Android Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Android Engineer
England > South West

The median Android Engineer daily rate in the South West is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Android Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £600
% change year-on-year - -20.83% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 3,317 1,581 3,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 90.03% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 984 1,906
10th Percentile £318 £222 £250
25th Percentile £413 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £613
90th Percentile £705 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 148 458
10th Percentile £17.74 £15.25 £13.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.78 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £33.67 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.78% -38.78% -12.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.58 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.22% -9.47%

Android Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Android Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Android Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Android Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Android Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Android Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Android Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android Engineer in the South West

Android Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Bristol - 6 £475 -
Gloucestershire - 2 £515 - 2
Android Engineer
England

Android Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 25 June 2026, Android Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Android Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Android
2 6 (75.00%) Android Development
3 5 (62.50%) Kotlin
4 4 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) MVVM
5 3 (37.50%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (37.50%) Jetpack Compose
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (25.00%) Android SDK
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) SOLID
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) API Design
7 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (12.50%) AWS
7 1 (12.50%) Azure
7 1 (12.50%) Benchmarking
7 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
7 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 1 (12.50%) Docker
7 1 (12.50%) Git
7 1 (12.50%) Go
7 1 (12.50%) Google
7 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
7 1 (12.50%) Mobile Development
7 1 (12.50%) Open Source

Android Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (37.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (25.00%) Android SDK
3 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Android Development
2 4 (50.00%) MVVM
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) SOLID
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) API Design
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Benchmarking
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile Development
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Kotlin
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google