Android Contract Job Trends in London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 215 188
Rank change year-on-year -71 -27 +73
Contract jobs citing Android 155 148 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.09% 1.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.03% 9.26% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 81 152
10th Percentile £242 £215 £191
25th Percentile £417 £310 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £423 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -8.65% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £619 £673
England median daily rate £475 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +18.75% -13.51% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 15
10th Percentile £21.60 £25.10 £15.79
25th Percentile £23.25 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +4.14% +6.72%
75th Percentile £39.88 - £41.75
90th Percentile £48.20 £27.59 £58.35
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.52% -4.19% +34.62%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,546 1,599 2,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.76% 11.73% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,091 1,443
10th Percentile £206 £250 £213
25th Percentile £350 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
England median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 40 60
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.87 £16.21
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -56.18%
75th Percentile £26.25 £25.18 £31.72
90th Percentile £57.00 £50.68 £60.14
England median hourly rate £31.75 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.04% -8.00% -41.18%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Android job vacancy trend in London

Android
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android in London

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Android

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in London

Android
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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 -2 20 £478 +0.26% 6
South London -14 4 £575 +155.56%
West London -13 2 £180 -28.00% 3
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.94%) Confluence
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.29%) Notion
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.35%) Azure
2 21 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (12.90%) GitHub
4 13 (8.39%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.74%) AWS
6 11 (7.10%) GCP
6 11 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (4.52%) Google Play
9 6 (3.87%) Figma
10 5 (3.23%) Google Workspace
10 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.58%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.94%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.94%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.94%) SaaS
13 2 (1.29%) Google Drive
13 2 (1.29%) IaaS
13 2 (1.29%) PaaS
13 2 (1.29%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.23%) DHCP
2 5 (3.23%) DNS
2 5 (3.23%) VPN
3 4 (2.58%) Internet
4 3 (1.94%) LAN
4 3 (1.94%) VoIP
4 3 (1.94%) WAN
4 3 (1.94%) WebEx
5 2 (1.29%) DSL
5 2 (1.29%) Firewall
5 2 (1.29%) NFC
5 2 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.65%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.94%) Db2
1 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
1 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.94%) Power BI
2 2 (1.29%) Tableau
3 1 (0.65%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (7.10%) JUnit
2 10 (6.45%) Appium
3 9 (5.81%) Gradle
4 8 (5.16%) Android Studio
4 8 (5.16%) JIRA
5 6 (3.87%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.87%) XCUITest
6 5 (3.23%) Git
7 4 (2.58%) Xcode
8 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.94%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.94%) Selenium
8 3 (1.94%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.29%) Postman
9 2 (1.29%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.29%) PyUnit
9 2 (1.29%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.29%) Selendroid
10 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.65%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 43 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.26%) Finance
3 18 (11.61%) Banking
4 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.58%) Military
8 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Publishing
9 2 (1.29%) Games
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Front Office
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Norwegian Language
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (18.71%) Senior
2 25 (16.13%) Android Engineer
3 22 (14.19%) Developer
4 20 (12.90%) Mobile Engineer
5 17 (10.97%) Analyst
6 15 (9.68%) Android Developer
7 11 (7.10%) Designer
8 10 (6.45%) Architect
9 9 (5.81%) Mobile Designer
10 8 (5.16%) Senior Designer
11 7 (4.52%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (4.52%) IT Support
11 7 (4.52%) Senior Mobile Designer
11 7 (4.52%) Support Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Mobile Architect
12 6 (3.87%) QA Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Senior Android Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Senior Interaction Designer
13 5 (3.23%) Service Analyst
13 5 (3.23%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.71%) Android Jetpack
2 22 (14.19%) Jetpack Compose
3 19 (12.26%) REST
4 14 (9.03%) RESTful
5 12 (7.74%) Android SDK
6 10 (6.45%) React Native
7 9 (5.81%) RxJava
8 8 (5.16%) Flutter
9 7 (4.52%) GraphQL
9 7 (4.52%) React
10 6 (3.87%) Dagger
10 6 (3.87%) JSON
11 4 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.94%) Backbone.js
12 3 (1.94%) Bootstrap
12 3 (1.94%) Ember.js
12 3 (1.94%) iOS SDK
12 3 (1.94%) jQuery
12 3 (1.94%) PyTorch
12 3 (1.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.45%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.74%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.87%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.87%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (3.23%) iPad
6 5 (3.23%) iPhone
6 5 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.94%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.94%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.94%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.29%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.29%) NHS
8 2 (1.29%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 100 (64.52%) Apple iOS
2 48 (30.97%) Windows
3 27 (17.42%) Mac OS
4 7 (4.52%) Linux
4 7 (4.52%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.65%) CentOS
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (22.58%) Agile
2 28 (18.06%) AI
2 28 (18.06%) Android Development
3 26 (16.77%) CI/CD
3 26 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (15.48%) User Experience
5 19 (12.26%) Test Automation
6 16 (10.32%) Customer Service
6 16 (10.32%) Data Protection
6 16 (10.32%) ITIL
6 16 (10.32%) MVVM
7 14 (9.03%) Prototyping
8 12 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (7.10%) E-Commerce
9 11 (7.10%) Interaction Design
9 11 (7.10%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (6.45%) Mobile Device Management
11 9 (5.81%) Fintech
11 9 (5.81%) Secure Coding
12 8 (5.16%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.26%) Kotlin
2 29 (18.71%) Java
3 15 (9.68%) Swift
4 11 (7.10%) PowerShell
4 11 (7.10%) Python
5 7 (4.52%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.87%) SQL
7 5 (3.23%) C++
7 5 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.94%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.29%) Korn
9 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) Degree
4 7 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.58%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.94%) PhD
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.55%) QA
2 13 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.94%) WCAG
4 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.58%) Docker
3 3 (1.94%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.16%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (4.52%) SCCM
4 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.65%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.61%) Google
3 12 (7.74%) Apple
4 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.29%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.29%) Remedy
6 2 (1.29%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) Citrix
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) MobileIron
7 1 (0.65%) Okta
7 1 (0.65%) Roku
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) Temenos
7 1 (0.65%) Zscaler