Android Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 216 216
Rank change year-on-year +50 0 -21
Contract jobs citing Android 253 267 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 1.14% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.88% 5.89% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 211 250
10th Percentile £204 £146 £145
25th Percentile £325 £166 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £254 £400
Median % change year-on-year +75.20% -36.50% +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £531 £513
90th Percentile £850 £638 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £413 £488
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 28
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.80 £11.79
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £16.71 £19.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% +2.70% -63.90%
75th Percentile £76.88 £50.05 £22.57
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.02 £47.52
UK median hourly rate £20.47 £22.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.57% +13.15% -61.90%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,209 4,532 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 19.28% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,134 3,149 3,853
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £256 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -7.84% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.19 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.25 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.06% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £60.64 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +65 113 £495 +18.21% 47
North West +54 84 £800 +72.79% 24
South East +8 54 £475 +137.50% 41
Yorkshire +36 29 £350 +75.00% 18
Midlands +34 28 £450 +13.92% 27
Scotland +34 25 £400 +148.06% 25
West Midlands +40 23 £450 -21.74% 17
South West -4 23 £230 -54.00% 28
East of England -12 6 £240 -46.67% 35
Northern Ireland +10 4 £210 +5.00%
East Midlands +5 4 £445 +12.66% 10
Wales +17 3 £450 +5.88% 3
Android
UK

Android
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.19%) CMS
2 3 (1.19%) nginx
2 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.40%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Drupal
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.56%) Sketch
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.79%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.40%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (12.25%) Azure
3 13 (5.14%) AWS
4 10 (3.95%) Figma
5 7 (2.77%) SaaS
6 5 (1.98%) GitHub
7 4 (1.58%) Apigee
8 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.79%) Slack
9 1 (0.40%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.40%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.40%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.40%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.18%) Firewall
2 44 (17.39%) VPN
3 20 (7.91%) VoIP
4 13 (5.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (5.14%) Network Security
5 12 (4.74%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (1.98%) LAN
6 5 (1.98%) WAN
7 4 (1.58%) Wireless
8 3 (1.19%) DHCP
8 3 (1.19%) SAN
8 3 (1.19%) SSL
8 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.79%) SGSN
9 2 (0.79%) VLAN
10 1 (0.40%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.14%) Big Data
2 8 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.58%) DB2
4 4 (1.58%) MySQL
4 4 (1.58%) SQLite
5 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.40%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (7.51%) Android Studio
2 10 (3.95%) Mockito
3 7 (2.77%) Git
4 6 (2.37%) Gradle
4 6 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.58%) JIRA
5 4 (1.58%) JUnit
5 4 (1.58%) Maven
5 4 (1.58%) XCUITest
6 3 (1.19%) gulp
7 2 (0.79%) Appium
7 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.79%) Postman
7 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.79%) UI Automator
8 1 (0.40%) CMake
8 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.51%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.74%) Banking
5 10 (3.95%) Finance
6 9 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.37%) Electronics
8 6 (2.37%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) French Language
10 2 (0.79%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (25.69%) Developer
2 57 (22.53%) Architect
3 42 (16.60%) Technical Architect
4 39 (15.42%) Android Developer
5 35 (13.83%) Lead
6 30 (11.86%) Lead Architect
6 30 (11.86%) Technical Leader
7 23 (9.09%) Support Engineer
8 22 (8.70%) IT Support
9 19 (7.51%) Analyst
10 15 (5.93%) Support Analyst
11 13 (5.14%) Designer
12 11 (4.35%) IT Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) Senior
13 10 (3.95%) UX Designer
14 9 (3.56%) Audio Visual Technician
14 9 (3.56%) Mobile Developer
14 9 (3.56%) React Developer
15 8 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.97%) Node.js
2 25 (9.88%) RESTful
3 16 (6.32%) React
4 13 (5.14%) Apache NiFi
5 12 (4.74%) React Native
6 11 (4.35%) .NET
7 10 (3.95%) Android Jetpack
7 10 (3.95%) Jetpack Compose
8 8 (3.16%) XML
9 6 (2.37%) DirectX
9 6 (2.37%) OpenGL
9 6 (2.37%) OpenGL ES
9 6 (2.37%) Vulkan
10 5 (1.98%) Dagger
10 5 (1.98%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.98%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.58%) Retrofit
11 4 (1.58%) RxJava
12 3 (1.19%) OpenID
12 3 (1.19%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.16%) Mobile App
2 37 (14.62%) Public Cloud
3 19 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.51%) Video Editing
4 13 (5.14%) Cyber Defence
4 13 (5.14%) Distributed Applications
5 11 (4.35%) iPhone
5 11 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.56%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.98%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.58%) iPad
9 4 (1.58%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.19%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.19%) CCTV
10 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 145 (57.31%) Apple iOS
2 94 (37.15%) Windows
3 48 (18.97%) Windows Server
4 19 (7.51%) Linux
5 18 (7.11%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.53%) Mac OS
7 13 (5.14%) Unix
8 4 (1.58%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.79%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.40%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.92%) Android Development
2 57 (22.53%) Security Architecture
3 52 (20.55%) Mobile Device Management
4 51 (20.16%) Agile
5 48 (18.97%) CI/CD
6 43 (17.00%) Risk Management
7 42 (16.60%) Zero Trust
8 40 (15.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 40 (15.81%) Threat Intelligence
9 39 (15.42%) DevOps
10 38 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 27 (10.67%) User Experience
13 21 (8.30%) Information Security
14 20 (7.91%) Customer Service
14 20 (7.91%) Microservices
15 16 (6.32%) Mobile Development
15 16 (6.32%) Roadmaps
15 16 (6.32%) Unit Testing
16 15 (5.93%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.95%) Kotlin
2 38 (15.02%) Java
3 18 (7.11%) Python
4 11 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.16%) C++
6 6 (2.37%) C
6 6 (2.37%) SQL
7 5 (1.98%) C#
7 5 (1.98%) Swift
8 4 (1.58%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.19%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.79%) Dart
10 2 (0.79%) GLSL
10 2 (0.79%) HLSL
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
11 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.40%) Rust
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.91%) Degree
4 11 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.79%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.79%) MCP
6 2 (0.79%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (3.95%) QA
3 8 (3.16%) SLA
4 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (11.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.56%) SCCM
3 3 (1.19%) Ansible
3 3 (1.19%) PaperCut
4 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.79%) WSUS
5 1 (0.40%) AppManager
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 34 (13.44%) Apple
2 30 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.53%) Cisco
4 11 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.95%) Google
6 9 (3.56%) Polycom
7 5 (1.98%) Citrix
8 4 (1.58%) HP
8 4 (1.58%) Mitel
8 4 (1.58%) Nokia
8 4 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.58%) VMware
9 3 (1.19%) Adobe
9 3 (1.19%) Aruba
9 3 (1.19%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (1.19%) Sage
9 3 (1.19%) Veeam
9 3 (1.19%) WatchGuard
10 2 (0.79%) Ericsson
10 2 (0.79%) Progress