Android Contract Job Trends in the South East

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 127 154
Rank change year-on-year -88 +27 +5
Contract jobs citing Android 22 39 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.33% 1.11% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.78% 6.50% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 18
10th Percentile £170 £183 £182
25th Percentile £195 £204 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £209 £208 £375
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -44.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £384 £326 £488
90th Percentile £598 £609 £625
England median daily rate £455 £400 £464
% change year-on-year +13.75% -13.75% +9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £31.88
% change year-on-year -12.52% -21.10% +67.76%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 792 600 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.90% 17.01% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 423 546
10th Percentile £204 £190 £205
25th Percentile £350 £250 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £460
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +3.91% +8.24%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 54 42
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £16.32
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £23.50
Median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £55.13
Median % change year-on-year +151.93% -65.77% +0.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +35.42% -33.64% -10.32%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Android job vacancy trend in the South East

Android
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the South East over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the South East

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Android

Android
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Hampshire - 10 £210 - 1
Surrey -22 9 £208 - 2
West Sussex -23 1 - - 1
East Sussex - 1 £600 -
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (13.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) SaaS
3 3 (13.64%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Firebase
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Google Play
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) MySQL
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Android Studio
2 3 (13.64%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (13.64%) Eclipse
2 3 (13.64%) Xcode
3 1 (4.55%) Crashlytics
3 1 (4.55%) fastlane
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
3 1 (4.55%) TestRail
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) IT Support
2 6 (27.27%) Support Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 5 (22.73%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support
3 5 (22.73%) IT Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Desktop Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Field Service Technician
4 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Android Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Support
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
2 3 (13.64%) Ajax
2 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.64%) CSS
2 3 (13.64%) React
3 2 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (9.09%) Android SDK
4 1 (4.55%) Android NDK
4 1 (4.55%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (4.55%) JWT
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) OpenID
4 1 (4.55%) React Native
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Retrofit
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 5 (22.73%) Onboarding
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.09%) PKI
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.55%) EMV
5 1 (4.55%) iPad
5 1 (4.55%) Java Card
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 14 (63.64%) Apple iOS
3 6 (27.27%) Mac OS
4 5 (22.73%) Windows 10
5 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 3 (13.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) User Experience
2 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) ITIL
4 5 (22.73%) ITSM
4 5 (22.73%) Service Delivery
5 4 (18.18%) Android Development
5 4 (18.18%) Inventory Management
5 4 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.64%) CRM
6 3 (13.64%) MVVM
6 3 (13.64%) OO
6 3 (13.64%) OOP
6 3 (13.64%) RBAC
7 2 (9.09%) Application Packaging
7 2 (9.09%) Service Management
7 2 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
1 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Apple
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Dell
3 2 (9.09%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Google