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

 6 months to
24 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 201 264
Rank change year-on-year -19 +63 -2
Contract jobs citing Android 399 364 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.26% 0.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.58% 9.02% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 211 241
10th Percentile £163 £200 £141
25th Percentile £200 £321 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £448 £533 £500
90th Percentile £559 £625 £588
UK median daily rate £350 £420 £400
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 6 14
10th Percentile £21.08 £26.02 -
25th Percentile - £30.90 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +75.32% +1.69%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.31 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.80 £69.88 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £18.97
% change year-on-year -18.29% +62.30% +4.72%

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 4,167 4,035 5,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.19% 14.02% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,741 2,546 3,879
10th Percentile £175 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 138 295
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.35 £18.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.33 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.54% +70.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63.50 £67.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.08 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -38.66% +26.15% +34.02%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -69 162 £425 -1.16% 100
North of England -14 84 £225 -33.53% 80
North West -2 55 £220 -33.69% 54
South West +28 52 £350 -15.15% 34
South East +22 51 £208 -44.67% 88
Midlands -27 25 £175 -49.75% 52
Yorkshire -26 20 £350 -30.00% 25
East of England -13 19 £225 -50.00% 41
East Midlands -6 14 £388 +8.85% 28
West Midlands -19 11 £175 +34.62% 23
North East -6 9 £175 +16.67% 2
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 18 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.51%) Confluence
3 9 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 78 (19.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.25%) InDesign
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Moqups
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (24.81%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (11.28%) Azure
3 23 (5.76%) SaaS
4 21 (5.26%) Sauce Labs
5 19 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 19 (4.76%) GitHub
6 17 (4.26%) AWS
7 16 (4.01%) Google Play
8 14 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.51%) Figma
9 13 (3.26%) GCP
10 10 (2.51%) Firebase
11 8 (2.01%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.25%) Sentry
14 4 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (1.00%) BrowserStack
14 4 (1.00%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.75%) Google Analytics
16 2 (0.50%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (16.54%) Wireless
2 19 (4.76%) DNS
3 17 (4.26%) DHCP
4 13 (3.26%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.26%) VoIP
5 11 (2.76%) Cisco IOS
6 10 (2.51%) Firewall
7 8 (2.01%) LAN
8 7 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.25%) HTTP
9 5 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (1.25%) WAN
10 4 (1.00%) Bluetooth
10 4 (1.00%) VPN
11 3 (0.75%) ATM
12 2 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.50%) IP Telephony
12 2 (0.50%) VLAN
13 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.26%) MySQL
1 21 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
3 2 (0.50%) Power BI
4 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (11.28%) Android Studio
2 36 (9.02%) Xcode
3 31 (7.77%) Git
4 29 (7.27%) Gradle
5 23 (5.76%) Browser DevTools
6 21 (5.26%) Eclipse
7 19 (4.76%) JIRA
8 15 (3.76%) JUnit
9 14 (3.51%) Appium
10 12 (3.01%) Jenkins
11 10 (2.51%) CircleCI
12 9 (2.26%) GitLab
13 8 (2.01%) Charles Proxy
14 7 (1.75%) Postman
14 7 (1.75%) Storybook
15 6 (1.50%) Bitbucket
16 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
16 5 (1.25%) Katalon Studio
16 5 (1.25%) XCUITest
17 4 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 96 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.04%) Finance
3 46 (11.53%) Public Sector
4 43 (10.78%) Banking
5 30 (7.52%) Telecoms
6 29 (7.27%) Electronics
7 25 (6.27%) Manufacturing
8 24 (6.02%) Marketing
9 17 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.51%) Games
10 10 (2.51%) Military
11 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Publishing
13 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.75%) Retail
14 2 (0.50%) Back Office
14 2 (0.50%) Wearables
15 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (31.33%) Developer
2 75 (18.80%) Android Developer
3 62 (15.54%) IT Support
4 56 (14.04%) Support Engineer
5 42 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
6 36 (9.02%) Senior
7 31 (7.77%) Desktop Support
8 26 (6.52%) IT Engineer
9 25 (6.27%) Analyst
9 25 (6.27%) Technical Support
10 23 (5.76%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (5.76%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 23 (5.76%) Technical Engineer
10 23 (5.76%) Technical Support Engineer
11 21 (5.26%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.26%) UX Engineer
12 20 (5.01%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 18 (4.51%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
15 14 (3.51%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.03%) Android Jetpack
2 38 (9.52%) Jetpack Compose
3 32 (8.02%) RESTful
4 31 (7.77%) React
5 30 (7.52%) CSS
5 30 (7.52%) React Native
6 28 (7.02%) GraphQL
7 25 (6.27%) Android SDK
8 23 (5.76%) AngularJS
9 22 (5.51%) Ajax
10 13 (3.26%) RxJava
11 12 (3.01%) Dagger
12 11 (2.76%) REST
12 11 (2.76%) Web Services
13 10 (2.51%) iOS SDK
13 10 (2.51%) JSON
13 10 (2.51%) OAuth
14 9 (2.26%) Flutter
14 9 (2.26%) HTML
15 8 (2.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 130 (32.58%) Mobile App
2 41 (10.28%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.51%) Smartphone
4 17 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 16 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.26%) Virtual Reality
8 8 (2.01%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.75%) iPhone
10 6 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.00%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.00%) EPoS
11 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.75%) Blackberry
12 3 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 175 (43.86%) Apple iOS
2 138 (34.59%) Windows
3 87 (21.80%) Mac OS
4 55 (13.78%) Windows 10
5 44 (11.03%) Linux
6 23 (5.76%) Unix
7 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (24.31%) Android Development
2 76 (19.05%) User Experience
3 69 (17.29%) Agile
4 64 (16.04%) CI/CD
5 56 (14.04%) Customer Service
6 47 (11.78%) Mobile Application Development
7 45 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (10.03%) DevOps
9 39 (9.77%) Test Automation
10 34 (8.52%) MVVM
11 30 (7.52%) Mobile Development
11 30 (7.52%) Software Engineering
12 28 (7.02%) iOS Development
13 26 (6.52%) OO
13 26 (6.52%) Unit Testing
14 25 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (6.02%) Architectural Patterns
16 23 (5.76%) Digital Marketing
16 23 (5.76%) ITIL
16 23 (5.76%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (22.81%) Java
2 86 (21.55%) Kotlin
3 53 (13.28%) JavaScript
4 41 (10.28%) Python
5 26 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 25 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.02%) Perl
8 23 (5.76%) Swift
9 22 (5.51%) C++
10 16 (4.01%) C#
11 14 (3.51%) Objective-C
12 13 (3.26%) SQL
13 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.00%) C
14 4 (1.00%) PHP
14 4 (1.00%) Scala
15 3 (0.75%) Ruby
16 2 (0.50%) Dart
17 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 98 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 87 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.26%) Degree
4 17 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.25%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.75%) MCP
9 2 (0.50%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.50%) MCITP
9 2 (0.50%) MCSA
9 2 (0.50%) MCSE
9 2 (0.50%) MCTS
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.03%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.02%) QA
3 18 (4.51%) SLA
4 4 (1.00%) WCAG
5 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (11.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (9.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (4.26%) SCCM
3 6 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.75%) AirWatch
4 3 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.75%) Terraform
5 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.50%) Grafana
5 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 96 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 74 (18.55%) Apple
3 58 (14.54%) Cisco
4 51 (12.78%) HP
5 50 (12.53%) Dell
6 46 (11.53%) Google
7 38 (9.52%) ServiceNow
8 32 (8.02%) Splunk
9 24 (6.02%) SAP
10 23 (5.76%) Oracle
11 10 (2.51%) Xamarin
12 6 (1.50%) Adobe
12 6 (1.50%) Meraki
13 5 (1.25%) Remedy
14 4 (1.00%) BMC
14 4 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.00%) Samsung
14 4 (1.00%) Zscaler
15 3 (0.75%) NCR
15 3 (0.75%) Optimizely
386 Android jobs in England