Senior Android Developer Contracts

Senior Android Developer
UK

The median Senior Android Developer daily rate in the UK is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 569 707
Rank change year-on-year +66 +138 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Android Developer 17 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.030% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.032% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 10
10th Percentile £320 - £459
25th Percentile £366 £450 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £509 £613 £722
90th Percentile £585 - £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £575 -
% change year-on-year -3.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Android Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Android Developer in the UK

Senior Android Developer
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 Senior Android Developer 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 +58 13 £463 -11.90% 4
Work from Home +44 10 £485 -15.65% 4
London +41 10 £445 -1.11% 1
UK excluding London +60 2 £553 -3.91% 4
Midlands +22 1 £520 +15.56%
South East - 1 £585 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £520 -

Senior Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Android Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Android Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Android
2 16 (94.12%) Kotlin
3 15 (88.24%) Android Development
4 9 (52.94%) Android SDK
5 8 (47.06%) Android Jetpack
5 8 (47.06%) MVVM
6 7 (41.18%) Mobile App
6 7 (41.18%) User Experience
7 6 (35.29%) Agile
7 6 (35.29%) Jetpack Compose
7 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
8 5 (29.41%) Dagger
8 5 (29.41%) Dependency Injection
8 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (29.41%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
9 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
9 3 (17.65%) Google
9 3 (17.65%) Push Notifications
9 3 (17.65%) React Native
10 2 (11.76%) Chat Support
10 2 (11.76%) A/B Testing
10 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
10 2 (11.76%) Retrofit
10 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 2 (11.76%) RESTful
10 2 (11.76%) Material Design
10 2 (11.76%) Mobile Development
10 2 (11.76%) Firebase

Senior Android Developer Skill Set
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 (11.76%) Firebase
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Android Studio
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Android SDK
2 8 (47.06%) Android Jetpack
3 6 (35.29%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (29.41%) Dagger
5 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
5 3 (17.65%) React Native
6 2 (11.76%) Material Design
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
6 2 (11.76%) Retrofit
7 1 (5.88%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Android Development
2 8 (47.06%) MVVM
3 7 (41.18%) User Experience
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (29.41%) Mobile Application Development
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (17.65%) Push Notifications
7 2 (11.76%) A/B Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Chat Support
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.76%) Mobile Development
8 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
8 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.88%) DevOps
8 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Kotlin
2 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google