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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 90 54
Rank change year-on-year -54 -36 +58
Contract jobs citing Android 17 32 84
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.53% 1.64% 3.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.44% 10.96% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 61
10th Percentile - £193 £350
25th Percentile £163 £208 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £313 £800
Median % change year-on-year -28.12% -60.88% +68.42%
75th Percentile £267 £400 £850
90th Percentile £358 £475 -
England median daily rate £425 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +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 £34.13 £24.66 £23.08
% change year-on-year +38.40% +6.87% -3.11%

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 383 292 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.98% 14.96% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 194 213
10th Percentile £133 £155 £172
25th Percentile £185 £208 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £392 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -10.40% -7.89%
75th Percentile £492 £510 £582
90th Percentile £607 £599 £825
England median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 62
10th Percentile £34.73 - -
25th Percentile £44.89 £13.00 £10.95
Median hourly rate £65.50 £17.44 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +275.57% +9.00% -45.39%
75th Percentile £178.75 - £18.94
90th Percentile - £80.59 £46.08
England median hourly rate £47.50 £23.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +105.18% +5.23% -41.21%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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
Merseyside -18 9 £200 -6.98%
Manchester -41 7 £375 +29.76% 9
Cheshire -14 1 £358 -11.06% 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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Firebase
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.88%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Gradle
2 1 (5.88%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.88%) Crashlytics
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) ESLint
2 1 (5.88%) fastlane
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.88%) Xcode
2 1 (5.88%) XCTest
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Military
2 1 (5.88%) Police
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Android Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Android Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Android Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) React Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Application Security Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (23.53%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (11.76%) Dagger
2 2 (11.76%) OkHttp
2 2 (11.76%) React Native
2 2 (11.76%) Retrofit
3 1 (5.88%) Flutter
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) JSON Schema
3 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Redux
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) SwiftUI
3 1 (5.88%) UIKit
3 1 (5.88%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.88%) Blog
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Apple iOS
2 10 (58.82%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (35.29%) User Experience
3 3 (17.65%) Android Development
3 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (17.65%) Mobile Development
3 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
4 2 (11.76%) MVVM
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) TDD
5 1 (5.88%) Cryptography
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
5 1 (5.88%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Server-Driven UI
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Kotlin
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Objective-C
3 1 (5.88%) Swift
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) AirWatch
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Xamarin