Android Contracts in Northern Ireland

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Android 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.89% 2.68% 0.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.71% 16.67% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £220
25th Percentile £155 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £210 £300
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -30.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £165 - £350
90th Percentile - - £380
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £12.25 -
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £25.00
% change year-on-year +30.27% -24.28% +25.00%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 24 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 17.61% 16.11% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 24
10th Percentile £150 £181 £156
25th Percentile £163 £245 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £469 £400
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +17.19% -3.03%
75th Percentile £325 £530 £413
90th Percentile £410 £575 £635
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - - £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 - £14.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £12.25 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +97.39% -30.44% +29.30%
75th Percentile - £31.88 £20.37
90th Percentile - - £20.90
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Android in Northern Ireland

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Android in Northern Ireland

Android
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 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
County Antrim -11 3 £160 -23.81% 2
Android
UK

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Help Desk Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Help Desk Support
2 2 (66.67%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) IT Support
3 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) VMware