Android Engineer Contracts in London

Android Engineer
England > London

The median Android Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 388 465
Rank change year-on-year +39 +77 +135
Contract jobs requiring an Android Engineer 12 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.087% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.093% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £454 £335 £371
25th Percentile £459 £417 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -15.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £586 £528 £638
90th Percentile £606 £579 £671
England median daily rate £488 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,718 16,153 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 94.12% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,611 11,527 17,408
10th Percentile £331 £331 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 268 267
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.79 £21.66 £22.95
Median hourly rate £30.90 £31.61 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -18.96% +11.43%
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Android Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Android Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Android Engineer in London

Android Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Android Engineer in London

Android Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android Engineer in London

Android Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Engineer in London

Android Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, Android Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Android Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Android
2 11 (91.67%) Kotlin
3 8 (66.67%) MVVM
3 8 (66.67%) Design Patterns
4 7 (58.33%) Android SDK
5 6 (50.00%) Mobile App
5 6 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (41.67%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (41.67%) User Experience
6 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
6 5 (41.67%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (41.67%) Java
7 4 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
7 4 (33.33%) Git
7 4 (33.33%) UX Design
7 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (33.33%) Dagger
7 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
7 4 (33.33%) Observability
7 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (33.33%) SOLID
8 3 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 3 (25.00%) Android Development
8 3 (25.00%) RESTful
8 3 (25.00%) Open Source

Android Engineer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) BigCommerce
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (8.33%) Android Studio
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Android SDK
2 5 (41.67%) Android Jetpack
2 5 (41.67%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (33.33%) Dagger
4 3 (25.00%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) iOS SDK
5 1 (8.33%) Retrofit
5 1 (8.33%) SwiftUI
5 1 (8.33%) UIKit
5 1 (8.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 8 (66.67%) MVVM
2 6 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (41.67%) User Experience
4 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 4 (33.33%) SOLID
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (33.33%) UX Design
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
5 3 (25.00%) Benchmarking
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Kotlin
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Sitecore