Android Engineer Contracts in England

Android Engineer
UK > England

The median Android Engineer daily rate in England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 524 612
Rank change year-on-year +43 +88 +145
Contract jobs requiring an Android Engineer 21 25 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.077% 0.070% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.075% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
10th Percentile £159 £370 £432
25th Percentile £220 £463 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £631
90th Percentile £602 - £649
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

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 25,199 33,243 44,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.98% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,389 21,876 31,340
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 2,255 1,389
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.38 £41.27 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.66% -6.22% +76.00%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +35 12 £525 +7.69% 11
North of England +4 5 £400 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire +5 3 £550 +22.22%
North West - 2 £280 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £160 -
Midlands - 1 £160 -
Android Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 21 (100.00%) Android
2 17 (80.95%) Kotlin
3 13 (61.90%) MVVM
4 12 (57.14%) Design Patterns
5 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
5 10 (47.62%) Android SDK
6 9 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
7 8 (38.10%) Mobile App
7 8 (38.10%) User Experience
8 7 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
8 7 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
9 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
9 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design
9 6 (28.57%) Observability
9 6 (28.57%) Prototyping
9 6 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (28.57%) Dagger
9 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (28.57%) SOLID
9 6 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
9 6 (28.57%) UX Design
9 6 (28.57%) Java
9 6 (28.57%) Agile
10 5 (23.81%) Git
10 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
10 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
11 4 (19.05%) Asynchronous Programming
11 4 (19.05%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
11 4 (19.05%) Android Development

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) BigCommerce
1 1 (4.76%) Bitrise
1 1 (4.76%) Firebase
1 1 (4.76%) GitHub
1 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (4.76%) Sentry
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Gradle
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.76%) Crashlytics
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Android SDK
2 7 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (28.57%) Dagger
4 4 (19.05%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) Retrofit
6 1 (4.76%) iOS SDK
6 1 (4.76%) SwiftUI
6 1 (4.76%) UIKit
6 1 (4.76%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) iPhone
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (19.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) MVVM
2 12 (57.14%) Design Patterns
3 9 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) User Experience
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (28.57%) Observability
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (28.57%) Prototyping
5 6 (28.57%) SOLID
5 6 (28.57%) UX Design
6 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Android Development
7 4 (19.05%) BDD
7 4 (19.05%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 4 (19.05%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Kotlin
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Sitecore