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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 221 177
Rank change year-on-year -112 -44 +104
Contract jobs citing Android 322 350 477
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.27% 1.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.17% 9.30% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 214 311
10th Percentile £185 £163 £225
25th Percentile £254 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -13.51% +8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile £638 £596 £825
UK median daily rate £455 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +13.75% -13.51% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 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% +61.39%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £42.75
90th Percentile £26.66 £59.50 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -15.51% +4.01% +24.00%

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 4,489 3,764 4,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.75% 13.66% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 2,481 3,060
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £305 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £451 £475
% change year-on-year +4.33% -5.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 239 254
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.66 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.79% -50.68% +13.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £59.50 £69.45
90th Percentile £75.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.47% -44.11% +2.02%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -77 161 £475 +11.70% 321
North of England -78 62 £300 -25.00% 36
South West -27 33 £475 +46.15% 37
North West -70 31 £300 -23.13% 26
South East -89 23 £210 +1.20% 56
Yorkshire -42 20 £190 -57.30% 10
Midlands -75 18 £225 -43.75% 20
East of England -15 15 £325 +71.05% 23
North East -28 14 £450 +20.00% 1
West Midlands -54 11 £225 +28.57% 12
East Midlands -28 7 - - 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 22 (6.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 37 (11.49%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Notion
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (22.67%) Azure
2 70 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (15.53%) Entra ID
4 28 (8.70%) AWS
5 27 (8.39%) GitHub
6 21 (6.52%) GCP
7 18 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.66%) Google Play
9 14 (4.35%) OneDrive
10 13 (4.04%) SaaS
11 10 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.48%) Firebase
12 8 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.17%) IaaS
14 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.86%) PaaS
15 5 (1.55%) BrowserStack
15 5 (1.55%) Google Workspace
15 5 (1.55%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.55%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.28%) DNS
2 16 (4.97%) DHCP
3 15 (4.66%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.66%) VPN
4 12 (3.73%) Skype
5 8 (2.48%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (1.86%) Firewall
6 6 (1.86%) VoIP
7 5 (1.55%) Internet
8 4 (1.24%) LAN
8 4 (1.24%) WAN
8 4 (1.24%) WebEx
8 4 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.62%) Network Security
9 2 (0.62%) NFC
9 2 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.62%) VLAN
9 2 (0.62%) Wireless
10 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) MySQL
2 6 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.55%) Power BI
4 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.62%) Tableau
6 1 (0.31%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (5.59%) JIRA
2 14 (4.35%) Gradle
3 13 (4.04%) Git
4 11 (3.42%) Appium
5 10 (3.11%) Android Studio
5 10 (3.11%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.11%) JUnit
6 6 (1.86%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.86%) fastlane
6 6 (1.86%) XCUITest
7 5 (1.55%) Crashlytics
7 5 (1.55%) Selenium
8 4 (1.24%) Postman
8 4 (1.24%) Xcode
8 4 (1.24%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.62%) GitLab
10 2 (0.62%) JMeter
General
1 104 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.56%) Finance
3 33 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.83%) Banking
5 21 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.42%) Retail
8 6 (1.86%) Italian Language
8 6 (1.86%) Legal
8 6 (1.86%) Military
9 5 (1.55%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.24%) Games
11 3 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Slovak Language
12 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Front Office
13 1 (0.31%) Norwegian Language
13 1 (0.31%) Polish Language
13 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (19.25%) Senior
2 44 (13.66%) Developer
3 39 (12.11%) Android Engineer
4 36 (11.18%) Support Engineer
5 33 (10.25%) Mobile Engineer
6 31 (9.63%) Analyst
7 29 (9.01%) Android Developer
8 28 (8.70%) IT Support
9 25 (7.76%) IT Engineer
10 19 (5.90%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (4.66%) Desktop Support
12 13 (4.04%) Senior Android Engineer
13 12 (3.73%) QA Engineer
14 11 (3.42%) Designer
14 11 (3.42%) Desktop Engineer
15 10 (3.11%) Architect
15 10 (3.11%) Lead
15 10 (3.11%) Support Analyst
16 9 (2.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.98%) Android Jetpack
2 37 (11.49%) Jetpack Compose
3 27 (8.39%) REST
4 26 (8.07%) Android SDK
5 20 (6.21%) RESTful
6 13 (4.04%) React Native
7 12 (3.73%) Flutter
8 11 (3.42%) GraphQL
9 9 (2.80%) RxJava
10 8 (2.48%) JSON
11 7 (2.17%) Dagger
12 6 (1.86%) Retrofit
13 5 (1.55%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.24%) CSS
14 4 (1.24%) OAuth
14 4 (1.24%) OAuth2
14 4 (1.24%) OkHttp
14 4 (1.24%) React
14 4 (1.24%) SwiftUI
15 3 (0.93%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.81%) Mobile App
2 26 (8.07%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.28%) Virtual Team
4 15 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.66%) Video Conferencing
5 14 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.73%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.48%) Blackberry
7 8 (2.48%) iPad
8 7 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.17%) Educational Technology
8 7 (2.17%) iPhone
8 7 (2.17%) Mobile Payment
9 6 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.86%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.55%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 178 (55.28%) Apple iOS
2 119 (36.96%) Windows
3 45 (13.98%) Windows 10
4 42 (13.04%) Mac OS
5 12 (3.73%) Linux
6 3 (0.93%) Unix
6 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (18.32%) User Experience
3 54 (16.77%) Android Development
4 51 (15.84%) Agile
5 50 (15.53%) Customer Service
6 48 (14.91%) CI/CD
7 42 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (12.42%) Mobile Device Management
9 38 (11.80%) ITIL
10 37 (11.49%) ITSM
11 36 (11.18%) MVVM
11 36 (11.18%) Test Automation
12 32 (9.94%) AI
13 27 (8.39%) Data Protection
14 26 (8.07%) Customer Experience
15 25 (7.76%) Service Delivery
16 22 (6.83%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (6.83%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (6.52%) DevOps
18 18 (5.59%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.98%) Kotlin
2 47 (14.60%) Java
3 18 (5.59%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.97%) Swift
5 15 (4.66%) Python
6 12 (3.73%) C++
7 10 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.24%) SQL
10 3 (0.93%) Perl
11 2 (0.62%) C
11 2 (0.62%) Korn
11 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.62%) Rust
11 2 (0.62%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) Bash
12 1 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 52 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.83%) Degree
3 22 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.55%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.93%) ACSP
8 3 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.31%) CCSP
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.31%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.42%) QA
2 30 (9.32%) SLA
3 27 (8.39%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.31%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) NCSC
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (18.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.86%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) Firmware
3 5 (1.55%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (18.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.52%) SCCM
3 7 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.55%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.24%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 108 (33.54%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.04%) Apple
3 37 (11.49%) Google
4 24 (7.45%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.66%) HP
6 8 (2.48%) Cisco
7 6 (1.86%) Canon
8 5 (1.55%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.24%) Splunk
9 4 (1.24%) Tanium
10 3 (0.93%) Oracle
10 3 (0.93%) Remedy
11 2 (0.62%) Dell
11 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.62%) MobileIron
11 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.62%) SAP
11 2 (0.62%) Sophos
11 2 (0.62%) SOTI