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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 100 154
Rank change year-on-year -1 +54 -16
Contract jobs citing Android 15 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.90% 1.20% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.88% 9.22% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 11
10th Percentile £244 £140 £146
25th Percentile £286 £156 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +45.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £481 £575 £600
90th Percentile £546 £688 -
Central London median daily rate £438 £400 £238
% change year-on-year +9.38% +68.42% -26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% -
Central London median hourly rate - £26.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 218 282 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.01% 13.06% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 192 330
10th Percentile £255 £219 £160
25th Percentile £356 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.50% +7.00%
75th Percentile £649 £671 £675
90th Percentile £713 £736 £738
Central London median daily rate £518 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £24.35 - £37.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £21.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £24.38 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -51.25% +100.00%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £68.13
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.22% -45.88% +65.05%

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

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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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the City of London

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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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Apple Pay
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (13.33%) Figma
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Mixpanel
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
2 1 (6.67%) Appium
2 1 (6.67%) Fiddler
2 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Android Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Designer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) iOS Android Developer
3 2 (13.33%) iOS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Product Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Android Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Support
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (13.33%) Android SDK
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Android Development
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) B2C
2 5 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 5 (33.33%) Push Notifications
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Kanban
3 4 (26.67%) Mobile Application Development
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Fintech
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) iOS Development
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Product Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
5 2 (13.33%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (13.33%) User Research
5 2 (13.33%) UX Design
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) SCOrch
2 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Apple
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Optimizely
3 1 (6.67%) Nexthink
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy