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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 219 201
Rank change year-on-year -113 -18 +86
Contract jobs citing Android 328 337 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 1.21% 1.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.44% 9.06% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 204 264
10th Percentile £194 £161 £213
25th Percentile £263 £250 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £625
90th Percentile £638 £596 £825
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 16
10th Percentile £13.51 £22.64 £19.12
25th Percentile £14.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -21.10% +67.76%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £49.25
90th Percentile £26.66 £59.75 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £20.29 £25.15 £24.15
% change year-on-year -19.32% +4.14% +27.34%

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 4,406 3,721 4,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.67% 13.37% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,821 2,464 3,144
10th Percentile £190 £198 £200
25th Percentile £313 £308 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £454 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -7.20% -2.10%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +2.87% -2.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 232 294
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.32 £23.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.85% -33.33% -16.96%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.38% -12.73% -35.29%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -88 153 £475 +17.28% 176
North of England -72 52 £300 -25.00% 41
South West -8 51 £515 +58.46% 19
South East -89 26 £210 +1.20% 32
North West -63 21 £300 -25.00% 23
Yorkshire -41 20 £190 -56.82% 15
Midlands -61 19 £350 -12.50% 16
North East -30 14 £450 -18.18% 4
West Midlands -53 13 £350 +118.75% 8
East of England -18 12 £325 +71.05% 23
East Midlands -18 6 - - 8
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 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 34 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) Notion
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.12%) Azure
2 62 (18.90%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (14.02%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.15%) GitHub
5 26 (7.93%) AWS
6 21 (6.40%) GCP
6 21 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.27%) Google Play
8 13 (3.96%) SaaS
9 12 (3.66%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (2.13%) Firebase
11 7 (2.13%) IaaS
12 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.83%) PaaS
12 6 (1.83%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (1.52%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.22%) BrowserStack
14 4 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.27%) VPN
2 11 (3.35%) DNS
2 11 (3.35%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.05%) DHCP
4 8 (2.44%) Skype
5 7 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.83%) LAN
6 6 (1.83%) WAN
7 5 (1.52%) Internet
7 5 (1.52%) VoIP
8 4 (1.22%) Firewall
9 3 (0.91%) Network Security
9 3 (0.91%) WebEx
10 2 (0.61%) DSL
10 2 (0.61%) NFC
10 2 (0.61%) Wireless
11 1 (0.30%) 4G
11 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.74%) MySQL
2 6 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.22%) Power BI
4 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.91%) SQLite
5 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (4.88%) JIRA
2 15 (4.57%) Gradle
3 14 (4.27%) Android Studio
4 12 (3.66%) Appium
4 12 (3.66%) JUnit
5 11 (3.35%) Git
6 9 (2.74%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.44%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.13%) XCUITest
9 6 (1.83%) fastlane
10 5 (1.52%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.52%) Xcode
11 4 (1.22%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (0.91%) Postman
12 3 (0.91%) Selenium
13 2 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
13 2 (0.61%) GitLab
General
1 100 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (9.45%) Finance
4 22 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.10%) Banking
6 12 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.35%) Retail
8 6 (1.83%) Italian Language
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.52%) Legal
9 5 (1.52%) Military
10 4 (1.22%) Games
11 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Publishing
12 2 (0.61%) Slovak Language
13 1 (0.30%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 64 (19.51%) Senior
2 49 (14.94%) Developer
3 43 (13.11%) Android Engineer
4 35 (10.67%) Android Developer
5 33 (10.06%) Analyst
5 33 (10.06%) Mobile Engineer
6 24 (7.32%) Support Engineer
7 23 (7.01%) IT Support
8 21 (6.40%) Architect
9 19 (5.79%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (5.18%) IT Engineer
11 15 (4.57%) Senior Android Engineer
12 13 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.66%) Designer
13 12 (3.66%) QA Engineer
14 10 (3.05%) Desktop Support
14 10 (3.05%) Service Analyst
14 10 (3.05%) Service Desk Analyst
14 10 (3.05%) Support Analyst
15 9 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.24%) Android Jetpack
2 42 (12.80%) Jetpack Compose
3 34 (10.37%) Android SDK
4 25 (7.62%) REST
5 21 (6.40%) RESTful
6 14 (4.27%) React Native
7 11 (3.35%) GraphQL
8 10 (3.05%) Flutter
8 10 (3.05%) RxJava
9 8 (2.44%) JSON
10 7 (2.13%) Dagger
11 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.52%) CSS
11 5 (1.52%) Retrofit
12 4 (1.22%) OAuth
12 4 (1.22%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.22%) OkHttp
12 4 (1.22%) React
12 4 (1.22%) SwiftUI
12 4 (1.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.27%) Mobile App
2 24 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.49%) Blackberry
4 16 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 15 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.96%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.35%) Smartphone
8 9 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.44%) iPad
10 7 (2.13%) Educational Technology
10 7 (2.13%) iPhone
10 7 (2.13%) Mobile Payment
11 6 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
12 5 (1.52%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 183 (55.79%) Apple iOS
2 119 (36.28%) Windows
3 39 (11.89%) Mac OS
4 38 (11.59%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.27%) Linux
6 3 (0.91%) Unix
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (19.21%) Android Development
3 53 (16.16%) User Experience
4 49 (14.94%) Agile
5 48 (14.63%) CI/CD
6 46 (14.02%) Mobile Device Management
7 43 (13.11%) MVVM
8 40 (12.20%) Customer Service
9 36 (10.98%) Test Automation
10 29 (8.84%) AI
10 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (8.54%) ITIL
11 28 (8.54%) ITSM
12 27 (8.23%) Data Protection
13 23 (7.01%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (6.71%) Customer Experience
14 22 (6.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (6.40%) Service Delivery
16 18 (5.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (26.52%) Kotlin
2 59 (17.99%) Java
3 16 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 16 (4.88%) Swift
4 14 (4.27%) Python
5 12 (3.66%) C++
6 9 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.91%) Perl
8 3 (0.91%) SQL
9 2 (0.61%) C
9 2 (0.61%) Korn
9 2 (0.61%) Rust
9 2 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) Go
10 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.30%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.71%) Degree
4 18 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.52%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.91%) ACSP
10 3 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.59%) QA
2 27 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.79%) SLA
4 8 (2.44%) WCAG
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) NCSC
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.74%) Docker
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.22%) BitLocker
4 4 (1.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (18.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.88%) SCCM
3 8 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.91%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.61%) Podman
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 107 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.20%) Google
3 39 (11.89%) Apple
4 22 (6.71%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.96%) MobileIron
6 12 (3.66%) Citrix
6 12 (3.66%) HP
6 12 (3.66%) VMware
7 8 (2.44%) Cisco
8 6 (1.83%) Canon
8 6 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.22%) Splunk
10 3 (0.91%) Oracle
10 3 (0.91%) Remedy
11 2 (0.61%) Dell
11 2 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.61%) Meraki
11 2 (0.61%) SAP
11 2 (0.61%) Sophos
300 Android jobs in England