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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 51 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Android 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.57% 0.24% 1.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.81% 1.05% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £315 - £388
25th Percentile £360 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +86.67%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £350 £444 £330
% change year-on-year -21.13% +34.47% -32.31%
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 £25.15 - £19.25

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 86 95 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 26.96% 22.95% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 85
10th Percentile £205 £338 £414
25th Percentile £285 £460 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £701
90th Percentile £575 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £425 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 15
10th Percentile £26.14 - £36.55
25th Percentile £40.63 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +90.10%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - £88.00
South West median hourly rate £23.67 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -66.19% +7.69% -

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Android relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Android job vacancy trend 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 24 October 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 24 October 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 - 3 £435 -
Cheltenham +17 1 £295 -
Android
South West

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) PC Support
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) MCITP
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) MCTS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy