Android SDK Contracts

Android Software Development Kit (SDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Android SDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android SDK over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 674 785
Rank change year-on-year +101 +111 -125
Contract jobs citing Android SDK 11 23 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.041% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 40
10th Percentile £313 - £459
25th Percentile £363 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £657
90th Percentile £575 £735 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -21.43% +10.53% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Android SDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

Android SDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android SDK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android SDK within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +78 9 £425 -17.87% 10
London +77 7 £425 -16.67% 4
Work from Home +112 5 £400 -21.95% 8
UK excluding London +26 2 £413 -21.43% 5
South East +12 1 £425 - 2
South West +2 1 £400 -

Android SDK
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Android Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (9.09%) Dagger
3 1 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (9.09%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Android Development
2 4 (36.36%) Mobile Development
3 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Data Security
4 2 (18.18%) Fintech
4 2 (18.18%) Open Source
4 2 (18.18%) Secure Coding
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) UX Design
5 1 (9.09%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Server-Driven UI
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) SOLID
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Kotlin
2 6 (54.55%) Java