Android Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Android Developer
UK > England

The median Android Developer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 435 483
Rank change year-on-year -55 +48 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 75 54 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 28 58
10th Percentile £350 £345 £350
25th Percentile £366 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% -16.28%
75th Percentile £584 £535 £513
90th Percentile £650 £611 £560
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £457
% change year-on-year -15.00% +9.41% -14.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £76.50
25th Percentile - - £76.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +59.84%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,152 23,173 35,320
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 93.04% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,955 15,154 23,611
10th Percentile £307 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,163 767 2,289
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.34 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -22.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.92
90th Percentile £75.63 £77.31 £71.77
UK median hourly rate £34.95 £33.75 £32.69
% change year-on-year +3.54% +3.24% -20.33%

Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Android Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Android Developer job vacancy trend in England

Android Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Android Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Android Developer job vacancies in England

Android Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Developer in England over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android Developer in England

Android Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Android Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Android Developer job vacancies in England

Android Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
London -40 24 £575 +12.75% 7
South West -11 23 £400 -8.57% 3
South East -28 18 £425 -27.35% 3
North of England -61 7 £400 - 13
Yorkshire -55 5 £400 -11.11% 9
North West -32 2 - - 4
Android Developer
UK

Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 March 2026, Android Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Android Developer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Android
2 73 (97.33%) Android Development
3 51 (68.00%) Kotlin
4 34 (45.33%) Java
5 33 (44.00%) Android Jetpack
6 31 (41.33%) Jetpack Compose
7 28 (37.33%) MVVM
8 26 (34.67%) Android SDK
9 22 (29.33%) Google
9 22 (29.33%) Security Cleared
10 21 (28.00%) Android Studio
11 20 (26.67%) Gradle
11 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
12 19 (25.33%) Open Source
13 18 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (24.00%) SOLID
14 16 (21.33%) Benchmarking
15 14 (18.67%) CI/CD
16 12 (16.00%) Mobile Development
16 12 (16.00%) RESTful
17 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
18 10 (13.33%) RxJava
19 9 (12.00%) Agile
19 9 (12.00%) Analytics
19 9 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
19 9 (12.00%) Dagger
19 9 (12.00%) Design Patterns
19 9 (12.00%) GitHub
19 9 (12.00%) User Experience
20 8 (10.67%) Confluence

Android Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.00%) GitHub
2 7 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (6.67%) Google Play
4 3 (4.00%) Firebase
5 1 (1.33%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.33%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.67%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (28.00%) Android Studio
2 20 (26.67%) Gradle
3 8 (10.67%) Git
4 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
4 7 (9.33%) JUnit
5 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.67%) CircleCI
6 5 (6.67%) JIRA
7 4 (5.33%) Mockito
8 3 (4.00%) fastlane
8 3 (4.00%) GitLab
8 3 (4.00%) Subversion
9 2 (2.67%) WiX
10 1 (1.33%) Crashlytics
10 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.33%) Xcode
10 1 (1.33%) XCTest
General
1 8 (10.67%) Banking
1 8 (10.67%) Finance
2 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (44.00%) Android Jetpack
2 31 (41.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 26 (34.67%) Android SDK
4 12 (16.00%) RESTful
5 10 (13.33%) RxJava
6 9 (12.00%) Dagger
7 7 (9.33%) Retrofit
8 6 (8.00%) REST
9 5 (6.67%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.67%) OkHttp
10 4 (5.33%) Flask
10 4 (5.33%) RAML
10 4 (5.33%) WireMock
11 3 (4.00%) FHIR
11 3 (4.00%) Web Services
12 2 (2.67%) CarPlay
12 2 (2.67%) MapLibre
12 2 (2.67%) Nuxt
12 2 (2.67%) Vue
12 2 (2.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.67%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.33%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 75 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (97.33%) Android Development
2 28 (37.33%) MVVM
3 19 (25.33%) Open Source
4 18 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (24.00%) SOLID
5 16 (21.33%) Benchmarking
6 14 (18.67%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.00%) Mobile Development
8 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
9 9 (12.00%) Agile
9 9 (12.00%) Analytics
9 9 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (12.00%) Design Patterns
9 9 (12.00%) User Experience
10 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (10.67%) DevOps
10 8 (10.67%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.33%) Mobile Application Development
11 7 (9.33%) Performance Analysis
11 7 (9.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (68.00%) Kotlin
2 34 (45.33%) Java
3 5 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.33%) Python
5 2 (2.67%) C++
5 2 (2.67%) Objective-C
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.67%) Swift
5 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.33%) BrightScript
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Google
2 3 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.00%) Coverity
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) Thales
3 1 (1.33%) Adobe
3 1 (1.33%) Roku