Android SDK Contracts

Android Software Development Kit (SDK)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Android SDK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android SDK over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 690 812
Rank change year-on-year +112 +122 -186
Contract jobs citing Android SDK 9 25 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.041% 0.053%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 30
10th Percentile £346 £433 £459
25th Percentile £363 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £636
90th Percentile £620 £675 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +35.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Android SDK is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,920 14,245 24,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.41% 23.43% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,209 10,383 18,022
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £764 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 148 256
10th Percentile £20.72 £28.73 £21.50
25th Percentile £36.96 £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £64.38 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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 18 April 2024.

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 6 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 18 April 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 +116 7 £425 -10.53% 4
London +101 5 £425 -10.53% 1
Work from Home +130 4 £413 -13.16% 4
UK excluding London +46 2 £413 - 5
South East +21 1 £425 -
South West +18 1 £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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Android Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (11.11%) Dagger
3 1 (11.11%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Android Development
2 4 (44.44%) Mobile Development
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Data Security
3 2 (22.22%) Fintech
3 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 1 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Server-Driven UI
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) SOLID
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Kotlin
2 6 (66.67%) Java