Android Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Android Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Android Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 340 428
Rank change year-on-year +28 +88 -1
Contract jobs citing Android Development 24 59 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.34% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 20
10th Percentile £378 £308 £333
25th Percentile £400 £350 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £469 £518 £552
90th Percentile £532 £608 £563
UK median daily rate £463 £463 £525
% change year-on-year - -11.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year - +59.84% +8.80%
UK median hourly rate - £71.25 £50.05
% change year-on-year - +42.36% +5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Android Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in the UK excluding London

Android Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Android Development in the UK excluding London

Android Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android Development in the UK excluding London

Android Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Android Development in the UK excluding London

Android Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England -11 10 £425 -2.86% 28
South West +48 6 £438 +9.38% 3
Midlands +24 5 £463 +15.63% 3
Yorkshire +1 5 £450 +50.00% 6
North West -6 5 £400 -8.57% 22
East Midlands - 5 £463 - 2
South East +38 2 £585 +30.00% 23
Scotland +12 1 £350 -38.46% 10
Android Development
UK

Android Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (20.83%) Azure
1 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
General
1 2 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Developer
2 20 (83.33%) Android Developer
3 7 (29.17%) iOS Developer
4 6 (25.00%) iOS Android Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Android Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Android Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Graphics Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Android Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Mobile Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
7 1 (4.17%) React Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Android Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Graphics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (62.50%) Android Jetpack
2 9 (37.50%) RESTful
3 8 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (29.17%) Android SDK
5 2 (8.33%) Cocoa
5 2 (8.33%) Cocoa Touch
5 2 (8.33%) iOS SDK
6 1 (4.17%) DirectX
6 1 (4.17%) OAuth
6 1 (4.17%) OpenGL
6 1 (4.17%) OpenGL ES
6 1 (4.17%) React Native
6 1 (4.17%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Android
2 9 (37.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) iOS Development
4 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
4 7 (29.17%) MVVM
4 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
5 6 (25.00%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Scrum
6 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
7 4 (16.67%) API Integration
7 4 (16.67%) User Experience
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (8.33%) Coaching
9 2 (8.33%) Mobile Development
9 2 (8.33%) Multivariate Testing
9 2 (8.33%) Pair Programming
9 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 4 (16.67%) Swift
3 2 (8.33%) Objective-C
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Optimizely