Android Studio Contract Job Trends

Google Android Studio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Android Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 530 515
Rank change year-on-year -125 -15 +122
Contract jobs citing Android Studio 17 22 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.068% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.44% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 24
10th Percentile £204 - £363
25th Percentile £325 £204 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £268 £428
Median % change year-on-year +42.72% -37.31% -6.30%
75th Percentile £461 £355 £488
90th Percentile £475 £430 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £208 £444
% change year-on-year +90.36% -53.24% +1.43%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Android Studio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,191 4,944 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.45% 15.23% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 3,332 3,255
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 108 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £30.23 £27.80
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.75 £50.94
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +0.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £71.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

Android Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Android Studio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Android Studio job vacancy trend in the UK

Android Studio
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android Studio

Android Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Studio over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Android Studio in the UK

Android Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android Studio

Android Studio
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Studio within the UK over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
UK excluding London -106 14 £395 +90.36% 8
England -132 10 £413 +98.80% 25
Scotland - 6 £383 - 1
North of England -75 4 £450 +35.85% 2
South East -77 4 £208 - 1
North East - 4 £450 -
Work from Home -65 3 £208 -48.13% 65
London -74 2 £325 - 19

Android Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Google Play
2 6 (35.29%) Firebase
2 6 (35.29%) GitHub
2 6 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.88%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Gradle
2 7 (41.18%) Git
3 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (29.41%) Crashlytics
4 5 (29.41%) fastlane
5 4 (23.53%) Xcode
6 3 (17.65%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
7 1 (5.88%) Appium
7 1 (5.88%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (5.88%) JIRA
7 1 (5.88%) JUnit
7 1 (5.88%) Postman
7 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 12 (70.59%) Android Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Support
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) UX Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Android Jetpack
1 12 (70.59%) Jetpack Compose
2 11 (64.71%) Retrofit
3 10 (58.82%) RESTful
4 7 (41.18%) Android SDK
5 5 (29.41%) REST
6 3 (17.65%) Ajax
6 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 3 (17.65%) CSS
6 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
6 3 (17.65%) React
7 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 1 (5.88%) Google Maps API
7 1 (5.88%) JSON
7 1 (5.88%) Material Design
7 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (82.35%) Mobile App
2 7 (41.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Android
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile
1 14 (82.35%) Scrum
2 13 (76.47%) Android Development
2 13 (76.47%) MVVM
3 10 (58.82%) User Experience
4 8 (47.06%) Clean Code
5 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Analytics
6 6 (35.29%) API Integration
6 6 (35.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (35.29%) Asynchronous Programming
6 6 (35.29%) Kanban
6 6 (35.29%) Secure Coding
6 6 (35.29%) UX Design
7 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (29.41%) DevOps
7 5 (29.41%) Technical Analysis
7 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (76.47%) Kotlin
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Perl
3 3 (17.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (29.41%) WCAG
3 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Google
2 5 (29.41%) Dynatrace
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk