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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 207 182
Rank change year-on-year -134 -25 +96
Contract jobs citing Android 331 373 456
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 1.34% 1.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.33% 9.66% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 231 276
10th Percentile £185 £163 £238
25th Percentile £249 £204 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.01% +5.76%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £447
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.51% +5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 9
10th Percentile £13.51 - £22.90
25th Percentile £14.00 - £24.15
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% -40.82% +77.08%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile £26.13 £60.25 £72.80
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £25.15 £26.25
% change year-on-year -15.51% -4.19% +22.09%

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 4,516 3,862 4,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.79% 13.83% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,881 2,529 2,859
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £276 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 275 217
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £22.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -58.08% +28.51%
75th Percentile £67.47 £59.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.47% -52.10% +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -92 163 £475 +5.56% 400
North of England -76 69 £325 -14.47% 83
North West -53 38 £350 -6.67% 53
South West -27 32 £515 +58.46% 42
South East -78 23 £210 +1.20% 73
Midlands -60 21 £225 -41.94% 36
Yorkshire -39 20 £190 -56.82% 24
East of England -22 14 £325 +71.05% 38
North East -28 14 £450 +125.00% 6
West Midlands -56 13 £225 +28.57% 21
East Midlands -20 8 £213 -54.05% 15
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 21 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (12.99%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) Notion
4 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (24.17%) Azure
2 76 (22.96%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (15.11%) Entra ID
4 32 (9.67%) AWS
5 27 (8.16%) GitHub
6 24 (7.25%) GCP
7 18 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (4.83%) Google Play
8 16 (4.83%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.93%) SaaS
10 9 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.42%) Firebase
11 8 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (2.42%) IaaS
12 6 (1.81%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.81%) PaaS
13 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.51%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.21%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.44%) DNS
2 16 (4.83%) DHCP
2 16 (4.83%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.23%) VPN
4 13 (3.93%) Skype
5 10 (3.02%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (2.42%) Firewall
6 8 (2.42%) VoIP
7 7 (2.11%) Internet
8 6 (1.81%) WebEx
9 4 (1.21%) LAN
10 3 (0.91%) VLAN
10 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.60%) Network Security
11 2 (0.60%) NFC
11 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.60%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.60%) WAN
11 2 (0.60%) Wireless
12 1 (0.30%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.32%) MySQL
2 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.51%) Power BI
3 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.60%) Tableau
5 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.30%) Db2
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.30%) Parquet
5 1 (0.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (5.44%) JIRA
2 15 (4.53%) Gradle
3 13 (3.93%) Git
4 9 (2.72%) Android Studio
4 9 (2.72%) Appium
4 9 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.72%) JUnit
5 7 (2.11%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.81%) fastlane
6 6 (1.81%) Xcode
7 5 (1.51%) Crashlytics
8 4 (1.21%) Selenium
8 4 (1.21%) XCUITest
9 3 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.91%) Postman
9 3 (0.91%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.60%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.60%) Selendroid
General
1 119 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.18%) Finance
3 34 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.85%) Banking
5 24 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.63%) Retail
7 7 (2.11%) Legal
7 7 (2.11%) Military
8 6 (1.81%) Italian Language
9 4 (1.21%) Games
9 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Publishing
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Back Office
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 58 (17.52%) Senior
2 45 (13.60%) Developer
3 42 (12.69%) Support Engineer
4 36 (10.88%) Android Engineer
4 36 (10.88%) Mobile Engineer
5 34 (10.27%) IT Support
6 32 (9.67%) Android Developer
7 30 (9.06%) Analyst
8 26 (7.85%) IT Engineer
9 20 (6.04%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (5.44%) 2nd Line Support
11 17 (5.14%) Desktop Support
12 14 (4.23%) Desktop Engineer
13 13 (3.93%) Senior Android Engineer
14 11 (3.32%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 11 (3.32%) QA Engineer
15 10 (3.02%) Designer
16 9 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (2.72%) Service Analyst
16 9 (2.72%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.20%) Android Jetpack
2 40 (12.08%) Jetpack Compose
3 29 (8.76%) REST
4 27 (8.16%) Android SDK
5 21 (6.34%) RESTful
6 14 (4.23%) GraphQL
7 13 (3.93%) React Native
8 10 (3.02%) Flutter
8 10 (3.02%) JSON
9 8 (2.42%) RxJava
10 7 (2.11%) Dagger
11 6 (1.81%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.81%) Retrofit
12 5 (1.51%) React
12 5 (1.51%) SwiftUI
13 4 (1.21%) OAuth
13 4 (1.21%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.21%) OpenID
13 4 (1.21%) UIKit
14 3 (0.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 102 (30.82%) Mobile App
2 31 (9.37%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.83%) Virtual Team
4 15 (4.53%) Video Conferencing
5 14 (4.23%) Smartphone
6 13 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.72%) Blackberry
9 9 (2.72%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.42%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.42%) iPad
11 7 (2.11%) Educational Technology
11 7 (2.11%) iPhone
11 7 (2.11%) Mobile Payment
12 6 (1.81%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.51%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.51%) Handset
14 4 (1.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 187 (56.50%) Apple iOS
2 130 (39.27%) Windows
3 52 (15.71%) Windows 10
4 41 (12.39%) Mac OS
5 9 (2.72%) Linux
6 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (18.73%) Customer Service
3 57 (17.22%) User Experience
4 56 (16.92%) Agile
4 56 (16.92%) Android Development
5 49 (14.80%) ITIL
6 46 (13.90%) CI/CD
7 45 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (13.29%) ITSM
9 41 (12.39%) Mobile Device Management
10 38 (11.48%) Test Automation
11 36 (10.88%) AI
12 35 (10.57%) MVVM
13 31 (9.37%) Service Delivery
14 26 (7.85%) Data Protection
15 23 (6.95%) Customer Experience
15 23 (6.95%) Mobile Development
15 23 (6.95%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (6.34%) Architectural Patterns
16 21 (6.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.66%) Kotlin
2 47 (14.20%) Java
3 21 (6.34%) PowerShell
4 17 (5.14%) Swift
5 13 (3.93%) Python
6 12 (3.63%) C++
7 11 (3.32%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.11%) SQL
8 7 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.51%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) Korn
10 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.60%) Rust
11 1 (0.30%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 54 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (5.44%) Degree
5 14 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.11%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ACSP
11 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.30%) CCSP
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.08%) QA
2 34 (10.27%) SLA
3 29 (8.76%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.11%) WCAG
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (19.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.81%) Docker
3 5 (1.51%) Firmware
3 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.21%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (19.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (9.06%) SCCM
3 6 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.21%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 120 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.78%) Google
3 36 (10.88%) Apple
4 25 (7.55%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.23%) HP
6 10 (3.02%) Cisco
7 6 (1.81%) Canon
8 5 (1.51%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.51%) Tanium
9 4 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.21%) Oracle
9 4 (1.21%) Splunk
10 3 (0.91%) Citrix
10 3 (0.91%) Remedy
10 3 (0.91%) SAP
11 2 (0.60%) Dell
11 2 (0.60%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.60%) MobileIron
11 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.60%) Sophos