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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 253 204
Rank change year-on-year -50 -49 +59
Contract jobs citing Android 320 242 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.99% 1.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.96% 7.04% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 156 292
10th Percentile £189 £160 £200
25th Percentile £263 £213 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -17.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £568 £469 £613
90th Percentile £650 £538 £825
UK median daily rate £455 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 6 25
10th Percentile £13.34 £17.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.10 £16.86
Median hourly rate £27.08 £24.66 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% +2.11% -19.50%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £27.72 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £23.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.29% +7.18% -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 4,021 3,439 4,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.78% 14.06% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,643 2,338 3,374
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £310 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £471
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -0.74% -8.10%
75th Percentile £573 £589 £588
90th Percentile £663 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £456 £467 £469
% change year-on-year -2.25% -0.53% -6.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 152 362
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.13 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.41 £14.83
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.59 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.01% -1.86% -42.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £59.09 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.74 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £22.53 £22.08
% change year-on-year +110.83% +2.06% -43.47%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -49 136 £455 +21.33% 60
South West +11 60 £500 +53.85% 17
South East -42 42 £275 +34.15% 26
North of England -73 42 £238 -40.63% 20
Yorkshire -50 20 £190 -57.78% 10
East of England -15 15 £310 - 11
North West -55 15 £260 -22.50% 7
Midlands -78 14 £625 +150.00% 14
North East -13 10 £450 +16.13% 3
West Midlands -62 9 £625 +455.56% 9
East Midlands -34 5 - - 5
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 15 (4.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.88%) 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 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (12.50%) Azure
3 27 (8.44%) AWS
3 27 (8.44%) GCP
4 25 (7.81%) Entra ID
4 25 (7.81%) GitHub
5 17 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (4.69%) Google Workspace
7 14 (4.38%) SaaS
8 13 (4.06%) Sauce Labs
9 7 (2.19%) Firebase
9 7 (2.19%) Google Play
10 6 (1.88%) Figma
10 6 (1.88%) IaaS
10 6 (1.88%) PaaS
11 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (0.94%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.06%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.75%) DNS
2 12 (3.75%) VoIP
3 11 (3.44%) DHCP
4 9 (2.81%) LAN
4 9 (2.81%) VPN
4 9 (2.81%) WAN
5 8 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.56%) Internet
6 5 (1.56%) Wireless
7 4 (1.25%) DSL
7 4 (1.25%) Skype
8 2 (0.63%) Firewall
9 1 (0.31%) 4G
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.31%) Network Security
9 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.31%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.44%) MySQL
2 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.56%) 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 11 (3.44%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.19%) fastlane
8 7 (2.19%) GitLab
9 6 (1.88%) Browser DevTools
9 6 (1.88%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.56%) Git
10 5 (1.56%) Postman
11 4 (1.25%) Crashlytics
11 4 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.25%) JMeter
11 4 (1.25%) PyCharm
11 4 (1.25%) Selenium
11 4 (1.25%) XCUITest
General
1 95 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.50%) Finance
5 23 (7.19%) Banking
6 14 (4.38%) Military
7 8 (2.50%) Retail
8 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.19%) Publishing
9 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Electronics
10 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Slovak Language
12 1 (0.31%) Bulgarian Language
12 1 (0.31%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.31%) Norwegian Language
Job Titles
1 73 (22.81%) Developer
2 56 (17.50%) Android Developer
3 41 (12.81%) Analyst
4 37 (11.56%) Senior
5 31 (9.69%) Mobile Engineer
6 27 (8.44%) Android Engineer
7 26 (8.13%) Architect
8 25 (7.81%) 2nd Line Support
9 22 (6.88%) IT Support
10 18 (5.63%) Service Desk Analyst
10 18 (5.63%) Support Engineer
11 17 (5.31%) Service Analyst
12 15 (4.69%) Support Analyst
13 12 (3.75%) IT Analyst
14 11 (3.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 11 (3.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
14 11 (3.44%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 11 (3.44%) IT Engineer
15 10 (3.13%) IT Support Analyst
15 10 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.19%) Android Jetpack
2 37 (11.56%) Jetpack Compose
3 25 (7.81%) React Native
4 22 (6.88%) Android SDK
5 17 (5.31%) GraphQL
5 17 (5.31%) REST
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
9 9 (2.81%) RESTful
10 8 (2.50%) Flutter
10 8 (2.50%) OAuth
10 8 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.19%) Ajax
11 7 (2.19%) WebdriverIO
11 7 (2.19%) WireMock
12 6 (1.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 77 (24.06%) Mobile App
2 18 (5.63%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.00%) Smartphone
3 16 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 15 (4.69%) Blackberry
5 12 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.81%) Security Posture
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%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.25%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 181 (56.56%) Apple iOS
2 126 (39.38%) Windows
3 47 (14.69%) Mac OS
4 35 (10.94%) 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 84 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (21.56%) Android Development
3 45 (14.06%) CI/CD
4 44 (13.75%) Agile
4 44 (13.75%) User Experience
5 40 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 37 (11.56%) Mobile Device Management
7 35 (10.94%) MVVM
8 31 (9.69%) Customer Service
9 28 (8.75%) ITIL
9 28 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (7.19%) Software Engineering
11 21 (6.56%) Service Delivery
12 20 (6.25%) Computer Science
13 18 (5.63%) AI
13 18 (5.63%) Mobile Development
14 16 (5.00%) Data Protection
14 16 (5.00%) DevOps
15 15 (4.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.81%) Kotlin
2 55 (17.19%) Java
3 27 (8.44%) JavaScript
4 24 (7.50%) Python
5 18 (5.63%) Swift
6 16 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.88%) Perl
8 6 (1.88%) SQL
9 5 (1.56%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.94%) C++
11 3 (0.94%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) Bash
12 1 (0.31%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.31%) C#
Qualifications
1 91 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.13%) Degree
4 15 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.44%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.19%) 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 17 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.19%) WCAG
4 3 (0.94%) NCSC
4 3 (0.94%) SLA
5 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (10.63%) 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 41 (12.81%) 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%) Single Sign-On
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%) Terraform
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 92 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.44%) 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 13 (4.06%) HP
8 7 (2.19%) Splunk
9 6 (1.88%) Cisco
9 6 (1.88%) Dell
9 6 (1.88%) Oracle
10 5 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.25%) Braze
11 4 (1.25%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.94%) Coverity
12 3 (0.94%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.94%) Remedy
12 3 (0.94%) Thales
12 3 (0.94%) Virgin Media