Android Contracts in Manchester

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 31 94
Rank change year-on-year -28 +63 -14
Contract jobs citing Android 22 65 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.30% 4.53% 1.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.80% 38.92% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 46 18
10th Percentile £193 £431 £250
25th Percentile £206 £489 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £800 £531
Median % change year-on-year -55.25% +50.59% -7.61%
75th Percentile £400 £850 £628
90th Percentile £417 - £649
North West median daily rate £375 £800 £525
% change year-on-year -53.13% +52.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 117 167 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.21% 11.63% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 119 186
10th Percentile £187 £297 £180
25th Percentile £267 £381 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +4.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £813 £589
90th Percentile £618 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £397 £445 £463
% change year-on-year -10.90% -3.78% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile - £15.63 £13.31
25th Percentile - £22.63 £15.94
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.25 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -48.51% +42.49% -11.40%
75th Percentile £13.80 £40.25 £24.31
90th Percentile £36.76 £65.00 £34.18
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £14.88 £26.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% -43.87% +32.50%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in Manchester

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Android in Manchester

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Android in Manchester

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Android in Manchester

Android
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Bury - 7 £205 - 4
Android
North West

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 4 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) GCP
1 4 (18.18%) IBM Cloud
1 4 (18.18%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) 2G
1 7 (31.82%) 3G
1 7 (31.82%) 4G
1 7 (31.82%) 5G
2 4 (18.18%) Calico
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) Android Studio
3 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 6 (27.27%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Android Developer
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Android Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) ForgeRock Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Support
4 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Android Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (18.18%) Android SDK
2 4 (18.18%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 2 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) IoT
1 7 (31.82%) Smartphone
2 5 (22.73%) Mobile App
3 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (4.55%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Apple iOS
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Android Development
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 4 (18.18%) Data Security
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 4 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Time Management
4 4 (18.18%) Validation
5 3 (13.64%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
6 2 (9.09%) Coaching
6 2 (9.09%) Migration
6 2 (9.09%) MVVM
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (9.09%) User Experience
6 2 (9.09%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Kotlin
2 4 (18.18%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Istio
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
1 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) ForgeRock
2 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.55%) Optimizely