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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 220 179
Rank change year-on-year -119 -41 +96
Contract jobs citing Android 326 350 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.27% 1.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.18% 9.21% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 214 298
10th Percentile £185 £163 £232
25th Percentile £245 £261 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £575
90th Percentile £638 £600 £725
UK median daily rate £455 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 9
10th Percentile £13.51 £23.89 £22.90
25th Percentile £14.00 - £24.15
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -40.82% +112.50%
75th Percentile £25.75 £37.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £26.26 £61.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £20.29 £25.15 £26.25
% change year-on-year -19.32% -4.19% +32.91%

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 4,538 3,799 4,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.84% 13.78% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,885 2,502 2,997
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £310 £290 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £682
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 256 229
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.60
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.08 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -56.39% +21.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £51.25
% change year-on-year +11.33% -50.93% +11.70%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -84 162 £475 +7.95% 443
North of England -71 64 £306 -23.44% 71
North West -58 33 £300 -23.13% 51
South West -26 31 £438 +34.62% 42
South East -81 23 £210 +1.20% 66
Yorkshire -41 21 £190 -57.30% 18
Midlands -65 20 £225 -43.75% 44
East of England -24 16 £250 +31.58% 33
North East -30 13 £450 +20.00% 2
West Midlands -55 12 £225 +28.57% 26
East Midlands -24 8 £213 -54.05% 18
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 22 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 41 (12.58%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) Notion
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.62%) Azure
2 75 (23.01%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (15.64%) Entra ID
4 29 (8.90%) AWS
5 27 (8.28%) GitHub
6 23 (7.06%) GCP
7 17 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.29%) Google Play
8 14 (4.29%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.99%) SaaS
10 9 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (2.45%) IaaS
12 7 (2.15%) Firebase
13 6 (1.84%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.84%) PaaS
14 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
15 4 (1.23%) BrowserStack
15 4 (1.23%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.52%) DNS
2 16 (4.91%) DHCP
3 14 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.29%) VPN
4 13 (3.99%) Skype
5 10 (3.07%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (2.45%) VoIP
7 7 (2.15%) Firewall
8 6 (1.84%) WebEx
9 5 (1.53%) Internet
10 3 (0.92%) LAN
10 3 (0.92%) VLAN
10 3 (0.92%) WAN
10 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.61%) Network Security
11 2 (0.61%) NFC
11 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.61%) Wireless
12 1 (0.31%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.76%) MySQL
2 6 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.53%) Power BI
4 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.61%) Tableau
6 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.31%) Db2
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.31%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (5.21%) JIRA
2 13 (3.99%) Git
2 13 (3.99%) Gradle
3 9 (2.76%) Android Studio
3 9 (2.76%) Appium
3 9 (2.76%) JUnit
4 8 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.15%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.53%) fastlane
6 5 (1.53%) XCUITest
7 4 (1.23%) Crashlytics
7 4 (1.23%) Selenium
7 4 (1.23%) Xcode
8 3 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.92%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.92%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.92%) Postman
8 3 (0.92%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.61%) Selendroid
General
1 113 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.04%) Finance
3 34 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.36%) Banking
5 22 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.68%) Retail
7 8 (2.45%) Military
8 7 (2.15%) Legal
9 6 (1.84%) Italian Language
10 4 (1.23%) Games
10 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Slovak Language
12 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Back Office
13 1 (0.31%) Front Office
13 1 (0.31%) Norwegian Language
13 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (18.10%) Senior
2 44 (13.50%) Developer
3 40 (12.27%) Support Engineer
4 37 (11.35%) Android Engineer
5 34 (10.43%) Mobile Engineer
6 33 (10.12%) IT Support
7 30 (9.20%) Analyst
7 30 (9.20%) Android Developer
8 26 (7.98%) IT Engineer
9 20 (6.13%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
11 15 (4.60%) Desktop Support
12 13 (3.99%) Desktop Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) Senior Android Engineer
13 12 (3.68%) QA Engineer
14 10 (3.07%) Designer
14 10 (3.07%) Lead
14 10 (3.07%) Service Analyst
14 10 (3.07%) Service Desk Analyst
15 9 (2.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.11%) Android Jetpack
2 38 (11.66%) Jetpack Compose
3 26 (7.98%) REST
4 25 (7.67%) Android SDK
5 20 (6.13%) RESTful
6 11 (3.37%) GraphQL
6 11 (3.37%) React Native
7 10 (3.07%) Flutter
8 9 (2.76%) JSON
9 8 (2.45%) RxJava
10 7 (2.15%) Dagger
11 6 (1.84%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.84%) Retrofit
12 5 (1.53%) React
13 3 (0.92%) Ajax
13 3 (0.92%) CSS
13 3 (0.92%) OkHttp
13 3 (0.92%) Playwright
13 3 (0.92%) SwiftUI
13 3 (0.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.45%) Mobile App
2 29 (8.90%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.52%) Virtual Team
4 16 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (4.91%) Video Conferencing
5 13 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.99%) Smartphone
6 11 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.76%) Blackberry
8 8 (2.45%) iPad
9 7 (2.15%) Educational Technology
9 7 (2.15%) iPhone
9 7 (2.15%) Mobile Payment
10 6 (1.84%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.53%) Acoustics
11 5 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.53%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 178 (54.60%) Apple iOS
2 125 (38.34%) Windows
3 48 (14.72%) Windows 10
4 41 (12.58%) Mac OS
5 12 (3.68%) Linux
6 3 (0.92%) Unix
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (18.40%) Customer Service
3 57 (17.48%) User Experience
4 55 (16.87%) Android Development
5 53 (16.26%) Agile
6 46 (14.11%) CI/CD
7 45 (13.80%) ITIL
8 44 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (12.58%) ITSM
9 41 (12.58%) Mobile Device Management
10 37 (11.35%) MVVM
11 36 (11.04%) AI
11 36 (11.04%) Test Automation
12 28 (8.59%) Data Protection
13 27 (8.28%) Service Delivery
14 26 (7.98%) Customer Experience
15 23 (7.06%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (6.44%) DevOps
17 20 (6.13%) Architectural Patterns
17 20 (6.13%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.39%) Kotlin
2 44 (13.50%) Java
3 19 (5.83%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.60%) Python
5 14 (4.29%) Swift
6 12 (3.68%) C++
7 10 (3.07%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.84%) SQL
8 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.92%) Perl
10 2 (0.61%) C
10 2 (0.61%) Korn
10 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.61%) Rust
11 1 (0.31%) Bash
11 1 (0.31%) Go
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (19.94%) Security Cleared
2 53 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.06%) Degree
4 21 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.53%) A+ Certification
9 5 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.61%) ACSP
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.31%) CCSP
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.31%) CISSP
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.88%) QA
2 32 (9.82%) SLA
3 28 (8.59%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.15%) WCAG
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.31%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) NCSC
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (19.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.15%) Firmware
3 5 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.23%) BitLocker
4 4 (1.23%) Docker
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (19.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (7.98%) SCCM
3 6 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.53%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.23%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 118 (36.20%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.66%) Apple
3 37 (11.35%) Google
4 26 (7.98%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.29%) HP
6 10 (3.07%) Cisco
7 6 (1.84%) Canon
8 5 (1.53%) Tanium
9 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.23%) Oracle
9 4 (1.23%) Splunk
10 3 (0.92%) Citrix
10 3 (0.92%) Remedy
10 3 (0.92%) SAP
11 2 (0.61%) Dell
11 2 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.61%) MobileIron
11 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.61%) Sophos