Android Developer Contracts

Android Developer
UK

The median Android Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 624 628
Rank change year-on-year +106 +4 -163
Contract jobs requiring an Android Developer 81 67 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 176
10th Percentile £311 £312 £450
25th Percentile £366 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £518 £563 £608
90th Percentile £553 £608 £700
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 0 9
10th Percentile - - £32.48
25th Percentile £77.50 - £45.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile £82.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +13.28%

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 40,208 52,661 84,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.53% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,884 36,729 59,270
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,486 1,961
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
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% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

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 8 June 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 8 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 +115 75 £450 -7.69% 19
UK excluding London +59 40 £438 -12.50% 10
London +78 34 £457 -6.26% 8
North of England +55 34 £438 -5.41% 5
Work from Home +113 31 £450 -18.18% 11
North West +38 23 £456 -7.59% 3
Yorkshire +26 11 £300 -36.84% 2
South East +6 2 £425 - 3
Scotland - 2 £469 -
Midlands +16 1 £450 -14.29% 2
South West +7 1 £400 -23.81%
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 81 (100.00%) Android
2 77 (95.06%) Android Development
3 68 (83.95%) Kotlin
4 37 (45.68%) Java
5 23 (28.40%) Mobile App
6 22 (27.16%) Android Studio
7 20 (24.69%) Mobile Development
8 19 (23.46%) Unit Testing
9 18 (22.22%) RESTful
10 17 (20.99%) Android Jetpack
11 15 (18.52%) Jetpack Compose
11 15 (18.52%) MVVM
12 11 (13.58%) Android SDK
12 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
12 11 (13.58%) Apple iOS
13 10 (12.35%) REST
13 10 (12.35%) User Experience
14 9 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
15 8 (9.88%) Design Patterns
15 8 (9.88%) CI/CD
15 8 (9.88%) Mobile Application Development
15 8 (9.88%) GitHub
15 8 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (9.88%) Open Source
15 8 (9.88%) Finance
15 8 (9.88%) TDD
15 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
16 7 (8.64%) JUnit
16 7 (8.64%) Jenkins
16 7 (8.64%) iOS Development

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 8 (9.88%) GitHub
2 5 (6.17%) Firebase
3 4 (4.94%) Azure
3 4 (4.94%) Flurry Analytics
3 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (4.94%) PubNub
4 1 (1.23%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Mixpanel
1 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (27.16%) Android Studio
2 7 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.64%) JUnit
3 6 (7.41%) Mockito
4 4 (4.94%) Git
4 4 (4.94%) Gradle
5 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.23%) Appium
6 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.23%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.23%) Postman
6 1 (1.23%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.88%) Finance
3 3 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (1.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) RESTful
2 17 (20.99%) Android Jetpack
3 15 (18.52%) Jetpack Compose
4 11 (13.58%) Android SDK
5 10 (12.35%) REST
6 7 (8.64%) RxJava
7 5 (6.17%) Node.js
8 4 (4.94%) .NET
8 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (4.94%) CSS
8 4 (4.94%) HTML
8 4 (4.94%) Vue
8 4 (4.94%) Web Services
8 4 (4.94%) XML
9 3 (3.70%) Dagger
9 3 (3.70%) React
10 2 (2.47%) Electron
10 2 (2.47%) React Native
10 2 (2.47%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Mobile App
2 8 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.47%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (100.00%) Android
2 11 (13.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (95.06%) Android Development
2 20 (24.69%) Mobile Development
3 19 (23.46%) Unit Testing
4 15 (18.52%) MVVM
5 10 (12.35%) User Experience
6 9 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (9.88%) CI/CD
7 8 (9.88%) Design Patterns
7 8 (9.88%) Mobile Application Development
7 8 (9.88%) Open Source
7 8 (9.88%) TDD
8 7 (8.64%) iOS Development
9 6 (7.41%) SOLID
9 6 (7.41%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.17%) Clean Code
10 5 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.17%) Software Engineering
11 4 (4.94%) MVC
11 4 (4.94%) OO
11 4 (4.94%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 68 (83.95%) Kotlin
2 37 (45.68%) Java
3 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.94%) C#
4 4 (4.94%) Objective-C
4 4 (4.94%) Swift
5 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Ansible
1 1 (1.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (4.94%) Apple
1 4 (4.94%) Nokia
2 1 (1.23%) Checkmarx