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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 128 151
Rank change year-on-year -37 +23 +2
Contract jobs citing Android 41 25 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.70% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 4.84% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 22
10th Percentile £194 - £213
25th Percentile £204 £160 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £205 £475
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -56.84% +137.50%
75th Percentile £438 £368 £547
90th Percentile £473 £489 £625
England median daily rate £425 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +14.86% -17.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £27.50 £24.66 £23.08
% change year-on-year +11.52% +6.87% -23.08%

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 737 516 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.62% 17.35% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 368 642
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £319 £325 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +11.11% -4.18%
75th Percentile £569 £595 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.50% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 36 56
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.20 £15.94
25th Percentile £23.11 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.54 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.79% -41.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £56.25 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.13 £71.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.90 £22.00
% change year-on-year +116.89% -0.45% -41.21%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -4 14 £207 -58.60% 2
Thames Valley -32 14 £425 +6.25% 4
Berkshire -19 10 £425 -2.86% 2
West Sussex -20 6 £275 +34.15% 2
Hampshire - 5 £180 - 7
Buckinghamshire - 4 £361 - 1
East Sussex 0 1 £600 +269.23% 2
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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) GitHub
1 7 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (14.63%) SaaS
2 6 (14.63%) Sauce Labs
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) Azure
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.44%) AWS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Firebase
5 1 (2.44%) Google Play
5 1 (2.44%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) MySQL
1 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Android Studio
2 7 (17.07%) Gradle
3 6 (14.63%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (14.63%) CircleCI
3 6 (14.63%) Eclipse
3 6 (14.63%) Xcode
4 5 (12.20%) JUnit
5 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (7.32%) Subversion
7 1 (2.44%) Crashlytics
7 1 (2.44%) fastlane
7 1 (2.44%) Maven
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Electronics
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
2 17 (41.46%) Android Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Android Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Technical Support
4 6 (14.63%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) UX Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Support Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Desktop Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Desktop Support
6 4 (9.76%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Field Service Technician
6 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) IT Support
6 4 (9.76%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Android Jetpack
1 7 (17.07%) CSS
1 7 (17.07%) GraphQL
1 7 (17.07%) React
2 6 (14.63%) Ajax
2 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
2 6 (14.63%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (14.63%) REST
3 5 (12.20%) Dagger
3 5 (12.20%) OkHttp
3 5 (12.20%) RAML
3 5 (12.20%) RxJava
3 5 (12.20%) WireMock
4 3 (7.32%) Android SDK
4 3 (7.32%) React Native
5 2 (4.88%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (2.44%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Mobile App
2 7 (17.07%) Virtual Team
3 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
4 5 (12.20%) Legacy Code
5 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.44%) iPad
6 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Windows
2 14 (34.15%) Apple iOS
3 6 (14.63%) Linux
3 6 (14.63%) Unix
4 4 (9.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Android Development
2 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
3 13 (31.71%) User Experience
4 12 (29.27%) Computer Science
5 11 (26.83%) Mobile Application Development
6 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) OO
9 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (12.20%) Open Source
9 5 (12.20%) Performance Analysis
9 5 (12.20%) Secure Coding
9 5 (12.20%) Time Management
10 4 (9.76%) Inventory Management
10 4 (9.76%) ITSM
10 4 (9.76%) Preventative Maintenance
10 4 (9.76%) Service Delivery
11 3 (7.32%) Agile
11 3 (7.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Java
2 9 (21.95%) Kotlin
3 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.63%) Perl
4 6 (14.63%) Python
5 1 (2.44%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.44%) Swift
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (29.27%) Degree
3 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) Splunk
3 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.32%) Coverity
3 3 (7.32%) Thales
4 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) Apple
5 1 (2.44%) Braze
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) HP