Android Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Android skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 61 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Android 19 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.41% 0.88% 1.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 4.86% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £250 £361 £410
25th Percentile £422 £415 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -19.09% +17.72%
75th Percentile £474 - £650
90th Percentile £497 - £655
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -19.05%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 95 144 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.04% 18.14% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 83 89
10th Percentile £134 £160 £128
25th Percentile £200 £268 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £475 £499 £525
90th Percentile £490 £541 £628
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 22
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £23.99 £13.52 £14.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +3.39% +0.91%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile - £38.68 £23.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Android in the East Midlands

Android
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the East Midlands

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Android

Android
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 14 £463 -
Nottinghamshire -1 5 £468 - 9
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) Figma
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Android Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Head of IT
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Product Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Android Jetpack
1 9 (47.37%) Jetpack Compose
2 8 (42.11%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 3 (15.79%) Smartphone
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Android Development
2 9 (47.37%) Scrum
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
3 8 (42.11%) TDD
3 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
3 8 (42.11%) Unit Testing
4 6 (31.58%) API Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (15.79%) Line Management
5 3 (15.79%) Operations Management
5 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
5 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Apple
2 3 (15.79%) Samsung
3 1 (5.26%) Xamarin