Android Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Android skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 95 129
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing Android 10 33 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 1.59% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.32% 11.87% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 16
10th Percentile £419 £256 £140
25th Percentile £459 £381 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +20.00% +19.30%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £497
90th Percentile £619 £680 £553
Central London median daily rate £485 £500 £375
% change year-on-year -3.00% +33.33% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £18.87 £26.25 -
% change year-on-year -28.11% - -

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 188 278 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.74% 13.38% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 181 293
10th Percentile £254 £258 £187
25th Percentile £325 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £496 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.62% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £23.90 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.06 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.52% +76.83%
75th Percentile £29.50 £28.19 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 £28.90 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +76.83%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the City of London

Android
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the City of London

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Figma
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Firebase
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Mixpanel
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Appium
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Gradle
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Storybook
2 1 (10.00%) Xcode
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Product Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) React Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Web Applications Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Designer
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%) 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%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Fintech
1 4 (40.00%) User Experience
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) UX Design
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) B2C
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 1 (10.00%) Android Development
4 1 (10.00%) API Design
4 1 (10.00%) Case Management
4 1 (10.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (10.00%) KYC
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Development
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Optimizely
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle