Android Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Android 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.41% - 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.68% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £223 - £199
25th Percentile £256 - £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £304
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.61%
75th Percentile £426 - £367
90th Percentile £480 - £402
West Midlands median daily rate £175 £460 £450
% change year-on-year -61.92% +2.11% +38.46%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 112 117 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.32% 16.16% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 73 68
10th Percentile £175 £190 £180
25th Percentile £250 £213 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% +2.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £521
90th Percentile £618 £723 £607
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +9.20% +8.75% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.71% +17.50%
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.84 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -8.09% +7.95% +21.21%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Android relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Android job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Birmingham

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Android

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Moqups
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) UI Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Blazor
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) UX Design
1 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Xamarin