Android Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 61 26
Rank change year-on-year -45 -35 +55
Contract jobs citing Android 6 17 73
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.35% 1.91% 5.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.03% 13.49% 42.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 53
10th Percentile £278 - £431
25th Percentile £311 £193 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £289 £800
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -63.88% +72.79%
75th Percentile £443 £400 £850
90th Percentile £478 £453 -
North West median daily rate £260 £313 £575
% change year-on-year -16.93% -45.57% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - £82.50
90th Percentile £68.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £57.50 - £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 149 126 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.70% 14.16% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 86 125
10th Percentile £120 £174 £300
25th Percentile £209 £213 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £508 £800
90th Percentile £650 £624 £850
North West median daily rate £400 £388 £438
% change year-on-year +3.23% -11.43% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £54.23 - £16.50
25th Percentile £58.50 - £21.31
Median hourly rate £121.25 £13.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +832.69% -48.51% -2.88%
75th Percentile £178.75 - £42.31
90th Percentile - £13.80 £66.75
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £13.70 £16.00
% change year-on-year +345.26% -14.38% -45.39%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Android job vacancy trend in Manchester

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Manchester

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Android

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in Manchester

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Crashlytics
2 1 (16.67%) fastlane
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
2 1 (16.67%) XCTest
General
1 1 (16.67%) Advertising
1 1 (16.67%) Police
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (33.33%) Dagger
2 2 (33.33%) OkHttp
2 2 (33.33%) Retrofit
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) JSON Schema
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (16.67%) React Native
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) SwiftUI
3 1 (16.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Android Development
2 3 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile Development
3 2 (33.33%) MVVM
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Server-Driven UI
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (16.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) AirWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes