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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 215 191
Rank change year-on-year -131 -24 +91
Contract jobs citing Android 316 351 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.27% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.15% 9.27% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 211 282
10th Percentile £185 £190 £213
25th Percentile £256 £250 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £464
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -13.75% +9.12%
75th Percentile £559 £496 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £825
UK median daily rate £465 £400 £458
% change year-on-year +16.25% -12.57% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 14
10th Percentile £13.51 £23.27 -
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 - £42.75
90th Percentile £26.66 £59.50 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £24.15
% change year-on-year -23.14% +4.14% +27.11%

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 4,421 3,786 4,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 13.65% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 2,496 3,088
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 244 281
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.52 £12.38
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.32 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £24.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +46.75% -33.64% -9.59%
75th Percentile £66.63 £58.81 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £25.08 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.69% -16.42% -27.56%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -83 158 £475 +11.76% 45
North of England -82 56 £300 -25.00% 17
South West -23 36 £475 +35.71% 28
North West -70 25 £300 -22.58% 8
South East -83 22 £209 +0.60% 22
Yorkshire -37 20 £190 -56.82% 8
Midlands -61 18 £225 -41.94% 9
East of England -23 14 £400 +110.53% 9
North East -28 14 £450 +20.00% 2
West Midlands -50 11 £225 +65.14% 7
East Midlands -23 7 - - 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 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 18 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (11.08%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Notion
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (22.47%) Azure
2 64 (20.25%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (14.87%) Entra ID
4 28 (8.86%) AWS
4 28 (8.86%) GitHub
5 21 (6.65%) GCP
6 19 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.43%) Google Play
8 13 (4.11%) OneDrive
8 13 (4.11%) SaaS
9 9 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (2.22%) Firebase
11 7 (2.22%) IaaS
12 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.90%) PaaS
13 5 (1.58%) BrowserStack
13 5 (1.58%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.58%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.58%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.43%) DNS
1 14 (4.43%) VPN
2 13 (4.11%) DHCP
2 13 (4.11%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.16%) Skype
4 7 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (1.90%) VoIP
6 5 (1.58%) Firewall
6 5 (1.58%) Internet
7 4 (1.27%) LAN
7 4 (1.27%) WAN
7 4 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.95%) WebEx
9 2 (0.63%) DSL
9 2 (0.63%) Network Security
9 2 (0.63%) NFC
9 2 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.63%) VLAN
9 2 (0.63%) Wireless
10 1 (0.32%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.85%) MySQL
2 6 (1.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.58%) Power BI
4 3 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.63%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (5.38%) JIRA
2 13 (4.11%) Gradle
3 12 (3.80%) Android Studio
3 12 (3.80%) Git
4 11 (3.48%) Appium
4 11 (3.48%) JUnit
5 10 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.22%) XCUITest
7 6 (1.90%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.90%) fastlane
8 5 (1.58%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.58%) Selenium
9 4 (1.27%) Postman
9 4 (1.27%) Xcode
9 4 (1.27%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.95%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (10.13%) Finance
4 21 (6.65%) Banking
4 21 (6.65%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.48%) Retail
7 6 (1.90%) Italian Language
7 6 (1.90%) Military
8 5 (1.58%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.58%) Legal
9 4 (1.27%) Games
10 3 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.95%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.63%) Slovak Language
12 1 (0.32%) Bulgarian Language
12 1 (0.32%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.32%) Norwegian Language
12 1 (0.32%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (20.25%) Senior
2 44 (13.92%) Developer
3 40 (12.66%) Android Engineer
4 32 (10.13%) Mobile Engineer
5 31 (9.81%) Analyst
6 30 (9.49%) Support Engineer
7 29 (9.18%) Android Developer
8 25 (7.91%) IT Support
9 21 (6.65%) IT Engineer
10 19 (6.01%) 2nd Line Support
11 16 (5.06%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (4.43%) Senior Android Engineer
13 13 (4.11%) Architect
13 13 (4.11%) Desktop Support
14 12 (3.80%) Designer
14 12 (3.80%) QA Engineer
15 10 (3.16%) Lead
15 10 (3.16%) Service Analyst
15 10 (3.16%) Service Desk Analyst
15 10 (3.16%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.24%) Android Jetpack
2 37 (11.71%) Jetpack Compose
3 28 (8.86%) Android SDK
4 26 (8.23%) REST
5 20 (6.33%) RESTful
6 13 (4.11%) React Native
7 12 (3.80%) Flutter
8 11 (3.48%) GraphQL
9 9 (2.85%) RxJava
10 8 (2.53%) JSON
11 6 (1.90%) Dagger
12 5 (1.58%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.58%) Retrofit
13 4 (1.27%) CSS
13 4 (1.27%) OAuth
13 4 (1.27%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.27%) React
13 4 (1.27%) SwiftUI
14 3 (0.95%) Playwright
14 3 (0.95%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 94 (29.75%) Mobile App
2 24 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.38%) Virtual Team
4 16 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (4.43%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (3.80%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.48%) Smartphone
9 10 (3.16%) Blackberry
10 8 (2.53%) iPad
11 7 (2.22%) Cloud Native
11 7 (2.22%) Educational Technology
11 7 (2.22%) iPhone
11 7 (2.22%) Mobile Payment
12 6 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.90%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.58%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (1.58%) Virtual Reality
14 4 (1.27%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 175 (55.38%) Apple iOS
2 118 (37.34%) Windows
3 42 (13.29%) Windows 10
4 41 (12.97%) Mac OS
5 12 (3.80%) Linux
6 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.95%) Unix
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (17.41%) User Experience
3 54 (17.09%) Android Development
4 49 (15.51%) Agile
5 47 (14.87%) CI/CD
6 45 (14.24%) Customer Service
7 40 (12.66%) Mobile Device Management
8 38 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (11.71%) MVVM
10 35 (11.08%) ITSM
10 35 (11.08%) Test Automation
11 33 (10.44%) ITIL
12 31 (9.81%) AI
13 27 (8.54%) Data Protection
14 24 (7.59%) Customer Experience
14 24 (7.59%) Service Delivery
15 22 (6.96%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (6.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 22 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (6.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 76 (24.05%) Kotlin
2 49 (15.51%) Java
3 17 (5.38%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.06%) Swift
5 15 (4.75%) Python
6 12 (3.80%) C++
7 10 (3.16%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.27%) SQL
10 3 (0.95%) Perl
11 2 (0.63%) C
11 2 (0.63%) Korn
11 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.63%) Rust
11 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 65 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.96%) Degree
4 21 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.58%) A+ Certification
8 5 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.95%) ACSP
10 3 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.32%) CCSP
12 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.32%) CISSP
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.66%) QA
2 27 (8.54%) Accessibility
3 25 (7.91%) SLA
4 8 (2.53%) WCAG
5 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) NCSC
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.90%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) Firmware
3 5 (1.58%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (17.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.33%) SCCM
3 7 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.58%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.27%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.32%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 104 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.97%) Apple
3 37 (11.71%) Google
4 24 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.43%) HP
6 7 (2.22%) Cisco
7 6 (1.90%) Canon
8 5 (1.58%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.58%) MobileIron
9 4 (1.27%) Citrix
9 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.27%) Splunk
9 4 (1.27%) VMware
10 3 (0.95%) Oracle
10 3 (0.95%) Remedy
10 3 (0.95%) Tanium
11 2 (0.63%) Dell
11 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.63%) SAP
11 2 (0.63%) Sophos