Android Development Contracts

Android Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Android Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 587 537
Rank change year-on-year +115 -50 -152
Contract jobs citing Android Development 111 109 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 68 239
10th Percentile £314 £331 £425
25th Percentile £363 £447 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £588
90th Percentile £624 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% +19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £39.85 - £35.88
25th Percentile £42.25 - £45.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £50.05 £70.45
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -28.96% +10.08%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £76.88
90th Percentile £81.00 - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £50.05 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.84% -30.97% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Android Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +114 102 £457 -9.50% 59
UK excluding London +97 58 £438 -12.50% 33
Work from Home +110 40 £468 -14.91% 24
North of England +58 39 £438 -2.78% 10
London +68 38 £463 -8.42% 30
North West +49 27 £438 -11.39% 6
Yorkshire - 12 £300 - 3
South East +23 11 £450 -10.00% 4
South West +4 4 £400 -23.81% 6
Midlands +31 2 £400 -23.81% 8
West Midlands - 2 £400 - 5
Scotland - 2 £569 - 6

Android Development
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 2 (1.80%) CMS
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) Drupal
2 1 (0.90%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.61%) GitHub
2 6 (5.41%) Azure
3 5 (4.50%) Firebase
4 4 (3.60%) AWS
4 4 (3.60%) Flurry Analytics
4 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.60%) PubNub
5 1 (0.90%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (0.90%) AWS IoT
5 1 (0.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) Mixpanel
1 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.60%) SQLite
2 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.90%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (19.82%) Android Studio
2 16 (14.41%) Git
3 10 (9.01%) Mockito
4 7 (6.31%) JUnit
5 6 (5.41%) Gradle
5 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.80%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.90%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.90%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.31%) Finance
3 5 (4.50%) Banking
3 5 (4.50%) Games
4 1 (0.90%) Electronics
4 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.90%) Retail
4 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (79.28%) Developer
2 66 (59.46%) Android Developer
3 16 (14.41%) Senior
4 13 (11.71%) React Developer
5 11 (9.91%) Mobile Developer
5 11 (9.91%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Senior Android Developer
7 8 (7.21%) Android Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) iOS Developer
9 5 (4.50%) E-Commerce Developer
9 5 (4.50%) iOS Android Developer
9 5 (4.50%) JavaScript Developer
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Android Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Technical Writer
11 3 (2.70%) Architect
11 3 (2.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Software Developer
12 2 (1.80%) Applications Developer
12 2 (1.80%) Software Engineer
12 2 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.22%) RESTful
2 17 (15.32%) Android Jetpack
3 15 (13.51%) Jetpack Compose
4 14 (12.61%) React Native
4 14 (12.61%) REST
5 12 (10.81%) HTML
6 11 (9.91%) React
7 10 (9.01%) CSS
8 9 (8.11%) Android SDK
8 9 (8.11%) Node.js
8 9 (8.11%) Web Services
9 7 (6.31%) .NET
9 7 (6.31%) HTML5
9 7 (6.31%) XML
10 6 (5.41%) RxJava
10 6 (5.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 6 (5.41%) Unreal Engine
11 5 (4.50%) Ajax
11 5 (4.50%) CSS3
11 5 (4.50%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (38.74%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
2 8 (7.21%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.70%) Photography
4 3 (2.70%) Social Media
5 2 (1.80%) Animation
5 2 (1.80%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.90%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.90%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) IoT
6 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.90%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 111 (100.00%) Android
2 25 (22.52%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.60%) Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Windows
5 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.13%) Mobile Development
2 25 (22.52%) iOS Development
3 21 (18.92%) Unit Testing
4 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
4 17 (15.32%) MVVM
5 15 (13.51%) Web Development
6 13 (11.71%) Computer Science
7 11 (9.91%) Agile
7 11 (9.91%) Design Patterns
7 11 (9.91%) SDLC
8 10 (9.01%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (9.01%) Mobile Application Development
8 10 (9.01%) User Experience
9 9 (8.11%) E-Commerce
9 9 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (6.31%) Software Engineering
10 7 (6.31%) SOLID
10 7 (6.31%) TDD
11 6 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (5.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (62.16%) Kotlin
2 43 (38.74%) Java
3 17 (15.32%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.50%) C#
4 5 (4.50%) C++
4 5 (4.50%) Python
5 4 (3.60%) Swift
5 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.80%) C
6 2 (1.80%) PHP
7 1 (0.90%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.90%) Rust
7 1 (0.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.71%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.80%) PhD
5 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) QA
2 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) Grafana
1 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.60%) Nokia
2 2 (1.80%) Apple
2 2 (1.80%) Google
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.80%) SAP
3 1 (0.90%) Adobe
3 1 (0.90%) Databricks
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle