Android Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 218 234
Rank change year-on-year +49 +16 -27
Contract jobs citing Android 264 236 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 1.04% 1.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.79% 5.51% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 188 233
10th Percentile £213 £145 £145
25th Percentile £331 £162 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £250 £425
Median % change year-on-year +78.00% -41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £619 £516 £538
90th Percentile £850 £600 £623
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 31
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.48 £12.04
25th Percentile £12.78 £16.94 £17.13
Median hourly rate £43.34 £18.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.15% -10.71% -58.00%
75th Percentile £78.44 £20.19 £61.87
90th Percentile £80.25 £21.43 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £20.25 £21.78
% change year-on-year +8.64% -7.02% -58.51%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,388 4,286 5,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.95% 18.87% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,219 2,940 3,824
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 307 425
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £14.72 £17.70 £15.04
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +21.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.52 £45.06 £22.00
% change year-on-year -50.02% +104.80% +25.71%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North of England +85 119 £495 +25.71% 49
North West +55 86 £575 +20.80% 28
South East -4 46 £438 +118.75% 35
Midlands +39 41 £450 +3.45% 41
West Midlands +42 34 £475 +11.11% 29
Yorkshire +28 33 £375 +87.50% 14
Scotland +35 26 £400 +150.00% 16
South West -16 22 £375 -25.00% 25
East Midlands +7 7 £445 +2.30% 12
East of England -2 6 £240 -2.34% 22
Wales +19 4 £500 +17.65% 2
Northern Ireland +4 3 - -
Android
UK

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.52%) Apache
2 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (7.20%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.17%) Sketch
3 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.76%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (11.36%) Azure
3 14 (5.30%) AWS
4 12 (4.55%) Figma
4 12 (4.55%) SaaS
5 6 (2.27%) GitHub
6 3 (1.14%) Apigee
6 3 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.14%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.76%) Slack
8 1 (0.38%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.38%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.38%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.67%) Firewall
1 44 (16.67%) VPN
2 20 (7.58%) VoIP
3 16 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (6.06%) Network Security
4 10 (3.79%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.89%) LAN
7 4 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.14%) DHCP
8 3 (1.14%) SSL
8 3 (1.14%) WAN
9 2 (0.76%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.76%) SGSN
9 2 (0.76%) VLAN
10 1 (0.38%) DNS
10 1 (0.38%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.06%) Big Data
2 12 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.52%) DB2
4 4 (1.52%) SQLite
5 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.14%) MySQL
6 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.44%) Android Studio
2 9 (3.41%) Mockito
3 6 (2.27%) Git
3 6 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.89%) Gradle
4 5 (1.89%) JIRA
5 4 (1.52%) JUnit
5 4 (1.52%) Maven
6 3 (1.14%) gulp
6 3 (1.14%) Postman
6 3 (1.14%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
7 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 44 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.92%) Finance
5 12 (4.55%) Banking
6 10 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.41%) Electronics
8 6 (2.27%) Legal
8 6 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Marketing
9 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.76%) Automotive
10 2 (0.76%) French Language
10 2 (0.76%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.38%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (27.27%) Developer
2 62 (23.48%) Architect
3 45 (17.05%) Technical Architect
4 40 (15.15%) Android Developer
4 40 (15.15%) Lead
5 32 (12.12%) Lead Architect
6 31 (11.74%) Technical Leader
7 23 (8.71%) Analyst
8 17 (6.44%) Support Analyst
9 15 (5.68%) Designer
9 15 (5.68%) Support Engineer
10 13 (4.92%) IT Support
11 12 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (4.55%) UX Designer
12 11 (4.17%) Mobile Developer
12 11 (4.17%) Senior
13 10 (3.79%) React Developer
14 9 (3.41%) Audio Visual Technician
15 8 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (3.03%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.94%) Node.js
2 23 (8.71%) RESTful
3 19 (7.20%) React
4 16 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
5 13 (4.92%) React Native
6 11 (4.17%) .NET
7 10 (3.79%) Android Jetpack
7 10 (3.79%) Jetpack Compose
7 10 (3.79%) XML
8 6 (2.27%) DirectX
8 6 (2.27%) OpenGL
8 6 (2.27%) OpenGL ES
8 6 (2.27%) Vulkan
9 5 (1.89%) Dagger
9 5 (1.89%) Flutter
9 5 (1.89%) HTML
9 5 (1.89%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.89%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.52%) CSS
10 4 (1.52%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.21%) Mobile App
2 37 (14.02%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.71%) Product Ownership
4 19 (7.20%) Video Editing
5 16 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
5 16 (6.06%) Distributed Applications
6 12 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.79%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.79%) iPhone
8 7 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.27%) Smartphone
9 6 (2.27%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.89%) iPad
11 4 (1.52%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.14%) Animation
12 3 (1.14%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (1.14%) BYOD
12 3 (1.14%) Photography
12 3 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 160 (60.61%) Apple iOS
2 96 (36.36%) Windows
3 49 (18.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.82%) Linux
5 17 (6.44%) Windows 10
6 16 (6.06%) Unix
7 10 (3.79%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.38%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.11%) Security Architecture
2 59 (22.35%) Android Development
3 52 (19.70%) Mobile Device Management
4 50 (18.94%) Agile
4 50 (18.94%) CI/CD
5 44 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 43 (16.29%) Zero Trust
7 41 (15.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 41 (15.53%) Threat Intelligence
8 39 (14.77%) DevOps
9 34 (12.88%) Design Patterns
10 33 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.36%) User Experience
12 22 (8.33%) Information Security
13 21 (7.95%) Roadmaps
14 19 (7.20%) Microservices
15 18 (6.82%) Data Management
15 18 (6.82%) Mobile Development
15 18 (6.82%) UX Design
16 16 (6.06%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.32%) Kotlin
2 38 (14.39%) Java
3 22 (8.33%) Python
4 13 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.03%) C++
6 7 (2.65%) C#
6 7 (2.65%) SQL
7 6 (2.27%) C
8 5 (1.89%) Swift
8 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.14%) Dart
9 3 (1.14%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.76%) GLSL
10 2 (0.76%) HLSL
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.20%) Degree
4 15 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.76%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.76%) MCP
8 2 (0.76%) PhD
8 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (3.41%) QA
3 6 (2.27%) SLA
4 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.14%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (5.68%) SCCM
2 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.41%) AirWatch
4 3 (1.14%) Ansible
5 2 (0.76%) WSUS
6 1 (0.38%) AppManager
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (15.53%) Apple
2 33 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.17%) Samsung
5 9 (3.41%) Cisco
5 9 (3.41%) Google
5 9 (3.41%) Polycom
6 6 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.89%) Citrix
8 4 (1.52%) Nokia
8 4 (1.52%) VMware
9 3 (1.14%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) Adobe
10 2 (0.76%) Ericsson
10 2 (0.76%) Mitel
10 2 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.38%) Equitrac
11 1 (0.38%) Okta
11 1 (0.38%) Veeam