Material Design Contracts

Google Material Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Material Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Material Design 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 515 580 696
Rank change year-on-year +65 +116 +128
Contract jobs citing Material Design 5 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.005% 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.075% 0.022% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 14
10th Percentile £440 £462 £405
25th Percentile £446 £470 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £494 £443
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +11.58% -23.04%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £451
90th Percentile - £531 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate - £494 £445
% change year-on-year - +10.96% -3.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Material Design 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%

Material Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Material Design in the UK

Material Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Material Design in the UK

Material Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Material Design in the UK

Material Design
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Material Design 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
Work from Home +44 4 £488 +5.41% 3
England +58 3 £445 -9.87% 2
London - 3 £445 - 1

Material Design
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 2 (40.00%) Firebase
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (40.00%) Android SDK
1 2 (40.00%) Flutter
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) React Native
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Android Development
2 2 (40.00%) A/B Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Chat Support
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) MVVM
2 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google