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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Rank 110 104 96
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Android 23 28 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.060% 1.237% 1.326%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.203% 4.070% 4.174%
Number of salaries quoted 19 25 24
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +38.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £27,250
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £58,000 £42,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
718 688 599
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 33.10% 30.39% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 600 577 470
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,000 £65,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Android
Berkshire

Android
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Android Salary Trend

Android
Salary Histogram

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

Reading Android Salary Histogram

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 25 (48.08%) Windows
1 25 (48.08%) iPhone
2 24 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
3 22 (42.31%) Java
3 22 (42.31%) Oracle
4 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
5 16 (30.77%) MySQL
6 13 (25.00%) Blackberry
7 12 (23.08%) Telecoms
7 12 (23.08%) Apple iOS
8 11 (21.15%) Windows 8
8 11 (21.15%) Windows 7
8 11 (21.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 11 (21.15%) Firewall
8 11 (21.15%) MS Exchange
8 11 (21.15%) DNS
8 11 (21.15%) SOA
9 10 (19.23%) Cisco
9 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (19.23%) Symantec
9 10 (19.23%) Migration
9 10 (19.23%) Objective-C
9 10 (19.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 10 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2007
9 10 (19.23%) Network Security
9 10 (19.23%) Digital Media
9 10 (19.23%) Mobile App
10 9 (17.31%) REST
10 9 (17.31%) GWT
10 9 (17.31%) Data Migration

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 9 (17.31%) REST
1 9 (17.31%) GWT
1 9 (17.31%) Java EE
1 9 (17.31%) Spring
1 9 (17.31%) J2EE
1 9 (17.31%) J2ME
1 9 (17.31%) SOAP
2 8 (15.38%) RESTful
3 7 (13.46%) HTML5
4 6 (11.54%) .NET
4 6 (11.54%) HTML
4 6 (11.54%) CSS
5 5 (9.615%) ASP.NET
5 5 (9.615%) Ajax
6 4 (7.692%) WCF
6 4 (7.692%) Servlets
7 3 (5.769%) XML
7 3 (5.769%) LAMP
7 3 (5.769%) Hibernate
7 3 (5.769%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.15%) MS Exchange
2 10 (19.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 10 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (5.769%) Apache
4 2 (3.846%) Windows Azure
4 2 (3.846%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (3.846%) Umbraco
4 2 (3.846%) CMS
5 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.923%) Kentico
5 1 (1.923%) Lync
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.923%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) Firewall
1 11 (21.15%) DNS
2 10 (19.23%) Network Security
3 2 (3.846%) BSS
3 2 (3.846%) Internet
3 2 (3.846%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.923%) VPN
4 1 (1.923%) SAN
4 1 (1.923%) SSL
4 1 (1.923%) MPLS
4 1 (1.923%) PBX
4 1 (1.923%) VoIP
4 1 (1.923%) SMTP
4 1 (1.923%) DHCP
4 1 (1.923%) HTTP
4 1 (1.923%) LDAP
4 1 (1.923%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.923%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) MySQL
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.923%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.923%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Git (software)
1 3 (5.769%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.923%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.923%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.923%) Ant
2 1 (1.923%) JMeter
2 1 (1.923%) Xcode
2 1 (1.923%) NetBeans
2 1 (1.923%) Subversion
2 1 (1.923%) CruiseControl
2 1 (1.923%) Selenium
2 1 (1.923%) JIRA
2 1 (1.923%) JProfiler
General
1 12 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.615%) Marketing
3 4 (7.692%) Advertising
4 2 (3.846%) Multimedia
4 2 (3.846%) Finance
5 1 (1.923%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) Java Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) iOS Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Administrator
3 7 (13.46%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 4 (7.692%) Android Developer
5 4 (7.692%) iPhone Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Development Manager
6 3 (5.769%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.769%) PHP Developer
6 3 (5.769%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (3.846%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (3.846%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (3.846%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (3.846%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (3.846%) SQL Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (3.846%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (48.08%) iPhone
2 13 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 10 (19.23%) Digital Media
3 10 (19.23%) Mobile App
4 7 (13.46%) Handset
5 5 (9.615%) Computer Science
6 3 (5.769%) iPad
7 2 (3.846%) IaaS
7 2 (3.846%) SaaS
7 2 (3.846%) PaaS
7 2 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.846%) Semantic Web
7 2 (3.846%) Web 2.0
7 2 (3.846%) Streaming Video
8 1 (1.923%) Streaming Media
8 1 (1.923%) Mashup
8 1 (1.923%) Visualisation
8 1 (1.923%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 11 (21.15%) Windows 8
3 11 (21.15%) Windows 7
3 11 (21.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (15.38%) Windows Phone
6 4 (7.692%) Windows Phone 7
6 4 (7.692%) Linux
7 2 (3.846%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.923%) UNIX
8 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (21.15%) SOA
3 10 (19.23%) Migration
4 9 (17.31%) Data Migration
4 9 (17.31%) TDD
5 8 (15.38%) Refactoring
6 7 (13.46%) Scrum
7 5 (9.615%) E-Commerce
7 5 (9.615%) Analytics
8 4 (7.692%) Rapid Prototyping
8 4 (7.692%) MVC
9 3 (5.769%) Asset Management
9 3 (5.769%) Programme Management
9 3 (5.769%) Mobile Application Development
10 2 (3.846%) BDD
10 2 (3.846%) Marketing Strategy
10 2 (3.846%) Business Development
10 2 (3.846%) Strategic Planning
10 2 (3.846%) Project Management
10 2 (3.846%) OO
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) Java
2 10 (19.23%) Objective-C
3 8 (15.38%) PHP
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) C#
6 4 (7.692%) VB6
6 4 (7.692%) T-SQL
6 4 (7.692%) VB
6 4 (7.692%) VB.NET
7 3 (5.769%) C
7 3 (5.769%) C++
8 1 (1.923%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 4 (7.692%) PhD
3 2 (3.846%) MBA
4 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.923%) MCSE
4 1 (1.923%) MCP
4 1 (1.923%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.923%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (1.923%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Oracle
2 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
3 10 (19.23%) Cisco
3 10 (19.23%) Symantec
4 9 (17.31%) Google
5 2 (3.846%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.846%) Huawei
5 2 (3.846%) Siebel
5 2 (3.846%) Apple
6 1 (1.923%) JBoss
6 1 (1.923%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.923%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.923%) Zend
6 1 (1.923%) Twitter
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