Android Contracts in Central London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 142 146
Rank change year-on-year +33 +4 -33
Contract jobs citing Android 24 30 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.99% 0.78% 1.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.74% 5.18% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 43
10th Percentile - £144 £135
25th Percentile £140 £160 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £256 £400
Median % change year-on-year +56.10% -35.94% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £524
90th Percentile £688 £638 £610
London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £18.93 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.90% - -
London median hourly rate £20.47 £23.82 £40.63
% change year-on-year -14.07% -41.38% -36.52%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 310 579 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.84% 15.06% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 413 476
10th Percentile £181 £161 £184
25th Percentile £280 £250 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.15%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £603
90th Percentile £725 £730 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile £19.86 £22.60 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £31.38
90th Percentile £25.70 £64.25 £67.25
London median hourly rate £22.00 £38.67 £24.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +57.84% -42.35%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Android in Central London

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Central London

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Android in Central London

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 4 May 2024. 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 +49 23 £400 +18.52% 9
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 5 (20.83%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (8.33%) InDesign
3 2 (8.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Figma
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) PaaS
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) MQTT
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Android Studio
2 3 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Mockito
3 2 (8.33%) Postman
3 2 (8.33%) ScalaTest
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
3 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) Gradle
4 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Aviation
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Desktop Support
2 6 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Android Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Product Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Scala Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Android Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Junior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (4.17%) Dagger
2 1 (4.17%) OkHttp
2 1 (4.17%) RAML
2 1 (4.17%) React Native
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) RxJava
2 1 (4.17%) WireMock
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Signage
4 1 (4.17%) iPad
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.17%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 6 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 6 (25.00%) Mac OS X
3 6 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (20.83%) Windows 8
5 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
6 2 (8.33%) Linux
7 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Customer Service
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Break/Fix
2 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (8.33%) Android Development
5 2 (8.33%) API Development
5 2 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (8.33%) Functional Programming
5 2 (8.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Scrum
5 2 (8.33%) SDLC
5 2 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
1 6 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Scala
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) CCNA
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) iptables
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Apple
2 8 (33.33%) Adobe
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.83%) Ivanti
5 2 (8.33%) Avaya
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) Citrix
6 1 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow