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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 199 263
Rank change year-on-year -49 +64 -22
Contract jobs citing Android 248 440 454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.20% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.36% 8.68% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 301 344
10th Percentile £160 £200 £160
25th Percentile £220 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £575
90th Percentile £575 £825 £668
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 24 12
10th Percentile £17.50 £13.87 £16.29
25th Percentile £22.10 £16.70 £18.31
Median hourly rate £24.66 £25.20 £22.07
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +14.21% -3.13%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £35.59
90th Percentile £37.08 £79.63 £75.73
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% +2.33% -1.29%

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 3,368 5,071 7,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.01% 13.79% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 3,451 5,415
10th Percentile £200 £185 £194
25th Percentile £313 £300 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £467 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 373 359
10th Percentile £15.11 £12.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.33 £15.50 £17.93
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -48.57% +103.49%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £44.11
% change year-on-year -2.22% -48.99% +100.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -28 120 £400 -12.47% 182
North of England -40 55 £400 -19.19% 412
North West -31 41 £400 -30.43% 211
Midlands +19 30 £400 -11.11% 321
South East +37 26 £205 -54.44% 470
East Midlands +23 17 £463 +3.93% 123
South West +40 16 £325 -13.33% 208
West Midlands +5 13 £113 -75.00% 178
Yorkshire -2 11 £450 +28.57% 155
East of England +30 3 - - 274
North East - 3 £388 - 47
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 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.03%) Confluence
3 9 (3.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.02%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.61%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.21%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (9.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) InVision
3 2 (0.81%) Sketch
3 2 (0.81%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.97%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (19.76%) Azure
3 26 (10.48%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.06%) AWS
5 14 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.84%) GitHub
7 10 (4.03%) Figma
7 10 (4.03%) GCP
8 9 (3.63%) SaaS
9 7 (2.82%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.02%) Datadog
11 4 (1.61%) Asana
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.61%) Firebase
11 4 (1.61%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.61%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (1.61%) npm
11 4 (1.61%) Slack
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.44%) Firewall
2 9 (3.63%) Wireless
3 8 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.82%) 2G
4 7 (2.82%) 3G
4 7 (2.82%) 4G
4 7 (2.82%) 5G
4 7 (2.82%) ATM
4 7 (2.82%) DNS
4 7 (2.82%) LAN
4 7 (2.82%) VPN
4 7 (2.82%) WAN
5 6 (2.42%) Internet
5 6 (2.42%) VoIP
6 5 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (2.02%) Skype
7 4 (1.61%) Calico
7 4 (1.61%) PSTN
7 4 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.61%) Redis
3 2 (0.81%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) MySQL
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (11.69%) Git
2 17 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.45%) Gradle
3 16 (6.45%) JIRA
4 9 (3.63%) GitLab
5 8 (3.23%) Android Studio
5 8 (3.23%) Appium
5 8 (3.23%) Xcode
6 7 (2.82%) JUnit
7 6 (2.42%) Selenium
8 5 (2.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.21%) Mockito
9 3 (1.21%) Postman
10 2 (0.81%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.40%) CMake
11 1 (0.40%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.40%) TestNG
11 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.68%) Banking
4 22 (8.87%) Finance
5 9 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.02%) Marketing
7 5 (2.02%) Retail
8 4 (1.61%) Games
8 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Automotive
9 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.21%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.21%) Legal
9 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Electronics
10 2 (0.81%) Publishing
10 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (33.87%) Developer
2 56 (22.58%) Android Developer
3 33 (13.31%) Senior
4 26 (10.48%) Support Engineer
5 23 (9.27%) IT Engineer
6 19 (7.66%) iOS Developer
7 17 (6.85%) IT Support
8 16 (6.45%) Android Engineer
9 14 (5.65%) Architect
9 14 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (5.65%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.84%) Analyst
10 12 (4.84%) Designer
11 11 (4.44%) Senior Android Developer
12 9 (3.63%) Product Designer
13 7 (2.82%) 1st Line Support
13 7 (2.82%) EPoS Engineer
13 7 (2.82%) iOS Android Developer
13 7 (2.82%) React Developer
14 6 (2.42%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.10%) Android Jetpack
2 22 (8.87%) Android SDK
3 21 (8.47%) Jetpack Compose
4 18 (7.26%) RESTful
5 15 (6.05%) React
6 12 (4.84%) REST
7 11 (4.44%) CSS
7 11 (4.44%) Dagger
7 11 (4.44%) HTML
8 7 (2.82%) .NET
8 7 (2.82%) React Native
8 7 (2.82%) RxJava
9 5 (2.02%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.02%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (1.61%) iOS SDK
10 4 (1.61%) Node.js
10 4 (1.61%) OAuth
10 4 (1.61%) Redux
10 4 (1.61%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.98%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.45%) Smartphone
3 10 (4.03%) iPhone
4 8 (3.23%) IoT
5 7 (2.82%) EPoS
6 6 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.02%) Blackberry
7 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.61%) Handset
8 4 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.61%) NHS
8 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.21%) IVR
9 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (48.79%) Apple iOS
2 61 (24.60%) Windows
3 26 (10.48%) Mac OS
4 21 (8.47%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.65%) Linux
6 8 (3.23%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.40%) VMS
9 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.85%) Agile
2 68 (27.42%) Android Development
3 61 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (22.98%) CI/CD
5 43 (17.34%) User Experience
6 36 (14.52%) MVVM
7 30 (12.10%) Customer Service
8 28 (11.29%) Test Automation
9 26 (10.48%) Scrum
10 25 (10.08%) DevOps
10 25 (10.08%) ITIL
11 24 (9.68%) iOS Development
12 22 (8.87%) Mobile Development
12 22 (8.87%) UX Design
13 18 (7.26%) Design Patterns
14 17 (6.85%) Mobile Application Development
15 16 (6.45%) Unit Testing
16 15 (6.05%) Performance Optimisation
17 14 (5.65%) Architectural Patterns
17 14 (5.65%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 70 (28.23%) Kotlin
2 32 (12.90%) Java
3 20 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.85%) Python
5 16 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.65%) Swift
7 10 (4.03%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.23%) Objective-C
9 7 (2.82%) C#
9 7 (2.82%) C++
10 6 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.02%) SQL
12 4 (1.61%) Bicep
12 4 (1.61%) C
12 4 (1.61%) Ruby
12 4 (1.61%) Scala
13 3 (1.21%) Bash
14 2 (0.81%) JSX
14 2 (0.81%) VB
14 2 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (10.48%) SC Cleared
1 26 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.66%) Degree
3 8 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.61%) MCP
5 3 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.81%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) MCSA
6 2 (0.81%) MCSE
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PMP
7 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.65%) QA
3 11 (4.44%) SLA
4 4 (1.61%) SEPA
5 2 (0.81%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 48 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.82%) BitLocker
2 7 (2.82%) Docker
3 6 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.21%) vSphere
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (5.65%) SCCM
3 9 (3.63%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.82%) Terraform
5 4 (1.61%) Istio
6 3 (1.21%) Grafana
6 3 (1.21%) Podman
6 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.40%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.29%) Apple
3 10 (4.03%) Cisco
3 10 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.63%) Google
5 8 (3.23%) Dell
5 8 (3.23%) HP
6 6 (2.42%) Splunk
7 5 (2.02%) Citrix
7 5 (2.02%) VMware
8 4 (1.61%) Adobe
8 4 (1.61%) Clearswift
8 4 (1.61%) IBM
8 4 (1.61%) Meraki
8 4 (1.61%) Ribbon
9 3 (1.21%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.21%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.21%) Remedy
9 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.21%) Virgin Media