Android Contracts

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 216 259
Rank change year-on-year -54 +43 -10
Contract jobs citing Android 280 487 615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.12% 1.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.87% 8.38% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 331 458
10th Percentile £160 £190 £160
25th Percentile £238 £308 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £575
90th Percentile £550 £825 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £450 £278
% change year-on-year -22.22% +62.16% -30.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 32 15
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.36 £18.05
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.22 £19.97
Median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% -24.28% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £41.25 £43.70
90th Percentile £31.62 £78.38 £83.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.13 £16.71 £34.53
% change year-on-year +20.44% -51.60% +86.62%

All Operating Systems
UK

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the UK

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android in the UK

Android
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the UK

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android in the UK

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in the UK

Android
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -63 235 £375 -16.67% 337
London -27 126 £365 -18.89% 142
UK excluding London -46 113 £350 -22.22% 211
Work from Home +17 82 £425 -9.19% 253
North of England -32 48 £400 -19.19% 75
North West -34 33 £336 -58.06% 49
South East +15 23 £220 -53.68% 44
Midlands +18 19 £250 -44.44% 19
South West +34 13 £338 +40.63% 21
East Midlands - 13 £463 - 9
Yorkshire -3 12 £450 +28.57% 21
Scotland -4 12 £375 -6.25% 16
West Midlands -2 6 £136 -69.72% 10
East of England +32 5 - - 39
Northern Ireland -9 3 £160 -23.81% 1
North East - 3 £188 - 5

Android
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 24 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.21%) Confluence
4 5 (1.79%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 33 (11.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.07%) Sketch
3 2 (0.71%) InVision
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.71%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (14.64%) Azure
3 27 (9.64%) AWS
4 19 (6.79%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.93%) OneDrive
6 10 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.57%) Figma
7 8 (2.86%) GCP
7 8 (2.86%) GitHub
8 6 (2.14%) Google Workspace
8 6 (2.14%) SaaS
8 6 (2.14%) Serverless
9 5 (1.79%) BrowserStack
9 5 (1.79%) Datadog
9 5 (1.79%) Firebase
9 5 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
10 4 (1.43%) Asana
10 4 (1.43%) Slack
10 4 (1.43%) SonarCloud
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.29%) DNS
2 10 (3.57%) DHCP
3 9 (3.21%) VPN
3 9 (3.21%) Wireless
4 7 (2.50%) 2G
4 7 (2.50%) 3G
4 7 (2.50%) 4G
4 7 (2.50%) 5G
4 7 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.14%) Internet
5 6 (2.14%) LAN
5 6 (2.14%) WAN
6 5 (1.79%) Firewall
6 5 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (1.79%) Skype
6 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.43%) ATM
7 4 (1.43%) PSTN
7 4 (1.43%) SMTP
8 3 (1.07%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.07%) MySQL
3 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (13.57%) Git
2 17 (6.07%) JIRA
3 12 (4.29%) Appium
4 11 (3.93%) JUnit
5 10 (3.57%) Android Studio
6 8 (2.86%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.50%) GitLab
8 6 (2.14%) Mockito
8 6 (2.14%) Selenium
9 5 (1.79%) Gradle
9 5 (1.79%) Xcode
10 4 (1.43%) TestNG
11 3 (1.07%) Maven
12 2 (0.71%) Axure RP
12 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.36%) CMake
13 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.36%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.36%) Finance
3 27 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.71%) Banking
5 13 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.79%) Marketing
8 4 (1.43%) German Language
8 4 (1.43%) Legal
8 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.07%) Automotive
9 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.07%) Retail
10 2 (0.71%) Back Office
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Publishing
10 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (33.21%) Developer
2 69 (24.64%) Android Developer
3 37 (13.21%) Senior
4 27 (9.64%) Support Engineer
5 24 (8.57%) Analyst
6 22 (7.86%) Android Engineer
7 20 (7.14%) IT Support
8 19 (6.79%) iOS Developer
8 19 (6.79%) IT Engineer
8 19 (6.79%) Senior Developer
9 18 (6.43%) Senior Android Developer
10 13 (4.64%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (4.29%) Architect
12 11 (3.93%) Service Analyst
13 10 (3.57%) React Developer
13 10 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
13 10 (3.57%) Support Analyst
14 9 (3.21%) Designer
15 8 (2.86%) iOS Android Developer
15 8 (2.86%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
2 30 (10.71%) Android SDK
3 28 (10.00%) RESTful
4 20 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
4 20 (7.14%) React Native
5 13 (4.64%) React
6 12 (4.29%) Dagger
6 12 (4.29%) REST
7 9 (3.21%) GraphQL
7 9 (3.21%) JSON
8 7 (2.50%) Flutter
9 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.14%) CSS
9 6 (2.14%) HTML
10 5 (1.79%) Material Design
10 5 (1.79%) Node.js
10 5 (1.79%) RxJava
10 5 (1.79%) UIKit
11 4 (1.43%) OpenAPI
11 4 (1.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.57%) Mobile App
2 18 (6.43%) Smartphone
3 15 (5.36%) iPhone
4 11 (3.93%) Blackberry
5 10 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.86%) IoT
7 7 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.14%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.79%) EPoS
9 5 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.43%) Handset
10 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.43%) NHS
11 3 (1.07%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 137 (48.93%) Apple iOS
2 67 (23.93%) Windows
3 27 (9.64%) Windows 10
4 21 (7.50%) Mac OS
5 12 (4.29%) Linux
5 12 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.71%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.43%) Android Development
2 72 (25.71%) Agile
3 67 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (21.79%) CI/CD
5 44 (15.71%) User Experience
6 36 (12.86%) Customer Service
7 35 (12.50%) MVVM
7 35 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 30 (10.71%) iOS Development
9 24 (8.57%) Mobile Development
10 22 (7.86%) ITIL
10 22 (7.86%) Mobile Application Development
10 22 (7.86%) Scrum
11 21 (7.50%) Software Engineering
12 18 (6.43%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (6.43%) Unit Testing
13 17 (6.07%) DevOps
13 17 (6.07%) UX Design
14 16 (5.71%) Mobile Device Management
14 16 (5.71%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 80 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 35 (12.50%) Java
3 19 (6.79%) Swift
4 13 (4.64%) Python
5 10 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.57%) Objective-C
6 9 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.14%) SQL
9 4 (1.43%) C++
9 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.07%) Dart
10 3 (1.07%) PHP
10 3 (1.07%) Rust
11 2 (0.71%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.71%) C
11 2 (0.71%) C#
11 2 (0.71%) VB
11 2 (0.71%) VBScript
12 1 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 32 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.29%) Degree
3 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.43%) MCP
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.71%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.71%) MCSA
6 2 (0.71%) MCSE
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMP
7 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.07%) QA
2 14 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.86%) SLA
4 2 (0.71%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (16.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.21%) BitLocker
3 7 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.79%) Docker
6 4 (1.43%) vSphere
7 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.71%) Firmware
8 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (5.36%) SCCM
3 8 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.14%) Terraform
5 3 (1.07%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
7 1 (0.36%) Podman
7 1 (0.36%) SCOM
7 1 (0.36%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.36%) Apple
3 20 (7.14%) Google
4 11 (3.93%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.57%) VMware
6 8 (2.86%) Cisco
6 8 (2.86%) Dell
6 8 (2.86%) HP
7 7 (2.50%) Virgin Media
8 5 (1.79%) Citrix
9 4 (1.43%) Clearswift
9 4 (1.43%) Remedy
9 4 (1.43%) Ribbon
10 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.07%) Splunk
11 2 (0.71%) Adobe
11 2 (0.71%) IBM
11 2 (0.71%) McAfee
11 2 (0.71%) Symantec