Android Development Contract Job Trends in Central London

Android Software Development
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Android Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Android Development 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.35% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.38% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £433 £518
25th Percentile £679 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £686 £588 £575
90th Percentile - £618 £583
London median daily rate £575 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% -7.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Android Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,108 1,860 2,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.66% 92.95% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,204 1,571
10th Percentile £356 £357 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £19.48 £22.75 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £29.11
90th Percentile £59.48 £50.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.45%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Android Development job vacancy trend in Central London

Android Development
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Android Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Android Development

Android Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Android Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Android Development

Android Development
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Development within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. 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
City of London -14 3 £683 +30.00% 2
Android Development
London

Android Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Google Play
2 1 (33.33%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (66.67%) RxJava
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) iOS Development
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Development
2 2 (66.67%) MVVM
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (33.33%) Swift
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google