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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 125 149
Rank change year-on-year -38 +24 +6
Contract jobs citing Android 43 23 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.74% 0.77% 0.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.87% 4.53% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 20
10th Percentile £200 £160 £329
25th Percentile £204 £176 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £220 £475
Median % change year-on-year +73.02% -53.68% +137.50%
75th Percentile £438 £374 £581
90th Percentile £643 £490 £625
England median daily rate £420 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £73.00
25th Percentile - - £75.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £24.66 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.14% -69.18% +326.67%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.54 £24.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year +109.00% +20.50% -18.14%

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 733 508 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.59% 17.04% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 362 647
10th Percentile £204 £205 £200
25th Percentile £351 £328 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 35 59
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £15.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -41.05% -10.38%
75th Percentile £55.00 £59.44 £62.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.25 £70.75
England median hourly rate £42.71 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +73.18% +12.09% -41.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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
Surrey -2 16 £207 -58.60% 2
Thames Valley -38 14 £425 +9.68% 5
Berkshire -23 10 £425 +6.25% 3
West Sussex -15 7 £275 +34.15% 2
Hampshire - 4 £740 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 4 £361 - 1
East Sussex +2 1 £600 +269.23%
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 (6.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) GitHub
1 7 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (11.63%) SaaS
2 5 (11.63%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.33%) Firebase
3 1 (2.33%) Google Play
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.33%) SMS
2 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) MySQL
1 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Android Studio
2 11 (25.58%) Gradle
3 6 (13.95%) CircleCI
4 5 (11.63%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (11.63%) Eclipse
4 5 (11.63%) JUnit
4 5 (11.63%) Xcode
5 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
6 3 (6.98%) Subversion
7 2 (4.65%) GitLab
7 2 (4.65%) WiX
8 1 (2.33%) Crashlytics
8 1 (2.33%) fastlane
8 1 (2.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Electronics
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Developer
2 21 (48.84%) Android Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Android Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) UX Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Android Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Field Service Technician
5 4 (9.30%) Graphics Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Graphics Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Android Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (4.65%) React Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Android Jetpack
2 6 (13.95%) CSS
2 6 (13.95%) GraphQL
2 6 (13.95%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (13.95%) React
2 6 (13.95%) REST
3 5 (11.63%) Ajax
3 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
3 5 (11.63%) Dagger
3 5 (11.63%) OkHttp
3 5 (11.63%) RAML
3 5 (11.63%) RxJava
3 5 (11.63%) WireMock
4 4 (9.30%) Flask
4 4 (9.30%) React Native
5 3 (6.98%) Android SDK
6 2 (4.65%) JavaFX
6 2 (4.65%) Nuxt
6 2 (4.65%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Mobile App
2 7 (16.28%) Virtual Team
3 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (11.63%) Legacy Code
5 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Windows
2 11 (25.58%) Apple iOS
3 5 (11.63%) Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Unix
4 4 (9.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Android Development
2 16 (37.21%) Software Engineering
3 10 (23.26%) Mobile Application Development
4 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
4 9 (20.93%) Performance Analysis
4 9 (20.93%) User Experience
5 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.95%) Analytics
7 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (11.63%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (11.63%) OO
7 5 (11.63%) Open Source
7 5 (11.63%) Secure Coding
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Time Management
8 4 (9.30%) Agile
8 4 (9.30%) AI
8 4 (9.30%) Inventory Management
8 4 (9.30%) Preventative Maintenance
8 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) Java
2 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
2 9 (20.93%) Kotlin
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Perl
4 2 (4.65%) C++
4 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.33%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (20.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.98%) Coverity
3 3 (6.98%) Thales
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) Apple
5 1 (2.33%) Braze
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow