The first table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 63 58 57
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Android 8 15 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 1.159% 1.742% 1.639%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.372% 5.618% 6.000%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 12
Average salary £30,750 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,775 £21,000 £22,600
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £35,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Operating Systems
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
183 267 200
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 26.52% 31.01% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 163 228 168
Average salary £33,000 £28,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% -13.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,600 £22,500 £23,450
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Android Salary Trend

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -12 8 £30,750 +2.50%
Android
England

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 22 (78.57%) OOP
2 18 (64.29%) Java
3 17 (60.71%) PHP
4 16 (57.14%) Scrum
5 14 (50.00%) Law
5 14 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 14 (50.00%) QA
5 14 (50.00%) Selenium
5 14 (50.00%) iPhone
5 14 (50.00%) Mobile App
6 13 (46.43%) iPad
6 13 (46.43%) Apple iOS
6 13 (46.43%) .NET
7 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
7 9 (32.14%) Ruby
8 8 (28.57%) HTML5
8 8 (28.57%) OO
8 8 (28.57%) Symbian
9 7 (25.00%) MySQL
10 6 (21.43%) C#
10 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
10 6 (21.43%) TDD
11 5 (17.86%) Finance
11 5 (17.86%) Web Development
11 5 (17.86%) Cucumber
11 5 (17.86%) BDD
11 5 (17.86%) Game Development
11 5 (17.86%) ActionScript 3.0
11 5 (17.86%) ActionScript 2.0
11 5 (17.86%) ActionScript

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 13 (46.43%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) HTML5
3 1 (3.571%) Web Services
3 1 (3.571%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (17.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
General
1 14 (50.00%) Law
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Games
3 4 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Tester
3 12 (42.86%) Analyst
3 12 (42.86%) Test Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Games Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Web Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) iOS Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.571%) QA Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.571%) Android Developer
7 1 (3.571%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) iPhone
1 14 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 13 (46.43%) iPad
3 5 (17.86%) Mobile Games
4 1 (3.571%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) OOP
2 16 (57.14%) Scrum
3 14 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 8 (28.57%) OO
5 6 (21.43%) TDD
6 5 (17.86%) Web Development
6 5 (17.86%) BDD
6 5 (17.86%) Game Development
7 4 (14.29%) Web Design
7 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 4 (14.29%) Email Marketing
7 4 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (14.29%) SEO
7 4 (14.29%) Content Management
7 4 (14.29%) Pay per click
7 4 (14.29%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) Agile Project Management
8 3 (10.71%) Project Management
9 1 (3.571%) Test Scripting
9 1 (3.571%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 17 (60.71%) PHP
3 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) Ruby
4 6 (21.43%) C#
5 5 (17.86%) ActionScript 3.0
5 5 (17.86%) ActionScript 2.0
5 5 (17.86%) ActionScript
5 5 (17.86%) C++
5 5 (17.86%) Objective-C
6 4 (14.29%) VB.NET
7 1 (3.571%) VC++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Symbian
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Adobe
4 1 (3.571%) Google