Android Contracts in the North West

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 113 136
Rank change year-on-year +53 +23 -28
Contract jobs citing Android 83 44 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.99% 1.36% 1.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.58% 8.06% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 36
10th Percentile £350 £173 £173
25th Percentile £431 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £463 £380
Median % change year-on-year +72.97% +21.71% +17.83%
75th Percentile £850 £600 £564
90th Percentile - £649 £663
England median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.10
25th Percentile £77.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £18.00
75th Percentile £82.50 - £21.26
90th Percentile - - £22.62
England median hourly rate £20.47 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.07% +19.08% -64.13%

All Operating Systems
North West

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 352 546 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 16.91% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 378 515
10th Percentile £172 £173 £153
25th Percentile £284 £313 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £476 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +11.88% +17.24%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £586
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 48 41
10th Percentile - £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +3.93%
75th Percentile £18.75 £44.56 £28.75
90th Percentile £38.90 £49.52 £43.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Android in the North West

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Android in the North West

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the North West

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Android in the North West

Android
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +56 73 £800 +72.79% 15
Cheshire +8 8 £321 -46.58% 4
Merseyside +12 1 £250 +42.86% 2
Lancashire - 1 - -
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.20%) AWS
2 1 (1.20%) Azure
2 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.20%) BrowserStack
2 1 (1.20%) Commercetools
2 1 (1.20%) Firebase
2 1 (1.20%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 44 (53.01%) VPN
2 43 (51.81%) Firewall
3 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) SQLite
2 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Android Studio
2 10 (12.05%) Mockito
3 1 (1.20%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.20%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) Gradle
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) JUnit
3 1 (1.20%) Postman
3 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
2 6 (7.23%) Legal
3 3 (3.61%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.20%) Banking
4 1 (1.20%) Finance
4 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.20%) Military
4 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (56.63%) Architect
2 41 (49.40%) Technical Architect
3 30 (36.14%) Lead
3 30 (36.14%) Lead Architect
3 30 (36.14%) Technical Leader
4 29 (34.94%) Developer
5 24 (28.92%) Android Developer
6 8 (9.64%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Digital Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Digital Technical Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Senior
8 4 (4.82%) React Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Android Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.41%) Analyst
9 2 (2.41%) IT Support
9 2 (2.41%) Lead Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Support Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (53.01%) Node.js
2 16 (19.28%) RESTful
3 7 (8.43%) XML
4 6 (7.23%) React Native
5 5 (6.02%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (6.02%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.41%) Dagger
6 2 (2.41%) React
7 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.20%) D3.js
7 1 (1.20%) Material Design
7 1 (1.20%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.20%) Retrofit
7 1 (1.20%) RxJava
7 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (37.35%) Public Cloud
2 24 (28.92%) Mobile App
3 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.43%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.20%) iPhone
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (62.65%) Apple iOS
2 48 (57.83%) Windows
3 45 (54.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (55.42%) CI/CD
2 44 (53.01%) Mobile Device Management
3 43 (51.81%) Risk Management
3 43 (51.81%) Security Architecture
4 42 (50.60%) Zero Trust
5 40 (48.19%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 40 (48.19%) Threat Intelligence
6 37 (44.58%) Agile
7 35 (42.17%) DevOps
8 30 (36.14%) Design Patterns
9 28 (33.73%) Android Development
10 15 (18.07%) Unit Testing
11 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
12 13 (15.66%) Microservices
12 13 (15.66%) Product Strategy
12 13 (15.66%) Strategic Roadmap
13 12 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (10.84%) Mobile Development
14 9 (10.84%) User Experience
15 7 (8.43%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) Kotlin
2 21 (25.30%) Java
3 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (34.94%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.20%) MCSA
3 1 (1.20%) MCSE
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Grafana
1 1 (1.20%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.20%) SCCM
1 1 (1.20%) SCOM
1 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Apple
1 6 (7.23%) Google
2 4 (4.82%) Nokia
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) Citrix
4 1 (1.20%) Dell
4 1 (1.20%) HP
4 1 (1.20%) Okta
4 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.20%) VMware