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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 240 208
Rank change year-on-year -55 -32 +55
Contract jobs citing Android 320 245 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.00% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.01% 7.09% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 156 301
10th Percentile £185 £160 £195
25th Percentile £257 £213 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £568 £469 £613
90th Percentile £650 £538 £825
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 24
10th Percentile £13.23 £18.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.82 £22.96 £16.70
Median hourly rate £30.82 £24.66 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +24.96% +6.87% -23.08%
75th Percentile £67.84 £27.72 £66.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £32.47 £79.63
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% +12.09% -12.00%

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 3,995 3,456 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.82% 14.11% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,633 2,347 3,433
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £310 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -8.29%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £588
90th Percentile £660 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.60% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 155 363
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.22 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.49 £17.44 £14.95
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +2.27% -41.33%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.50 £60.80
90th Percentile £74.90 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +106.52% +4.55% -42.86%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -50 131 £450 +12.50% 45
South West +14 62 £500 +48.15% 13
North of England -70 44 £225 -43.75% 21
South East -40 42 £361 +76.24% 27
Yorkshire -44 20 £190 -57.78% 8
North West -56 18 £225 -28.12% 11
East of England -17 16 £310 - 13
Midlands -77 13 £625 +92.31% 12
North East -10 9 £488 +116.67% 2
West Midlands -61 9 £625 +455.56% 9
East Midlands -44 4 - - 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 14 (4.38%) Confluence
2 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Notion
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (11.56%) Azure
3 28 (8.75%) GCP
4 26 (8.13%) AWS
5 25 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 24 (7.50%) GitHub
7 17 (5.31%) Google Workspace
8 16 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.38%) SaaS
10 13 (4.06%) Sauce Labs
11 6 (1.88%) Figma
11 6 (1.88%) Firebase
11 6 (1.88%) Google Play
11 6 (1.88%) IaaS
11 6 (1.88%) PaaS
12 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (0.94%) BrowserStack
14 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.38%) VoIP
2 13 (4.06%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.75%) DNS
4 11 (3.44%) DHCP
5 9 (2.81%) LAN
5 9 (2.81%) VPN
5 9 (2.81%) WAN
6 8 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.88%) Wireless
8 5 (1.56%) Internet
9 4 (1.25%) DSL
10 3 (0.94%) Skype
11 2 (0.63%) Firewall
12 1 (0.31%) 4G
12 1 (0.31%) 5G
12 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
12 1 (0.31%) Network Security
12 1 (0.31%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.13%) MySQL
2 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.94%) DB2
4 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.63%) SQLite
5 2 (0.63%) Tableau
6 1 (0.31%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (8.13%) Android Studio
2 20 (6.25%) Gradle
2 20 (6.25%) JIRA
3 15 (4.69%) Appium
4 14 (4.38%) JUnit
5 13 (4.06%) Xcode
6 10 (3.13%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.50%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.50%) GitLab
8 7 (2.19%) Browser DevTools
9 6 (1.88%) Eclipse
9 6 (1.88%) fastlane
10 5 (1.56%) Postman
11 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.25%) Git
11 4 (1.25%) JMeter
11 4 (1.25%) PyCharm
11 4 (1.25%) Selenium
11 4 (1.25%) XCUITest
11 4 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.44%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.19%) Banking
5 22 (6.88%) Finance
6 16 (5.00%) Military
7 7 (2.19%) Publishing
7 7 (2.19%) Retail
8 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.25%) Electronics
10 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Slovak Language
12 1 (0.31%) Bulgarian Language
12 1 (0.31%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.31%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 76 (23.75%) Developer
2 57 (17.81%) Android Developer
3 43 (13.44%) Analyst
4 37 (11.56%) Senior
5 28 (8.75%) Mobile Engineer
6 26 (8.13%) Architect
7 24 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (7.19%) Android Engineer
9 22 (6.88%) IT Support
10 20 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
11 19 (5.94%) Service Analyst
12 18 (5.63%) Support Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) Support Analyst
14 12 (3.75%) IT Engineer
15 11 (3.44%) IT Analyst
15 11 (3.44%) Software Engineer
16 10 (3.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support
16 10 (3.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
16 10 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
16 10 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.25%) Android Jetpack
2 34 (10.63%) Jetpack Compose
3 25 (7.81%) React Native
4 21 (6.56%) Android SDK
5 17 (5.31%) REST
6 16 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 16 (5.00%) React
7 13 (4.06%) RxJava
8 10 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.13%) Dagger
8 10 (3.13%) OkHttp
9 9 (2.81%) CSS
10 8 (2.50%) OAuth
10 8 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.19%) Ajax
11 7 (2.19%) Flutter
11 7 (2.19%) RESTful
11 7 (2.19%) WebdriverIO
11 7 (2.19%) WireMock
12 6 (1.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 79 (24.69%) Mobile App
2 18 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.63%) Smartphone
3 17 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.69%) Blackberry
4 15 (4.69%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.19%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.88%) Augmented Reality
8 6 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.88%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (1.88%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.56%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.25%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.25%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 182 (56.88%) Apple iOS
2 127 (39.69%) Windows
3 49 (15.31%) Mac OS
4 34 (10.63%) Windows 10
5 29 (9.06%) Linux
6 6 (1.88%) Unix
7 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (22.19%) Android Development
3 45 (14.06%) CI/CD
4 42 (13.13%) User Experience
5 41 (12.81%) Agile
6 40 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 35 (10.94%) Mobile Device Management
8 32 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 32 (10.00%) MVVM
9 29 (9.06%) ITIL
10 28 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (7.50%) Software Engineering
12 23 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (6.25%) Mobile Development
14 19 (5.94%) AI
14 19 (5.94%) Computer Science
15 18 (5.63%) Service Delivery
16 16 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
17 15 (4.69%) DevOps
17 15 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (21.88%) Kotlin
2 55 (17.19%) Java
3 30 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.81%) Python
5 17 (5.31%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.00%) Swift
7 11 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.88%) Objective-C
8 6 (1.88%) Perl
8 6 (1.88%) SQL
9 4 (1.25%) C++
9 4 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.94%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) Bash
11 1 (0.31%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.31%) C#
Qualifications
1 93 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 83 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.81%) Degree
4 14 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.06%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.94%) ACSP
9 3 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.94%) PhD
10 2 (0.63%) SANS
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.94%) QA
2 15 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.25%) WCAG
4 3 (0.94%) NCSC
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.50%) Docker
3 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.63%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.63%) Firmware
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (12.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.19%) SCCM
3 6 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.25%) Grafana
5 3 (0.94%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.63%) Kibana
6 2 (0.63%) Podman
6 2 (0.63%) Rundeck
6 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.63%) Terraform
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 91 (28.44%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.75%) Google
3 41 (12.81%) Apple
4 19 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.00%) MobileIron
6 15 (4.69%) Citrix
6 15 (4.69%) VMware
7 12 (3.75%) HP
8 7 (2.19%) Cisco
8 7 (2.19%) Splunk
9 6 (1.88%) Dell
9 6 (1.88%) Oracle
10 5 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.25%) Braze
11 4 (1.25%) Remedy
12 3 (0.94%) Coverity
12 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.94%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.94%) Thales
12 3 (0.94%) Virgin Media