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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 129 153
Rank change year-on-year -42 +24 -5
Contract jobs citing Android 40 24 47
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.67% 0.83% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.19% 4.62% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 19
10th Percentile £194 - £188
25th Percentile £201 £160 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £205 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -54.44% +125.00%
75th Percentile £438 £331 £544
90th Percentile £473 £426 £625
England median daily rate £453 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +13.13% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £25.95 - £73.00
25th Percentile £34.13 - £75.63
Median hourly rate £48.50 £24.66 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.67% -69.18% +326.67%
75th Percentile £62.13 - -
90th Percentile £69.85 - -
England median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £25.20
% change year-on-year +4.50% -2.14% +14.21%

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 771 519 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.84% 17.84% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 372 655
10th Percentile £204 £200 £201
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +0.84% +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £585
90th Percentile £650 £661 £650
England median daily rate £455 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -2.52% -1.74% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 35 58
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.20 £15.96
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.95 £17.77
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.09 £63.44
90th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £73.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -11.11% -44.57%

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 27 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in the South East over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in the South East

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 27 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 -11 13 £207 - 1
Thames Valley -44 12 £425 +6.25% 1
Berkshire -28 8 £425 -2.86% 1
Hampshire - 7 £195 - 2
West Sussex -20 6 £275 +34.15% 1
Buckinghamshire - 4 £361 -
East Sussex - 1 £600 - 1
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) GitHub
1 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (15.00%) SaaS
2 6 (15.00%) Sauce Labs
3 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.50%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Firebase
4 1 (2.50%) Google Play
4 1 (2.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) MySQL
1 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Android Studio
2 7 (17.50%) Gradle
3 6 (15.00%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (15.00%) CircleCI
3 6 (15.00%) Eclipse
3 6 (15.00%) Xcode
4 5 (12.50%) JUnit
5 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.50%) Crashlytics
7 1 (2.50%) fastlane
7 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Electronics
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Android Developer
1 16 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Android Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support
3 6 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Support
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) UX Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 5 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Android Jetpack
1 7 (17.50%) CSS
1 7 (17.50%) GraphQL
1 7 (17.50%) React
2 6 (15.00%) Ajax
2 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (15.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (15.00%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) Dagger
3 5 (12.50%) OkHttp
3 5 (12.50%) RAML
3 5 (12.50%) RxJava
3 5 (12.50%) WireMock
4 3 (7.50%) Android SDK
5 2 (5.00%) React Native
5 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.50%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth
6 1 (2.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Mobile App
2 7 (17.50%) Virtual Team
3 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (12.50%) Legacy Code
4 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.50%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Windows
2 14 (35.00%) Apple iOS
3 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 6 (15.00%) Unix
4 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Android Development
2 13 (32.50%) Computer Science
3 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 12 (30.00%) User Experience
4 10 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.00%) OO
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (12.50%) ITSM
7 5 (12.50%) Open Source
7 5 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 5 (12.50%) Time Management
8 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 4 (10.00%) Inventory Management
8 4 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
8 4 (10.00%) Secure Coding
9 3 (7.50%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) Perl
4 6 (15.00%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) Apple
3 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.00%) Coverity
3 2 (5.00%) Dell
3 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.00%) HP
3 2 (5.00%) Thales
4 1 (2.50%) Braze
4 1 (2.50%) Google