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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 226 191
Rank change year-on-year -107 -35 +78
Contract jobs citing Android 324 325 447
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 1.18% 1.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.44% 8.66% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 200 296
10th Percentile £195 £187 £210
25th Percentile £278 £250 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £464
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -13.75% +15.94%
75th Percentile £575 £486 £625
90th Percentile £638 £600 £825
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +18.75% -13.51% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 16
10th Percentile £13.51 £19.50 £19.12
25th Percentile £13.76 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -21.10% +67.76%
75th Percentile £25.76 - £49.25
90th Percentile £26.66 - £79.38
UK median hourly rate £20.29 £25.15 £23.08
% change year-on-year -19.32% +8.99% +21.67%

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 4,352 3,753 4,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.67% 13.60% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,808 2,507 3,249
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 225 333
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.10 £16.32
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -14.81% -36.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -41.18%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -56 157 £475 +12.36% 105
South West -3 53 £520 +60.00% 19
North of England -97 40 £319 -20.31% 38
South East -86 30 £238 +14.46% 30
Yorkshire -47 19 £190 -57.78% 12
Midlands -66 19 £350 -12.50% 15
North East -29 13 £450 -18.18% 7
West Midlands -54 13 £350 +118.75% 7
East of England -20 12 £300 +57.89% 13
North West -80 11 £263 -30.00% 20
East Midlands -23 6 - - 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 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.78%) Confluence
2 9 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Notion
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (19.44%) Azure
2 57 (17.59%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (12.35%) Entra ID
4 34 (10.49%) GitHub
5 31 (9.57%) AWS
6 25 (7.72%) GCP
7 22 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.32%) Google Play
9 13 (4.01%) SaaS
10 10 (3.09%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (3.09%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.09%) Sauce Labs
11 7 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.16%) Firebase
11 7 (2.16%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.85%) IaaS
12 6 (1.85%) PaaS
13 5 (1.54%) Figma
13 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.94%) VPN
2 13 (4.01%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.40%) DHCP
3 11 (3.40%) DNS
4 9 (2.78%) LAN
4 9 (2.78%) WAN
4 9 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.16%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (1.85%) Skype
6 6 (1.85%) VoIP
7 5 (1.54%) Internet
8 4 (1.23%) Firewall
9 3 (0.93%) DSL
9 3 (0.93%) Network Security
9 3 (0.93%) WebEx
10 2 (0.62%) NFC
10 2 (0.62%) Wireless
11 1 (0.31%) 4G
11 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
11 1 (0.31%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.78%) MySQL
2 6 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.23%) Power BI
4 3 (0.93%) Db2
4 3 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.93%) SQLite
5 2 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (5.56%) Android Studio
1 18 (5.56%) JIRA
2 17 (5.25%) Gradle
3 13 (4.01%) Appium
3 13 (4.01%) JUnit
4 11 (3.40%) Git
4 11 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.78%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.78%) Xcode
6 7 (2.16%) fastlane
7 6 (1.85%) XCUITest
8 5 (1.54%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.54%) Selenium
9 4 (1.23%) Postman
9 4 (1.23%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.62%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.62%) Selendroid
General
1 100 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (9.26%) Finance
4 25 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.79%) Banking
6 12 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.09%) Retail
8 6 (1.85%) Military
9 4 (1.23%) Games
9 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.23%) Italian Language
9 4 (1.23%) Legal
9 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.93%) Publishing
11 2 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Slovak Language
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (17.28%) Senior
2 52 (16.05%) Developer
3 41 (12.65%) Android Developer
3 41 (12.65%) Android Engineer
4 35 (10.80%) Analyst
5 29 (8.95%) Mobile Engineer
6 25 (7.72%) Architect
7 20 (6.17%) IT Support
7 20 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.86%) 2nd Line Support
9 15 (4.63%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.70%) Senior Android Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) Designer
11 11 (3.40%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) Service Analyst
11 11 (3.40%) Service Desk Analyst
12 10 (3.09%) Desktop Support
12 10 (3.09%) Support Analyst
13 9 (2.78%) IT Analyst
13 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.05%) Android Jetpack
2 44 (13.58%) Jetpack Compose
3 32 (9.88%) Android SDK
4 24 (7.41%) REST
5 21 (6.48%) RESTful
6 14 (4.32%) React Native
7 12 (3.70%) GraphQL
8 11 (3.40%) React
8 11 (3.40%) RxJava
9 8 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.47%) Dagger
9 8 (2.47%) Flutter
10 7 (2.16%) JSON
11 5 (1.54%) CSS
11 5 (1.54%) OkHttp
11 5 (1.54%) Retrofit
11 5 (1.54%) WireMock
12 4 (1.23%) OAuth
12 4 (1.23%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.23%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 90 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 23 (7.10%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.56%) Blackberry
3 18 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 15 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.70%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.16%) iPad
8 7 (2.16%) Mobile Payment
9 6 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.85%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.85%) iPhone
10 5 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.54%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.54%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.54%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 184 (56.79%) Apple iOS
2 124 (38.27%) Windows
3 44 (13.58%) Mac OS
4 33 (10.19%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.94%) Linux
6 3 (0.93%) Unix
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (20.06%) Android Development
3 49 (15.12%) Agile
3 49 (15.12%) User Experience
4 44 (13.58%) CI/CD
4 44 (13.58%) Mobile Device Management
5 42 (12.96%) MVVM
6 38 (11.73%) Test Automation
7 35 (10.80%) Customer Service
7 35 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (9.88%) AI
9 27 (8.33%) ITIL
10 26 (8.02%) ITSM
11 24 (7.41%) Data Protection
12 22 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (6.48%) Architectural Patterns
13 21 (6.48%) Service Delivery
14 20 (6.17%) Customer Experience
15 19 (5.86%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (5.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 86 (26.54%) Kotlin
2 63 (19.44%) Java
3 21 (6.48%) Python
4 16 (4.94%) Swift
5 14 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.01%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.09%) C++
8 8 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.16%) SQL
10 4 (1.23%) Objective-C
11 3 (0.93%) Perl
12 2 (0.62%) Korn
12 2 (0.62%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) Bash
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) Go
13 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.31%) Rust
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.72%) Degree
4 16 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.54%) A+ Certification
8 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.93%) ACSP
9 3 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.93%) PhD
10 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.31%) CCSP
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.31%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.57%) QA
2 23 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.32%) SLA
4 8 (2.47%) WCAG
5 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) NCSC
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.78%) Docker
3 5 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.23%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (18.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.94%) SCCM
3 8 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (2.16%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.93%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) Kibana
6 2 (0.62%) Podman
6 2 (0.62%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 102 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.89%) Google
3 38 (11.73%) Apple
4 23 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.94%) MobileIron
6 15 (4.63%) Citrix
6 15 (4.63%) VMware
7 11 (3.40%) HP
8 8 (2.47%) Cisco
9 6 (1.85%) Canon
9 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.23%) Splunk
11 3 (0.93%) Oracle
11 3 (0.93%) Remedy
12 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.62%) Dell
12 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.62%) Meraki
12 2 (0.62%) SAP