Android Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 104 100
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +41
Contract jobs citing Android 11 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.30% 0.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.24% 2.04% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £160 £127 £177
25th Percentile £163 £128 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £130 £425
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -69.41% +42.86%
75th Percentile £303 £291 £575
90th Percentile £515 £387 £665
England median daily rate £350 £423 £400
% change year-on-year -17.16% +5.63% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -25.48% +77.63% +0.37%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 340 245 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.04% 14.71% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 152 195
10th Percentile £179 £178 £164
25th Percentile £290 £210 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -19.19%
75th Percentile £552 £555 £520
90th Percentile £618 £662 £633
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 12
10th Percentile - £15.22 £16.59
25th Percentile £17.14 £16.68 £17.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% +2.31% +7.85%
75th Percentile £29.25 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £24.18 £27.58
England median hourly rate £25.15 £56.20 £32.50
% change year-on-year -55.25% +72.92% +30.00%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Android job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Android
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Android.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the West Midlands

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Android.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Android

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 20 December 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
Warwickshire - 5 £175 -
Birmingham - 3 £325 - 2
Worcestershire -18 1 £140 +8.74%
Coventry - 1 £513 -
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (9.09%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Desktop Support
2 5 (45.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) UI Designer
3 1 (9.09%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (9.09%) Blazor
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS3
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Apple iOS
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Service Management
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (9.09%) Android Development
3 1 (9.09%) Application Security
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) MVC
3 1 (9.09%) MVVM
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) UX Design
3 1 (9.09%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) MobileIron
2 1 (9.09%) Xamarin