Android Contracts in the North of England

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 144 168
Rank change year-on-year +66 +24 -57
Contract jobs citing Android 114 68 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.43% 1.17% 1.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.12% 7.41% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 49 69
10th Percentile £311 £187 £173
25th Percentile £401 £200 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £825 £600 £550
90th Percentile £850 £653 £663
England median daily rate £450 £423 £475
% change year-on-year +6.51% -11.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £62.88 - £17.56
25th Percentile £65.31 - £18.40
Median hourly rate £71.25 £80.00 £20.53
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +289.72% -
75th Percentile £77.81 - £22.40
90th Percentile £80.63 - £23.07
England median hourly rate £22.00 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year -7.62% +19.08% -67.74%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 707 918 1,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.06% 15.84% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 652 967
10th Percentile £166 £167 £145
25th Percentile £275 £250 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% +8.55%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £680 £638
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 60 75
10th Percentile - £13.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.67 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £27.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +53.06% +8.69%
75th Percentile £19.63 £43.75 £20.50
90th Percentile £32.60 £49.52 £41.92
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +22.22%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the North of England

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Android in the North of England

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the North of England

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Android in the North of England

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in the North of England

Android
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
North West +49 84 £688 +44.74% 23
Yorkshire +32 30 £350 +75.00% 18
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.02%) AWS
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.51%) Azure
4 3 (2.63%) Apigee
4 3 (2.63%) SaaS
5 2 (1.75%) Slack
6 1 (0.88%) AWS IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.88%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.88%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.88%) Figma
6 1 (0.88%) Firebase
6 1 (0.88%) GitHub
6 1 (0.88%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 43 (37.72%) Firewall
1 43 (37.72%) VPN
2 3 (2.63%) SSL
3 2 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.51%) SQLite
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.63%) DB2
2 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) Android Studio
2 10 (8.77%) Mockito
3 4 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.63%) gulp
4 3 (2.63%) Maven
5 2 (1.75%) Git
5 2 (1.75%) JIRA
5 2 (1.75%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.88%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.88%) Gradle
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Postman
6 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (8.77%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.26%) Legal
4 4 (3.51%) Banking
4 4 (3.51%) Finance
4 4 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.88%) Military
5 1 (0.88%) Retail
5 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (43.86%) Architect
2 44 (38.60%) Developer
3 41 (35.96%) Technical Architect
4 35 (30.70%) Android Developer
5 30 (26.32%) Lead
5 30 (26.32%) Lead Architect
5 30 (26.32%) Technical Leader
6 8 (7.02%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (5.26%) React Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Senior
8 5 (4.39%) Digital Architect
8 5 (4.39%) Digital Technical Architect
8 5 (4.39%) IT Support
9 4 (3.51%) Designer
9 4 (3.51%) IT Support Technician
9 4 (3.51%) IT Technician
9 4 (3.51%) Senior Android Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Support Technician
10 3 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (41.23%) Node.js
2 20 (17.54%) RESTful
3 8 (7.02%) React Native
4 7 (6.14%) XML
5 6 (5.26%) .NET
6 5 (4.39%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (4.39%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (4.39%) React
7 3 (2.63%) OAuth
7 3 (2.63%) OpenID
7 3 (2.63%) SAML
8 2 (1.75%) Dagger
8 2 (1.75%) Material Design
8 2 (1.75%) RxJava
9 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Amplify
9 1 (0.88%) D3.js
9 1 (0.88%) Middleware
9 1 (0.88%) Play Framework
9 1 (0.88%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 34 (29.82%) Public Cloud
2 29 (25.44%) Mobile App
3 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.14%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.51%) iPhone
6 3 (2.63%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.88%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.88%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 65 (57.02%) Apple iOS
2 50 (43.86%) Windows
3 45 (39.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.23%) CI/CD
1 47 (41.23%) Mobile Device Management
2 44 (38.60%) Agile
3 43 (37.72%) Risk Management
3 43 (37.72%) Security Architecture
4 42 (36.84%) Zero Trust
5 40 (35.09%) Android Development
5 40 (35.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 40 (35.09%) Threat Intelligence
6 35 (30.70%) DevOps
7 30 (26.32%) Design Patterns
8 16 (14.04%) Microservices
9 15 (13.16%) Unit Testing
10 14 (12.28%) Roadmaps
11 13 (11.40%) Product Strategy
11 13 (11.40%) Strategic Roadmap
12 12 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (8.77%) User Experience
14 9 (7.89%) Mobile Development
15 8 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 30 (26.32%) Java
3 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.51%) C
5 3 (2.63%) Python
6 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.88%) Rust
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.88%) Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.39%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) Google
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Apple
3 4 (3.51%) Citrix
3 4 (3.51%) Nokia
4 2 (1.75%) Samsung
5 1 (0.88%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.88%) HP
5 1 (0.88%) MEDITECH
5 1 (0.88%) Okta