Android Contracts in London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 254 233
Rank change year-on-year +42 -21 -89
Contract jobs citing Android 195 257 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 0.98% 1.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.29% 6.80% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 182 362
10th Percentile £165 £180 £205
25th Percentile £285 £243 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £595 £586
90th Percentile £675 £692 £723
England median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 10
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £19.90
25th Percentile £15.87 £19.86 £33.44
Median hourly rate £22.00 £30.00 £45.63
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -34.25% -28.71%
75th Percentile £39.75 £36.76 £68.64
90th Percentile £49.20 £85.00 £73.95
England median hourly rate £23.08 £30.00 £23.06
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.12% -63.98%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,098 3,779 5,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.89% 14.41% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,759 3,797
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 62 99
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £22.94 £21.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +75.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £25.07 £68.38 £49.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £73.35
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.14
% change year-on-year -41.33% +69.38% +24.59%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Android in London

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in London.

Daily rate trend for Android in London

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android in London

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in London.

Hourly rate trend for Android in London

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Android in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Android in London

Android
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Central London +43 27 £400 +45.45% 10
South London +6 3 £250 -28.57% 2
East London -1 2 £125 -3.85% 4
West London +12 1 - - 9
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.08%) Skype for Business
4 5 (2.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (2.56%) Confluence
5 2 (1.03%) Apache
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 33 (16.92%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.03%) InDesign
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.05%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (10.26%) Azure
3 14 (7.18%) GitHub
4 13 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.10%) AWS
6 7 (3.59%) Figma
7 6 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.08%) OneDrive
8 5 (2.56%) PaaS
9 4 (2.05%) Firebase
9 4 (2.05%) Flurry Analytics
9 4 (2.05%) PubNub
10 3 (1.54%) Google Play
10 3 (1.54%) Miro
10 3 (1.54%) Sentry
11 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (1.03%) Asana
11 2 (1.03%) Bitrise
11 2 (1.03%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.51%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.15%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (4.10%) VPN
3 6 (3.08%) Firewall
3 6 (3.08%) Skype
3 6 (3.08%) Wireless
4 5 (2.56%) LAN
4 5 (2.56%) WAN
5 4 (2.05%) SSL
6 3 (1.54%) VoIP
7 2 (1.03%) HTTP
7 2 (1.03%) SAN
8 1 (0.51%) MQTT
8 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.05%) Mixpanel
2 3 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.03%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.77%) Postman
2 20 (10.26%) Git
3 14 (7.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.15%) Appium
5 9 (4.62%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) JUnit
6 8 (4.10%) Android Studio
6 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.59%) Gradle
8 6 (3.08%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.56%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.56%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.05%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.05%) Selenium
11 3 (1.54%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (1.54%) XCUITest
12 2 (1.03%) Charles Proxy
12 2 (1.03%) git-flow
12 2 (1.03%) ScalaTest
12 2 (1.03%) XCTest
General
1 47 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.26%) Finance
3 15 (7.69%) Back Office
4 11 (5.64%) Retail
5 9 (4.62%) Banking
5 9 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Games
8 5 (2.56%) French Language
8 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.03%) Billing
10 2 (1.03%) German Language
10 2 (1.03%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Publishing
10 2 (1.03%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (25.13%) Developer
2 36 (18.46%) Senior
3 24 (12.31%) Analyst
3 24 (12.31%) Android Developer
4 20 (10.26%) Lead
5 14 (7.18%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (6.67%) Test Analyst
7 12 (6.15%) React Developer
8 11 (5.64%) Desktop Support
8 11 (5.64%) Senior Test Analyst
9 10 (5.13%) IT Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.62%) Android Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.59%) Flutter Developer
12 7 (3.59%) IT Support
12 7 (3.59%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.28%) React Native
2 15 (7.69%) REST
3 13 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
3 13 (6.67%) React
4 12 (6.15%) Jetpack Compose
5 9 (4.62%) Node.js
6 8 (4.10%) Flutter
6 8 (4.10%) Web Services
7 7 (3.59%) HTML
7 7 (3.59%) HTML5
7 7 (3.59%) RxJava
8 6 (3.08%) CSS
8 6 (3.08%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.56%) Ajax
9 5 (2.56%) Android SDK
9 5 (2.56%) CSS3
9 5 (2.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 5 (2.56%) Unreal Engine
10 4 (2.05%) Electron
10 4 (2.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (28.21%) Mobile App
2 19 (9.74%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.13%) iPad
4 8 (4.10%) iPhone
5 7 (3.59%) Blackberry
5 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.56%) Social Media
8 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.54%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.03%) Digital Signage
10 2 (1.03%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.03%) PACS
10 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.03%) Smartcard
10 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 92 (47.18%) Apple iOS
2 60 (30.77%) Windows
3 28 (14.36%) Windows 10
4 19 (9.74%) Windows 7
5 17 (8.72%) Mac OS
6 16 (8.21%) Mac OS X
7 10 (5.13%) Linux
8 6 (3.08%) Unix
9 5 (2.56%) Windows 8
10 2 (1.03%) VMS
11 1 (0.51%) tvOS
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Phone
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.03%) Agile
2 39 (20.00%) Android Development
3 34 (17.44%) Test Automation
4 30 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 20 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 20 (10.26%) Software Engineering
7 20 (10.26%) Software Testing
8 19 (9.74%) User Experience
9 18 (9.23%) Mobile Development
10 17 (8.72%) Computer Science
11 16 (8.21%) iOS Development
12 15 (7.69%) Mobile Application Development
13 13 (6.67%) Customer Experience
13 13 (6.67%) MVVM
13 13 (6.67%) Scrum
14 12 (6.15%) ITIL
15 11 (5.64%) Mobile Device Management
15 11 (5.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.21%) Kotlin
2 29 (14.87%) Java
3 21 (10.77%) Swift
4 17 (8.72%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.13%) Python
6 8 (4.10%) Objective-C
7 6 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.05%) C
9 3 (1.54%) C#
10 2 (1.03%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) Dart
10 2 (1.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.03%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) SQL
11 1 (0.51%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (15.38%) Degree
2 20 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.05%) CCNA
5 4 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) CISSP
8 1 (0.51%) GCFA
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) QA
2 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.54%) SLA
4 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.03%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) iptables
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.15%) SCCM
3 8 (4.10%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (4.10%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.59%) Ansible
5 5 (2.56%) Terraform
6 1 (0.51%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (24.10%) Apple
2 44 (22.56%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.69%) Adobe
4 12 (6.15%) Cisco
5 10 (5.13%) Citrix
6 8 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.59%) Ivanti
8 6 (3.08%) Mitel
8 6 (3.08%) Progress
9 5 (2.56%) Google
10 4 (2.05%) Avaya
10 4 (2.05%) SAP
11 3 (1.54%) VMware
12 2 (1.03%) Cerner
12 2 (1.03%) Checkmarx
12 2 (1.03%) Splunk
12 2 (1.03%) Sun
12 2 (1.03%) Veeam
13 1 (0.51%) Roku
13 1 (0.51%) Xamarin