Android Contracts in the Midlands

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Android 30 28 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.47% 1.01% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.75% 6.28% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 18
10th Percentile £106 £187 £175
25th Percentile £164 £350 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £395
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +13.92% -3.66%
75th Percentile £469 £655 £531
90th Percentile £482 £850 £596
England median daily rate £400 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £14.50 - -
25th Percentile £15.63 - -
Median hourly rate £18.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.63 - -
90th Percentile £22.90 - -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £25.20 £22.07
% change year-on-year -2.14% +14.21% -3.13%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 279 446 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.71% 16.03% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 285 355
10th Percentile £150 £150 £160
25th Percentile £200 £200 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £443
Median % change year-on-year - -9.60% +17.22%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £588
90th Percentile £575 £649 £694
England median daily rate £468 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.58% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 46 31
10th Percentile £15.12 £13.32 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.20 £14.38 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +12.19% -0.38%
75th Percentile £20.94 £23.75 £23.38
90th Percentile £25.02 £24.59 £40.25
England median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -11.11% -48.57% +103.49%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the Midlands

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Android in the Midlands

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the Midlands

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Android in the Midlands

Android
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
East Midlands +23 17 £463 +3.93% 123
West Midlands +5 13 £113 -75.00% 177
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Figma
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Android Studio
2 2 (6.67%) Gradle
2 2 (6.67%) Xcode
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Android Developer
3 7 (23.33%) 1st Line Support
4 6 (20.00%) Support Officer
5 2 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support
5 2 (6.67%) React Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Desktop Support
6 1 (3.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Android Jetpack
1 8 (26.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) Jest
3 2 (6.67%) React Native
3 2 (6.67%) Redux
3 2 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) Software Packaging
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (16.67%) Smartphone
3 2 (6.67%) iPhone
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Customer Service
3 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) Android Development
6 7 (23.33%) DevOps
6 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (23.33%) Scrum
6 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
6 7 (23.33%) Unit Testing
7 6 (20.00%) ITIL
7 6 (20.00%) TDD
8 5 (16.67%) API Integration
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.33%) Operations Management
9 4 (13.33%) Process Improvement
10 3 (10.00%) User Experience
11 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.67%) JSX
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) BitLocker
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Podman
1 2 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (6.67%) Dell
3 2 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix