Android Development Contracts in England

Android Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Android Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 440 553
Rank change year-on-year +23 +113 -31
Contract jobs citing Android Development 68 102 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 87 61
10th Percentile £325 £317 £325
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -8.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £575
90th Percentile £608 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £463 £525
% change year-on-year - -11.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year - +42.36% +5.66%
UK median hourly rate - £71.25 £50.05
% change year-on-year - +42.36% +5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Android Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Android Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in England

Android Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Android Development in England

Android Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Development in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android Development in England

Android Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Development in England

Android Development
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 Development within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +44 43 £500 +8.11% 43
North of England -11 10 £425 -2.86% 28
South West +48 6 £438 +9.38% 3
Midlands +24 5 £463 +15.63% 3
Yorkshire +1 5 £450 +50.00% 6
North West -6 5 £400 -8.57% 22
East Midlands - 5 £463 - 2
South East +38 2 £585 +30.00% 23
Android Development
UK

Android Development
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 5 (7.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) AWS
2 5 (7.35%) Azure
2 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.88%) Figma
3 4 (5.88%) SonarCloud
4 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 2 (2.94%) Apple Pay
5 2 (2.94%) Datadog
5 2 (2.94%) Firebase
6 1 (1.47%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.47%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) SaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) JIRA
3 4 (5.88%) Android Studio
4 3 (4.41%) Gradle
4 3 (4.41%) JUnit
4 3 (4.41%) Mockito
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.47%) Mercurial
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Finance
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Games
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (77.94%) Developer
2 49 (72.06%) Android Developer
3 16 (23.53%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Senior Android Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.76%) iOS Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Android Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) iOS Android Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Android Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Applications Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Java Android Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Android Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.94%) Architect
9 2 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (39.71%) Android Jetpack
2 21 (30.88%) Android SDK
3 16 (23.53%) Jetpack Compose
4 14 (20.59%) RESTful
5 12 (17.65%) Dagger
6 5 (7.35%) REST
7 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.88%) OpenAPI
7 4 (5.88%) Swagger
8 3 (4.41%) iOS SDK
8 3 (4.41%) React Native
9 2 (2.94%) Cocoa
9 2 (2.94%) Cocoa Touch
9 2 (2.94%) Express.js
9 2 (2.94%) Google Maps API
9 2 (2.94%) JSON
9 2 (2.94%) Node.js
9 2 (2.94%) React
9 2 (2.94%) RxJava
10 1 (1.47%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (42.65%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 68 (100.00%) Android
2 15 (22.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) Agile
2 25 (36.76%) MVVM
3 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (22.06%) iOS Development
5 15 (22.06%) Test Automation
6 14 (20.59%) Mobile Development
7 13 (19.12%) Mobile Application Development
7 13 (19.12%) User Experience
8 12 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (14.71%) Design Patterns
10 9 (13.24%) Scrum
11 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
12 7 (10.29%) Push Notifications
12 7 (10.29%) Unit Testing
13 6 (8.82%) Architectural Patterns
13 6 (8.82%) Dependency Injection
13 6 (8.82%) TDD
14 5 (7.35%) B2C
14 5 (7.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (79.41%) Kotlin
2 14 (20.59%) Java
3 7 (10.29%) Swift
4 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.94%) Objective-C
4 2 (2.94%) SQL
4 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.47%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) C++
5 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.47%) Degree
1 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (4.41%) Virgin Media
2 2 (2.94%) Apple
2 2 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.47%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.47%) Samsung
3 1 (1.47%) SAP
3 1 (1.47%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.47%) Spotify