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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 165 275
Rank change year-on-year -47 +110 -31
Contract jobs citing Android 350 487 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.48% 0.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.26% 10.35% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 315 272
10th Percentile £163 £237 £154
25th Percentile £261 £369 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -19.05%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £532
90th Percentile £596 £825 £673
UK median daily rate £400 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 11
10th Percentile £23.27 £22.00 £16.50
25th Percentile - £23.64 £18.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% +97.50% -
75th Percentile - £55.75 £32.30
90th Percentile £59.50 £80.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.25 £19.75
% change year-on-year -4.19% +32.91% -1.25%

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 3,779 4,705 6,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.71% 14.34% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 3,035 4,671
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £300 £334 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 236 340
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £20.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.38 £47.67
Median % change year-on-year -56.17% +20.37% +98.60%
75th Percentile £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £46.69
% change year-on-year -49.19% +6.02% +95.27%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Android 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -72 162 £440 -4.86% 106
North of England -25 69 £400 -29.67% 66
North West -30 44 £400 -50.00% 31
South East +27 40 £208 -44.67% 73
Midlands -14 40 £394 -14.40% 22
Yorkshire -4 22 £445 -8.72% 25
West Midlands -31 21 £175 -64.10% 9
East Midlands +12 19 £463 +3.93% 13
South West +29 18 £325 -26.76% 17
East of England +6 12 £190 -28.30% 15
North East 0 3 £375 +167.86% 11
Android
UK

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (11.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.86%) IBM Domino
3 10 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.00%) Confluence
5 5 (1.43%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.86%) CMS
8 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 25 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.71%) Sketch
3 5 (1.43%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.57%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Moqups
6 1 (0.29%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (24.29%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (20.29%) Azure
3 27 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (7.43%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.29%) GitHub
6 20 (5.71%) SaaS
7 19 (5.43%) Figma
8 18 (5.14%) AWS
9 16 (4.57%) Google Play
10 11 (3.14%) GCP
11 10 (2.86%) Sauce Labs
12 9 (2.57%) Firebase
13 6 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.43%) BrowserStack
14 5 (1.43%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.43%) Sentry
15 4 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 3 (0.86%) Asana
16 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.57%) Firewall
2 26 (7.43%) Cisco IOS
3 22 (6.29%) Wireless
4 12 (3.43%) DNS
5 8 (2.29%) VoIP
6 7 (2.00%) DHCP
6 7 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.71%) LAN
7 6 (1.71%) VPN
8 5 (1.43%) IP Telephony
8 5 (1.43%) Skype
8 5 (1.43%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (1.43%) VLAN
8 5 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.14%) HTTP
9 4 (1.14%) PSTN
9 4 (1.14%) SMTP
10 3 (0.86%) ATM
10 3 (0.86%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.86%) MySQL
1 10 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.14%) Redis
4 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.86%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.57%) Power BI
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 49 (14.00%) Git
2 29 (8.29%) Gradle
3 28 (8.00%) Xcode
4 21 (6.00%) Android Studio
5 19 (5.43%) Jenkins
6 17 (4.86%) Appium
7 14 (4.00%) JIRA
7 14 (4.00%) JUnit
8 11 (3.14%) Eclipse
9 10 (2.86%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (2.57%) Selenium
11 7 (2.00%) GitLab
11 7 (2.00%) Postman
11 7 (2.00%) Storybook
12 6 (1.71%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.71%) NUnit
13 5 (1.43%) Axure RP
13 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.14%) IntelliJ
14 4 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.43%) Finance
3 43 (12.29%) Banking
4 29 (8.29%) Games
5 23 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.71%) Retail
9 4 (1.14%) Marketing
9 4 (1.14%) Military
10 3 (0.86%) Automotive
10 3 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.86%) Local Government
10 3 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Legal
11 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (29.43%) Developer
2 66 (18.86%) Android Developer
3 39 (11.14%) Senior
4 33 (9.43%) Support Engineer
5 26 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (6.29%) Designer
7 21 (6.00%) IT Engineer
8 20 (5.71%) Android Engineer
9 19 (5.43%) Analyst
10 18 (5.14%) Lead
11 15 (4.29%) iOS Developer
12 14 (4.00%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.00%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.71%) Architect
13 13 (3.71%) IT Support
13 13 (3.71%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 12 (3.43%) Product Designer
15 11 (3.14%) React Developer
15 11 (3.14%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.86%) Android Jetpack
2 34 (9.71%) RESTful
3 33 (9.43%) CSS
3 33 (9.43%) Jetpack Compose
4 27 (7.71%) React
5 23 (6.57%) HTML
6 22 (6.29%) Android SDK
6 22 (6.29%) React Native
7 17 (4.86%) Dagger
8 13 (3.71%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.43%) GraphQL
9 12 (3.43%) Redux
10 11 (3.14%) .NET
10 11 (3.14%) REST
11 10 (2.86%) Ajax
12 9 (2.57%) RxJava
13 8 (2.29%) iOS SDK
13 8 (2.29%) Jest
13 8 (2.29%) Node.js
13 8 (2.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (34.86%) Mobile App
2 15 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.14%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.86%) Smartphone
5 9 (2.57%) iPhone
5 9 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.29%) Blackberry
6 8 (2.29%) Virtual Reality
7 7 (2.00%) Augmented Reality
7 7 (2.00%) EPoS
7 7 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.43%) iPad
9 5 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.14%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 163 (46.57%) Apple iOS
2 100 (28.57%) Windows
3 65 (18.57%) Mac OS
4 27 (7.71%) Linux
4 27 (7.71%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.43%) Unix
6 6 (1.71%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.29%) VMS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (31.71%) Agile
2 82 (23.43%) Android Development
3 81 (23.14%) CI/CD
4 80 (22.86%) User Experience
5 53 (15.14%) DevOps
6 50 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.14%) Test Automation
8 44 (12.57%) MVVM
9 38 (10.86%) Mobile Application Development
10 36 (10.29%) UX Design
11 34 (9.71%) Customer Service
12 32 (9.14%) Unit Testing
13 31 (8.86%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (8.86%) Scrum
14 30 (8.57%) Mentoring
15 28 (8.00%) Mobile Development
16 27 (7.71%) Performance Optimisation
17 25 (7.14%) E-Commerce
18 24 (6.86%) Computer Science
19 23 (6.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 99 (28.29%) Kotlin
2 66 (18.86%) Java
3 41 (11.71%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.57%) JavaScript
5 35 (10.00%) Python
6 24 (6.86%) C++
7 23 (6.57%) C#
8 22 (6.29%) Swift
9 19 (5.43%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.86%) SQL
11 15 (4.29%) Objective-C
12 12 (3.43%) Perl
13 7 (2.00%) C
13 7 (2.00%) Ruby
13 7 (2.00%) Scala
14 6 (1.71%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.43%) PHP
16 4 (1.14%) Bash
16 4 (1.14%) Bicep
17 2 (0.57%) Dart
Qualifications
1 39 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.14%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.57%) Degree
4 12 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) MCP
11 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.57%) MCITP
11 2 (0.57%) MCSA
11 2 (0.57%) MCSE
11 2 (0.57%) MCTS
11 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Master
12 1 (0.29%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.29%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.86%) SLA
3 19 (5.43%) QA
4 5 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 71 (20.29%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.57%) Docker
3 4 (1.14%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (15.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (8.57%) SCCM
3 4 (1.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.14%) Podman
3 4 (1.14%) Terraform
4 3 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.57%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.57%) Istio
5 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (29.14%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.86%) Cisco
2 38 (10.86%) Splunk
3 32 (9.14%) Google
4 30 (8.57%) Apple
5 24 (6.86%) Meraki
6 21 (6.00%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.71%) HP
7 13 (3.71%) Oracle
8 12 (3.43%) Dell
9 10 (2.86%) Adobe
10 6 (1.71%) Remedy
11 5 (1.43%) BMC
11 5 (1.43%) Xamarin
12 4 (1.14%) Clearswift
12 4 (1.14%) Ribbon
12 4 (1.14%) Samsung
13 3 (0.86%) Okta
13 3 (0.86%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.86%) Zscaler