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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 212 165
Rank change year-on-year -117 -47 +110
Contract jobs citing Android 328 350 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.27% 1.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.28% 9.26% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 214 315
10th Percentile £185 £163 £237
25th Percentile £244 £261 £369
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 11
10th Percentile £13.51 £23.27 £22.00
25th Percentile £14.00 - £23.64
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -36.33% +97.50%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £55.75
90th Percentile £26.66 £59.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £25.15 £26.25
% change year-on-year -15.51% -4.19% +32.91%

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 4,508 3,779 4,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.80% 13.71% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 2,493 3,035
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £310 £300 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £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 338 244 236
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.22
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £20.22
Median hourly rate £35.79 £25.15 £57.38
Median % change year-on-year +42.30% -56.17% +20.37%
75th Percentile £67.75 £59.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.45 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.38% -49.19% +6.02%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -75 168 £475 +7.95% 331
North of England -83 61 £300 -25.00% 47
South West -32 32 £475 +46.15% 37
North West -66 30 £300 -25.00% 34
South East -71 23 £210 +1.20% 58
Yorkshire -35 21 £190 -57.30% 11
Midlands -69 18 £225 -42.86% 32
East of England -26 16 £250 +31.58% 33
North East -29 13 £450 +20.00% 3
West Midlands -56 11 £225 +28.57% 17
East Midlands -28 7 - - 15
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 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 41 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) Notion
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.56%) Azure
2 73 (22.26%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (15.55%) Entra ID
4 26 (7.93%) AWS
4 26 (7.93%) GitHub
5 22 (6.71%) GCP
6 16 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.57%) Google Play
8 14 (4.27%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.96%) SaaS
10 10 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (2.44%) IaaS
13 7 (2.13%) Firebase
14 6 (1.83%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.83%) PaaS
15 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
16 4 (1.22%) BrowserStack
16 4 (1.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.49%) DNS
2 16 (4.88%) DHCP
3 15 (4.57%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.57%) VPN
4 12 (3.66%) Skype
5 10 (3.05%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (2.13%) Firewall
6 7 (2.13%) VoIP
7 6 (1.83%) WebEx
8 5 (1.52%) Internet
9 4 (1.22%) LAN
9 4 (1.22%) WAN
9 4 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.61%) Network Security
10 2 (0.61%) NFC
10 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.61%) VLAN
10 2 (0.61%) Wireless
11 1 (0.30%) 4G
11 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.74%) MySQL
2 6 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.52%) Power BI
4 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.61%) Tableau
6 1 (0.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (5.49%) JIRA
2 14 (4.27%) Gradle
3 12 (3.66%) Git
4 10 (3.05%) Android Studio
4 10 (3.05%) Appium
4 10 (3.05%) JUnit
5 8 (2.44%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.83%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.83%) fastlane
7 5 (1.52%) Crashlytics
7 5 (1.52%) XCUITest
8 4 (1.22%) Selenium
8 4 (1.22%) Xcode
8 4 (1.22%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.91%) Postman
10 2 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.61%) Selendroid
General
1 112 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.67%) Finance
3 34 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.01%) Banking
5 21 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.35%) Retail
8 8 (2.44%) Legal
9 7 (2.13%) Military
10 6 (1.83%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.22%) Games
11 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Slovak Language
13 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Front Office
14 1 (0.30%) Norwegian Language
14 1 (0.30%) Polish Language
14 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (18.60%) Senior
2 44 (13.41%) Developer
3 40 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 39 (11.89%) Android Engineer
5 34 (10.37%) Mobile Engineer
6 31 (9.45%) Analyst
7 30 (9.15%) IT Support
8 29 (8.84%) Android Developer
9 25 (7.62%) IT Engineer
10 19 (5.79%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (5.79%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (4.57%) Desktop Support
12 13 (3.96%) Desktop Engineer
12 13 (3.96%) Senior Android Engineer
13 12 (3.66%) QA Engineer
14 11 (3.35%) Designer
15 10 (3.05%) Lead
15 10 (3.05%) Service Analyst
15 10 (3.05%) Service Desk Analyst
16 9 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.02%) Android Jetpack
2 38 (11.59%) Jetpack Compose
3 26 (7.93%) Android SDK
3 26 (7.93%) REST
4 20 (6.10%) RESTful
5 11 (3.35%) GraphQL
5 11 (3.35%) React Native
6 10 (3.05%) Flutter
7 9 (2.74%) RxJava
8 8 (2.44%) JSON
9 7 (2.13%) Dagger
10 6 (1.83%) Retrofit
11 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.22%) CSS
12 4 (1.22%) OkHttp
12 4 (1.22%) React
13 3 (0.91%) Ajax
13 3 (0.91%) Playwright
13 3 (0.91%) SwiftUI
13 3 (0.91%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 97 (29.57%) Mobile App
2 27 (8.23%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.18%) Virtual Team
4 16 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (4.57%) Video Conferencing
6 13 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.96%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.44%) Blackberry
7 8 (2.44%) iPad
8 7 (2.13%) Educational Technology
8 7 (2.13%) iPhone
8 7 (2.13%) Mobile Payment
8 7 (2.13%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 182 (55.49%) Apple iOS
2 124 (37.80%) Windows
3 48 (14.63%) Windows 10
4 43 (13.11%) Mac OS
5 12 (3.66%) Linux
6 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (17.99%) Customer Service
3 57 (17.38%) User Experience
4 53 (16.16%) Android Development
5 52 (15.85%) Agile
6 46 (14.02%) CI/CD
7 42 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (12.80%) ITIL
8 41 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
9 39 (11.89%) ITSM
10 36 (10.98%) AI
10 36 (10.98%) MVVM
10 36 (10.98%) Test Automation
11 29 (8.84%) Data Protection
12 26 (7.93%) Service Delivery
13 25 (7.62%) Customer Experience
14 22 (6.71%) DevOps
14 22 (6.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (6.40%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (5.79%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.26%) Kotlin
2 45 (13.72%) Java
3 19 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.57%) Python
5 14 (4.27%) Swift
6 12 (3.66%) C++
7 10 (3.05%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.22%) SQL
10 3 (0.91%) Perl
11 2 (0.61%) C
11 2 (0.61%) Korn
11 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.61%) Rust
12 1 (0.30%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 54 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.71%) Degree
3 22 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 5 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.91%) ACSP
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 41 (12.50%) QA
2 30 (9.15%) SLA
3 27 (8.23%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (19.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.83%) Firmware
3 5 (1.52%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.52%) Docker
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (18.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (7.01%) SCCM
3 7 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.22%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 116 (35.37%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.89%) Apple
3 38 (11.59%) Google
4 24 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.27%) HP
6 10 (3.05%) Cisco
7 6 (1.83%) Canon
8 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.52%) Tanium
9 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.22%) Splunk
10 3 (0.91%) Citrix
10 3 (0.91%) Oracle
10 3 (0.91%) Remedy
11 2 (0.61%) Dell
11 2 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.61%) MobileIron
11 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.61%) SAP
11 2 (0.61%) Sophos