Android Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 65 50
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 -
Contract jobs citing Android 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.38% 1.02% 0.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.15% 5.36% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £280 £507
25th Percentile - £306 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -34.33% -
75th Percentile - £355 £567
90th Percentile - £357 £587
South Yorkshire median daily rate £190 £350 £500
% change year-on-year -45.71% -30.00% +163.16%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 127 112 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.10% 19.02% 17.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 74 42
10th Percentile £200 £274 £224
25th Percentile £409 £361 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -8.21% -10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £599
90th Percentile £675 £612 £636
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £508
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.40% +4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £21.90
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.84 £25.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% +19.76% +7.69%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Android job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Android

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cost Reduction
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google