Android Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing Android 18 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.95% 0.71% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.39% 6.10% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile £213 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £494 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.99% +9.72% -21.74%
75th Percentile £440 £550 £464
90th Percentile £550 - £484
Yorkshire median daily rate £358 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -28.40% +9.59% -13.10%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 158 82 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 17.16% 11.66% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 53 92
10th Percentile £159 £180 £187
25th Percentile £307 £243 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +3.65% +6.13%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £532
90th Percentile £595 £738 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -10.53% +10.47% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £18.22 £20.28 £15.05
25th Percentile - £27.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £41.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +113.85% -14.79%
75th Percentile £28.75 £48.88 £21.31
90th Percentile £131.50 £53.30 £21.64
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.23 £17.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +32.71% -17.88% -2.02%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Android job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Android
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in West Yorkshire

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Android

Android
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Leeds -6 16 £375 -24.05% 6
Android
Yorkshire

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Google Play
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DHCP
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) LAN
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 3 (16.67%) VoIP
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) CircleCI
3 2 (11.11%) Mockito
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Android Developer
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Android Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) Android Jetpack
1 13 (72.22%) Jetpack Compose
2 7 (38.89%) RESTful
3 5 (27.78%) Android SDK
4 4 (22.22%) Retrofit
5 3 (16.67%) Dagger
5 3 (16.67%) Web Services
6 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) CSS3
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) HTML5
6 2 (11.11%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 4 (22.22%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Android Development
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) MVVM
4 6 (33.33%) SOLID
5 5 (27.78%) Benchmarking
5 5 (27.78%) Open Source
5 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) ITIL
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Push Notifications
8 2 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
8 2 (11.11%) Information Architecture
8 2 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
8 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
8 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Kotlin
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) Freshdesk
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow