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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 54 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing Android 14 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.58% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.77% 5.33% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 3
10th Percentile - £344 £275
25th Percentile £154 £348 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £356 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -35.27% +35.55%
75th Percentile £469 £445 £575
90th Percentile £508 £498 -
England median daily rate £350 £420 £400
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £19.25
% change year-on-year -25.48% +75.32% +1.69%

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 130 75 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.64% 12.69% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 49 81
10th Percentile £132 £179 £122
25th Percentile £163 £206 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £375 £225
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +66.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £449 £440 £488
90th Percentile £504 £527 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 21
10th Percentile £17.61 £15.83 £12.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £17.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.41 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +23.22% +15.18% +5.37%
75th Percentile - £24.91 £20.00
90th Percentile - £71.15 £23.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £55.33 £32.50
% change year-on-year -54.54% +70.23% +30.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 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 23 December 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
Lincolnshire - 6 £158 - 5
Leicestershire -6 5 £463 - 10
Nottinghamshire -7 3 £481 -7.89% 8
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 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Electronics
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Manufacturing
1 6 (42.86%) Marketing
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 6 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 6 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (42.86%) Desktop Support
1 6 (42.86%) IT Support
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Android Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Head of IT
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (21.43%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Mobile App
3 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Mac OS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
1 6 (42.86%) Programme Management
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Android Development
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
3 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (21.43%) Line Management
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
3 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Apple
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
1 6 (42.86%) Dell
1 6 (42.86%) HP
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) Samsung
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Xamarin