Android SDK Contracts

Android Software Development Kit (SDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Android SDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android SDK 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 490 573 690
Rank change year-on-year +83 +117 +113
Contract jobs citing Android SDK 30 9 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.021% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 15
10th Percentile £398 £346 £440
25th Percentile £403 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £588
90th Percentile £550 £620 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £413 £525
% change year-on-year -3.03% -21.43% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Android SDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Android SDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android SDK 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 +74 24 £453 +6.53% 9
Work from Home +51 14 £525 +27.27% 4
London +47 14 £453 +6.53% 5
UK excluding London +68 7 £400 -3.03% 5
South West +50 5 £525 +31.25% 1
North of England - 2 £400 - 2
North West - 2 £400 - 2

Android SDK
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Firebase
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Android Studio
2 6 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (6.67%) Gradle
4 2 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (6.67%) Banking
1 2 (6.67%) Finance
1 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Android Developer
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Senior
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Android Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Android Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Android Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (6.67%) iOS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 14 (46.67%) RESTful
3 6 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (16.67%) Dagger
5 4 (13.33%) Flutter
5 4 (13.33%) JSON
5 4 (13.33%) React Native
6 3 (10.00%) iOS SDK
7 2 (6.67%) Cocoa
7 2 (6.67%) Cocoa Touch
7 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
7 2 (6.67%) Material Design
7 2 (6.67%) REST
7 2 (6.67%) Web Services
8 1 (3.33%) RxJava
8 1 (3.33%) SwiftUI
8 1 (3.33%) UIKit
8 1 (3.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Android Development
2 17 (56.67%) MVVM
3 13 (43.33%) User Experience
4 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (36.67%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
8 5 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
9 4 (13.33%) Secure Coding
9 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
10 3 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 3 (10.00%) Clean Code
10 3 (10.00%) Code Quality
11 2 (6.67%) Architectural Design
11 2 (6.67%) Observability
11 2 (6.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) Kotlin
2 11 (36.67%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google