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 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 98 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +39
Contract jobs citing Android 9 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 1.06% 1.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.04% 8.58% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 19
10th Percentile £339 £336 £202
25th Percentile £359 £388 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £540 £515 £575
90th Percentile £628 £543 £625
Central London median daily rate £393 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -12.67% +20.00% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.93
Central London median hourly rate £18.87 - £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 149 233 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.15% 12.35% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 154 243
10th Percentile £199 £256 £206
25th Percentile £313 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £643 £638
90th Percentile £775 £711 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £21.91 - £19.39
25th Percentile £23.54 - £20.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.45% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £29.13 - £23.75
90th Percentile £29.35 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.88 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -77.78% +397.78% +9.76%

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 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Figma
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) Google Play
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Firebase
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
2 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) Storybook
2 1 (11.11%) Xcode
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) iOS Developer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Android Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (22.22%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (22.22%) RxJava
2 1 (11.11%) D3.js
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SVG
2 1 (11.11%) SwiftUI
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) BYOD
2 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Android Development
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) iOS Development
4 2 (22.22%) Mobile Development
4 2 (22.22%) MVVM
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Identification
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Swift
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) AirWatch
1 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Apple
2 2 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow