Android Engineer Contracts

Android Engineer
UK

The median Android Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 670 814
Rank change year-on-year +115 +144 -117
Contract jobs requiring an Android Engineer 24 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.025% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.026% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 20
10th Percentile £350 £463 £353
25th Percentile £459 £528 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £597
90th Percentile - £750 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +9.38%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +106 20 £600 +4.35% 5
London +100 10 £488 -15.22% 3
UK excluding London +55 7 £550 +2.33% 4
Work from Home +110 6 £463 -32.73% 4
South East - 3 £600 - 1
North of England +30 2 £450 -16.28%
Scotland - 2 £550 - 2
North West +16 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Android Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Android
2 21 (87.50%) Kotlin
3 13 (54.17%) GitHub
4 11 (45.83%) Mobile App
5 10 (41.67%) MVVM
5 10 (41.67%) Android Jetpack
5 10 (41.67%) Jetpack Compose
6 9 (37.50%) Degree
7 8 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 8 (33.33%) Agile
7 8 (33.33%) Android Development
7 8 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (29.17%) Git
9 6 (25.00%) Gradle
9 6 (25.00%) JUnit
9 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (25.00%) Dagger
10 5 (20.83%) SDLC
10 5 (20.83%) CircleCI
10 5 (20.83%) Virtual Team
10 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (20.83%) Legacy Code
10 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (20.83%) Lean Software Development
10 5 (20.83%) Banking
10 5 (20.83%) Performance Analysis
10 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (20.83%) Time Management
10 5 (20.83%) Open Source

Android Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) GitHub
2 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 6 (25.00%) Gradle
2 6 (25.00%) JUnit
3 5 (20.83%) CircleCI
4 2 (8.33%) Appium
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) Postman
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.17%) Android Studio
5 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Android Jetpack
1 10 (41.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (25.00%) Dagger
3 4 (16.67%) RxJava
4 3 (12.50%) OkHttp
4 3 (12.50%) RAML
4 3 (12.50%) REST
4 3 (12.50%) WireMock
5 2 (8.33%) DirectX
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) OpenGL
5 2 (8.33%) OpenGL ES
5 2 (8.33%) React Native
5 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) Retrofit
5 2 (8.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (8.33%) Vulkan
5 2 (8.33%) XML
6 1 (4.17%) React
6 1 (4.17%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Mobile App
2 5 (20.83%) Legacy Code
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Animation
3 2 (8.33%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (8.33%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Android
2 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) MVVM
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Android Development
2 8 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (20.83%) High Availability
4 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (20.83%) Lean Software Development
4 5 (20.83%) Open Source
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Analysis
4 5 (20.83%) SDLC
4 5 (20.83%) Time Management
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) Kotlin
2 4 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) GLSL
4 2 (8.33%) HLSL
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) AirWatch
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.17%) Apple
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft