Android Contract Job Trends in Central London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Android skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 95 133
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 +19
Contract jobs citing Android 12 35 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 1.50% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.33% 11.51% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 29 19
10th Percentile £359 £274 £140
25th Percentile £409 £375 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +17.65% +19.30%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £505
90th Percentile £608 £607 £539
London median daily rate £445 £458 £445
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% -15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £22.72
% change year-on-year -32.93% +65.09% +2.09%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 225 304 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.60% 13.03% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 200 333
10th Percentile £250 £219 £170
25th Percentile £325 £350 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £638 £638
90th Percentile £696 £725 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £20.33 £23.90 £23.88
25th Percentile £22.53 £25.06 £27.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +79.01%
75th Percentile £29.13 £28.19 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.80 £28.90 £49.63
London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £41.92
% change year-on-year -5.54% -36.48% +75.31%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in Central London

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Central London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Central London

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Android
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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 -10 11 £476 -6.62% 15
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Android
London

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Figma
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Firebase
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Mixpanel
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Android Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Appium
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Fiddler
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Gradle
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Storybook
2 1 (8.33%) Xcode
2 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Product Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
1 2 (16.67%) React Native
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) D3.js
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Redux
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
2 1 (8.33%) SVG
2 1 (8.33%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) BYOD
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
1 4 (33.33%) Fintech
1 4 (33.33%) User Experience
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) UX Design
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) B2C
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Product Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 2 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (16.67%) User Research
4 1 (8.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Optimizely
3 1 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (8.33%) BMC
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow