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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Android 7 18 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.56% 2.38% 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.25% 20.69% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 17 4
10th Percentile - £250 £361
25th Percentile - £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +3.93% -17.21%
75th Percentile - £476 -
90th Percentile - £500 -
England median daily rate £455 £400 £464
% change year-on-year +13.75% -13.75% +9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £31.88
% change year-on-year -12.52% -21.10% +67.76%

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 112 87 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.95% 11.49% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 103
10th Percentile £131 £144 £150
25th Percentile £183 £200 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £388 £383
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +1.17% +27.67%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £500
90th Percentile £538 £490 £573
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 21
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £18.38 £13.52
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +39.72% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £24.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +35.42% -33.64% -10.32%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Android relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Android job vacancy trend 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
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 25 August 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -16 6 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Mobile Device Management
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft