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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 220 200
Rank change year-on-year -109 -20 +86
Contract jobs citing Android 329 342 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 1.23% 1.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.40% 9.19% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 205 267
10th Percentile £185 £161 £213
25th Percentile £258 £250 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £625
90th Percentile £638 £595 £825
UK median daily rate £465 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +16.25% -15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 15
10th Percentile £13.51 £18.87 £18.54
25th Percentile £14.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.39 £25.15 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -4.19% +38.16%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £42.75
90th Percentile £26.66 £59.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £25.15 £23.08
% change year-on-year -15.51% +8.99% +21.67%

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 4,447 3,720 4,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.73% 13.38% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,861 2,459 3,135
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £669 £681 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 236 289
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.41
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £16.86
Median hourly rate £34.13 £23.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.39% -32.35% -8.94%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.92 £24.58 £27.50
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.62% -31.25%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -78 158 £475 +15.15% 41
North of England -83 56 £300 -25.00% 23
South West -11 48 £515 +58.46% 13
North West -61 24 £300 -22.38% 12
South East -80 23 £210 +1.20% 24
Yorkshire -33 21 £190 -56.82% 9
Midlands -59 18 £225 -41.94% 10
North East -31 14 £450 +20.00% 3
East of England -20 13 £325 +71.05% 10
West Midlands -55 11 £225 +100.00% 7
East Midlands -26 7 - - 3
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 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) Notion
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.28%) Azure
2 66 (20.06%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (15.20%) Entra ID
4 28 (8.51%) AWS
5 27 (8.21%) GitHub
6 21 (6.38%) GCP
7 19 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.26%) Google Play
9 13 (3.95%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.95%) SaaS
10 8 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (2.13%) Firebase
11 7 (2.13%) IaaS
12 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.82%) PaaS
12 6 (1.82%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (1.52%) BrowserStack
13 5 (1.52%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.26%) DNS
1 14 (4.26%) VPN
2 13 (3.95%) DHCP
2 13 (3.95%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.74%) Skype
4 7 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.52%) Firewall
6 5 (1.52%) Internet
6 5 (1.52%) LAN
6 5 (1.52%) VoIP
6 5 (1.52%) WAN
7 3 (0.91%) Network Security
7 3 (0.91%) WebEx
7 3 (0.91%) Wireless
8 2 (0.61%) DSL
8 2 (0.61%) NFC
8 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.74%) MySQL
2 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.52%) Power BI
4 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.91%) SQLite
5 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (4.56%) JIRA
2 14 (4.26%) Android Studio
3 13 (3.95%) Gradle
4 11 (3.34%) Appium
4 11 (3.34%) Git
4 11 (3.34%) JUnit
5 9 (2.74%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.13%) XCUITest
7 6 (1.82%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.82%) fastlane
8 5 (1.52%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.52%) Xcode
9 4 (1.22%) Selenium
10 3 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.91%) Postman
10 3 (0.91%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
General
1 106 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (9.42%) Finance
4 22 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.08%) Banking
6 12 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.34%) Retail
8 6 (1.82%) Italian Language
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.52%) Legal
9 5 (1.52%) Military
10 4 (1.22%) Games
11 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Publishing
12 2 (0.61%) Slovak Language
13 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (19.45%) Senior
2 48 (14.59%) Developer
3 39 (11.85%) Android Engineer
4 33 (10.03%) Android Developer
5 32 (9.73%) Analyst
5 32 (9.73%) Mobile Engineer
6 29 (8.81%) Support Engineer
7 26 (7.90%) IT Support
8 21 (6.38%) IT Engineer
9 20 (6.08%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (6.08%) Architect
10 16 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) Senior Android Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Designer
12 12 (3.65%) Desktop Support
12 12 (3.65%) QA Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Support Analyst
14 10 (3.04%) Lead
14 10 (3.04%) Service Analyst
14 10 (3.04%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.68%) Android Jetpack
2 37 (11.25%) Jetpack Compose
3 30 (9.12%) Android SDK
4 25 (7.60%) REST
5 20 (6.08%) RESTful
6 13 (3.95%) React Native
7 11 (3.34%) Flutter
7 11 (3.34%) GraphQL
8 9 (2.74%) RxJava
9 7 (2.13%) JSON
10 6 (1.82%) Dagger
11 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.52%) CSS
11 5 (1.52%) Retrofit
12 4 (1.22%) OAuth
12 4 (1.22%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.22%) React
12 4 (1.22%) SwiftUI
13 3 (0.91%) JWT
13 3 (0.91%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 94 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 24 (7.29%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.17%) Blackberry
4 16 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (4.86%) Virtual Team
5 15 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.65%) Video Conferencing
7 11 (3.34%) Smartphone
8 8 (2.43%) iPad
9 7 (2.13%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.13%) Educational Technology
9 7 (2.13%) iPhone
9 7 (2.13%) Mobile Payment
10 6 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.82%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
11 5 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
12 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 185 (56.23%) Apple iOS
2 126 (38.30%) Windows
3 42 (12.77%) Mac OS
3 42 (12.77%) Windows 10
4 14 (4.26%) Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.91%) Unix
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (17.63%) Android Development
3 55 (16.72%) User Experience
4 49 (14.89%) Agile
5 48 (14.59%) Mobile Device Management
6 46 (13.98%) CI/CD
7 43 (13.07%) Customer Service
8 38 (11.55%) MVVM
9 35 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (10.64%) Test Automation
10 32 (9.73%) ITIL
10 32 (9.73%) ITSM
11 31 (9.42%) AI
12 29 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (8.51%) Data Protection
14 24 (7.29%) Customer Experience
15 23 (6.99%) Service Delivery
16 22 (6.69%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (6.69%) Performance Optimisation
17 18 (5.47%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 81 (24.62%) Kotlin
2 53 (16.11%) Java
3 17 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.17%) Swift
4 16 (4.86%) Python
5 12 (3.65%) C++
6 11 (3.34%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.91%) Perl
8 3 (0.91%) SQL
9 2 (0.61%) C
9 2 (0.61%) Korn
9 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.61%) Rust
9 2 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) Go
10 1 (0.30%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.38%) Degree
4 20 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.91%) ACSP
9 3 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.30%) CCSP
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.55%) QA
2 27 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 23 (6.99%) SLA
4 8 (2.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (16.72%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.43%) Docker
3 5 (1.52%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.52%) Firmware
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (20.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.47%) SCCM
3 8 (2.43%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.91%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.61%) Terraform
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) MobiControl
7 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 113 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.16%) Apple
3 38 (11.55%) Google
4 23 (6.99%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.26%) HP
6 12 (3.65%) MobileIron
7 11 (3.34%) Citrix
7 11 (3.34%) VMware
8 8 (2.43%) Cisco
9 6 (1.82%) Canon
10 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.22%) Splunk
12 3 (0.91%) Oracle
12 3 (0.91%) Remedy
13 2 (0.61%) Dell
13 2 (0.61%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.61%) SAP
13 2 (0.61%) Sophos
13 2 (0.61%) SOTI