Android Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 87 55
Rank change year-on-year -67 -32 +65
Contract jobs citing Android 13 37 87
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.39% 1.91% 3.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.47% 13.03% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 64
10th Percentile £163 £193 £350
25th Percentile £200 £208 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% -34.78% +27.78%
75th Percentile £291 £413 £850
90th Percentile £401 £496 -
England median daily rate £425 £388 £450
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +5.88%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £26.66 £24.66 £24.15
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.11% -3.40%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 375 284 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.39% 14.65% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 189 212
10th Percentile £133 £159 £170
25th Percentile £191 £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £391 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -8.00% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £583
90th Percentile £608 £598 £825
England median daily rate £450 £466 £470
% change year-on-year -3.38% -0.90% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 61
10th Percentile £17.64 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £13.00 £10.95
Median hourly rate £61.00 £13.70 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +345.26% -14.38% -45.39%
75th Percentile £178.75 £17.44 £18.75
90th Percentile - - £48.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £21.28 £22.15
% change year-on-year +97.09% -3.93% -42.47%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Android job vacancy trend in the North West

Android
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the North West

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Android

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in the North West

Android
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. 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
Manchester -41 6 £375 +29.76% 10
Merseyside -19 5 £225 +4.65%
Cheshire -19 2 £358 -27.24% 2
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Firebase
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Crashlytics
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) ESLint
2 1 (7.69%) fastlane
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
2 1 (7.69%) Xcode
2 1 (7.69%) XCTest
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
2 1 (7.69%) Police
2 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Android Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Android Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Android Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Support
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) React Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) iOS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Product Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (15.38%) Dagger
2 2 (15.38%) OkHttp
2 2 (15.38%) React Native
2 2 (15.38%) Retrofit
3 1 (7.69%) Flutter
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) JSON Schema
3 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) SwiftUI
3 1 (7.69%) UIKit
3 1 (7.69%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (7.69%) Blog
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Apple iOS
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) User Experience
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Android Development
4 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
4 3 (23.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Mobile Development
5 2 (15.38%) MVVM
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (7.69%) Open Source
6 1 (7.69%) TOGAF
6 1 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Kotlin
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Objective-C
3 1 (7.69%) Swift
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) ACSP
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) AirWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Xamarin