Android Contract Job Trends in Kent

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Android skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Android 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 4.27% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £124 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 - -
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £208 £388 £300
% change year-on-year -46.45% +29.17% -45.45%

All Operating Systems
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 22 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 29.91% 11.34% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 43
10th Percentile £153 £157 £204
25th Percentile £160 £164 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £205 £220
Median % change year-on-year +62.20% -6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £375 £337 £413
90th Percentile £623 £480 £561
South East median daily rate £435 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £54.38
Median hourly rate - £67.02 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.85% -
75th Percentile - - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £60.00
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.25 £56.00
% change year-on-year -67.04% +2.23% +232.29%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in Kent

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Kent over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Kent

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Android

Android
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 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
Chatham - 2 £630 -
Dartford - 1 £160 - 2
Maidstone - 1 £160 - 1
Android
South East

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Google Play
2 1 (20.00%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) ATM
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) EPoS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) Jest
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) React Native
1 2 (40.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) EPoS
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Break/Fix
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Development
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Push Notifications
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Telerik