Android Development Contracts in London

Android Software Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Android Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android Development over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 351 434
Rank change year-on-year +37 +83 +10
Contract jobs citing Android Development 42 40 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 38
10th Percentile £293 £363 £321
25th Percentile £392 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £505
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -8.42% -8.18%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £628
90th Percentile £638 £588 £711
England median daily rate £463 £457 £505
% change year-on-year +1.20% -9.50% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £50.05
% change year-on-year - +24.88% -28.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Android Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,511 15,659 23,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.20% 88.72% 90.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,804 11,215 17,170
10th Percentile £350 £341 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 313 270
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.00 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -26.80% +4.08%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.40 £80.23
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in London

Android Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android Development in London.

Daily rate trend for Android Development in London

Android Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Development in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android Development in London

Android Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android Development in London.

Hourly rate trend for Android Development in London

Android Development
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Development within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +15 7 £525 -4.55% 7
Android Development
England

Android Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) GitHub
3 3 (7.14%) Figma
3 3 (7.14%) SonarCloud
4 2 (4.76%) Apple Pay
4 2 (4.76%) Datadog
5 1 (2.38%) BigCommerce
5 1 (2.38%) Firebase
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) JIRA
3 5 (11.90%) Gradle
4 4 (9.52%) Android Studio
5 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) Mockito
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.38%) GitLab
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) Mercurial
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Developer
2 31 (73.81%) Android Developer
3 11 (26.19%) Senior
4 8 (19.05%) Senior Android Developer
4 8 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Android Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Java Android Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Android Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Android Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.76%) iOS Android Developer
7 2 (4.76%) iOS Developer
7 2 (4.76%) React Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Java Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) Android Jetpack
1 11 (26.19%) Android SDK
1 11 (26.19%) Dagger
2 8 (19.05%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
4 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 4 (9.52%) REST
4 4 (9.52%) RxJava
5 3 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (4.76%) Express.js
6 2 (4.76%) Google Maps API
6 2 (4.76%) Node.js
6 2 (4.76%) React
7 1 (2.38%) iOS SDK
7 1 (2.38%) JSON
7 1 (2.38%) React Native
7 1 (2.38%) SOAP
7 1 (2.38%) VML
7 1 (2.38%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.76%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Android
2 5 (11.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 19 (45.24%) MVVM
3 14 (33.33%) Mobile Development
4 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.81%) Mobile Application Development
5 10 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
6 9 (21.43%) User Experience
7 7 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 7 (16.67%) Push Notifications
7 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.90%) B2C
8 5 (11.90%) Dependency Injection
8 5 (11.90%) iOS Development
9 4 (9.52%) Code Quality
9 4 (9.52%) Kanban
9 4 (9.52%) Scrum
10 3 (7.14%) Clean Code
11 2 (4.76%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (85.71%) Kotlin
2 14 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (7.14%) Swift
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
1 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Virgin Media
2 2 (4.76%) Apple
2 2 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Adobe
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.38%) Samsung
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.38%) Spotify