Android Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Android skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 57 41
Rank change year-on-year +23 -16 +17
Contract jobs citing Android 7 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.27% 0.22% 2.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.86% 1.03% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £264 - £388
25th Percentile £285 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £700
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £504 - -
South West median daily rate £325 £444 £340
% change year-on-year -26.76% +30.51% -28.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.58
25th Percentile - - £18.69
Median hourly rate - - £19.25
75th Percentile - - £19.69
90th Percentile - - £19.73
South West median hourly rate - - £19.25
% change year-on-year - - -3.75%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 79 97 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.57% 21.65% 35.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 101
10th Percentile £188 £338 £415
25th Percentile £225 £460 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £635 £700
90th Percentile £600 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £435 £523 £520
% change year-on-year -16.75% +0.48% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 20
10th Percentile £25.71 - £64.93
25th Percentile £33.09 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £46.10 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% -10.26% +155.61%
75th Percentile £58.40 - -
90th Percentile £65.36 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% -

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in Gloucestershire

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Gloucestershire

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Android

Android
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Gloucester - 4 £435 -
Cheltenham +24 1 £295 -
Android
South West

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) PC Support
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Mac OS
2 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 3 (42.86%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) MCITP
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) MCTS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (14.29%) Podman
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy