Android Contracts in the South East

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 155 193
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 -45
Contract jobs citing Android 52 63 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.95% 1.11% 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.37% 5.38% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 45
10th Percentile £213 £136 £140
25th Percentile £360 £161 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £325
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -38.46% -27.78%
75th Percentile £547 £333 £500
90th Percentile £625 £634 £550
England median daily rate £450 £425 £478
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.99% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £17.83 -
25th Percentile £75.63 £17.94 £17.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £18.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +326.67% +1.35% -63.00%
75th Percentile - £19.44 £20.63
90th Percentile - £19.48 £21.15
England median hourly rate £23.08 £30.00 £22.78
% change year-on-year -23.08% +31.71% -64.41%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 968 1,172 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.65% 20.59% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 794 964
10th Percentile £200 £197 £155
25th Percentile £280 £250 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +4.36% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £468 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 74 105
10th Percentile £15.94 £17.73 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +176.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £60.79
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Android in the South East

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Android in the South East

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the South East

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Android in the South East

Android
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Thames Valley +26 29 £475 +171.43% 14
Berkshire +8 24 £475 +171.43% 4
Surrey -8 9 £600 +247.83% 9
West Sussex +13 7 £450 +50.00% 1
Hampshire -5 5 £600 - 12
Oxfordshire +6 4 £525 +195.77% 4
Buckinghamshire +31 1 £350 - 6
Kent +7 1 £140 -78.13% 1
Middlesex - 1 - -
Sussex - 1 £350 -
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) CMS
2 2 (3.85%) nginx
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (36.54%) VoIP
2 12 (23.08%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (9.62%) WAN
4 4 (7.69%) DHCP
4 4 (7.69%) LAN
5 2 (3.85%) Firewall
5 2 (3.85%) SAN
5 2 (3.85%) SGSN
5 2 (3.85%) VLAN
5 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.85%) Wireless
6 1 (1.92%) DNS
6 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) Android Studio
2 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
2 2 (3.85%) Gradle
3 1 (1.92%) CMake
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) JUnit
3 1 (1.92%) Postman
3 1 (1.92%) Selenium
3 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.92%) Xcode
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Electronics
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Automotive
5 2 (3.85%) French Language
5 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.85%) Portuguese Language
5 2 (3.85%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Finance
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Publishing
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Support Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Audio Visual Technician
3 6 (11.54%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Graphics Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) IT Support
5 4 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Android Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Support Technician
7 2 (3.85%) Android Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Audio Visual Support
7 2 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Systems Support
7 2 (3.85%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) DirectX
1 6 (11.54%) OpenGL
1 6 (11.54%) OpenGL ES
1 6 (11.54%) Vulkan
2 5 (9.62%) PyTorch
2 5 (9.62%) TensorFlow
3 3 (5.77%) RESTful
3 3 (5.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (3.85%) EDI
4 2 (3.85%) HTML
4 2 (3.85%) RxJava
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.92%) CSS
5 1 (1.92%) Django
5 1 (1.92%) jQuery
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) React Native
5 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (36.54%) Video Editing
2 9 (17.31%) Mobile App
3 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.77%) Animation
4 3 (5.77%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (5.77%) Mixed Reality
4 3 (5.77%) Photography
4 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.85%) CCTV
5 2 (3.85%) CMDB
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.92%) iPhone
6 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 21 (40.38%) Apple iOS
2 15 (28.85%) Windows
3 8 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 4 (7.69%) Linux
5 3 (5.77%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.92%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.92%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (21.15%) Android Development
3 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
4 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
5 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (9.62%) Agile
6 5 (9.62%) User Experience
7 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (7.69%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.69%) Deep Learning
8 3 (5.77%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (5.77%) Computer Vision
8 3 (5.77%) Generative AI
8 3 (5.77%) ITIL
8 3 (5.77%) Mathematics
8 3 (5.77%) Migration
8 3 (5.77%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (5.77%) Project Management
8 3 (5.77%) Time Management
9 2 (3.85%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) C++
1 8 (15.38%) Kotlin
2 7 (13.46%) Python
3 6 (11.54%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) C#
5 2 (3.85%) GLSL
5 2 (3.85%) HLSL
5 2 (3.85%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.77%) SCCM
3 2 (3.85%) PaperCut
4 1 (1.92%) AppManager
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Apple
2 11 (21.15%) Cisco
3 9 (17.31%) Polycom
4 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.77%) Veeam
5 3 (5.77%) VMware
5 3 (5.77%) WatchGuard
6 2 (3.85%) Aruba
6 2 (3.85%) Ericsson
6 2 (3.85%) HP
6 2 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.85%) Sage
6 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.92%) Adobe
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle