Android
England

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 1839 (66.68%) Apple iOS
2 1325 (48.04%) Java
3 1025 (37.16%) Mobile App
4 932 (33.79%) JavaScript
5 844 (30.60%) CSS
6 816 (29.59%) Agile Software Development
7 707 (25.63%) HTML
8 652 (23.64%) iPhone
9 635 (23.02%) Objective-C
10 599 (21.72%) Windows
11 594 (21.54%) OO
12 576 (20.88%) HTML5
13 509 (18.46%) Scrum
14 454 (16.46%) Degree
15 447 (16.21%) Blackberry
16 425 (15.41%) Computer Science
17 413 (14.97%) Web Services
18 388 (14.07%) C#
19 382 (13.85%) iPad
20 380 (13.78%) C++
21 378 (13.71%) XML
22 372 (13.49%) SQL
23 340 (12.33%) PHP
24 339 (12.29%) Google
24 339 (12.29%) jQuery
25 338 (12.26%) Games
26 337 (12.22%) TDD
27 304 (11.02%) Finance
28 302 (10.95%) Git (software)
29 300 (10.88%) JSON

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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
1 844 (30.60%) CSS
2 707 (25.63%) HTML
3 576 (20.88%) HTML5
4 413 (14.97%) Web Services
5 378 (13.71%) XML
6 339 (12.29%) jQuery
7 300 (10.88%) JSON
8 295 (10.70%) CSS3
9 268 (9.717%) .NET
10 213 (7.723%) REST
11 193 (6.998%) iOS SDK
12 177 (6.418%) Ajax
13 174 (6.309%) SOAP
14 125 (4.532%) Node.js
15 117 (4.242%) XHTML
16 115 (4.170%) ASP.NET
16 115 (4.170%) Cocoa
17 113 (4.097%) J2EE
18 79 (2.864%) RESTful
19 77 (2.792%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 115 (4.170%) Apache
2 80 (2.901%) Amazon AWS
3 76 (2.756%) CMS
4 47 (1.704%) nginx
5 44 (1.595%) Windows Azure
6 41 (1.487%) Drupal
7 39 (1.414%) SharePoint
7 39 (1.414%) Apache Solr
8 38 (1.378%) MS Exchange
9 30 (1.088%) Tomcat
10 26 (0.943%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 25 (0.906%) IIS
12 24 (0.870%) WordPress
13 22 (0.798%) Exchange Server 2010
14 18 (0.653%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (0.544%) Adobe CQ
15 15 (0.544%) WebLogic
15 15 (0.544%) SharePoint Server
16 13 (0.471%) Commerce Server
16 13 (0.471%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 184 (6.672%) Photoshop
2 119 (4.315%) Adobe Illustrator
3 52 (1.885%) MS Excel
4 47 (1.704%) MS Office
5 29 (1.051%) InDesign
6 28 (1.015%) Adobe After Effects
7 27 (0.979%) Fireworks
8 18 (0.653%) OmniGraffle
9 7 (0.254%) Simulink
10 6 (0.218%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.218%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.181%) MS PowerPoint
12 4 (0.145%) Google Apps
12 4 (0.145%) Maya
13 3 (0.109%) MS Project
14 2 (0.073%) Blender
15 1 (0.036%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.036%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 17 (0.616%) Google Analytics
2 13 (0.471%) SiteCatalyst
3 3 (0.109%) Tridion
4 2 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.036%) Maximo
5 1 (0.036%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 175 (6.345%) Internet
2 130 (4.714%) HTTP
3 49 (1.777%) NFC
4 33 (1.197%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.051%) VPN
6 20 (0.725%) Firewall
6 20 (0.725%) DNS
7 19 (0.689%) VoIP
8 16 (0.580%) DHCP
9 11 (0.399%) Wireless
9 11 (0.399%) FTP
10 10 (0.363%) LAN
11 9 (0.326%) WAN
11 9 (0.326%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (0.290%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (0.254%) SSL
13 7 (0.254%) 3G
14 6 (0.218%) RTP
14 6 (0.218%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.218%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.542%) MySQL
2 173 (6.273%) SQL Server
3 88 (3.191%) SQLite
4 67 (2.429%) NoSQL
5 66 (2.393%) MongoDB
6 46 (1.668%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.342%) Big Data
8 34 (1.233%) SQL Server 2012
9 32 (1.160%) Redis
10 24 (0.870%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 22 (0.798%) RDBMS
12 20 (0.725%) Hadoop
13 19 (0.689%) SQL Server 2008
14 17 (0.616%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (0.580%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.544%) Data Warehouse
17 14 (0.508%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 14 (0.508%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 12 (0.435%) Neo4j
19 9 (0.326%) Informix
Development Applications
1 302 (10.95%) Git (software)
2 185 (6.708%) Subversion
3 164 (5.946%) Selenium
4 139 (5.040%) Xcode
5 101 (3.662%) Eclipse
6 88 (3.191%) Cucumber
6 88 (3.191%) WebDriver
7 84 (3.046%) Jenkins
8 77 (2.792%) Maven
9 76 (2.756%) JUnit
10 64 (2.321%) Ant
11 59 (2.139%) JIRA
12 58 (2.103%) Robotium
13 50 (1.813%) MonkeyTalk
14 49 (1.777%) Mercurial
15 46 (1.668%) PhoneGap
16 33 (1.197%) Jasmine
17 29 (1.051%) Visual Studio
17 29 (1.051%) Axure RP
18 22 (0.798%) Hudson
General
1 338 (12.26%) Games
2 304 (11.02%) Finance
3 129 (4.677%) Banking
4 128 (4.641%) Marketing
5 85 (3.082%) Publishing
6 82 (2.973%) Telecoms
7 78 (2.828%) Retail
8 50 (1.813%) Advertising
9 47 (1.704%) Legal
10 34 (1.233%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.015%) Multimedia
12 23 (0.834%) Back Office
13 18 (0.653%) Law
14 14 (0.508%) Retail Banking
15 11 (0.399%) Music Industry
15 11 (0.399%) French Language
16 10 (0.363%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.218%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.218%) Front Office
18 5 (0.181%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1681 (60.95%) Developer
2 569 (20.63%) Android Developer
3 414 (15.01%) Senior Developer
4 253 (9.173%) Mobile Developer
5 236 (8.557%) iOS Developer
6 197 (7.143%) Senior Android Developer
7 178 (6.454%) Architect
8 169 (6.128%) Designer
9 129 (4.677%) Web Developer
10 118 (4.278%) Software Engineer
11 116 (4.206%) Front-End Developer
12 111 (4.025%) Lead Developer
13 106 (3.843%) Analyst
14 104 (3.771%) Java Developer
15 88 (3.191%) Senior iOS Developer
16 87 (3.154%) Mobile Applications Developer
17 83 (3.009%) Applications Developer
18 62 (2.248%) Tester
18 62 (2.248%) Test Analyst
18 62 (2.248%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1025 (37.16%) Mobile App
2 652 (23.64%) iPhone
3 447 (16.21%) Blackberry
4 425 (15.41%) Computer Science
5 382 (13.85%) iPad
6 187 (6.780%) Open Source
7 118 (4.278%) Social Media
8 116 (4.206%) Social Network
9 109 (3.952%) Digital Media
10 66 (2.393%) Mobile Banking
11 64 (2.321%) Smartphone
12 62 (2.248%) Handset
13 58 (2.103%) Social Gaming
14 54 (1.958%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.559%) Java Card
16 42 (1.523%) Mathematics
16 42 (1.523%) Statistics
17 38 (1.378%) Mobile Games
18 37 (1.342%) Enterprise Software
19 36 (1.305%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 1839 (66.68%) Apple iOS
2 599 (21.72%) Windows
3 214 (7.759%) Linux
4 203 (7.360%) Windows Phone
5 108 (3.916%) UNIX
6 95 (3.445%) Windows Mobile
7 60 (2.175%) Windows Phone 7
8 46 (1.668%) Windows 7
9 42 (1.523%) Windows 8
10 35 (1.269%) Windows Server 2008
10 35 (1.269%) Windows Server 2003
11 29 (1.051%) Mac OS X
12 23 (0.834%) Windows XP
12 23 (0.834%) Windows Phone 8
13 14 (0.508%) webOS
14 11 (0.399%) Solaris
14 11 (0.399%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.399%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.399%) Windows Vista
15 9 (0.326%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (29.59%) Agile Software Development
2 594 (21.54%) OO
3 509 (18.46%) Scrum
4 337 (12.22%) TDD
5 291 (10.55%) OOP
6 273 (9.898%) E-Commerce
7 272 (9.862%) MVC
8 204 (7.397%) Mobile Application Development
9 192 (6.962%) Web Development
10 188 (6.817%) Multithreading
11 169 (6.128%) Unit Testing
12 141 (5.112%) Continuous Integration
13 117 (4.242%) BDD
14 113 (4.097%) Project Management
14 113 (4.097%) Kanban
15 105 (3.807%) Automated Testing
16 101 (3.662%) SOA
17 96 (3.481%) OOD
18 85 (3.082%) Test Automation
19 83 (3.009%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1325 (48.04%) Java
2 932 (33.79%) JavaScript
3 635 (23.02%) Objective-C
4 388 (14.07%) C#
5 380 (13.78%) C++
6 372 (13.49%) SQL
7 340 (12.33%) PHP
8 217 (7.868%) C
9 177 (6.418%) Python
10 164 (5.946%) Ruby
11 71 (2.574%) XPath
12 45 (1.632%) Scala
13 36 (1.305%) Erlang
14 35 (1.269%) Clojure
15 34 (1.233%) F#
16 31 (1.124%) Haskell
17 28 (1.015%) VB
17 28 (1.015%) Perl
18 24 (0.870%) VB.NET
19 23 (0.834%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 454 (16.46%) Degree
2 38 (1.378%) ISEB
3 30 (1.088%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (0.689%) MCP
4 19 (0.689%) OCA
4 19 (0.689%) Oracle Certification
5 18 (0.653%) MCTS
6 15 (0.544%) MCAD
6 15 (0.544%) MCSD
7 12 (0.435%) ISTQB
7 12 (0.435%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 9 (0.326%) PhD
8 9 (0.326%) MCITP
9 8 (0.290%) HND
9 8 (0.290%) MCSA
10 7 (0.254%) MCSE
11 5 (0.181%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.181%) CCNA
11 5 (0.181%) Security Cleared
12 3 (0.109%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (9.572%) QA
2 5 (0.181%) SLA
3 3 (0.109%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.073%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.036%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 1 (0.036%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 42 (1.523%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.943%) Varnish
3 20 (0.725%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.471%) Terminal Services
5 8 (0.290%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.218%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (0.181%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.145%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.145%) XenServer
9 3 (0.109%) XenApp
10 2 (0.073%) OpenSSO
10 2 (0.073%) vSphere
10 2 (0.073%) Postfix
10 2 (0.073%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.073%) VMware ESX
11 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 16 (0.580%) HP Quality Center
2 11 (0.399%) Nagios
3 7 (0.254%) Puppet
4 6 (0.218%) Backup Exec
5 5 (0.181%) SCOM
6 4 (0.145%) SCCM
6 4 (0.145%) WSUS
7 3 (0.109%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.073%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.073%) Sysprep
8 2 (0.073%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.073%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.036%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 339 (12.29%) Google
2 150 (5.439%) Apple
2 150 (5.439%) Facebook
3 139 (5.040%) Microsoft
4 134 (4.859%) Adobe
5 67 (2.429%) Twitter
6 58 (2.103%) Oracle
7 55 (1.994%) Symbian
8 53 (1.922%) Sencha
9 30 (1.088%) VMware
10 29 (1.051%) Zend
11 21 (0.761%) Cisco
11 21 (0.761%) ATG
11 21 (0.761%) Sitecore
12 19 (0.689%) Red Hat
13 18 (0.653%) hybris
13 18 (0.653%) Akamai
13 18 (0.653%) Rackspace
14 16 (0.580%) Citrix
15 15 (0.544%) HP
City, London
They already have an established iOS team and are looking to grow their Android presence. The Lead Android developer will initially have responsibility for one more junior Android...
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + package
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
iOS / Android Developer. A very well establish start up company is currently looking for a very talented iOS Developer to join their growing development team... Your time will...
Linux Recruit
Salary: From £60,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
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Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + top benefits/bonus/perks package
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
My client is a leading Mobile App company based with London, they are currently looking for an experienced iOS Developer to join their exciting team. The successful candidate...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London, South East
Role & responsibilities • Building innovative and cutting edge Android mobile applications • Working within a large development team • Applying a ‘best practice' approach to development Skills & Experience required: • 2+ years...
Creation Recruitment
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 per year
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £60000 to £70000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
OPUS
Salary: GBP60000 to GBP70000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Clement May
Salary: From £55,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
ClearCube Consulting
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum Lucrative Stock Options!
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Hudson IT London
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
Prism Digital
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 Per Annum To £50k
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Mint
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £85k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £70k to £85k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £75000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
Central London / West End
Datascope Recruitment
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013