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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 186 271
Rank change year-on-year -20 +85 -14
Contract jobs citing Android 423 415 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 1.35% 0.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.02% 9.45% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 249 254
10th Percentile £163 £205 £143
25th Percentile £204 £340 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% - -17.48%
75th Percentile £497 £525 £536
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £358 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -15.76% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 15
10th Percentile £20.82 £32.38 £18.67
25th Percentile - £34.06 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £51.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.93% +162.82% +11.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 £69.31 £73.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.33 £78.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.34 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.26% +45.33% +10.54%

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 4,221 4,393 6,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.89% 14.25% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,770 2,705 4,207
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 181 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £58.49 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +46.23% +60.00%
75th Percentile £54.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £71.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -52.00% +33.33% +50.00%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -55 178 £440 -2.22% 168
North of England +3 96 £335 -6.94% 72
North West +7 62 £270 -24.58% 52
South East +41 54 £208 -44.67% 64
South West +27 39 £350 -15.15% 37
Midlands -38 29 £263 -42.87% 14
Yorkshire -27 26 £400 -17.95% 16
East of England -14 20 £225 -50.00% 25
East Midlands -9 16 £425 +20.40% 7
West Midlands -40 13 £175 -62.96% 7
North East -7 8 £175 +16.67% 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 37 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.36%) Confluence
2 10 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.71%) CMS
4 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 75 (17.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.18%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.18%) Sketch
3 3 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.24%) InDesign
5 1 (0.24%) Moqups
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.24%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (28.84%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (13.48%) Azure
3 24 (5.67%) SaaS
4 22 (5.20%) GitHub
5 21 (4.96%) AWS
6 19 (4.49%) Google Play
7 18 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (4.26%) Entra ID
7 18 (4.26%) Figma
7 18 (4.26%) Sauce Labs
8 13 (3.07%) GCP
9 10 (2.36%) Firebase
10 9 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.42%) BrowserStack
11 6 (1.42%) Sentry
12 5 (1.18%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.95%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.95%) npm
14 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 66 (15.60%) Wireless
2 29 (6.86%) Cisco IOS
2 29 (6.86%) Firewall
3 18 (4.26%) DNS
4 16 (3.78%) DHCP
5 13 (3.07%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.13%) VoIP
7 7 (1.65%) LAN
7 7 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.42%) Bluetooth
8 6 (1.42%) VPN
9 5 (1.18%) HTTP
9 5 (1.18%) IP Telephony
9 5 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (1.18%) VLAN
10 4 (0.95%) WAN
11 3 (0.71%) ATM
12 2 (0.47%) Calico
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
13 1 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.26%) MySQL
1 18 (4.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.95%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.24%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (11.11%) Git
2 42 (9.93%) Android Studio
3 38 (8.98%) Xcode
4 33 (7.80%) Gradle
5 20 (4.73%) Browser DevTools
5 20 (4.73%) Jenkins
6 18 (4.26%) Eclipse
7 17 (4.02%) JIRA
8 15 (3.55%) Appium
8 15 (3.55%) JUnit
9 12 (2.84%) GitLab
10 9 (2.13%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.89%) Charles Proxy
11 8 (1.89%) Postman
12 7 (1.65%) NUnit
12 7 (1.65%) Storybook
13 5 (1.18%) Katalon Studio
13 5 (1.18%) Selenium
13 5 (1.18%) XCUITest
General
1 98 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.68%) Finance
3 60 (14.18%) Banking
4 46 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.86%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.62%) Games
7 27 (6.38%) Electronics
8 25 (5.91%) Manufacturing
9 24 (5.67%) Marketing
10 21 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.89%) Military
12 5 (1.18%) Publishing
13 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Retail
14 3 (0.71%) Local Government
14 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.47%) Automotive
15 2 (0.47%) Back Office
15 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 119 (28.13%) Developer
2 68 (16.08%) Android Developer
3 57 (13.48%) IT Support
4 52 (12.29%) Support Engineer
5 40 (9.46%) Senior
6 37 (8.75%) 2nd Line Support
7 31 (7.33%) Desktop Support
8 26 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (5.91%) IT Engineer
10 23 (5.44%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (5.44%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 23 (5.44%) Technical Support
11 22 (5.20%) Analyst
12 20 (4.73%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 20 (4.73%) Technical Engineer
12 20 (4.73%) Technical Support Engineer
13 18 (4.26%) UX Engineer
14 17 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.02%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.40%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (9.69%) Jetpack Compose
3 39 (9.22%) CSS
3 39 (9.22%) RESTful
4 35 (8.27%) React
5 33 (7.80%) React Native
6 28 (6.62%) Android SDK
7 24 (5.67%) GraphQL
8 21 (4.96%) AngularJS
8 21 (4.96%) HTML
9 18 (4.26%) Ajax
10 16 (3.78%) Dagger
10 16 (3.78%) Redux
11 13 (3.07%) REST
12 12 (2.84%) Jest
13 11 (2.60%) RxJava
14 10 (2.36%) OAuth
14 10 (2.36%) Web Services
15 9 (2.13%) JSON
15 9 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 136 (32.15%) Mobile App
2 47 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.02%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.84%) Smartphone
6 8 (1.89%) iPhone
6 8 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
6 8 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
7 7 (1.65%) Augmented Reality
7 7 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.18%) iPad
10 4 (0.95%) EPoS
10 4 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 190 (44.92%) Apple iOS
2 145 (34.28%) Windows
3 105 (24.82%) Mac OS
4 52 (12.29%) Windows 10
5 39 (9.22%) Linux
6 20 (4.73%) Unix
7 7 (1.65%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.18%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.47%) VMS
10 1 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (22.70%) Agile
2 88 (20.80%) Android Development
3 87 (20.57%) User Experience
4 79 (18.68%) CI/CD
5 50 (11.82%) Customer Service
5 50 (11.82%) DevOps
5 50 (11.82%) Test Automation
6 48 (11.35%) Mobile Application Development
7 42 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (8.75%) MVVM
9 35 (8.27%) Unit Testing
10 33 (7.80%) UX Design
11 32 (7.57%) Mobile Development
12 29 (6.86%) Architectural Patterns
13 28 (6.62%) iOS Development
13 28 (6.62%) Scrum
14 26 (6.15%) E-Commerce
14 26 (6.15%) Mentoring
15 25 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (5.44%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (22.93%) Kotlin
2 94 (22.22%) Java
3 58 (13.71%) JavaScript
4 50 (11.82%) PowerShell
5 45 (10.64%) Python
6 26 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.91%) C++
7 25 (5.91%) Swift
8 21 (4.96%) Perl
9 19 (4.49%) C#
10 17 (4.02%) Objective-C
11 16 (3.78%) SQL
12 8 (1.89%) C
13 7 (1.65%) Ruby
13 7 (1.65%) Scala
14 6 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.95%) Bash
15 4 (0.95%) PHP
16 2 (0.47%) Dart
16 2 (0.47%) JSX
Qualifications
1 89 (21.04%) Security Cleared
2 78 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.73%) Degree
4 17 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.42%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.71%) MCP
9 2 (0.47%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) MCITP
9 2 (0.47%) MCSA
9 2 (0.47%) MCSE
9 2 (0.47%) MCTS
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.82%) Accessibility
2 23 (5.44%) QA
3 21 (4.96%) SLA
4 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.95%) WCAG
6 3 (0.71%) SEPA
7 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (15.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.65%) Docker
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.47%) vSphere
4 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (13.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (8.51%) SCCM
3 8 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.95%) Terraform
6 3 (0.71%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.47%) Istio
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 110 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 76 (17.97%) Cisco
3 69 (16.31%) Apple
4 50 (11.82%) Dell
4 50 (11.82%) HP
5 47 (11.11%) Splunk
6 46 (10.87%) Google
7 35 (8.27%) ServiceNow
8 24 (5.67%) Meraki
8 24 (5.67%) SAP
9 21 (4.96%) Oracle
10 13 (3.07%) Adobe
11 10 (2.36%) Xamarin
12 7 (1.65%) Remedy
12 7 (1.65%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.18%) BMC
14 4 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.95%) Okta
14 4 (0.95%) Samsung
15 3 (0.71%) NCR