Senior Android Developer Contracts

Senior Android Developer
UK

The median Senior Android Developer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 692 827
Rank change year-on-year +115 +135 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Android Developer 13 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.019% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.020% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 25
10th Percentile - £459 £456
25th Percentile £450 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £613 £722 £663
90th Percentile - £746 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £650
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Senior Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Android Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Android Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Android Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +126 12 £525 -12.50%
Work from Home +129 7 £575 +4.55% 1
London +90 7 £450 -25.00%
UK excluding London - 5 £575 -
North of England - 4 £575 -
North West - 4 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

Senior Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior Android Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Android Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Android
2 11 (84.62%) Kotlin
3 9 (69.23%) Android Development
4 8 (61.54%) MVVM
5 7 (53.85%) Java
6 5 (38.46%) Open Source
6 5 (38.46%) User Experience
6 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
7 4 (30.77%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (30.77%) Swift
7 4 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
7 4 (30.77%) Apple
7 4 (30.77%) Objective-C
7 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
8 3 (23.08%) XML
8 3 (23.08%) SQLite
8 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
9 2 (15.38%) Android SDK
9 2 (15.38%) Android Studio
10 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 1 (7.69%) UX Design
10 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 1 (7.69%) RESTful
10 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
10 1 (7.69%) Grafana
10 1 (7.69%) Crashlytics
10 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (7.69%) Dagger
10 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design

Senior Android Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Android Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Crashlytics
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) Android SDK
4 1 (7.69%) Dagger
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Android Development
2 8 (61.54%) MVVM
3 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
3 5 (38.46%) Open Source
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
5 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
6 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Mobile Development
6 1 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Server-Driven UI
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) TDD
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Kotlin
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Objective-C
3 4 (30.77%) Swift
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Apple