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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 123 157
Rank change year-on-year -80 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing Android 28 46 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.42% 1.28% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.67% 7.19% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 13
10th Percentile £175 £178 £203
25th Percentile £198 £204 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £208 £375
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -44.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £338 £338 £400
90th Percentile £529 £594 £588
England median daily rate £450 £400 £430
% change year-on-year +12.50% -6.98% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 £18.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.54% -40.82% +60.38%

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 763 640 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.56% 17.86% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 454 504
10th Percentile £204 £190 £200
25th Percentile £307 £219 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £579 £538 £583
90th Percentile £638 £602 £650
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 54 33
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.50 £23.05
25th Percentile £21.04 £15.50 £35.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -67.74% +1.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £76.18 -
England median hourly rate £32.29 £24.00 £61.97
% change year-on-year +34.54% -61.27% +28.03%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 - 12
West Sussex -21 7 £323 -44.87% 10
Surrey -26 7 £208 - 5
East Sussex - 3 £325 - 10
Berkshire -25 1 £600 +71.43% 3
Thames Valley -69 1 £600 +71.43% 4
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 (10.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Sentry
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) MySQL
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) Parquet
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Android Studio
1 3 (10.71%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (10.71%) CircleCI
1 3 (10.71%) Eclipse
1 3 (10.71%) Xcode
2 2 (7.14%) Gradle
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.57%) TestRail
3 1 (3.57%) XCTest
3 1 (3.57%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) IT Support
2 6 (21.43%) Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 5 (17.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Desktop Support
3 5 (17.86%) IT Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Android Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Android Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) Ajax
2 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.71%) CSS
2 3 (10.71%) GraphQL
2 3 (10.71%) React
3 2 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (7.14%) Dagger
3 2 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (7.14%) JWT
3 2 (7.14%) OkHttp
3 2 (7.14%) RAML
3 2 (7.14%) RxJava
3 2 (7.14%) WireMock
4 1 (3.57%) boto
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
4 1 (3.57%) pytest
4 1 (3.57%) UIKit
4 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 5 (17.86%) Onboarding
3 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (10.71%) PKI
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
5 2 (7.14%) Legacy Code
5 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.57%) EMV
6 1 (3.57%) iPad
6 1 (3.57%) Java Card
6 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (78.57%) Apple iOS
2 16 (57.14%) Windows
3 6 (21.43%) macOS
3 6 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.71%) Linux
4 3 (10.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) User Experience
2 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
3 7 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 6 (21.43%) ITIL
5 5 (17.86%) Android Development
5 5 (17.86%) ITSM
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Clean Code
6 3 (10.71%) CRM
6 3 (10.71%) Inventory Management
6 3 (10.71%) iOS Development
6 3 (10.71%) Mobile Development
6 3 (10.71%) OO
6 3 (10.71%) OOP
6 3 (10.71%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (10.71%) RBAC
6 3 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) Kotlin
3 3 (10.71%) Perl
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.71%) SCCM
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Apple
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) Splunk
4 2 (7.14%) Dell
4 2 (7.14%) HP