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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 229 189
Rank change year-on-year -104 -40 +87
Contract jobs citing Android 308 300 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.18% 1.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.38% 8.38% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 181 324
10th Percentile £200 £160 £210
25th Percentile £275 £250 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -13.51% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £613
90th Percentile £640 £575 £825
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £457
% change year-on-year +18.75% -12.47% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 24
10th Percentile £13.06 £22.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.51 £24.66 £16.70
Median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £25.20
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% -0.20% +26.00%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £66.25
90th Percentile £26.66 £30.02 £79.63
UK median hourly rate £19.33 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.61% +12.09% +12.82%

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 4,172 3,578 5,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 14.05% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 2,404 3,440
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £655 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £463 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -0.43% -2.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 190 397
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.11 £17.27 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.26% -22.74% -41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.83 £22.25 £24.93
% change year-on-year +20.58% -10.74% -41.35%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -79 138 £475 +18.75% 45
South West +7 52 £525 +61.54% 23
North of England -94 36 £358 -10.50% 12
South East -64 32 £275 +34.15% 20
Midlands -66 23 £475 +18.75% 11
Yorkshire -47 18 £190 -58.24% 4
West Midlands -59 14 £475 +322.22% 7
North East -25 13 £450 -18.18% 4
East of England -26 13 £300 +57.89% 7
East Midlands -20 9 - - 4
North West -84 8 £310 -17.27% 5
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 11 (3.57%) Confluence
2 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (11.69%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.65%) Notion
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.86%) Azure
2 52 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (11.36%) Entra ID
4 34 (11.04%) AWS
5 28 (9.09%) GCP
6 27 (8.77%) GitHub
7 20 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (3.90%) SaaS
9 11 (3.57%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.25%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.25%) Sauce Labs
11 7 (2.27%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.95%) Firebase
12 6 (1.95%) Google Play
12 6 (1.95%) IaaS
12 6 (1.95%) PaaS
13 5 (1.62%) Figma
14 4 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.19%) VPN
2 10 (3.25%) LAN
2 10 (3.25%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.25%) WAN
2 10 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (2.60%) DNS
3 8 (2.60%) VoIP
4 7 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (2.27%) DHCP
5 6 (1.95%) Internet
6 5 (1.62%) Skype
7 4 (1.30%) DSL
7 4 (1.30%) Firewall
8 3 (0.97%) Network Security
9 2 (0.65%) 4G
9 2 (0.65%) 5G
9 2 (0.65%) Wireless
10 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.32%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.90%) MySQL
2 9 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.30%) Power BI
4 3 (0.97%) Db2
4 3 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.65%) SQLite
5 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (6.17%) Android Studio
2 18 (5.84%) Gradle
3 15 (4.87%) JIRA
4 12 (3.90%) Appium
4 12 (3.90%) JUnit
5 10 (3.25%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.92%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.92%) Xcode
7 8 (2.60%) fastlane
7 8 (2.60%) Git
8 6 (1.95%) XCUITest
9 5 (1.62%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.62%) Postman
10 4 (1.30%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.97%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.97%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (0.97%) PyCharm
11 3 (0.97%) PyUnit
11 3 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 90 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.42%) Finance
4 28 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.79%) Banking
6 12 (3.90%) Retail
7 11 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.60%) Military
9 6 (1.95%) Publishing
10 5 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.30%) Legal
12 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.97%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Games
13 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Slovak Language
13 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (17.86%) Developer
2 51 (16.56%) Senior
3 43 (13.96%) Android Developer
4 36 (11.69%) Analyst
5 32 (10.39%) Mobile Engineer
6 31 (10.06%) Android Engineer
7 28 (9.09%) Architect
8 22 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
9 14 (4.55%) IT Support
10 13 (4.22%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.90%) Service Analyst
11 12 (3.90%) Service Desk Analyst
12 11 (3.57%) Support Analyst
13 10 (3.25%) Designer
13 10 (3.25%) Desktop Support
13 10 (3.25%) IT Analyst
13 10 (3.25%) IT Engineer
14 9 (2.92%) Mobile Designer
14 9 (2.92%) Senior Developer
15 8 (2.60%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (13.31%) Jetpack Compose
3 26 (8.44%) Android SDK
4 18 (5.84%) React Native
5 17 (5.52%) REST
6 14 (4.55%) RESTful
7 13 (4.22%) GraphQL
8 12 (3.90%) React
9 11 (3.57%) RxJava
10 8 (2.60%) Dagger
10 8 (2.60%) Flutter
11 7 (2.27%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.27%) OAuth
11 7 (2.27%) OAuth2
12 6 (1.95%) OkHttp
13 5 (1.62%) CSS
13 5 (1.62%) pytest
13 5 (1.62%) Retrofit
13 5 (1.62%) WireMock
14 4 (1.30%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 75 (24.35%) Mobile App
2 22 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.17%) Virtual Team
4 17 (5.52%) Blackberry
5 14 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.55%) Smartphone
6 10 (3.25%) Mobile Payment
7 6 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.95%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.62%) Augmented Reality
8 5 (1.62%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.62%) Mobile Banking
8 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.62%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.30%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 179 (58.12%) Apple iOS
2 120 (38.96%) Windows
3 45 (14.61%) Mac OS
4 31 (10.06%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.17%) Linux
6 3 (0.97%) Unix
6 3 (0.97%) 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
7 1 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (18.18%) Android Development
3 46 (14.94%) Mobile Device Management
4 45 (14.61%) Agile
5 43 (13.96%) CI/CD
6 41 (13.31%) User Experience
7 39 (12.66%) Test Automation
8 36 (11.69%) MVVM
9 31 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (9.42%) Customer Service
11 28 (9.09%) ITIL
12 23 (7.47%) Service Delivery
13 22 (7.14%) AI
14 21 (6.82%) Data Protection
15 20 (6.49%) Customer Experience
16 19 (6.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (6.17%) ITSM
17 18 (5.84%) Computer Science
18 17 (5.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 53 (17.21%) Java
3 23 (7.47%) Python
4 17 (5.52%) Swift
5 15 (4.87%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.27%) SQL
9 4 (1.30%) C++
9 4 (1.30%) Objective-C
10 3 (0.97%) Perl
10 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.65%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.32%) C#
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) Korn
12 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.79%) Degree
4 14 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.97%) ACSP
9 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.97%) PhD
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
10 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.79%) QA
2 20 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.25%) SLA
3 10 (3.25%) WCAG
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.25%) Docker
3 5 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.30%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (4.55%) SCCM
3 8 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.97%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 2 (0.65%) Kibana
6 2 (0.65%) Podman
6 2 (0.65%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (30.52%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.94%) Google
3 41 (13.31%) Apple
4 17 (5.52%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.19%) MobileIron
6 15 (4.87%) Citrix
6 15 (4.87%) VMware
7 11 (3.57%) HP
8 8 (2.60%) Cisco
9 6 (1.95%) Canon
9 6 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.30%) Splunk
11 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.97%) Oracle
11 3 (0.97%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.65%) Dell
12 2 (0.65%) Meraki
12 2 (0.65%) SAP
12 2 (0.65%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.32%) CyberArk