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 27 December 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 402 522
Rank change year-on-year -65 +120 +109
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 78 103 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.36% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.39% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 54 27
10th Percentile £350 £388 £408
25th Percentile £375 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £486 £457
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +6.40% -16.91%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £528
90th Percentile £625 £582 £564
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - - £76.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +57.34%

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 29,040 26,501 34,495
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.91% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,512 16,485 23,595
10th Percentile £295 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
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 1,779 837 1,444
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.61
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.85 £76.86
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +46.96%

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 27 December 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 27 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
London -59 27 £545 +12.08% 13
North of England -41 18 £375 -5.06% 10
South West +7 16 £380 -27.62% 1
Yorkshire -28 15 £388 -31.60% 2
South East -4 14 £425 -27.35% 9
East Midlands -19 3 £463 -11.48% 2
North West -25 3 £375 -2.91% 8
Midlands -38 3 £463 -11.48% 2
Android Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 December 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 78 (100.00%) Android
2 77 (98.72%) Android Development
3 61 (78.21%) Kotlin
4 42 (53.85%) Java
5 36 (46.15%) Android Jetpack
6 34 (43.59%) Jetpack Compose
7 29 (37.18%) MVVM
8 25 (32.05%) RESTful
9 24 (30.77%) Google
10 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
11 22 (28.21%) Git
12 21 (26.92%) Android SDK
12 21 (26.92%) Gradle
13 20 (25.64%) Agile
13 20 (25.64%) Android Studio
14 17 (21.79%) Architectural Patterns
15 16 (20.51%) DevOps
16 15 (19.23%) Open Source
16 15 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (19.23%) SOLID
17 14 (17.95%) Unit Testing
18 13 (16.67%) Benchmarking
18 13 (16.67%) Security Cleared
18 13 (16.67%) User Experience
19 12 (15.38%) Design Patterns
19 12 (15.38%) Mobile Application Development
19 12 (15.38%) Mobile Development
19 12 (15.38%) RxJava
20 11 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
20 11 (14.10%) Dagger

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 7 (8.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.82%) Google Play
2 8 (10.26%) GitHub
3 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (5.13%) Firebase
5 3 (3.85%) Azure
5 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.28%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.28%) Flurry Analytics
6 1 (1.28%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.28%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 22 (28.21%) Git
2 21 (26.92%) Gradle
3 20 (25.64%) Android Studio
4 10 (12.82%) CircleCI
4 10 (12.82%) JUnit
5 7 (8.97%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.41%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.41%) JIRA
7 4 (5.13%) Mockito
8 3 (3.85%) GitLab
9 2 (2.56%) Subversion
9 2 (2.56%) WiX
9 2 (2.56%) Xcode
10 1 (1.28%) Crashlytics
10 1 (1.28%) fastlane
10 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.28%) XCTest
General
1 10 (12.82%) Finance
2 9 (11.54%) Banking
3 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (46.15%) Android Jetpack
2 34 (43.59%) Jetpack Compose
3 25 (32.05%) RESTful
4 21 (26.92%) Android SDK
5 12 (15.38%) RxJava
6 11 (14.10%) Dagger
7 7 (8.97%) REST
7 7 (8.97%) Retrofit
8 6 (7.69%) OkHttp
9 5 (6.41%) JSON
9 5 (6.41%) RAML
9 5 (6.41%) WireMock
10 4 (5.13%) Flask
11 3 (3.85%) CSS
11 3 (3.85%) FHIR
11 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.85%) HTML
11 3 (3.85%) Material Design
11 3 (3.85%) Web Services
12 2 (2.56%) CarPlay
Miscellaneous
1 32 (41.03%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.56%) Music Streaming
4 2 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.28%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 78 (100.00%) Android
2 9 (11.54%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.56%) Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (98.72%) Android Development
2 29 (37.18%) MVVM
3 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
4 20 (25.64%) Agile
5 17 (21.79%) Architectural Patterns
6 16 (20.51%) DevOps
7 15 (19.23%) Open Source
7 15 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (19.23%) SOLID
8 14 (17.95%) Unit Testing
9 13 (16.67%) Benchmarking
9 13 (16.67%) User Experience
10 12 (15.38%) Design Patterns
10 12 (15.38%) Mobile Application Development
10 12 (15.38%) Mobile Development
11 11 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (14.10%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.54%) Analytics
12 9 (11.54%) Clean Code
13 8 (10.26%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (78.21%) Kotlin
2 42 (53.85%) Java
3 6 (7.69%) Objective-C
3 6 (7.69%) Swift
4 5 (6.41%) C++
4 5 (6.41%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.41%) Python
5 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.28%) C
6 1 (1.28%) Ruby
6 1 (1.28%) Scala
6 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) Degree
4 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Grafana
1 2 (2.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (30.77%) Google
2 3 (3.85%) Apple
3 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.56%) Coverity
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.56%) Thales
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe