Android Contracts in the West Midlands

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 133 129
Rank change year-on-year +43 -4 -16
Contract jobs citing Android 24 9 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.24% 0.37% 1.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.88% 2.17% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 28
10th Percentile £186 £203 £120
25th Percentile £297 £223 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £731 £675 £506
90th Percentile £850 £683 £538
England median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.18
25th Percentile - - £15.19
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £22.63
90th Percentile - - £23.30
England median hourly rate £20.47 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.07% +19.08% -64.13%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 243 414 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.58% 17.24% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 280 453
10th Percentile £182 £172 £150
25th Percentile £250 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £508 £405
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% +25.31% +11.72%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £515
90th Percentile £695 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 37
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.49 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.33 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +5.02% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.31 £20.00
90th Percentile £53.00 £22.25 £22.85
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Android in the West Midlands

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Android in the West Midlands

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the West Midlands

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Android in the West Midlands

Android
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Herefordshire +3 12 £750 +13.21% 6
Coventry - 7 £400 - 1
Birmingham +11 2 £195 -12.56% 5
Staffordshire +4 1 £400 - 6
Worcestershire - 1 £195 - 1
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Drupal
1 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Intrusion Detection
1 13 (54.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Appium
1 2 (8.33%) UI Automator
1 2 (8.33%) XCUITest
2 1 (4.17%) Android Studio
General
1 15 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (12.50%) Developer
1 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Analyst
2 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Deskside Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Deskside Support
2 2 (8.33%) Deskside Support Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
2 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
3 1 (4.17%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (4.17%) React Developer
3 1 (4.17%) Senior
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
3 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (4.17%) Laravel
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) React Native
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Cyber Defence
1 13 (54.17%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 3 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.17%) PDA
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Apple iOS
2 16 (66.67%) Windows
3 13 (54.17%) Linux
3 13 (54.17%) Unix
4 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Actionable Insight
1 13 (54.17%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (54.17%) Data Engineering
1 13 (54.17%) Data Management
1 13 (54.17%) Information Security
1 13 (54.17%) Kalman Filter
1 13 (54.17%) Security Architecture
1 13 (54.17%) SIEM
2 12 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (45.83%) Security Operations
4 8 (33.33%) Analytics
4 8 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Android Development
5 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
6 2 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (8.33%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) iOS Development
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Development
6 2 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Kotlin
2 2 (8.33%) Swift
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) PHP
3 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) MCP
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (54.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft