Android Contract Job Trends in England

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 209 181
Rank change year-on-year -122 -28 +101
Contract jobs citing Android 316 356 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.28% 1.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.09% 9.37% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 215 301
10th Percentile £185 £174 £218
25th Percentile £255 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -12.09% +7.06%
75th Percentile £538 £492 £590
90th Percentile £638 £595 £825
UK median daily rate £455 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 14
10th Percentile £13.51 £23.27 -
25th Percentile £14.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -21.10% +67.76%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £42.75
90th Percentile £26.66 £59.50 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £20.29 £25.15 £24.17
% change year-on-year -19.32% +4.08% +27.18%

All Operating Systems
England

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,457 3,800 4,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.74% 13.69% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,501 3,073
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £310 £307 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 243 266
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.51 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% -38.46% -8.24%
75th Percentile £67.36 £58.88 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £35.58
% change year-on-year +2.47% -29.32% -16.28%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Android relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Android job vacancy trend in England

Android
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in England over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android in England

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Android

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in England over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in England

Android
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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 -77 158 £475 +11.76% 182
North of England -84 58 £300 -25.00% 30
South West -25 33 £475 +40.74% 39
North West -72 27 £300 -21.82% 19
South East -82 24 £210 +1.20% 40
Yorkshire -44 20 £190 -56.82% 9
Midlands -67 18 £225 -42.86% 14
East of England -15 14 £400 +110.53% 18
North East -25 14 £450 +20.00% 3
West Midlands -49 11 £225 +40.63% 8
East Midlands -26 7 - - 6
Android
UK

Android
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 21 (6.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (11.08%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Notion
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (22.78%) Azure
2 66 (20.89%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (15.51%) Entra ID
4 28 (8.86%) AWS
4 28 (8.86%) GitHub
5 21 (6.65%) GCP
6 19 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.43%) Google Play
7 14 (4.43%) OneDrive
8 13 (4.11%) SaaS
9 10 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (2.22%) Firebase
11 7 (2.22%) IaaS
12 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.90%) PaaS
13 5 (1.58%) BrowserStack
13 5 (1.58%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.58%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.58%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.06%) DNS
2 15 (4.75%) DHCP
2 15 (4.75%) VPN
3 14 (4.43%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.48%) Skype
5 7 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (1.90%) Firewall
6 6 (1.90%) VoIP
7 5 (1.58%) Internet
8 4 (1.27%) LAN
8 4 (1.27%) WAN
8 4 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.95%) WebEx
10 2 (0.63%) DSL
10 2 (0.63%) Network Security
10 2 (0.63%) NFC
10 2 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.63%) VLAN
10 2 (0.63%) Wireless
11 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.85%) MySQL
2 6 (1.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.58%) Power BI
4 3 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.63%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (5.70%) JIRA
2 13 (4.11%) Gradle
3 12 (3.80%) Git
4 11 (3.48%) Appium
4 11 (3.48%) JUnit
5 10 (3.16%) Android Studio
5 10 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.22%) XCUITest
7 6 (1.90%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.90%) fastlane
8 5 (1.58%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.58%) Selenium
9 4 (1.27%) Postman
9 4 (1.27%) Xcode
9 4 (1.27%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.95%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.63%) JMeter
11 2 (0.63%) Selendroid
General
1 100 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (10.44%) Finance
3 21 (6.65%) Banking
3 21 (6.65%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.48%) Retail
6 6 (1.90%) Italian Language
6 6 (1.90%) Military
7 5 (1.58%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.58%) Legal
8 4 (1.27%) Games
9 3 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (0.95%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Slovak Language
10 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) iGaming
11 1 (0.32%) Norwegian Language
11 1 (0.32%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (19.62%) Senior
2 44 (13.92%) Developer
3 39 (12.34%) Android Engineer
4 32 (10.13%) Mobile Engineer
4 32 (10.13%) Support Engineer
5 31 (9.81%) Analyst
6 29 (9.18%) Android Developer
7 27 (8.54%) IT Support
8 24 (7.59%) IT Engineer
9 19 (6.01%) 2nd Line Support
10 18 (5.70%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (4.11%) Desktop Support
11 13 (4.11%) Senior Android Engineer
12 12 (3.80%) QA Engineer
13 11 (3.48%) Designer
14 10 (3.16%) Architect
14 10 (3.16%) Lead
14 10 (3.16%) Support Analyst
15 9 (2.85%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.85%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.24%) Android Jetpack
2 37 (11.71%) Jetpack Compose
3 26 (8.23%) Android SDK
3 26 (8.23%) REST
4 20 (6.33%) RESTful
5 13 (4.11%) React Native
6 12 (3.80%) Flutter
7 11 (3.48%) GraphQL
8 9 (2.85%) RxJava
9 8 (2.53%) JSON
10 6 (1.90%) Dagger
11 5 (1.58%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.58%) Retrofit
12 4 (1.27%) CSS
12 4 (1.27%) OAuth
12 4 (1.27%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.27%) React
12 4 (1.27%) SwiftUI
13 3 (0.95%) OkHttp
13 3 (0.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 95 (30.06%) Mobile App
2 25 (7.91%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.70%) Virtual Team
4 15 (4.75%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.43%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.48%) Smartphone
8 8 (2.53%) iPad
9 7 (2.22%) Blackberry
9 7 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.22%) Educational Technology
9 7 (2.22%) iPhone
9 7 (2.22%) Mobile Payment
10 6 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.90%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.58%) Augmented Reality
11 5 (1.58%) Virtual Reality
12 4 (1.27%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 176 (55.70%) Apple iOS
2 118 (37.34%) Windows
3 44 (13.92%) Windows 10
4 42 (13.29%) Mac OS
5 12 (3.80%) Linux
6 3 (0.95%) Unix
6 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (18.04%) User Experience
3 54 (17.09%) Android Development
4 50 (15.82%) Agile
5 47 (14.87%) CI/CD
5 47 (14.87%) Customer Service
6 41 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (12.03%) Mobile Device Management
8 36 (11.39%) ITSM
8 36 (11.39%) MVVM
9 35 (11.08%) ITIL
9 35 (11.08%) Test Automation
10 31 (9.81%) AI
11 26 (8.23%) Customer Experience
11 26 (8.23%) Data Protection
12 24 (7.59%) Service Delivery
13 22 (6.96%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (6.96%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (6.65%) DevOps
15 18 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.10%) Kotlin
2 48 (15.19%) Java
3 18 (5.70%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.06%) Swift
5 15 (4.75%) Python
6 12 (3.80%) C++
7 10 (3.16%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.27%) SQL
10 3 (0.95%) Perl
11 2 (0.63%) C
11 2 (0.63%) Korn
11 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.63%) Rust
11 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.96%) Degree
3 22 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.58%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.95%) ACSP
8 3 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.32%) CCSP
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.97%) QA
2 28 (8.86%) SLA
3 27 (8.54%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.53%) WCAG
5 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) NCSC
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 58 (18.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.90%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) Firmware
3 5 (1.58%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (17.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.33%) SCCM
3 7 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.58%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.27%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.32%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 104 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.29%) Apple
3 37 (11.71%) Google
4 24 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.75%) HP
6 7 (2.22%) Cisco
7 6 (1.90%) Canon
8 5 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.27%) Splunk
10 3 (0.95%) Oracle
10 3 (0.95%) Remedy
10 3 (0.95%) Tanium
11 2 (0.63%) Dell
11 2 (0.63%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.63%) MobileIron
11 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.63%) SAP
11 2 (0.63%) Sophos
11 2 (0.63%) SOTI
301 Android jobs in England