Android Contracts in Scotland

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 128 144
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing Android 25 35 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.13% 1.22% 1.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.93% 6.54% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 22
10th Percentile £193 £141 £182
25th Percentile - £154 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £160 £463
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -65.41% +285.42%
75th Percentile £600 £250 £569
90th Percentile £614 £258 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £16.07 - £12.85
25th Percentile £16.18 - £14.04
Median hourly rate £16.36 - £16.03
75th Percentile £16.53 - £18.01
90th Percentile £16.64 - £19.21
UK median hourly rate £18.93 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.28% +25.00% -60.98%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 361 535 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.26% 18.69% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 377 345
10th Percentile £182 £160 £137
25th Percentile £325 £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +6.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £538
90th Percentile £744 £727 £600
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £20.79 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +56.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £39.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.02% +74.67% +26.69%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Android in Scotland

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Android in Scotland

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Scotland

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Android in Scotland

Android
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Glasgow 0 13 £400 +60.00% 3
Edinburgh +28 8 £575 +259.38% 8
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Dundee - 1 - -
Android
UK

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Sketch
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Figma
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee
5 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Gradle
2 2 (8.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Billing
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Designer
1 10 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Android Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) IT Support
3 3 (12.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (4.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (4.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (12.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (8.00%) Dagger
3 2 (8.00%) Retrofit
4 1 (4.00%) COM+
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) iPhone
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.00%) iPad
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) User Experience
1 10 (40.00%) UX Design
2 9 (36.00%) Prototyping
2 9 (36.00%) User Stories
2 9 (36.00%) Visualisation
3 8 (32.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (12.00%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) ITSM
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.00%) Data Management
6 2 (8.00%) Information Security
6 2 (8.00%) MVVM
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
6 2 (8.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (8.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Istio
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Mitel
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Computacenter
3 1 (4.00%) Confluent
3 1 (4.00%) Equitrac
3 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Okta
3 1 (4.00%) Progress
3 1 (4.00%) Teradata