Android Developer Contracts

Android Developer
UK

The median Android Developer daily rate in the UK is £457 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 615 623
Rank change year-on-year +117 +8 -161
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 73 72 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 48 170
10th Percentile £350 £321 £450
25th Percentile £401 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £592
90th Percentile £565 £658 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £46.87
25th Percentile £77.50 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £80.00 £50.05 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.84% -30.97% +13.28%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £80.13
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £50.05 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.84% -30.97% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Android Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +117 67 £450 -10.89% 31
UK excluding London +80 40 £438 -12.50% 20
North of England +64 35 £438 -5.41% 4
London +87 25 £463 -8.42% 17
Work from Home +106 24 £468 -14.91% 14
North West +42 23 £456 -7.59% 3
Yorkshire +26 12 £300 -36.84% 1
South East +32 2 £425 - 7
Midlands +21 1 £450 -14.29% 5
South West -1 1 £400 -23.81% 3
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 5
Scotland - 1 £588 - 1

Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Android Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Android Developer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Android
2 69 (94.52%) Android Development
3 63 (86.30%) Kotlin
4 37 (50.68%) Java
5 22 (30.14%) Mobile App
5 22 (30.14%) Android Studio
6 20 (27.40%) Unit Testing
7 18 (24.66%) RESTful
7 18 (24.66%) Mobile Development
8 14 (19.18%) MVVM
9 13 (17.81%) Android Jetpack
10 12 (16.44%) User Experience
11 11 (15.07%) Jetpack Compose
12 10 (13.70%) Design Patterns
12 10 (13.70%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
12 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
12 10 (13.70%) Apple iOS
12 10 (13.70%) REST
13 9 (12.33%) Android SDK
14 8 (10.96%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (10.96%) Mobile Application Development
14 8 (10.96%) TDD
15 7 (9.59%) Finance
15 7 (9.59%) JUnit
15 7 (9.59%) GitHub
15 7 (9.59%) Mockito
15 7 (9.59%) CI/CD
15 7 (9.59%) RxJava
16 6 (8.22%) Algorithms

Android Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (9.59%) GitHub
2 5 (6.85%) Firebase
3 4 (5.48%) Azure
3 4 (5.48%) Flurry Analytics
3 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (5.48%) PubNub
4 1 (1.37%) AWS
4 1 (1.37%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Mixpanel
1 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Android Studio
2 7 (9.59%) JUnit
2 7 (9.59%) Mockito
3 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.48%) Git
4 4 (5.48%) Gradle
5 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.37%) Crashlytics
General
1 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Finance
3 2 (2.74%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) RESTful
2 13 (17.81%) Android Jetpack
3 11 (15.07%) Jetpack Compose
4 10 (13.70%) REST
5 9 (12.33%) Android SDK
6 7 (9.59%) RxJava
7 5 (6.85%) React
8 4 (5.48%) .NET
8 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (5.48%) CSS
8 4 (5.48%) Electron
8 4 (5.48%) HTML
8 4 (5.48%) Node.js
8 4 (5.48%) React Native
8 4 (5.48%) Vue
8 4 (5.48%) Web Services
8 4 (5.48%) XML
9 3 (4.11%) Dagger
10 2 (2.74%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.14%) Mobile App
2 8 (10.96%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (8.22%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Android
2 10 (13.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (94.52%) Android Development
2 20 (27.40%) Unit Testing
3 18 (24.66%) Mobile Development
4 14 (19.18%) MVVM
5 12 (16.44%) User Experience
6 10 (13.70%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (13.70%) Design Patterns
7 8 (10.96%) Mobile Application Development
7 8 (10.96%) TDD
8 7 (9.59%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.22%) iOS Development
9 6 (8.22%) SOLID
10 5 (6.85%) Clean Code
10 5 (6.85%) Open Source
10 5 (6.85%) Software Engineering
10 5 (6.85%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.85%) Web Development
11 4 (5.48%) Chemistry
11 4 (5.48%) Computer Science
11 4 (5.48%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 63 (86.30%) Kotlin
2 37 (50.68%) Java
3 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.48%) C#
4 4 (5.48%) Objective-C
4 4 (5.48%) Swift
4 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (5.48%) Apple
1 4 (5.48%) Nokia