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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 152 143
Rank change year-on-year +48 -9 -34
Contract jobs citing Android 23 14 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.05% 0.41% 1.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.16% 2.95% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 37
10th Percentile £140 £144 £134
25th Percentile £151 £231 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £275 £313
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -12.00% -32.43%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £488
90th Percentile £705 £645 £563
Central London median daily rate £363 £238 £300
% change year-on-year +52.63% -20.83% -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.13 - -
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £29.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 282 475 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.92% 13.86% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 327 383
10th Percentile £225 £153 £176
25th Percentile £350 £263 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £604
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £37.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £24.38 £50.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.25% +100.00% +76.99%
75th Percentile £27.59 £68.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £28.66 £77.50 £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -45.88% +65.05% +80.70%

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 16 June 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

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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 (13.04%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) Figma
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) Miro
2 1 (4.35%) PaaS
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) MQTT
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Android Studio
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Postman
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 2 (8.70%) Mockito
3 2 (8.70%) ScalaTest
3 2 (8.70%) Subversion
3 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Back Office
4 1 (4.35%) Aviation
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Desktop Support
3 4 (17.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Android Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Scala Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) 1st Line Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Android Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Product Designer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (13.04%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Android SDK
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Blackberry
1 4 (17.39%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Digital Signage
3 1 (4.35%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Apple iOS
2 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 4 (17.39%) Mac OS X
4 3 (13.04%) Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
4 3 (13.04%) Windows 7
4 3 (13.04%) Windows 8
5 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Customer Service
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (21.74%) Software Testing
3 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Android Development
5 3 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (13.04%) Break/Fix
5 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (13.04%) SDLC
5 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
6 2 (8.70%) API Development
6 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Functional Programming
6 2 (8.70%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Scrum
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) Kotlin
3 2 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) iptables
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Apple
3 4 (17.39%) Adobe
4 3 (13.04%) Ivanti
5 2 (8.70%) Avaya
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix
5 2 (8.70%) SAP
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow