Android Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Android skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 86 91
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Android 27 12 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.49% 0.87% 0.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.78% 6.22% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 14
10th Percentile £213 £160 £199
25th Percentile £335 £434 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £456
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +6.85% -8.75%
75th Percentile £541 £529 £531
90th Percentile £553 £594 £548
England median daily rate £360 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -15.29% +6.25% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% +62.50% -3.10%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 347 193 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.20% 14.05% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 112 165
10th Percentile £161 £178 £158
25th Percentile £290 £254 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +0.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £550
90th Percentile £609 £636 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 14
10th Percentile - £15.22 £17.01
25th Percentile £21.30 £15.99 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -16.70% -0.63%
75th Percentile £28.75 £19.44 £22.00
90th Percentile £131.50 £21.50 -
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -60.00% +58.62% +45.00%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Android job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Android
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Android

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in Yorkshire

Android
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Android

Android
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
West Yorkshire +1 20 £440 -8.57% 14
South Yorkshire -27 6 £350 -30.00% 5
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
2 4 (14.81%) Google Play
3 1 (3.70%) Bitrise
3 1 (3.70%) Figma
3 1 (3.70%) Firebase
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DHCP
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
1 3 (11.11%) LAN
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (11.11%) VoIP
1 3 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (3.70%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Gradle
3 4 (14.81%) Android Studio
3 4 (14.81%) CircleCI
4 2 (7.41%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) Crashlytics
5 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Android Developer
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) IT Support
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Android Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Android Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Designer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Java Android Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Android Jetpack
1 14 (51.85%) Jetpack Compose
2 11 (40.74%) RESTful
3 5 (18.52%) Android SDK
3 5 (18.52%) Retrofit
4 4 (14.81%) Dagger
4 4 (14.81%) JSON
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) CSS3
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) HTML5
6 2 (7.41%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.11%) iPhone
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
2 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Android Development
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (33.33%) MVVM
3 8 (29.63%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (25.93%) SOLID
5 5 (18.52%) Benchmarking
5 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
5 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
5 5 (18.52%) Open Source
5 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (14.81%) Application Security
6 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Memory Management
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (11.11%) Push Notifications
7 3 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) Kotlin
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) BMC
3 1 (3.70%) Toshiba