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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 254 216
Rank change year-on-year -27 -38 +46
Contract jobs citing Android 343 238 406
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 0.98% 1.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.27% 6.96% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 152 292
10th Percentile £170 £160 £165
25th Percentile £213 £214 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £357 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -20.72% +8.11%
75th Percentile £523 £469 £575
90th Percentile £625 £573 £773
UK median daily rate £375 £375 £444
% change year-on-year - -15.49% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 22
10th Percentile £16.77 £19.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.81 £16.39
Median hourly rate £52.02 £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +110.95% +30.27% -16.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.52 £36.06
90th Percentile £73.50 £34.13 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £24.66 £18.93
% change year-on-year +64.23% +30.27% -16.35%

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 4,149 3,421 5,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.82% 14.11% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,755 2,352 3,543
10th Percentile £181 £200 £178
25th Percentile £300 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 138 375
10th Percentile £14.40 £16.25 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.24 £18.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £52.83
90th Percentile £74.26 £69.50 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +1.38% +12.09% -25.80%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -63 130 £423 +20.71% 53
South West +24 71 £475 +46.15% 15
North of England -60 56 £190 -48.68% 27
South East -33 43 £361 +64.23% 31
North West -43 34 £225 -30.77% 11
East of England -22 19 £275 - 17
Yorkshire -60 13 £190 -57.78% 12
Midlands -66 13 £475 +25.66% 12
North East -10 9 £175 -22.22% 5
West Midlands -60 7 £575 +43.75% 11
East Midlands -36 6 £158 -54.78% 1
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 15 (4.37%) Confluence
2 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 52 (15.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (7.58%) Azure
3 22 (6.41%) Entra ID
4 20 (5.83%) GitHub
5 17 (4.96%) GCP
6 15 (4.37%) Google Workspace
7 14 (4.08%) AWS
7 14 (4.08%) Sauce Labs
8 13 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.62%) Figma
9 9 (2.62%) SaaS
10 6 (1.75%) Firebase
10 6 (1.75%) Google Play
11 5 (1.46%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.17%) BlazeMeter
13 3 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (0.87%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.87%) npm
13 3 (0.87%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.75%) Wireless
2 19 (5.54%) DNS
3 18 (5.25%) DHCP
4 16 (4.66%) TCP/IP
5 15 (4.37%) VoIP
6 12 (3.50%) LAN
6 12 (3.50%) WAN
6 12 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (2.62%) VPN
8 5 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.87%) DSL
10 2 (0.58%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.58%) Firewall
10 2 (0.58%) Internet
11 1 (0.29%) 4G
11 1 (0.29%) ATM
11 1 (0.29%) HTTP
11 1 (0.29%) Network Security
11 1 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.21%) MySQL
2 8 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.87%) DB2
3 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.87%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.58%) SQLite
5 1 (0.29%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (10.20%) Android Studio
2 20 (5.83%) Gradle
3 19 (5.54%) JIRA
4 16 (4.66%) Xcode
5 12 (3.50%) Appium
6 11 (3.21%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.21%) JUnit
7 10 (2.92%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (2.62%) GitLab
9 8 (2.33%) Eclipse
10 7 (2.04%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.04%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.04%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.04%) Git
11 6 (1.75%) Postman
12 5 (1.46%) PyCharm
12 5 (1.46%) PyUnit
13 4 (1.17%) fastlane
13 4 (1.17%) JMeter
13 4 (1.17%) Selenium
General
1 94 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.08%) Public Sector
3 33 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.33%) Finance
5 30 (8.75%) Banking
6 20 (5.83%) Electronics
6 20 (5.83%) Manufacturing
7 19 (5.54%) Telecoms
8 14 (4.08%) Marketing
8 14 (4.08%) Military
9 12 (3.50%) Publishing
10 5 (1.46%) Retail
11 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Billing
13 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Legal
13 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 95 (27.70%) Developer
2 65 (18.95%) Android Developer
3 53 (15.45%) IT Support
4 38 (11.08%) 2nd Line Support
4 38 (11.08%) Senior
5 35 (10.20%) Support Engineer
6 33 (9.62%) Analyst
7 24 (7.00%) Architect
8 23 (6.71%) IT Engineer
9 22 (6.41%) IT Support Engineer
10 21 (6.12%) Android Engineer
11 19 (5.54%) Mobile Engineer
12 18 (5.25%) Desktop Support
13 17 (4.96%) Service Desk Analyst
14 16 (4.66%) Service Analyst
15 13 (3.79%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
15 13 (3.79%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
15 13 (3.79%) Software Engineer
16 12 (3.50%) Senior Developer
17 11 (3.21%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.20%) Android Jetpack
2 33 (9.62%) Jetpack Compose
3 27 (7.87%) Android SDK
3 27 (7.87%) React Native
4 21 (6.12%) React
5 14 (4.08%) GraphQL
6 12 (3.50%) REST
7 11 (3.21%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.21%) CSS
8 10 (2.92%) RxJava
9 9 (2.62%) Ajax
9 9 (2.62%) Flutter
10 8 (2.33%) Dagger
10 8 (2.33%) OkHttp
11 7 (2.04%) JSON
11 7 (2.04%) pytest
11 7 (2.04%) RESTful
11 7 (2.04%) WebdriverIO
12 6 (1.75%) OAuth
12 6 (1.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 75 (21.87%) Mobile App
2 18 (5.25%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.66%) Smartphone
4 15 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.08%) Blackberry
5 14 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.21%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.04%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.46%) iPhone
10 5 (1.46%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.46%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.17%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.87%) Acoustics
12 3 (0.87%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.87%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 166 (48.40%) Apple iOS
2 139 (40.52%) Windows
3 62 (18.08%) Mac OS
4 48 (13.99%) Windows 10
5 36 (10.50%) Linux
6 9 (2.62%) Windows Server
7 8 (2.33%) Unix
8 2 (0.58%) VMS
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (23.32%) Android Development
2 72 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (13.12%) Test Automation
4 44 (12.83%) Customer Service
5 43 (12.54%) Agile
6 42 (12.24%) CI/CD
7 41 (11.95%) User Experience
8 33 (9.62%) ITIL
9 32 (9.33%) MVVM
10 27 (7.87%) Mobile Device Management
11 26 (7.58%) Software Engineering
12 25 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (6.71%) Open Source
14 19 (5.54%) iOS Development
14 19 (5.54%) Mobile Application Development
14 19 (5.54%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (4.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (4.66%) Analytics
16 16 (4.66%) Mobile Development
17 15 (4.37%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 68 (19.83%) Kotlin
2 64 (18.66%) Java
3 37 (10.79%) JavaScript
4 30 (8.75%) Python
5 19 (5.54%) PowerShell
5 19 (5.54%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.37%) Swift
7 8 (2.33%) Perl
8 7 (2.04%) Objective-C
9 6 (1.75%) SQL
10 5 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.87%) C++
12 2 (0.58%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) BrightScript
13 1 (0.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 111 (32.36%) Security Cleared
2 103 (30.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.12%) Degree
4 11 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.87%) PhD
10 2 (0.58%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.58%) SANS
11 1 (0.29%) ACSP
11 1 (0.29%) GIAC
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.29%) Accessibility
2 18 (5.25%) QA
3 7 (2.04%) WCAG
4 4 (1.17%) SLA
5 3 (0.87%) GDPR
6 2 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (11.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.58%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (11.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.50%) SCCM
3 10 (2.92%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.17%) Grafana
5 3 (0.87%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.58%) Kibana
6 2 (0.58%) Podman
6 2 (0.58%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 89 (25.95%) Microsoft
2 51 (14.87%) Apple
3 46 (13.41%) Google
4 30 (8.75%) Cisco
5 29 (8.45%) HP
6 28 (8.16%) ServiceNow
7 27 (7.87%) Dell
8 15 (4.37%) Citrix
8 15 (4.37%) MobileIron
8 15 (4.37%) VMware
9 13 (3.79%) SAP
10 9 (2.62%) Splunk
11 8 (2.33%) Oracle
12 5 (1.46%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.46%) Remedy
12 5 (1.46%) Xamarin
12 5 (1.46%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.87%) Coverity
13 3 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.87%) Rapid7