Android Contracts in Merseyside

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Android 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 0.44% 2.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.33% 2.44% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £208 £225 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £250 £175
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £413 £275 £184
90th Percentile - - £309
North West median daily rate £336 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -41.65% +21.05% +13.10%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 41 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.79% 17.98% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 45
10th Percentile £133 £143 £168
25th Percentile £143 £164 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -47.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £413 £288 £575
90th Percentile £630 £375 £675
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile - - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £19.13
90th Percentile - £18.80 £21.50
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in Merseyside

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Android in Merseyside

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Merseyside

Android
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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
Liverpool +10 3 £400 +60.00% 1
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Android
North West

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
1 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) IVR
2 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) BCP
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Apple
3 2 (33.33%) Dell
3 2 (33.33%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Google