Android Contracts in Surrey

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 48 62
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Android 9 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.80% 1.40% 1.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.75% 7.14% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 10
10th Percentile - £136 £203
25th Percentile £204 £294 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £600 £324
Median % change year-on-year -65.42% +85.33% +47.16%
75th Percentile £296 £625 £456
90th Percentile £565 - £475
South East median daily rate £208 £375 £325
% change year-on-year -44.67% +15.38% -31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - +370.59% -
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £80.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +332.43% -

All Operating Systems
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 61 112 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 19.00% 19.55% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 87 122
10th Percentile - £202 £194
25th Percentile £204 £257 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £396
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +0.95% +44.22%
75th Percentile £506 £563 £550
90th Percentile £563 £655 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £26.40 £50.90 £21.83
25th Percentile - £52.25 £29.81
Median hourly rate £28.00 £66.50 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +57.40% +238.00%
75th Percentile £29.00 £80.00 £51.88
90th Percentile £31.11 - £55.25
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £52.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.23% -4.09% +223.53%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Android in Surrey

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Android in Surrey

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Surrey over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Surrey

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Android in Surrey

Android
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Guildford - 3 £575 - 6
Android
South East

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) SaaS
1 6 (66.67%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Android Studio
1 6 (66.67%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 6 (66.67%) Xcode
2 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 6 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) UX Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Principal Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (11.11%) iOS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Android Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Ajax
1 6 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
1 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 6 (66.67%) React
2 3 (33.33%) Material Design
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (66.67%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Android Development
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) MVVM
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
4 1 (11.11%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 3 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 3 (33.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
1 6 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 6 (66.67%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Apple