Android Developer Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 426 552
Rank change year-on-year -18 +126 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 68 102 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.31% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.33% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 64 26
10th Percentile £345 £363 £309
25th Percentile £400 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £520 £521 £570
90th Percentile £550 £546 £663
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 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
London -31 32 £488 +8.33% 9
North of England 0 23 £400 -4.48% 1
Yorkshire -1 16 £440 -25.89% 1
Midlands -8 9 £463 +2.78% 1
East Midlands - 9 £463 - 1
North West -15 7 £400 -
South East +22 3 £575 - 2
Android Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 68 (100.00%) Android
2 67 (98.53%) Kotlin
3 66 (97.06%) Android Development
4 43 (63.24%) Agile
5 36 (52.94%) Mobile App
6 34 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
7 29 (42.65%) MVVM
8 28 (41.18%) CI/CD
8 28 (41.18%) Jetpack Compose
9 27 (39.71%) Git
10 25 (36.76%) RESTful
10 25 (36.76%) Java
11 18 (26.47%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (23.53%) Unit Testing
13 15 (22.06%) Test Automation
14 14 (20.59%) Mentoring
14 14 (20.59%) User Experience
14 14 (20.59%) Dagger
15 13 (19.12%) DevOps
15 13 (19.12%) Finance
15 13 (19.12%) Scrum
16 12 (17.65%) TDD
16 12 (17.65%) Android SDK
16 12 (17.65%) Mobile Development
17 11 (16.18%) Mobile Application Development
17 11 (16.18%) RxJava
17 11 (16.18%) GitHub
17 11 (16.18%) Gradle
17 11 (16.18%) Banking
18 10 (14.71%) Google

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 (10.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.18%) GitHub
2 8 (11.76%) Azure
2 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.82%) Google Play
4 3 (4.41%) Firebase
4 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.47%) Flurry Analytics
5 1 (1.47%) GCP
5 1 (1.47%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.47%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) Gradle
3 9 (13.24%) JUnit
4 8 (11.76%) Android Studio
4 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
5 7 (10.29%) CircleCI
5 7 (10.29%) JIRA
6 4 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.41%) GitLab
8 2 (2.94%) Mockito
9 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 13 (19.12%) Finance
2 11 (16.18%) Banking
3 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 28 (41.18%) Jetpack Compose
3 25 (36.76%) RESTful
4 14 (20.59%) Dagger
5 12 (17.65%) Android SDK
6 11 (16.18%) RxJava
7 7 (10.29%) Material Design
8 5 (7.35%) REST
9 4 (5.88%) JSON
9 4 (5.88%) Retrofit
10 3 (4.41%) OkHttp
10 3 (4.41%) RAML
10 3 (4.41%) WireMock
11 2 (2.94%) Android NDK
11 2 (2.94%) CSS
11 2 (2.94%) HTML
11 2 (2.94%) iOS SDK
11 2 (2.94%) JNI
12 1 (1.47%) SOAP
12 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (52.94%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.35%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.94%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.47%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 68 (100.00%) Android
2 10 (14.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (97.06%) Android Development
2 43 (63.24%) Agile
3 29 (42.65%) MVVM
4 28 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.47%) Architectural Patterns
6 16 (23.53%) Unit Testing
7 15 (22.06%) Test Automation
8 14 (20.59%) Mentoring
8 14 (20.59%) User Experience
9 13 (19.12%) DevOps
9 13 (19.12%) Scrum
10 12 (17.65%) Mobile Development
10 12 (17.65%) TDD
11 11 (16.18%) Mobile Application Development
12 9 (13.24%) API Integration
12 9 (13.24%) Clean Code
13 8 (11.76%) Design Patterns
13 8 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
14 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (10.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 67 (98.53%) Kotlin
2 25 (36.76%) Java
3 6 (8.82%) Swift
4 5 (7.35%) Objective-C
5 3 (4.41%) C++
6 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) C
7 1 (1.47%) Python
7 1 (1.47%) Ruby
7 1 (1.47%) Scala
7 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Google
2 3 (4.41%) Apple
3 1 (1.47%) Virgin Media