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 contract job vacancies from the 3 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 72 69
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +34
Contract jobs citing Android 7 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 1.04% 1.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.24% 8.53% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £360 £322 £140
25th Percentile £413 £354 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £400 £284
Median % change year-on-year +29.06% +40.72% -40.16%
75th Percentile £608 £518 £477
90th Percentile £655 £538 £579
Central London median daily rate £516 £391 £284
% change year-on-year +32.03% +37.55% -40.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.93
Central London median hourly rate - - £18.93
% change year-on-year - - -20.29%

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 85 129 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.53% 12.24% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 89 117
10th Percentile £187 £257 £191
25th Percentile £276 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £595
90th Percentile £776 £699 £700
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £112.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -75.00% +491.65% -7.66%
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £112.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -75.00% +491.65% -10.92%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Android job vacancy trend 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 3 months to 30 November 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 & 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Figma
2 2 (16.67%) Firebase
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Google Play
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Android Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Gradle
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Mockito
2 1 (8.33%) Storybook
2 1 (8.33%) Xcode
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
2 2 (16.67%) iOS Developer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 2 (16.67%) React Native
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) RxJava
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) D3.js
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) JWT
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) Redux
3 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (8.33%) SVG
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) BYOD
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Android Development
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (25.00%) iOS Development
4 3 (25.00%) Mobile Development
4 3 (25.00%) MVVM
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Kotlin
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 2 (16.67%) Swift
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) AirWatch
1 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Apple
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow