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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 186 284
Rank change year-on-year -23 +98 -26
Contract jobs citing Android 398 426 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.37% 0.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.65% 9.65% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 256 248
10th Percentile £163 £209 £143
25th Percentile £204 £337 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +3.03% -21.43%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £515
90th Percentile £590 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £373 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -12.35% - -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 14
10th Percentile £19.35 £22.45 £18.63
25th Percentile - £23.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +56.63% +0.53%
75th Percentile £49.50 £68.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.10 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £20.75
% change year-on-year +4.01% +16.53% +7.99%

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 4,123 4,414 6,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.01% 14.20% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,701 2,723 4,223
10th Percentile £185 £203 £185
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £670 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 183 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.25 £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.57% +43.75% +60.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -54.29% +54.41% +36.00%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 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 -64 167 £440 -2.22% 248
North of England -6 94 £358 -0.56% 95
North West -5 58 £358 -0.56% 68
South East +30 49 £208 -40.71% 242
South West +26 33 £350 -15.15% 42
Midlands -22 31 £263 -42.87% 28
Yorkshire -13 27 £413 -15.38% 21
East of England -12 18 £213 -52.78% 46
East Midlands -3 17 £438 +23.94% 22
West Midlands -30 14 £175 -62.96% 5
North East -9 9 £175 +16.67% 8
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 37 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.51%) Confluence
2 10 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.75%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 69 (17.34%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.51%) Sketch
3 5 (1.26%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.25%) InDesign
6 1 (0.25%) Moqups
6 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.25%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (29.90%) Microsoft 365
2 65 (16.33%) Azure
3 25 (6.28%) GitHub
4 24 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 23 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (5.78%) SaaS
6 21 (5.28%) AWS
7 19 (4.77%) Google Play
8 18 (4.52%) Figma
9 17 (4.27%) Sauce Labs
10 10 (2.51%) Firebase
10 10 (2.51%) GCP
11 9 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.51%) BrowserStack
12 6 (1.51%) Sentry
13 5 (1.26%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.01%) npm
15 3 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 57 (14.32%) Wireless
2 32 (8.04%) Firewall
3 29 (7.29%) Cisco IOS
4 20 (5.03%) DNS
5 15 (3.77%) DHCP
6 12 (3.02%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.51%) LAN
8 9 (2.26%) VoIP
9 8 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.76%) VPN
10 7 (1.76%) WAN
11 5 (1.26%) Bluetooth
11 5 (1.26%) HTTP
11 5 (1.26%) IP Telephony
11 5 (1.26%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (1.26%) VLAN
12 3 (0.75%) ATM
13 2 (0.50%) Calico
14 1 (0.25%) DKIM
14 1 (0.25%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.27%) MySQL
1 17 (4.27%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.75%) Redis
4 2 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.25%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (11.56%) Git
2 37 (9.30%) Xcode
3 36 (9.05%) Android Studio
4 34 (8.54%) Gradle
5 23 (5.78%) Jenkins
6 18 (4.52%) Browser DevTools
7 17 (4.27%) Eclipse
8 16 (4.02%) JIRA
8 16 (4.02%) JUnit
9 13 (3.27%) Appium
10 9 (2.26%) CircleCI
10 9 (2.26%) GitLab
10 9 (2.26%) Postman
11 7 (1.76%) Charles Proxy
11 7 (1.76%) NUnit
11 7 (1.76%) Storybook
12 6 (1.51%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.26%) Axure RP
13 5 (1.26%) Katalon Studio
13 5 (1.26%) Selenium
General
1 96 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.10%) Finance
3 55 (13.82%) Banking
4 40 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.29%) Games
6 27 (6.78%) Telecoms
7 25 (6.28%) Electronics
7 25 (6.28%) Manufacturing
8 24 (6.03%) Marketing
9 18 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Publishing
11 5 (1.26%) Retail
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Military
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.50%) Back Office
13 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 113 (28.39%) Developer
2 64 (16.08%) Android Developer
3 54 (13.57%) IT Support
4 49 (12.31%) Support Engineer
5 36 (9.05%) 2nd Line Support
6 35 (8.79%) Senior
7 30 (7.54%) Desktop Support
8 26 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (5.78%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 23 (5.78%) IT Engineer
9 23 (5.78%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 23 (5.78%) Technical Support
10 19 (4.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 19 (4.77%) Technical Engineer
10 19 (4.77%) Technical Support Engineer
11 18 (4.52%) Analyst
12 17 (4.27%) Lead
12 17 (4.27%) UX Engineer
13 16 (4.02%) Designer
14 15 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.06%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (10.30%) CSS
2 41 (10.30%) Jetpack Compose
3 40 (10.05%) RESTful
4 38 (9.55%) React
5 29 (7.29%) React Native
6 25 (6.28%) Android SDK
7 24 (6.03%) HTML
8 23 (5.78%) GraphQL
9 20 (5.03%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.27%) Ajax
10 17 (4.27%) Dagger
11 16 (4.02%) Redux
12 14 (3.52%) RxJava
13 13 (3.27%) REST
14 12 (3.02%) .NET
14 12 (3.02%) Jest
15 10 (2.51%) OAuth
15 10 (2.51%) Web Services
16 9 (2.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (32.16%) Mobile App
2 42 (10.55%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.52%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.26%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.01%) iPhone
7 8 (2.01%) Mobile Banking
7 8 (2.01%) Virtual Reality
8 7 (1.76%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.26%) iPad
10 5 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.01%) EPoS
11 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.01%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 182 (45.73%) Apple iOS
2 132 (33.17%) Windows
3 96 (24.12%) Mac OS
4 48 (12.06%) Windows 10
5 35 (8.79%) Linux
6 19 (4.77%) Unix
7 5 (1.26%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.50%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (24.62%) Agile
2 86 (21.61%) User Experience
3 83 (20.85%) Android Development
4 80 (20.10%) CI/CD
5 55 (13.82%) DevOps
6 45 (11.31%) Test Automation
7 44 (11.06%) Mobile Application Development
8 43 (10.80%) Customer Service
9 41 (10.30%) MVVM
10 34 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (8.54%) Unit Testing
10 34 (8.54%) UX Design
11 32 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
12 29 (7.29%) Mobile Development
12 29 (7.29%) Scrum
13 27 (6.78%) Mentoring
14 25 (6.28%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (6.28%) E-Commerce
14 25 (6.28%) iOS Development
15 23 (5.78%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (24.37%) Kotlin
2 87 (21.86%) Java
3 54 (13.57%) JavaScript
4 49 (12.31%) PowerShell
5 43 (10.80%) Python
6 25 (6.28%) C++
6 25 (6.28%) Swift
7 24 (6.03%) TypeScript
8 23 (5.78%) C#
9 20 (5.03%) Perl
10 16 (4.02%) Objective-C
10 16 (4.02%) SQL
11 8 (2.01%) C
12 7 (1.76%) Ruby
12 7 (1.76%) Scala
13 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.26%) PHP
15 4 (1.01%) Bash
16 3 (0.75%) Bicep
17 2 (0.50%) JSX
Qualifications
1 70 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.28%) Degree
4 13 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.51%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.75%) MCP
11 2 (0.50%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.50%) MCITP
11 2 (0.50%) MCSA
11 2 (0.50%) MCSE
11 2 (0.50%) MCTS
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Master
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.81%) Accessibility
2 23 (5.78%) SLA
3 21 (5.28%) QA
4 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.01%) SEPA
5 4 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (18.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.76%) Docker
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.50%) vSphere
4 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (14.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.29%) SCCM
3 7 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.26%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.01%) Terraform
6 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.50%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.50%) Istio
6 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 110 (27.64%) Microsoft
2 68 (17.09%) Cisco
3 59 (14.82%) Apple
4 46 (11.56%) Splunk
5 42 (10.55%) Dell
5 42 (10.55%) HP
6 40 (10.05%) Google
7 35 (8.79%) ServiceNow
8 24 (6.03%) Meraki
8 24 (6.03%) SAP
9 20 (5.03%) Oracle
10 13 (3.27%) Adobe
11 10 (2.51%) Xamarin
12 7 (1.76%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.51%) Remedy
14 5 (1.26%) BMC
15 4 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (1.01%) Okta
15 4 (1.01%) Samsung
16 3 (0.75%) NCR
585 Android jobs in England