Android Developer Contracts

Android Developer
UK

The median Android Developer daily rate in the UK is £469, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 509 638
Rank change year-on-year +57 +129 0
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 68 73 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 66 54
10th Percentile £325 £350 £327
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £457 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -12.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £518 £575
90th Percentile £550 £591 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year - +59.84% -29.41%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.05
% change year-on-year - +59.84% +5.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Android Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Developer within the UK 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
England +42 51 £463 +2.78% 32
London +44 30 £488 +5.41% 10
Work from Home +45 29 £523 +11.65% 22
UK excluding London +43 20 £450 +2.86% 26
North of England -9 7 £400 -8.57% 13
South West +51 6 £438 +9.38% 1
Midlands +26 5 £463 +2.78% 3
East Midlands - 5 £463 - 3
North West -3 4 £400 -15.79% 12
Yorkshire 0 3 £450 +50.00% 1
South East +45 1 £585 +37.65% 5
Scotland +13 1 £350 -40.43% 1

Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Android Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Android Developer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Android
2 66 (97.06%) Android Development
3 58 (85.29%) Kotlin
4 29 (42.65%) Android Jetpack
4 29 (42.65%) Agile
5 25 (36.76%) MVVM
5 25 (36.76%) Android SDK
6 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 23 (33.82%) Mobile App
8 19 (27.94%) RESTful
9 18 (26.47%) Jetpack Compose
10 17 (25.00%) Java
11 15 (22.06%) Git
12 14 (20.59%) User Experience
13 12 (17.65%) Mobile Development
13 12 (17.65%) Mobile Application Development
14 10 (14.71%) Unit Testing
14 10 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
15 9 (13.24%) GraphQL
15 9 (13.24%) Scrum
15 9 (13.24%) Test Automation
16 8 (11.76%) Apple iOS
16 8 (11.76%) AWS
16 8 (11.76%) Google
16 8 (11.76%) iOS Development
16 8 (11.76%) Android Studio
16 8 (11.76%) Dagger
16 8 (11.76%) Push Notifications

Android Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.76%) AWS
2 7 (10.29%) Azure
3 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.35%) Firebase
4 3 (4.41%) GCP
4 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 2 (2.94%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.47%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Git
2 8 (11.76%) Android Studio
3 5 (7.35%) JUnit
3 5 (7.35%) Mockito
4 4 (5.88%) Gradle
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.47%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.47%) Mercurial
General
1 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Banking
3 4 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Games
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (42.65%) Android Jetpack
2 25 (36.76%) Android SDK
3 19 (27.94%) RESTful
4 18 (26.47%) Jetpack Compose
5 9 (13.24%) GraphQL
6 8 (11.76%) Dagger
7 7 (10.29%) React Native
8 5 (7.35%) JSON
8 5 (7.35%) Material Design
9 4 (5.88%) Flutter
9 4 (5.88%) REST
9 4 (5.88%) RxJava
10 3 (4.41%) Retrofit
11 2 (2.94%) Cocoa
11 2 (2.94%) Cocoa Touch
11 2 (2.94%) Google Maps API
11 2 (2.94%) iOS SDK
11 2 (2.94%) Web Services
12 1 (1.47%) OAuth
12 1 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.82%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.94%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.47%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 68 (100.00%) Android
2 8 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (97.06%) Android Development
2 29 (42.65%) Agile
3 25 (36.76%) MVVM
4 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 14 (20.59%) User Experience
6 12 (17.65%) Mobile Application Development
6 12 (17.65%) Mobile Development
7 10 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.71%) Unit Testing
8 9 (13.24%) Scrum
8 9 (13.24%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.76%) Design Patterns
9 8 (11.76%) iOS Development
9 8 (11.76%) Push Notifications
10 7 (10.29%) DevOps
10 7 (10.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (8.82%) Clean Code
11 6 (8.82%) Dependency Injection
11 6 (8.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (85.29%) Kotlin
2 17 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (7.35%) Swift
4 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.94%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.47%) Bash
6 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.47%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Google
2 7 (10.29%) Virgin Media
3 2 (2.94%) Apple
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.47%) Samsung
4 1 (1.47%) Spotify