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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 249 193
Rank change year-on-year -46 -56 +59
Contract jobs citing Android 327 244 438
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.00% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.11% 7.11% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 158 304
10th Percentile £190 £160 £190
25th Percentile £256 £213 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £473 £600
90th Percentile £650 £541 £825
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 27
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.46 £22.96 £17.90
Median hourly rate £34.13 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.40% +12.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £27.72 £53.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £32.47 £79.25
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £24.66 £18.93
% change year-on-year +8.11% +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 4,034 3,430 5,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.97% 14.07% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,671 2,333 3,465
10th Percentile £185 £200 £181
25th Percentile £310 £313 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 154 372
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.23 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.44 £15.44
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% +9.50% -42.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £24.09 £22.00
% change year-on-year +76.85% +9.50% -44.02%

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 3 May 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 May 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 May 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 -59 132 £450 +20.00% 53
South West +22 63 £500 +48.15% 20
South East -37 45 £361 +76.24% 26
North of England -65 44 £225 -43.75% 33
Yorkshire -42 20 £190 -57.78% 17
North West -51 19 £225 -32.94% 14
East of England -23 18 £300 - 15
Midlands -81 12 £625 +92.31% 12
West Midlands -59 9 £625 +358.72% 10
North East -14 8 £525 +180.00% 2
East Midlands -44 3 - - 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 15 (4.59%) Confluence
2 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (9.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) Notion
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (16.51%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (10.09%) Azure
3 25 (7.65%) GCP
4 24 (7.34%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.03%) AWS
6 22 (6.73%) GitHub
7 16 (4.89%) Google Workspace
8 14 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.28%) SaaS
9 12 (3.67%) Sauce Labs
10 6 (1.83%) Figma
10 6 (1.83%) IaaS
10 6 (1.83%) PaaS
11 5 (1.53%) Firebase
11 5 (1.53%) Google Play
11 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.22%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (0.92%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.59%) DNS
2 14 (4.28%) DHCP
2 14 (4.28%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.28%) VoIP
3 13 (3.98%) Wireless
4 10 (3.06%) LAN
4 10 (3.06%) WAN
4 10 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.75%) VPN
6 5 (1.53%) Internet
7 4 (1.22%) DSL
8 2 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.61%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.61%) Firewall
8 2 (0.61%) Skype
9 1 (0.31%) 4G
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.31%) Network Security
9 1 (0.31%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.75%) MySQL
2 6 (1.83%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.92%) DB2
3 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.61%) Power BI
4 2 (0.61%) SQLite
4 2 (0.61%) Tableau
5 1 (0.31%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 30 (9.17%) Android Studio
2 21 (6.42%) Gradle
2 21 (6.42%) JIRA
3 14 (4.28%) Appium
4 13 (3.98%) JUnit
4 13 (3.98%) Xcode
5 9 (2.75%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.45%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (2.45%) GitLab
7 7 (2.14%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.83%) Eclipse
8 6 (1.83%) Git
9 5 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.53%) fastlane
9 5 (1.53%) Postman
10 4 (1.22%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.22%) PyUnit
10 4 (1.22%) Selenium
10 4 (1.22%) XCUITest
General
1 98 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (8.87%) Banking
4 26 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.73%) Finance
6 15 (4.59%) Military
7 8 (2.45%) Publishing
8 6 (1.83%) Electronics
9 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.53%) Retail
9 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Legal
11 2 (0.61%) Slovak Language
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Automotive
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.31%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (25.38%) Developer
2 61 (18.65%) Android Developer
3 42 (12.84%) Senior
4 41 (12.54%) Analyst
5 26 (7.95%) Architect
5 26 (7.95%) Mobile Engineer
6 25 (7.65%) IT Support
7 23 (7.03%) Android Engineer
7 23 (7.03%) Support Engineer
8 22 (6.73%) 2nd Line Support
9 19 (5.81%) Service Desk Analyst
10 18 (5.50%) Service Analyst
11 16 (4.89%) IT Engineer
12 14 (4.28%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.67%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.67%) Support Analyst
14 10 (3.06%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.75%) IT Analyst
16 8 (2.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
16 8 (2.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.01%) Android Jetpack
2 34 (10.40%) Jetpack Compose
3 26 (7.95%) React Native
4 21 (6.42%) Android SDK
5 16 (4.89%) React
6 15 (4.59%) REST
7 13 (3.98%) GraphQL
8 12 (3.67%) RxJava
9 10 (3.06%) Dagger
9 10 (3.06%) OkHttp
10 9 (2.75%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.75%) CSS
11 8 (2.45%) Flutter
12 7 (2.14%) Ajax
12 7 (2.14%) OAuth
12 7 (2.14%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.14%) WebdriverIO
13 6 (1.83%) pytest
13 6 (1.83%) WireMock
14 5 (1.53%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (24.77%) Mobile App
2 17 (5.20%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.20%) Smartphone
3 15 (4.59%) Blackberry
4 14 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 11 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.36%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.83%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.83%) Mobile Banking
10 5 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.22%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (1.22%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 177 (54.13%) Apple iOS
2 131 (40.06%) Windows
3 53 (16.21%) Mac OS
4 36 (11.01%) Windows 10
5 31 (9.48%) Linux
6 6 (1.83%) Unix
6 6 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (23.24%) Android Development
3 41 (12.54%) Agile
3 41 (12.54%) CI/CD
4 40 (12.23%) Test Automation
5 37 (11.31%) User Experience
6 34 (10.40%) Customer Service
7 33 (10.09%) Mobile Device Management
8 30 (9.17%) MVVM
9 28 (8.56%) ITIL
10 26 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (7.65%) Software Engineering
12 22 (6.73%) AI
13 21 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (5.81%) Mobile Application Development
14 19 (5.81%) Mobile Development
15 17 (5.20%) Open Source
16 16 (4.89%) Computer Science
17 15 (4.59%) iOS Development
17 15 (4.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (20.80%) Kotlin
2 57 (17.43%) Java
3 31 (9.48%) JavaScript
4 28 (8.56%) Python
5 17 (5.20%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.59%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.28%) Swift
8 6 (1.83%) Objective-C
8 6 (1.83%) Perl
8 6 (1.83%) SQL
9 5 (1.53%) C++
10 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) Bash
12 1 (0.31%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.31%) C#
Qualifications
1 100 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 90 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.73%) Degree
4 12 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.92%) PhD
8 2 (0.61%) SANS
9 1 (0.31%) ACSP
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.50%) QA
2 16 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.22%) WCAG
4 3 (0.92%) GDPR
4 3 (0.92%) NCSC
5 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (10.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.61%) Firmware
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (11.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.75%) SCCM
3 6 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.22%) Grafana
4 4 (1.22%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.92%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.61%) Kibana
6 2 (0.61%) Podman
6 2 (0.61%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 87 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.46%) Apple
3 43 (13.15%) Google
4 21 (6.42%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.89%) HP
5 16 (4.89%) MobileIron
6 15 (4.59%) Citrix
6 15 (4.59%) VMware
7 13 (3.98%) Cisco
8 11 (3.36%) Dell
9 6 (1.83%) Oracle
9 6 (1.83%) Splunk
10 5 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.53%) Remedy
11 4 (1.22%) Braze
12 3 (0.92%) Coverity
12 3 (0.92%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.92%) Thales
12 3 (0.92%) Virgin Media
12 3 (0.92%) Xamarin