Android Contracts in the City of London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 102 145
Rank change year-on-year -6 +43 +4
Contract jobs citing Android 14 28 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.77% 1.31% 0.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.96% 9.69% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 15
10th Percentile £244 £140 £140
25th Percentile £286 £219 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -2.94% +38.78%
75th Percentile £521 £579 £563
90th Percentile £589 £688 £600
Central London median daily rate £468 £400 £275
% change year-on-year +16.88% +45.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.25 -
Central London median hourly rate - £26.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 235 289 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.93% 13.51% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 202 349
10th Percentile £256 £226 £153
25th Percentile £350 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -5.48% +3.19%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £650
90th Percentile £721 £725 £726
Central London median daily rate £518 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +15.00% -10.09% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £24.35 £21.81 £26.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.66 £34.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -46.75% +194.12%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £68.13
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £26.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% -30.00% +87.50%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Android in the City of London

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the City of London

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Android in the City of London

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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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Figma
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Apple Pay
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Mixpanel
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Android Studio
3 1 (7.14%) Appium
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Fiddler
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Android Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Product Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) iOS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Web Applications Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Web Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
1 3 (21.43%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (7.14%) Android SDK
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Apple iOS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Android Development
2 4 (28.57%) B2C
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Fintech
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) Mobile Development
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) Push Notifications
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Product Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) User Research
4 2 (14.29%) UX Design
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Kotlin
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
1 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Optimizely
2 1 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Citrix
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle