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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 197 246
Rank change year-on-year -41 +49 +1
Contract jobs citing Android 365 345 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.30% 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.82% 9.26% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 199 256
10th Percentile £163 £175 £155
25th Percentile £204 £306 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £415 £434
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% -4.38% -8.63%
75th Percentile £463 £515 £519
90th Percentile £585 £596 £600
UK median daily rate £350 £415 £438
% change year-on-year -15.66% -5.14% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 23
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.64 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.72
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.72 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.66% +45.89% -8.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £71.40 £45.80 £78.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.72 £18.93
% change year-on-year -0.79% +46.43% -2.92%

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 4,136 3,727 5,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.82% 14.09% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,771 2,344 3,788
10th Percentile £173 £200 £178
25th Percentile £263 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £466
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.93% -9.51%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -8.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 125 336
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £53.00 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.59% +78.15% +15.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.54% +15.00% +17.12%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -63 146 £423 -0.59% 55
North of England -26 79 £225 -33.88% 39
North West +1 54 £225 -30.77% 11
South West +12 48 £400 +88.24% 25
South East -4 45 £244 -35.00% 75
Midlands -29 24 £175 -49.75% 13
Yorkshire -43 16 £313 -34.04% 22
East of England -15 14 £250 -44.44% 32
East Midlands -18 14 £158 -55.76% 4
West Midlands -30 10 £175 +37.25% 9
North East -13 9 £175 +16.67% 6
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 14 (3.84%) Confluence
2 12 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 77 (21.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.27%) InDesign
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.01%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (10.41%) Azure
3 22 (6.03%) GitHub
4 18 (4.93%) Entra ID
4 18 (4.93%) SaaS
5 17 (4.66%) AWS
5 17 (4.66%) GCP
6 16 (4.38%) Sauce Labs
7 15 (4.11%) Figma
8 12 (3.29%) Google Workspace
9 10 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.19%) Google Play
11 7 (1.92%) Firebase
12 5 (1.37%) Sentry
13 4 (1.10%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (1.10%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.82%) BrowserStack
14 3 (0.82%) Google Analytics
14 3 (0.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.07%) Wireless
2 17 (4.66%) DNS
3 15 (4.11%) DHCP
4 14 (3.84%) VoIP
5 12 (3.29%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.92%) LAN
7 6 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.37%) HTTP
8 5 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (1.37%) WAN
9 4 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (1.10%) Firewall
9 4 (1.10%) VPN
10 3 (0.82%) ATM
10 3 (0.82%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.55%) Internet
12 1 (0.27%) 4G
12 1 (0.27%) DSL
12 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.21%) MySQL
2 16 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.27%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.27%) Power BI
5 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (11.23%) Android Studio
2 33 (9.04%) Gradle
3 30 (8.22%) Xcode
4 20 (5.48%) Git
5 19 (5.21%) JIRA
6 18 (4.93%) Browser DevTools
7 17 (4.66%) JUnit
8 16 (4.38%) Eclipse
9 13 (3.56%) Appium
9 13 (3.56%) Jenkins
10 9 (2.47%) GitLab
11 8 (2.19%) Bitbucket
11 8 (2.19%) Charles Proxy
11 8 (2.19%) CircleCI
11 8 (2.19%) Postman
12 7 (1.92%) Storybook
13 5 (1.37%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.37%) Katalon Studio
13 5 (1.37%) PyCharm
13 5 (1.37%) XCUITest
General
1 88 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.52%) Finance
3 45 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 38 (10.41%) Banking
5 30 (8.22%) Electronics
5 30 (8.22%) Telecoms
6 25 (6.85%) Manufacturing
7 24 (6.58%) Marketing
8 20 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.56%) Military
10 10 (2.74%) Publishing
11 6 (1.64%) Retail
12 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.55%) Back Office
13 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Wearables
14 1 (0.27%) Advertising
14 1 (0.27%) Automotive
14 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 123 (33.70%) Developer
2 73 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 63 (17.26%) IT Support
4 48 (13.15%) Support Engineer
5 47 (12.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 38 (10.41%) Senior
7 31 (8.49%) Desktop Support
8 25 (6.85%) Analyst
9 23 (6.30%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 23 (6.30%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 19 (5.21%) IT Engineer
10 19 (5.21%) Technical Support
11 18 (4.93%) Mobile Engineer
12 17 (4.66%) IT Support Engineer
12 17 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.66%) Software Engineer
12 17 (4.66%) Technical Engineer
12 17 (4.66%) Technical Support Engineer
13 16 (4.38%) UX Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.86%) Android Jetpack
2 34 (9.32%) Jetpack Compose
3 32 (8.77%) React Native
4 25 (6.85%) Android SDK
4 25 (6.85%) React
5 23 (6.30%) CSS
5 23 (6.30%) GraphQL
6 20 (5.48%) RESTful
7 18 (4.93%) AngularJS
8 17 (4.66%) Ajax
9 15 (4.11%) RxJava
10 14 (3.84%) Dagger
11 13 (3.56%) OAuth
11 13 (3.56%) REST
12 11 (3.01%) iOS SDK
12 11 (3.01%) Web Services
13 9 (2.47%) JSON
13 9 (2.47%) OkHttp
14 8 (2.19%) Retrofit
15 7 (1.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 110 (30.14%) Mobile App
2 35 (9.59%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.66%) Smartphone
4 16 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.56%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.74%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.19%) Mobile Banking
8 7 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
8 7 (1.92%) Virtual Reality
9 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.37%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.37%) iPhone
10 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.10%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.82%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 173 (47.40%) Apple iOS
2 125 (34.25%) Windows
3 71 (19.45%) Mac OS
4 54 (14.79%) Windows 10
5 42 (11.51%) Linux
6 18 (4.93%) Unix
7 7 (1.92%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (25.48%) Android Development
2 69 (18.90%) User Experience
3 58 (15.89%) Agile
4 52 (14.25%) CI/CD
4 52 (14.25%) Customer Service
5 49 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (10.68%) Mobile Application Development
6 39 (10.68%) Test Automation
7 33 (9.04%) MVVM
8 28 (7.67%) Software Engineering
9 27 (7.40%) iOS Development
10 25 (6.85%) DevOps
10 25 (6.85%) ITIL
10 25 (6.85%) Mobile Development
11 24 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (6.58%) Open Source
12 23 (6.30%) Digital Marketing
12 23 (6.30%) Programme Management
13 22 (6.03%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (6.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (22.47%) Java
2 79 (21.64%) Kotlin
3 50 (13.70%) JavaScript
4 34 (9.32%) Python
5 25 (6.85%) TypeScript
6 24 (6.58%) Swift
7 21 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 19 (5.21%) Perl
9 16 (4.38%) C++
10 13 (3.56%) Objective-C
11 9 (2.47%) C#
12 8 (2.19%) SQL
13 7 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.10%) C
14 4 (1.10%) Scala
15 3 (0.82%) Ruby
16 1 (0.27%) Bash
16 1 (0.27%) BrightScript
Qualifications
1 92 (25.21%) Security Cleared
2 84 (23.01%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.30%) Degree
4 11 (3.01%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) SANS
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.27%) GIAC
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.85%) QA
3 14 (3.84%) SLA
4 6 (1.64%) WCAG
5 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
5 2 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.01%) SCCM
3 6 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.55%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.55%) Grafana
5 2 (0.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 69 (18.90%) Apple
3 48 (13.15%) Google
4 45 (12.33%) Cisco
5 44 (12.05%) Dell
5 44 (12.05%) HP
6 34 (9.32%) ServiceNow
7 23 (6.30%) SAP
8 21 (5.75%) Splunk
9 18 (4.93%) Oracle
10 10 (2.74%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.37%) Adobe
11 5 (1.37%) Remedy
12 4 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.10%) Samsung
12 4 (1.10%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.82%) NCR
13 3 (0.82%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.82%) Thales