Android Developer Contracts in England

Android Developer
UK > England

The median Android Developer daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 474 577
Rank change year-on-year +39 +103 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 59 79 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 39
10th Percentile £342 £313 £298
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £518 £575
90th Percentile £570 £586 £655
UK median daily rate £463 £454 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -13.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Android Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Android Developer in England

Android Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Android Developer in England

Android Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android Developer in England

Android Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Android Developer 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 2 July 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
London +35 36 £475 +2.70% 43
North of England -10 13 £425 -2.86% 40
Midlands +13 8 £463 +2.78% 1
East Midlands - 8 £463 -
Yorkshire -6 7 £500 +66.67% 7
North West -5 6 £400 -12.33% 33
South West +38 1 £350 -12.50% 6
Android Developer
UK

Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Android Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Android Developer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Android
2 57 (96.61%) Android Development
3 55 (93.22%) Kotlin
4 40 (67.80%) Agile
5 27 (45.76%) Mobile App
5 27 (45.76%) Android Jetpack
6 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
6 26 (44.07%) MVVM
7 22 (37.29%) Jetpack Compose
8 16 (27.12%) Java
9 14 (23.73%) Scrum
9 14 (23.73%) Git
10 13 (22.03%) RESTful
10 13 (22.03%) Android SDK
10 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
10 13 (22.03%) User Experience
10 13 (22.03%) Mobile Development
11 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
12 11 (18.64%) Mobile Application Development
13 10 (16.95%) Accessibility
13 10 (16.95%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (16.95%) Dagger
13 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
14 9 (15.25%) TDD
14 9 (15.25%) Finance
14 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (15.25%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
15 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
15 8 (13.56%) API Integration

Android Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (11.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) GitHub
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.47%) AWS
3 5 (8.47%) Firebase
4 1 (1.69%) Apple Pay
4 1 (1.69%) Flurry Analytics
4 1 (1.69%) GCP
4 1 (1.69%) Google Play
4 1 (1.69%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) RTSP
1 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.69%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) Android Studio
2 7 (11.86%) Gradle
2 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.86%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) JUnit
4 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.08%) GitLab
5 3 (5.08%) Mockito
6 1 (1.69%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Mercurial
General
1 9 (15.25%) Finance
1 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Banking
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.76%) Android Jetpack
2 22 (37.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 13 (22.03%) Android SDK
3 13 (22.03%) RESTful
4 10 (16.95%) Dagger
5 7 (11.86%) RxJava
6 4 (6.78%) Material Design
7 3 (5.08%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.39%) REST
8 2 (3.39%) Retrofit
9 1 (1.69%) Flutter
9 1 (1.69%) Google Maps API
9 1 (1.69%) OAuth
9 1 (1.69%) React Native
9 1 (1.69%) SOAP
9 1 (1.69%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (45.76%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.47%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (3.39%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (100.00%) Android
2 6 (10.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (96.61%) Android Development
2 40 (67.80%) Agile
3 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
3 26 (44.07%) MVVM
4 14 (23.73%) Scrum
5 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
5 13 (22.03%) Mobile Development
5 13 (22.03%) User Experience
6 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
7 11 (18.64%) Mobile Application Development
8 10 (16.95%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
9 9 (15.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.25%) TDD
10 8 (13.56%) API Integration
10 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
10 8 (13.56%) DevOps
11 7 (11.86%) Design Patterns
12 6 (10.17%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 55 (93.22%) Kotlin
2 16 (27.12%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) Swift
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (5.08%) Google
1 3 (5.08%) Virgin Media
2 1 (1.69%) Apple