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 10 November 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 396 556
Rank change year-on-year -64 +160 +53
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 66 114 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.37% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.40% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 66 25
10th Percentile £345 £383 £405
25th Percentile £363 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £556
90th Percentile £603 £597 £640
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - - £76.56
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
UK median hourly rate - - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

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 26,886 28,684 37,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.99% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,258 17,524 25,976
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,601 1,072 1,433
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.19 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £51.90 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 -50 27 £520 +9.47% 11
North of England -25 22 £400 - 4
Yorkshire -13 19 £433 -26.38% 1
South East +8 6 £600 - 6
South West - 6 £350 - 3
East Midlands -6 5 £463 -11.48%
Midlands -19 5 £463 -11.48% 1
North West -20 3 £270 -32.50% 3
Android Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 November 2025, 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 66 (100.00%) Android
1 66 (100.00%) Android Development
2 63 (95.45%) Kotlin
3 38 (57.58%) Android Jetpack
3 38 (57.58%) Java
4 35 (53.03%) Jetpack Compose
5 31 (46.97%) Agile
6 27 (40.91%) RESTful
7 26 (39.39%) MVVM
8 24 (36.36%) CI/CD
8 24 (36.36%) Git
9 20 (30.30%) Google
10 18 (27.27%) Android SDK
10 18 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (25.76%) Android Studio
11 17 (25.76%) Gradle
12 15 (22.73%) Unit Testing
13 14 (21.21%) DevOps
14 13 (19.70%) User Experience
15 12 (18.18%) RxJava
15 12 (18.18%) Scrum
16 11 (16.67%) Dagger
16 11 (16.67%) JUnit
16 11 (16.67%) Mentoring
16 11 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
16 11 (16.67%) Mobile Development
16 11 (16.67%) Open Source
16 11 (16.67%) SOLID
16 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
17 10 (15.15%) Benchmarking

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 (12.12%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) GitHub
1 9 (13.64%) Google Play
2 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (6.06%) Azure
3 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) Firebase
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.52%) Bitrise
5 1 (1.52%) Flurry Analytics
5 1 (1.52%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.52%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) Git
2 17 (25.76%) Android Studio
2 17 (25.76%) Gradle
3 11 (16.67%) JUnit
4 9 (13.64%) CircleCI
5 8 (12.12%) JIRA
6 7 (10.61%) Jenkins
7 6 (9.09%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.55%) GitLab
8 3 (4.55%) Mockito
9 1 (1.52%) WiX
9 1 (1.52%) Xcode
General
1 15 (22.73%) Finance
2 14 (21.21%) Banking
3 7 (10.61%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (57.58%) Android Jetpack
2 35 (53.03%) Jetpack Compose
3 27 (40.91%) RESTful
4 18 (27.27%) Android SDK
5 12 (18.18%) RxJava
6 11 (16.67%) Dagger
7 6 (9.09%) REST
8 5 (7.58%) Retrofit
9 4 (6.06%) JSON
9 4 (6.06%) Material Design
9 4 (6.06%) OkHttp
9 4 (6.06%) RAML
9 4 (6.06%) WireMock
10 3 (4.55%) CSS
10 3 (4.55%) Flask
10 3 (4.55%) HTML
10 3 (4.55%) Web Services
11 2 (3.03%) CSS3
11 2 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 2 (3.03%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 33 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.52%) NHS
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Android
2 9 (13.64%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.03%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Android Development
2 31 (46.97%) Agile
3 26 (39.39%) MVVM
4 24 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 18 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 15 (22.73%) Unit Testing
7 14 (21.21%) DevOps
8 13 (19.70%) User Experience
9 12 (18.18%) Scrum
10 11 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 11 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
10 11 (16.67%) Mobile Development
10 11 (16.67%) Open Source
10 11 (16.67%) SOLID
10 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 10 (15.15%) Benchmarking
11 10 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (13.64%) API Integration
12 9 (13.64%) Clean Code
12 9 (13.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 63 (95.45%) Kotlin
2 38 (57.58%) Java
3 6 (9.09%) Swift
4 5 (7.58%) Objective-C
5 4 (6.06%) C++
5 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.06%) Python
6 1 (1.52%) C
6 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.52%) Ruby
6 1 (1.52%) Scala
6 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Google
2 3 (4.55%) Apple
3 1 (1.52%) Adobe