The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Android skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Android over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank140191421
Rank change year-on-year
Up+51Up+230
Matching permanent IT job ads21801561381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.799 %1.279 %0.400 %
As % of the Operating Systems category6.749 %5.141 %1.636 %
Number of salaries quoted19481435329
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£27,500£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-6.66 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
323033036123292
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.65 %24.88 %24.46 %
Number of salaries quoted277292559119492
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Android
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Android within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Android Demand Trend

Android
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Android within the UK.

Android Salary Trend

Android
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Android over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Android Salary Histogram

Android
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+562127£42,500+6.25 %
LondonUp+661334£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+27294£37,500+7.14 %
City of LondonUp+43212£47,500+5.55 %
East of EnglandUp+28146£37,500-1.31 %
North WestDown-24128£35,500+9.23 %
YorkshireUp+2968£38,500+40.00 %
BerkshireDown-4268£45,000+38.46 %
West MidlandsUp+4266£40,000+45.45 %
ManchesterDown-2466£32,250-6.52 %
HampshireUp+865£40,000-
CheshireDown-455£40,000+33.33 %
HertfordshireUp+4847£52,500+31.25 %
South WestDown-3645£35,000+16.66 %
WarringtonUp+737£40,000+33.33 %
SurreyDown-1937£40,500-14.73 %
East SussexUp+1935£35,000-
BrightonUp+1834£35,000-
CambridgeshireDown-4534£42,500+6.25 %
West SussexUp+3533£34,750-13.12 %
CambridgeDown-2633£41,250+8.55 %
EssexUp+1632£35,000+11.11 %
East MidlandsUp+330£35,000+40.00 %
West YorkshireDown-1730£32,500+18.18 %
ReadingDown-1029£45,000+38.46 %
ScotlandDown-3428£35,000-2.77 %
BasingstokeDown-127£40,000-23.80 %
ChichesterNew entry-25£32,500-
OxfordshireUp+923£35,000+11.11 %
North YorkshireNew entry-22£40,000-

Android
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11951 (46.10 %)Apple iOS
21912 (45.18 %)iPhone
31804 (42.63 %)Java
41464 (34.59 %)JavaScript
51417 (33.48 %)CSS
61095 (25.87 %)HTML
71061 (25.07 %)Blackberry
81011 (23.89 %)HTML5
9964 (22.78 %)Windows
10917 (21.67 %)Degree
11864 (20.42 %)C#
12844 (19.94 %).NET
13793 (18.74 %)Objective-C
14780 (18.43 %)XML
15760 (17.96 %)jQuery
16754 (17.82 %)iPad
17744 (17.58 %)Agile Software Development
18741 (17.51 %)Web Services
19731 (17.27 %)C++
20660 (15.60 %)OO
21645 (15.24 %)PHP
22611 (14.44 %)Linux
23584 (13.80 %)Ajax
24545 (12.88 %)SQL
25503 (11.89 %)Computer Science
26471 (11.13 %)Symbian
27438 (10.35 %)MVC
28435 (10.28 %)CSS3
29428 (10.11 %)ASP.NET
30415 (9.806 %)C

Android
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11417 (33.48 %)CSS
21095 (25.87 %)HTML
31011 (23.89 %)HTML5
4844 (19.94 %).NET
5780 (18.43 %)XML
6760 (17.96 %)jQuery
7741 (17.51 %)Web Services
8584 (13.80 %)Ajax
9435 (10.28 %)CSS3
10428 (10.11 %)ASP.NET
11395 (9.334 %)J2ME
12391 (9.239 %)JSON
13326 (7.703 %)J2EE
14300 (7.089 %)Hibernate
15293 (6.923 %)Spring
16285 (6.734 %)RESTful
17280 (6.616 %)Flash
18278 (6.569 %)XHTML
19261 (6.167 %)XSLT
20249 (5.884 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1210 (4.962 %)Tomcat
2186 (4.395 %)CMS
3123 (2.906 %)Apache
480 (1.890 %)SharePoint
564 (1.512 %)WordPress
661 (1.441 %)Drupal
746 (1.087 %)IIS
842 (0.992 %)MS Exchange
940 (0.945 %)RabbitMQ
1034 (0.803 %)Apache Solr
1131 (0.733 %)Adobe CQ
1230 (0.709 %)Umbraco
1328 (0.662 %)Alfresco
1427 (0.638 %)Exchange Server 2010
1427 (0.638 %)Jetty
1427 (0.638 %)WebLogic
1526 (0.614 %)Joomla!
1625 (0.591 %)Exchange Server 2007
1724 (0.567 %)GlassFish
1724 (0.567 %)Magento
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1261 (6.167 %)Photoshop
2168 (3.970 %)MS Visio
3149 (3.521 %)MS Excel
492 (2.174 %)Adobe Illustrator
568 (1.607 %)MS Office
633 (0.780 %)Fireworks
719 (0.449 %)OmniGraffle
816 (0.378 %)MS PowerPoint
913 (0.307 %)InDesign
108 (0.189 %)Adobe Premiere
108 (0.189 %)Adobe After Effects
117 (0.165 %)MATLAB
117 (0.165 %)Simulink
117 (0.165 %)MS Project
126 (0.142 %)GIMP
135 (0.118 %)Paint Shop Pro
135 (0.118 %)Google Apps
144 (0.095 %)Doxygen
151 (0.024 %)Revit
151 (0.024 %)Quicktime
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
150 (1.181 %)Google Analytics
215 (0.354 %)WebTrends
33 (0.071 %)Tridion
33 (0.071 %)Oracle BPM
42 (0.047 %)SAP R/3
51 (0.024 %)Dynamics NAV
51 (0.024 %)Oracle ERP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1184 (4.348 %)HTTP
2157 (3.710 %)Internet
379 (1.867 %)TCP/IP
456 (1.323 %)Wireless
545 (1.063 %)VPN
643 (1.016 %)Firewall
740 (0.945 %)Intranet
832 (0.756 %)DNS
929 (0.685 %)Broadband
1027 (0.638 %)NFC
1125 (0.591 %)SSL
1222 (0.520 %)Bluetooth
1321 (0.496 %)VoIP
1419 (0.449 %)Wi-Fi
1518 (0.425 %)SNMP
1616 (0.378 %)SMS
1715 (0.354 %)VLAN
1813 (0.307 %)LAN
1912 (0.284 %)DSL
2011 (0.260 %)3G
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1401 (9.475 %)MySQL
2356 (8.412 %)SQL Server
391 (2.150 %)SQL Server 2008
486 (2.032 %)GIS
559 (1.394 %)SQLite
655 (1.300 %)RDBMS
744 (1.040 %)SQL Server 2005
843 (1.016 %)MongoDB
937 (0.874 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1035 (0.827 %)PostgreSQL
1130 (0.709 %)Redis
1223 (0.543 %)Apache Cassandra
1315 (0.354 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1315 (0.354 %)DB2
1414 (0.331 %)CouchDB
1511 (0.260 %)SQL Server 2000
169 (0.213 %)NoSQL
178 (0.189 %)DTS
187 (0.165 %)TOAD
187 (0.165 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1261 (6.167 %)Subversion
2202 (4.773 %)Git (software)
3176 (4.159 %)Xcode
4170 (4.017 %)Eclipse
5162 (3.828 %)Selenium
6115 (2.717 %)JIRA
796 (2.268 %)Visual Studio
894 (2.221 %)JUnit
965 (1.536 %)Team Foundation Server
1060 (1.418 %)Maven
1060 (1.418 %)Ant
1157 (1.347 %)Robotium
1255 (1.300 %)MonkeyTalk
1344 (1.040 %)Cucumber
1440 (0.945 %)Bugzilla
1538 (0.898 %)PHPUnit
1538 (0.898 %)Hudson
1538 (0.898 %)PhoneGap
1637 (0.874 %)WebDriver
1734 (0.803 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1361 (8.530 %)Games
2310 (7.325 %)Finance
3275 (6.498 %)Marketing
4171 (4.041 %)Telecoms
5135 (3.190 %)Banking
6123 (2.906 %)Publishing
793 (2.198 %)Retail
887 (2.056 %)Advertising
976 (1.796 %)Multimedia
1053 (1.252 %)Law
1131 (0.733 %)Music
1228 (0.662 %)Electronics
1324 (0.567 %)Retail Banking
1417 (0.402 %)Music Industry
1516 (0.378 %)Legal
1613 (0.307 %)Pharmaceutical
1613 (0.307 %)Back Office
1712 (0.284 %)Manufacturing
1712 (0.284 %)Automotive
1712 (0.284 %)Investment Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12810 (66.40 %)Developer
2687 (16.23 %)Mobile Developer
3539 (12.74 %)Android Developer
4514 (12.15 %)Senior Developer
5427 (10.09 %)Web Developer
6293 (6.923 %)Software Engineer
7276 (6.522 %)Java Developer
8263 (6.215 %)iPhone Developer
9235 (5.553 %)iOS Developer
10233 (5.506 %)Applications Developer
11225 (5.317 %).NET Developer
12213 (5.033 %)Software Developer
13201 (4.750 %)Architect
14199 (4.702 %)Analyst
15165 (3.899 %)PHP Developer
16153 (3.615 %)C# Developer
17151 (3.568 %)Designer
18122 (2.883 %)Mobile Applications Developer
19117 (2.765 %)Lead Developer
20113 (2.670 %)J2EE Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11912 (45.18 %)iPhone
21061 (25.07 %)Blackberry
3754 (17.82 %)iPad
4503 (11.89 %)Computer Science
5330 (7.798 %)Social Media
6240 (5.671 %)Open Source
7162 (3.828 %)Smartphone
8125 (2.954 %)Social Network
9117 (2.765 %)Mathematics
10100 (2.363 %)Digital Media
1197 (2.292 %)Web 2.0
1274 (1.749 %)Online Games
1370 (1.654 %)N-Tier
1469 (1.630 %)Handset
1564 (1.512 %)W3C
1657 (1.347 %)Visualisation
1756 (1.323 %)Mobile Games
1855 (1.300 %)Device Driver
1954 (1.276 %)Cryptography
2051 (1.205 %)New Media
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11951 (46.10 %)Apple iOS
2964 (22.78 %)Windows
3611 (14.44 %)Linux
4398 (9.405 %)Windows Mobile
5142 (3.355 %)UNIX
6127 (3.001 %)Windows Phone 7
7107 (2.528 %)Mac OS X
882 (1.938 %)Windows 7
959 (1.394 %)BlackBerry OS
1053 (1.252 %)Embedded Linux
1053 (1.252 %)Windows XP
1147 (1.111 %)webOS
1245 (1.063 %)Windows Server 2008
1344 (1.040 %)Windows Server 2003
1440 (0.945 %)Mac OS
1526 (0.614 %)Windows 2000
1620 (0.473 %)Windows CE
1716 (0.378 %)Windows NT
1716 (0.378 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1815 (0.354 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1744 (17.58 %)Agile Software Development
2660 (15.60 %)OO
3438 (10.35 %)MVC
4393 (9.286 %)Web Development
5378 (8.932 %)E-Commerce
6377 (8.908 %)TDD
7334 (7.892 %)Scrum
8287 (6.782 %)OOP
9183 (4.324 %)Project Management
10168 (3.970 %)Content Management
11165 (3.899 %)UML
12160 (3.781 %)SOA
13147 (3.474 %)SEO
14141 (3.332 %)Unit Testing
15135 (3.190 %)Continuous Integration
16133 (3.143 %)Multithreading
17109 (2.576 %)OOD
18101 (2.387 %)Automated Testing
1997 (2.292 %)Web Application Development
1997 (2.292 %)Software Engineering
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11804 (42.63 %)Java
21464 (34.59 %)JavaScript
3864 (20.42 %)C#
4793 (18.74 %)Objective-C
5731 (17.27 %)C++
6645 (15.24 %)PHP
7545 (12.88 %)SQL
8415 (9.806 %)C
9271 (6.404 %)Ruby
10199 (4.702 %)XPath
11177 (4.182 %)Python
12150 (3.544 %)ActionScript
13124 (2.930 %)PHP5
14111 (2.623 %)VB.NET
1579 (1.867 %)ActionScript 3.0
1659 (1.394 %)VB
1746 (1.087 %)Perl
1841 (0.969 %)Scala
1937 (0.874 %)ActionScript 2.0
1937 (0.874 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1917 (21.67 %)Degree
273 (1.725 %)Security Cleared
349 (1.158 %)ISEB
425 (0.591 %)DV Cleared
521 (0.496 %)PhD
616 (0.378 %)ISTQB
715 (0.354 %)Microsoft Certification
810 (0.236 %)MCSE
810 (0.236 %)MCITP
99 (0.213 %)SC Cleared
105 (0.118 %)MCTS
114 (0.095 %)PMI Certification
114 (0.095 %)ITIL Certification
114 (0.095 %)CISSP
114 (0.095 %)Cisco Certification
114 (0.095 %)CCNA
123 (0.071 %)CEH
123 (0.071 %)CCA
123 (0.071 %)Citrix Certification
123 (0.071 %)PMP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1279 (6.593 %)QA
214 (0.331 %)JTAG
35 (0.118 %)WCAG
44 (0.095 %)SLA
53 (0.071 %)ISO 9001
53 (0.071 %)TickIT
62 (0.047 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
130 (0.709 %)Active Directory
223 (0.543 %)VMware Infrastructure
318 (0.425 %)Hyper-V
43 (0.071 %)UAG
51 (0.024 %)Postfix
51 (0.024 %)Sendmail
51 (0.024 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
51 (0.024 %)Terminal Services
51 (0.024 %)VMware ESX
51 (0.024 %)vSphere
51 (0.024 %)VMware ESXi
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (0.354 %)Puppet
29 (0.213 %)HP Quality Center
36 (0.142 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
45 (0.118 %)Norton AntiVirus
45 (0.118 %)Tivoli
53 (0.071 %)Backup Exec
62 (0.047 %)ZABBIX
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1471 (11.13 %)Symbian
2327 (7.727 %)Apple
3298 (7.042 %)Facebook
4241 (5.695 %)Microsoft
5238 (5.624 %)Google
6171 (4.041 %)Twitter
7140 (3.308 %)JBoss
8138 (3.261 %)Adobe
9126 (2.977 %)Oracle
1083 (1.961 %)Zend
1141 (0.969 %)Nokia
1239 (0.922 %)hybris
1338 (0.898 %)Omniture
1436 (0.851 %)VMware
1533 (0.780 %)ATG
1629 (0.685 %)IBM
1727 (0.638 %)Sencha
1727 (0.638 %)Sitecore
1826 (0.614 %)Red Hat
1826 (0.614 %)AccuRev