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 7 May 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 482 593
Rank change year-on-year +55 +111 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 52 66 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 59 44
10th Percentile £395 £350 £308
25th Percentile £413 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £525 £518 £566
90th Percentile £542 £538 £660
UK median daily rate £469 £457 £525
% change year-on-year +2.57% -12.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year - +59.84% -16.33%
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.05
% change year-on-year - +59.84% -16.33%

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 22,569 34,367 47,263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.70% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,022 22,840 33,555
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 2,442 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.17 £36.50 £44.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.64% +96.98%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +88.21%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +62 31 £488 +5.41% 16
North of England -11 7 £400 -8.57% 15
South West +39 6 £438 +9.38% 1
Midlands +26 5 £463 +2.78% 2
East Midlands - 5 £463 - 2
North West -4 4 £400 -15.79% 13
Yorkshire +7 3 £450 +50.00% 2
South East +32 1 £585 +37.65% 8
Android Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 52 (100.00%) Android
2 50 (96.15%) Android Development
3 47 (90.38%) Kotlin
4 25 (48.08%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (46.15%) MVVM
5 24 (46.15%) Agile
6 21 (40.38%) Mobile App
7 20 (38.46%) Android SDK
8 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
9 16 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
10 14 (26.92%) RESTful
11 12 (23.08%) Mobile Development
12 11 (21.15%) User Experience
12 11 (21.15%) Mobile Application Development
13 10 (19.23%) Git
13 10 (19.23%) Java
13 10 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
13 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (17.31%) Dagger
14 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
14 9 (17.31%) Scrum
15 8 (15.38%) Test Automation
15 8 (15.38%) Accessibility
15 8 (15.38%) Design Patterns
15 8 (15.38%) Push Notifications
16 7 (13.46%) Apple iOS
16 7 (13.46%) iOS Development
16 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
17 6 (11.54%) AWS
17 6 (11.54%) Dependency Injection

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 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.54%) AWS
2 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.69%) Firebase
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Android Studio
3 3 (5.77%) JUnit
3 3 (5.77%) Mockito
4 2 (3.85%) Gradle
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.92%) GitLab
5 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) Maven
5 1 (1.92%) Mercurial
General
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Banking
2 3 (5.77%) Finance
3 1 (1.92%) Games
3 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (48.08%) Android Jetpack
2 20 (38.46%) Android SDK
3 16 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
4 14 (26.92%) RESTful
5 9 (17.31%) Dagger
6 4 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 3 (5.77%) Material Design
7 3 (5.77%) REST
8 2 (3.85%) Cocoa
8 2 (3.85%) Cocoa Touch
8 2 (3.85%) Google Maps API
8 2 (3.85%) iOS SDK
8 2 (3.85%) JSON
8 2 (3.85%) Retrofit
8 2 (3.85%) RxJava
9 1 (1.92%) OAuth
9 1 (1.92%) SOAP
9 1 (1.92%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.77%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Android
2 7 (13.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (96.15%) Android Development
2 24 (46.15%) Agile
2 24 (46.15%) MVVM
3 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
4 12 (23.08%) Mobile Development
5 11 (21.15%) Mobile Application Development
5 11 (21.15%) User Experience
6 10 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.31%) Scrum
8 8 (15.38%) Design Patterns
8 8 (15.38%) Push Notifications
8 8 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 7 (13.46%) iOS Development
9 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.54%) Dependency Injection
10 6 (11.54%) TDD
10 6 (11.54%) Unit Testing
11 5 (9.62%) Clean Code
11 5 (9.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (90.38%) Kotlin
2 10 (19.23%) Java
3 4 (7.69%) Swift
4 2 (3.85%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.92%) Degree
1 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) Virgin Media
2 2 (3.85%) Apple
2 2 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Samsung
3 1 (1.92%) Spotify