Android Development Contract Job Trends in Reading

Android Software Development
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Android Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Android Development 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £585 -
% change year-on-year -27.35% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Android Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 842 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.97% 92.32% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 471 584
10th Percentile £350 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £441 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £570 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +9.09% -0.48%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £686 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 16
10th Percentile £14.65 £27.90 £59.32
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £60.99
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.11
90th Percentile £105.70 £68.78 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.65
% change year-on-year -1.69% -4.29% +12.08%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Android Development job vacancy trend in Reading

Android Development
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Android Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Android Development

Android Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Android Studio
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Flutter
1 1 (12.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
3 3 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
3 3 (37.50%) Situational Awareness
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) iOS Development
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Development
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
1 1 (12.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Coverity
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Thales