Android Engineer Contracts in England

Android Engineer
UK > England

The median Android Engineer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 524 641
Rank change year-on-year +58 +117 +117
Contract jobs requiring an Android Engineer 19 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.048% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.052% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 7
10th Percentile £155 £360 £386
25th Percentile £160 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £625
90th Percentile £638 - £638
UK median daily rate £425 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -26.09% - +9.52%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £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 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Android Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Android Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Android Engineer in England

Android Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Android Engineer in England

Android Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Android Engineer in England

Android Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Engineer in England

Android Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +41 11 £571 +14.25% 10
North of England +19 2 £155 -65.56% 1
South West - 2 £180 -
South East +44 1 - - 2
North West +17 1 £160 - 1
Yorkshire +8 1 £150 -66.67%
Midlands - 1 £160 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £160 -
East of England - 1 - - 3
Android Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Android Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Android
2 10 (52.63%) Kotlin
3 8 (42.11%) Mobile App
4 7 (36.84%) Android Development
4 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
5 6 (31.58%) MVVM
6 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
6 5 (26.32%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (21.05%) OpenAPI
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Figma
7 4 (21.05%) SonarCloud
7 4 (21.05%) Dagger
7 4 (21.05%) Confluence
7 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
7 4 (21.05%) Swagger
7 4 (21.05%) JIRA
7 4 (21.05%) Finance
8 3 (15.79%) Java
8 3 (15.79%) Git
8 3 (15.79%) iPhone
8 3 (15.79%) User Experience
8 3 (15.79%) Android SDK
8 3 (15.79%) Push Notifications
8 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
9 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
9 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
9 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
9 2 (10.53%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving

Android Engineer 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Figma
1 4 (21.05%) SonarCloud
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
2 2 (10.53%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (5.26%) BigCommerce
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Appium
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
3 2 (10.53%) TestNG
4 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
4 1 (5.26%) Gradle
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (21.05%) Dagger
2 4 (21.05%) OpenAPI
2 4 (21.05%) Swagger
3 3 (15.79%) Android SDK
4 2 (10.53%) pytest
5 1 (5.26%) DirectX
5 1 (5.26%) iOS SDK
5 1 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (5.26%) OpenGL
5 1 (5.26%) OpenGL ES
5 1 (5.26%) React Native
5 1 (5.26%) SwiftUI
5 1 (5.26%) UIKit
5 1 (5.26%) VML
5 1 (5.26%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) iPhone
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Social Media
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Android Development
1 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) MVVM
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.79%) Push Notifications
4 3 (15.79%) User Experience
5 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
5 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
5 2 (10.53%) Observability
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Prototyping
5 2 (10.53%) QA Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.53%) UX Design
6 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Kotlin
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.26%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.26%) SAP
1 1 (5.26%) Sitecore