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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 97 128
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing Android 11 31 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 1.46% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.36% 11.52% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 15
10th Percentile £359 £331 £140
25th Percentile £409 £380 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £484 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +13.82% +9.68%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £506
90th Percentile £608 £650 £557
Central London median daily rate £476 £484 £425
% change year-on-year -1.55% +13.82% +15.25%
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 173 269 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.21% 12.70% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 178 276
10th Percentile £218 £243 £197
25th Percentile £340 £366 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +2.95% -4.71%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £633
90th Percentile £735 £725 £719
Central London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £24.29 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.03 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £69.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +91.72% +85.90%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £69.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -62.59% +91.72% +81.25%

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 19 October 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Figma
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Firebase
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Mixpanel
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Android Studio
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Fiddler
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Gradle
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Storybook
1 1 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Android Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) React Native
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) D3.js
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
2 1 (9.09%) SVG
2 1 (9.09%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) BYOD
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) User Experience
2 3 (27.27%) Fintech
2 3 (27.27%) UX Design
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
3 2 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (18.18%) User Research
4 1 (9.09%) Android Development
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 1 (9.09%) iOS Development
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Development
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Objective-C
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Optimizely
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow