Android Engineer Contracts

Android Engineer
UK

The median Android Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, 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 498 560 703
Rank change year-on-year +62 +143 +126
Contract jobs requiring an Android Engineer 22 22 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.051% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.054% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 8
10th Percentile £156 £390 £424
25th Percentile £160 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £601 £675 £638
90th Percentile £638 - £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £550 -
% change year-on-year -70.91% - -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Engineer 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 +58 19 £475 -20.83% 16
London +41 11 £571 +14.25% 10
UK excluding London +62 7 £160 -70.91% 9
North of England +19 2 £155 -65.56% 1
South West - 2 £180 -
South East +44 1 - - 2
North West +17 1 £160 - 1
Yorkshire +8 1 £150 -66.67%
West Midlands - 1 £160 -
Midlands - 1 £160 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Android Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Android
2 12 (54.55%) Kotlin
3 9 (40.91%) Mobile App
4 8 (36.36%) Android Development
4 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 7 (31.82%) MVVM
6 5 (22.73%) Git
6 5 (22.73%) Apple iOS
6 5 (22.73%) JIRA
6 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
6 5 (22.73%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
7 4 (18.18%) OpenAPI
7 4 (18.18%) Dagger
7 4 (18.18%) Figma
7 4 (18.18%) SonarCloud
7 4 (18.18%) AWS
7 4 (18.18%) JUnit
7 4 (18.18%) Finance
7 4 (18.18%) Confluence
7 4 (18.18%) Android SDK
7 4 (18.18%) Swagger
8 3 (13.64%) Appium
8 3 (13.64%) QA Automation
8 3 (13.64%) User Experience
8 3 (13.64%) pytest
8 3 (13.64%) Java
8 3 (13.64%) Python
8 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
8 3 (13.64%) iPhone

Android Engineer 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Figma
1 4 (18.18%) SonarCloud
2 3 (13.64%) BrowserStack
2 3 (13.64%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (4.55%) BigCommerce
3 1 (4.55%) Google Play
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) Appium
3 3 (13.64%) TestNG
4 1 (4.55%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.55%) Gradle
4 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (18.18%) Android SDK
2 4 (18.18%) Dagger
2 4 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 4 (18.18%) Swagger
3 3 (13.64%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) DirectX
4 1 (4.55%) iOS SDK
4 1 (4.55%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (4.55%) OpenGL
4 1 (4.55%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (4.55%) React Native
4 1 (4.55%) RxJava
4 1 (4.55%) SwiftUI
4 1 (4.55%) UIKit
4 1 (4.55%) VML
4 1 (4.55%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) iPhone
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Social Media
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Android
2 5 (22.73%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Android Development
1 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 7 (31.82%) MVVM
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
4 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
4 3 (13.64%) Push Notifications
4 3 (13.64%) QA Automation
4 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
4 3 (13.64%) User Experience
5 2 (9.09%) Architectural Design
5 2 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.09%) Observability
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Prototyping
5 2 (9.09%) UX Design
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Kotlin
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) C++
3 1 (4.55%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.55%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
1 1 (4.55%) SAP
1 1 (4.55%) Sitecore