Material Design Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Material Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 300 344 468
Rank change year-on-year +44 +124 +146
Contract jobs citing Material Design 4 1 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.007% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.027% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £440 - £430
25th Percentile £446 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +3.93% -22.61%
75th Percentile £538 £469 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £488 £494 £443
% change year-on-year -1.27% +11.58% -23.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Material Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Material Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Material Design trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Material Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Material Design.

Material Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Material Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Gradle
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (50.00%) Android SDK
1 2 (50.00%) Flutter
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) React Native
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Android Development
1 2 (50.00%) Chat Support
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) MVVM
1 2 (50.00%) Push Notifications
1 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google