Android Contracts in the City of London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 146 149
Rank change year-on-year +46 +3 -46
Contract jobs citing Android 25 26 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.14% 0.71% 1.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.74% 5.16% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 39
10th Percentile - £143 £134
25th Percentile £140 £160 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -15.38% -29.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £525
90th Percentile £688 £623 £618
Central London median daily rate £255 £238 £333
% change year-on-year +7.37% -28.57% -28.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.93 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.91% - -
Central London median hourly rate £18.93 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.90% - -

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 504 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.99% 13.86% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 360 423
10th Percentile £195 £157 £197
25th Percentile £313 £263 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £653 £658 £625
90th Percentile £725 £730 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 15
10th Percentile £19.63 £21.53 -
25th Percentile £20.67 £30.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.56 £47.19 £31.38
90th Percentile £26.03 £69.13 £67.25
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +22.45% +75.00%

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
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

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 27 April 2024.

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

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 5 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (8.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (8.00%) InDesign
3 2 (8.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Figma
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.00%) PaaS
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) MQTT
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Android Studio
2 3 (12.00%) JUnit
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Mockito
3 2 (8.00%) ScalaTest
3 2 (8.00%) Subversion
3 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Gradle
4 1 (4.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) Selenium
4 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Desktop Support
2 7 (28.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Developer
5 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 2 (8.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Android Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Designer
6 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Product Designer
6 2 (8.00%) Scala Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Android Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Android Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Support
7 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (12.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (4.00%) Dagger
2 1 (4.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (4.00%) RAML
2 1 (4.00%) React Native
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RxJava
2 1 (4.00%) WireMock
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Digital Signage
3 1 (4.00%) iPad
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.00%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Apple iOS
3 7 (28.00%) Windows 10
4 6 (24.00%) Mac OS X
5 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
5 5 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 5 (20.00%) Windows 8
6 2 (8.00%) Linux
7 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Customer Service
2 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) Break/Fix
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Android Development
6 2 (8.00%) API Development
6 2 (8.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (8.00%) Functional Programming
6 2 (8.00%) Microservices
6 2 (8.00%) Organisational Awareness
6 2 (8.00%) Scrum
6 2 (8.00%) SDLC
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
6 2 (8.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (8.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Scala
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) CCNA
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) MCSA
3 1 (4.00%) MCSE
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) iptables
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (8.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Adobe
1 8 (32.00%) Apple
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) Ivanti
4 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.00%) Avaya
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) Citrix
5 2 (8.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) SAP