Android Development Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Android Software Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Android Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +46
Contract jobs citing Android Development 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.40% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.43% 0.10%
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
Central London median daily rate £683 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,948 1,639 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.07% 93.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,037 1,395
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Android Development job vacancy trend in the City of London

Android Development
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Android Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Android Development

Android Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Android Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Android Development

Android Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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