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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 84 73
Rank change year-on-year -57 -11 +40
Contract jobs citing Android 40 47 43
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.01% 2.14% 1.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.98% 16.55% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 30
10th Percentile £167 £163 £300
25th Percentile £185 £170 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £380
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% -14.12%
75th Percentile £512 £400 £445
90th Percentile £590 £482 £850
England median daily rate £450 £400 £441
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.25% +3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +403.44% - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.54% -40.82% +77.08%

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 501 284 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.63% 12.90% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 208 170
10th Percentile £185 £170 £191
25th Percentile £300 £241 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £368 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% -13.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £562
90th Percentile £600 £622 £640
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 22 25
10th Percentile £16.88 £13.00 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.53 £16.00
Median hourly rate £59.89 £16.72 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +258.19% -7.78% -19.42%
75th Percentile £95.00 £18.87 £24.18
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.90 £43.60
England median hourly rate £32.29 £24.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.15% -59.58% +28.51%

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 9 October 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
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 9 October 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 -32 26 £511 +31.86% 43
Cheshire -6 8 £175 -53.33%
Merseyside -13 5 £300 +71.43% 8
Cumbria -27 1 £190 - 1
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 10 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (7.50%) Google Play
4 2 (5.00%) Datadog
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) Firebase
4 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.50%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) DHCP
1 6 (15.00%) DNS
1 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.50%) Skype
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (5.00%) Wireless
4 1 (2.50%) Firewall
4 1 (2.50%) IPsec
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.50%) SSL
4 1 (2.50%) VLAN
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) MySQL
1 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Appium
1 1 (2.50%) Charles Proxy
1 1 (2.50%) Claude Code
1 1 (2.50%) Postman
1 1 (2.50%) XCUITest
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Mobile Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) IT Support
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) QA Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Android Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Android Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (7.50%) IT Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Android Jetpack
2 6 (15.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (15.00%) REST
3 4 (10.00%) Flutter
3 4 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (7.50%) Android SDK
5 1 (2.50%) NestJS
5 1 (2.50%) Next.js
5 1 (2.50%) Playwright
5 1 (2.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Mobile App
2 6 (15.00%) Blackberry
3 5 (12.50%) Handset
4 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (7.50%) IoT
5 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Learning Management System
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (15.00%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Android Development
2 9 (22.50%) ITIL
3 8 (20.00%) User Experience
4 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.00%) ITSM
5 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
6 5 (12.50%) A/B Testing
6 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (12.50%) QA Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Kotlin
2 7 (17.50%) Java
3 3 (7.50%) Swift
4 2 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.50%) ACSP
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) SLA
2 7 (17.50%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Firmware
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (17.50%) SCCM
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Tanium
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) Bomgar
4 1 (2.50%) SAP