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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 190 260
Rank change year-on-year -18 +70 -11
Contract jobs citing Android 418 404 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.33% 0.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.05% 9.45% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 243 251
10th Percentile £163 £205 £143
25th Percentile £204 £340 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £469 £525 £538
90th Percentile £564 £625 £613
UK median daily rate £350 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -17.65% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 16
10th Percentile £20.95 £30.97 £18.72
25th Percentile - £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +81.82% +9.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £68.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £70.10 £78.13
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.64 £18.97
% change year-on-year -20.51% +66.83% +7.51%

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 4,159 4,276 5,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.56% 14.09% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,726 2,628 4,095
10th Percentile £181 £200 £181
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 £572 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 163 319
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.52 £15.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +84.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +66.67% +20.00%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -44 178 £403 -7.26% 61
North of England -12 90 £238 -33.29% 40
South East +38 56 £208 -44.67% 106
North West 0 56 £225 -36.80% 22
South West +29 45 £350 -21.13% 26
Yorkshire -17 26 £375 -25.00% 13
Midlands -30 25 £175 -61.02% 16
East of England -11 19 £225 -50.00% 19
East Midlands -6 14 £388 +9.77% 12
West Midlands -39 11 £175 -62.77% 4
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 34 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.63%) Confluence
3 10 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.72%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 79 (18.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.20%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.20%) Sketch
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.24%) InDesign
5 1 (0.24%) Moqups
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (28.23%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (11.72%) Azure
3 21 (5.02%) Google Play
3 21 (5.02%) SaaS
4 18 (4.31%) Entra ID
4 18 (4.31%) Figma
4 18 (4.31%) GitHub
4 18 (4.31%) Sauce Labs
5 17 (4.07%) AWS
5 17 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.39%) Firebase
7 9 (2.15%) GCP
8 6 (1.44%) BrowserStack
8 6 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.20%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.20%) Sentry
10 4 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (0.96%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (0.72%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 68 (16.27%) Wireless
2 26 (6.22%) Cisco IOS
3 25 (5.98%) Firewall
4 18 (4.31%) DNS
5 16 (3.83%) DHCP
6 14 (3.35%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.91%) VoIP
8 7 (1.67%) LAN
8 7 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.44%) Bluetooth
10 5 (1.20%) HTTP
10 5 (1.20%) IP Telephony
10 5 (1.20%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (1.20%) VLAN
10 5 (1.20%) VPN
11 4 (0.96%) WAN
12 3 (0.72%) ATM
13 2 (0.48%) Cisco IPT
14 1 (0.24%) Broadband
14 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.31%) MySQL
1 18 (4.31%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.72%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.48%) 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 41 (9.81%) Android Studio
2 39 (9.33%) Git
3 32 (7.66%) Xcode
4 25 (5.98%) Gradle
5 20 (4.78%) Browser DevTools
6 19 (4.55%) JIRA
7 18 (4.31%) Eclipse
8 16 (3.83%) Appium
8 16 (3.83%) JUnit
9 13 (3.11%) Jenkins
10 11 (2.63%) GitLab
11 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
11 9 (2.15%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.91%) Charles Proxy
13 7 (1.67%) NUnit
13 7 (1.67%) Postman
13 7 (1.67%) Storybook
14 5 (1.20%) Axure RP
14 5 (1.20%) Katalon Studio
14 5 (1.20%) XCUITest
General
1 94 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.70%) Finance
3 53 (12.68%) Banking
4 44 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.42%) Telecoms
6 29 (6.94%) Electronics
7 25 (5.98%) Games
7 25 (5.98%) Manufacturing
8 24 (5.74%) Marketing
9 17 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.91%) Military
11 5 (1.20%) Publishing
12 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.72%) Retail
14 2 (0.48%) Automotive
14 2 (0.48%) Back Office
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
15 1 (0.24%) Advertising
15 1 (0.24%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 120 (28.71%) Developer
2 71 (16.99%) Android Developer
3 59 (14.11%) IT Support
4 53 (12.68%) Support Engineer
5 38 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
6 37 (8.85%) Senior
7 31 (7.42%) Desktop Support
8 26 (6.22%) IT Engineer
9 23 (5.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 23 (5.50%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 23 (5.50%) Technical Support
10 21 (5.02%) Analyst
10 21 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 20 (4.78%) Technical Engineer
11 20 (4.78%) Technical Support Engineer
12 19 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.31%) UX Engineer
14 17 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.05%) Android Jetpack
2 39 (9.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 37 (8.85%) RESTful
4 35 (8.37%) CSS
5 34 (8.13%) React Native
6 33 (7.89%) React
7 26 (6.22%) Android SDK
8 23 (5.50%) GraphQL
9 21 (5.02%) AngularJS
10 18 (4.31%) Ajax
11 17 (4.07%) HTML
12 14 (3.35%) Redux
13 12 (2.87%) Dagger
13 12 (2.87%) RxJava
14 10 (2.39%) Jest
14 10 (2.39%) OAuth
14 10 (2.39%) Web Services
15 9 (2.15%) Flutter
15 9 (2.15%) JSON
15 9 (2.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 136 (32.54%) Mobile App
2 47 (11.24%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.63%) Smartphone
7 9 (2.15%) iPhone
8 8 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
9 7 (1.67%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.20%) iPad
12 4 (0.96%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.96%) EPoS
12 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 183 (43.78%) Apple iOS
2 147 (35.17%) Windows
3 102 (24.40%) Mac OS
4 54 (12.92%) Windows 10
5 40 (9.57%) Linux
6 20 (4.78%) Unix
7 6 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.20%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.48%) 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 91 (21.77%) Android Development
2 87 (20.81%) Agile
3 83 (19.86%) User Experience
4 75 (17.94%) CI/CD
5 50 (11.96%) Customer Service
6 48 (11.48%) Mobile Application Development
7 47 (11.24%) DevOps
8 45 (10.77%) Test Automation
9 40 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (8.13%) MVVM
11 30 (7.18%) Unit Testing
12 29 (6.94%) Mobile Development
13 26 (6.22%) Architectural Patterns
13 26 (6.22%) iOS Development
13 26 (6.22%) Scrum
13 26 (6.22%) UX Design
14 25 (5.98%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (5.98%) Software Engineering
15 23 (5.50%) E-Commerce
15 23 (5.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.29%) Kotlin
2 88 (21.05%) Java
3 55 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 46 (11.00%) PowerShell
5 39 (9.33%) Python
6 26 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.26%) Swift
8 21 (5.02%) C++
8 21 (5.02%) Perl
9 19 (4.55%) C#
10 16 (3.83%) SQL
11 13 (3.11%) Objective-C
12 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.96%) C
13 4 (0.96%) PHP
13 4 (0.96%) Scala
14 3 (0.72%) Ruby
15 2 (0.48%) Bash
15 2 (0.48%) Dart
Qualifications
1 93 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 82 (19.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.55%) Degree
3 19 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.44%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.72%) MCP
9 2 (0.48%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.48%) MCITP
9 2 (0.48%) MCSA
9 2 (0.48%) MCSE
9 2 (0.48%) MCTS
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.96%) Accessibility
2 23 (5.50%) QA
3 21 (5.02%) SLA
4 5 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.96%) WCAG
6 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (8.37%) SCCM
3 9 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.72%) AirWatch
4 3 (0.72%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.48%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.24%) Podman
6 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 110 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 75 (17.94%) Cisco
3 72 (17.22%) Apple
4 53 (12.68%) HP
5 52 (12.44%) Dell
6 47 (11.24%) Google
7 44 (10.53%) Splunk
8 36 (8.61%) ServiceNow
9 24 (5.74%) SAP
10 21 (5.02%) Meraki
10 21 (5.02%) Oracle
11 12 (2.87%) Adobe
12 10 (2.39%) Xamarin
13 8 (1.91%) Remedy
14 5 (1.20%) BMC
14 5 (1.20%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (0.96%) Samsung
16 3 (0.72%) NCR
16 3 (0.72%) Optimizely
225 Android jobs in England