Android Development Contract Job Trends in the South West

Android Software Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Android Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 132 150
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing Android Development 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.33% 0.083% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.099% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - - £348
25th Percentile - £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -8.33% -13.25%
75th Percentile £390 £419 £506
90th Percentile £396 - £533
England median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -15.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Android Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,881 2,025 2,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.15% 84.48% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,086 1,212 1,854
10th Percentile £223 £313 £300
25th Percentile £378 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 149 286
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.28 £20.38
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.90 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Android Development job vacancy trend in the South West

Android Development
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Android Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Android Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Development within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Bristol +4 5 £350 -15.15% 6
Dorset - 2 - - 4
Android Development
England

Android Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Android Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Android SDK
2 3 (42.86%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Compact Framework
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 1 (14.29%) OpenID
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Benchmarking
1 4 (57.14%) Open Source
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) MVVM
2 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Kotlin
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Xamarin