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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 98 116
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing Android 11 33 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.55% 1.41% 1.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.31% 11.42% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 22
10th Percentile £345 £263 £140
25th Percentile £376 £377 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.84% +23.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £667 £529 £524
90th Percentile £678 £583 £575
London median daily rate £425 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -1.16% +1.18% -17.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £18.93
London median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -62.74% +256.58% -13.95%

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 207 289 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.26% 12.36% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 197 281
10th Percentile £200 £208 £181
25th Percentile £325 £350 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £594
90th Percentile £775 £696 £700
London median daily rate £493 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £19.46 - -
25th Percentile £20.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.88 £112.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -77.78% +491.65% -7.66%
75th Percentile £28.94 - -
90th Percentile £29.28 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.69% +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 24 December 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 24 December 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 10 £527 +8.84% 32
City of Westminster - 1 - - 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Figma
3 2 (18.18%) Firebase
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Google Play
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Gradle
2 1 (9.09%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) Storybook
2 1 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) iOS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Android Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (18.18%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) React Native
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) RxJava
2 1 (9.09%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) D3.js
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) SVG
2 1 (9.09%) SwiftUI
2 1 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) BYOD
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
2 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Apple iOS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Android Development
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 3 (27.27%) iOS Development
3 3 (27.27%) Mobile Development
3 3 (27.27%) MVVM
3 3 (27.27%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) API Design
5 1 (9.09%) KYC
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Kotlin
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Objective-C
3 2 (18.18%) Swift
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) AirWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Apple
3 2 (18.18%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) BMC
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow