Android Contracts in England

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 189 275
Rank change year-on-year -42 +86 -27
Contract jobs citing Android 305 486 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.30% 0.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.38% 9.34% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 326 326
10th Percentile £161 £210 £161
25th Percentile £250 £350 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £479 £613 £575
90th Percentile £575 £825 £675
UK median daily rate £400 £461 £425
% change year-on-year -13.28% +8.53% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 12
10th Percentile £22.48 £13.87 £16.17
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.39 £17.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.08 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.99% +18.33% -44.29%
75th Percentile - £42.75 £23.22
90th Percentile £30.02 £79.88 £36.11
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% +15.79% -15.56%

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 3,638 5,205 7,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.93% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,435 3,439 5,328
10th Percentile £200 £190 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 394 368
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £18.47
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -41.94% +88.89%
75th Percentile £49.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £24.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.70% -41.94% +88.89%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Android in England

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in England.

Daily rate trend for Android in England

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in England

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in England.

Hourly rate trend for Android in England

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 -27 148 £400 -14.89% 746
North of England -36 64 £400 -17.53% 197
North West -28 44 £375 -34.78% 119
South East +38 41 £206 -51.47% 179
Midlands -2 30 £400 -15.79% 65
Yorkshire -9 18 £455 +21.33% 63
East Midlands +12 16 £463 +3.93% 30
East of England +33 14 £190 -20.83% 108
West Midlands -17 14 £113 -77.50% 35
South West +23 9 £325 -16.13% 68
North East +1 2 £550 - 16
Android
UK

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (12.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (7.87%) IBM Domino
3 11 (3.61%) Confluence
4 7 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.64%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (1.31%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 21 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.30%) Sketch
3 5 (1.64%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.66%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.66%) InVision
5 2 (0.66%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.33%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.66%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (26.89%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (17.70%) Azure
3 25 (8.20%) Entra ID
4 18 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.57%) AWS
6 14 (4.59%) Figma
7 13 (4.26%) GitHub
8 11 (3.61%) SaaS
9 9 (2.95%) Firebase
9 9 (2.95%) GCP
10 8 (2.62%) Google Play
11 7 (2.30%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.31%) Asana
12 4 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.31%) Datadog
12 4 (1.31%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.31%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (1.31%) npm
12 4 (1.31%) Slack
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.51%) Firewall
2 26 (8.52%) Cisco IOS
3 11 (3.61%) VPN
3 11 (3.61%) Wireless
4 9 (2.95%) DNS
5 7 (2.30%) 2G
5 7 (2.30%) 3G
5 7 (2.30%) 4G
5 7 (2.30%) 5G
5 7 (2.30%) ATM
6 6 (1.97%) DHCP
6 6 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.97%) VoIP
7 5 (1.64%) IP Telephony
7 5 (1.64%) LAN
7 5 (1.64%) Skype
7 5 (1.64%) VLAN
7 5 (1.64%) WAN
7 5 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.31%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.31%) Redis
3 3 (0.98%) Mixpanel
4 2 (0.66%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) Metadata
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (12.79%) Git
2 20 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.25%) Gradle
4 15 (4.92%) JIRA
5 12 (3.93%) Android Studio
5 12 (3.93%) GitLab
6 11 (3.61%) Appium
7 9 (2.95%) JUnit
7 9 (2.95%) Xcode
8 8 (2.62%) Selenium
9 7 (2.30%) Axure RP
10 5 (1.64%) Maven
11 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.31%) NUnit
12 3 (0.98%) Mockito
12 3 (0.98%) Postman
13 2 (0.66%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.66%) WebDriver
14 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
General
1 80 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.13%) Finance
3 35 (11.48%) Banking
4 25 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.20%) Games
5 10 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.64%) Marketing
7 5 (1.64%) Retail
8 4 (1.31%) Automotive
8 4 (1.31%) Local Government
8 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.98%) Legal
9 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.98%) Military
10 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (27.54%) Developer
2 59 (19.34%) Android Developer
3 35 (11.48%) Senior
4 30 (9.84%) IT Engineer
5 26 (8.52%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (8.52%) Support Engineer
6 21 (6.89%) IT Support
7 20 (6.56%) Android Engineer
8 19 (6.23%) Analyst
8 19 (6.23%) Designer
9 17 (5.57%) iOS Developer
9 17 (5.57%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.26%) Lead
12 11 (3.61%) Architect
12 11 (3.61%) Senior Android Developer
13 10 (3.28%) Support Analyst
14 9 (2.95%) Product Designer
15 7 (2.30%) EPoS Engineer
15 7 (2.30%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.15%) Android Jetpack
2 29 (9.51%) Jetpack Compose
3 23 (7.54%) Android SDK
4 22 (7.21%) CSS
4 22 (7.21%) React
5 21 (6.89%) HTML
6 20 (6.56%) RESTful
7 16 (5.25%) Dagger
8 15 (4.92%) React Native
9 13 (4.26%) REST
10 11 (3.61%) Redux
11 10 (3.28%) Node.js
12 7 (2.30%) .NET
12 7 (2.30%) Jest
12 7 (2.30%) RxJava
13 5 (1.64%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.64%) CSS3
13 5 (1.64%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.64%) HTML5
14 4 (1.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (23.61%) Mobile App
2 20 (6.56%) Smartphone
3 14 (4.59%) iPhone
4 12 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.61%) EPoS
6 9 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.62%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.62%) IoT
8 6 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.64%) Blackberry
9 5 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.64%) iPad
9 5 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.31%) Handset
10 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.31%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.31%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 143 (46.89%) Apple iOS
2 89 (29.18%) Windows
3 54 (17.70%) Mac OS
4 25 (8.20%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.59%) Linux
6 6 (1.97%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.66%) VMS
11 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.80%) Agile
2 73 (23.93%) CI/CD
3 68 (22.30%) Android Development
4 62 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (19.02%) User Experience
6 40 (13.11%) Test Automation
7 39 (12.79%) MVVM
8 35 (11.48%) Customer Service
9 34 (11.15%) DevOps
10 30 (9.84%) UX Design
11 29 (9.51%) Scrum
12 27 (8.85%) Mentoring
13 26 (8.52%) E-Commerce
14 24 (7.87%) ITIL
15 23 (7.54%) Mobile Development
15 23 (7.54%) Unit Testing
16 22 (7.21%) Mobile Application Development
17 21 (6.89%) Design Patterns
17 21 (6.89%) iOS Development
18 20 (6.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.57%) Kotlin
2 41 (13.44%) Java
3 39 (12.79%) PowerShell
4 26 (8.52%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.90%) Python
6 10 (3.28%) Swift
6 10 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.95%) C#
8 8 (2.62%) SQL
9 6 (1.97%) C++
9 6 (1.97%) Objective-C
9 6 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.31%) Bash
10 4 (1.31%) Bicep
10 4 (1.31%) C
10 4 (1.31%) Ruby
10 4 (1.31%) Scala
11 2 (0.66%) JSX
11 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.57%) Degree
4 8 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.33%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CISSP
8 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) MCP
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
8 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.82%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.59%) QA
3 13 (4.26%) SLA
4 5 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.31%) SEPA
6 1 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 73 (23.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.62%) Docker
3 5 (1.64%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.64%) vSphere
4 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (16.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (11.48%) SCCM
3 9 (2.95%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.30%) Terraform
5 4 (1.31%) Istio
5 4 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.31%) Podman
6 3 (0.98%) Grafana
6 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 86 (28.20%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.15%) Cisco
3 28 (9.18%) Splunk
4 26 (8.52%) Apple
5 25 (8.20%) Meraki
6 20 (6.56%) Google
7 15 (4.92%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.61%) Dell
8 11 (3.61%) HP
9 10 (3.28%) Adobe
10 7 (2.30%) Remedy
11 4 (1.31%) Citrix
11 4 (1.31%) Clearswift
11 4 (1.31%) IBM
11 4 (1.31%) Ribbon
11 4 (1.31%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.98%) Okta
12 3 (0.98%) Virgin Media