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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 105 126
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +30
Contract jobs citing Android 10 31 27
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.52% 1.32% 0.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.63% 10.37% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 20
10th Percentile £345 £314 £140
25th Percentile £376 £386 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £496 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +32.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £582 £546 £469
90th Percentile £629 £586 £526
London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.25 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% +38.67% -2.92%
London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.88 £18.93
% change year-on-year -46.35% +147.62% -2.92%

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 216 299 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.26% 12.75% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 200 296
10th Percentile £200 £247 £179
25th Percentile £325 £350 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £653 £628 £620
90th Percentile £737 £725 £700
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.29 -
25th Percentile £23.75 £26.03 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £69.50 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +235.51% +4.89%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £30.94
90th Percentile £29.95 - £43.88
London median hourly rate £25.15 £53.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -52.99% +64.62% +30.00%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Android job vacancy trend 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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -20 9 £465 -5.53% 89
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Android
London

Android
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Figma
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Firebase
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Gradle
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Storybook
1 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) React Native
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) D3.js
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) JWT
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (10.00%) SVG
2 1 (10.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) BYOD
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Microservices
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (10.00%) B2C
3 1 (10.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) UX Design
3 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow