Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 233 149
Rank change year-on-year +18 -84 -3
Permanent jobs citing Android 1,367 1,637 4,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.58% 2.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.72% 9.90% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,095 1,872
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,068 16,540 29,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 15.97% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 11,165 16,729
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Android
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the UK

Android
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Android.

Salary trend for Android in the UK

Android
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Android in the UK

Android
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +20 1,231 £45,000 -18.18% 296
UK excluding London +62 985 £45,000 -14.29% 192
Work from Home -45 440 £55,000 -8.33% 137
London -55 326 £65,000 - 123
South East -24 247 £35,000 -33.33% 35
North of England +125 241 £45,000 -4.26% 48
North West +94 178 £45,000 - 25
Midlands +55 163 £35,000 -22.22% 27
East of England +95 129 £40,000 -1.84% 31
South West -7 116 £50,000 -4.76% 29
East Midlands +50 101 £24,250 -53.81% 10
Scotland -64 59 £52,500 -4.55% 22
West Midlands -9 58 £45,000 - 17
Yorkshire +108 55 £45,000 -21.74% 17
Wales +39 30 £55,000 +83.33% 4
North East -7 8 £45,000 +30.43% 6

Android
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
1 181 (13.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.61%) CMS
4 15 (1.10%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.80%) NServiceBus
6 8 (0.59%) Confluence
7 4 (0.29%) nginx
7 4 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 112 (8.19%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.02%) Simulink
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.44%) Trello
7 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.073%) 1Password
9 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Shopify
2 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.15%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.073%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.073%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 521 (38.11%) Azure
2 378 (27.65%) Microsoft 365
3 238 (17.41%) IBM Cloud
4 155 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
5 133 (9.73%) Azure Logic Apps
6 126 (9.22%) Serverless
7 125 (9.14%) Azure API Management
7 125 (9.14%) Azure Functions
7 125 (9.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 109 (7.97%) AWS
9 81 (5.93%) Google Play
10 65 (4.75%) Entra ID
11 40 (2.93%) OneDrive
12 35 (2.56%) SaaS
13 33 (2.41%) GCP
14 29 (2.12%) Firebase
15 24 (1.76%) GitHub
16 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 176 (12.87%) WAN
2 142 (10.39%) Wireless
3 117 (8.56%) Cisco IOS
4 101 (7.39%) WebEx
5 99 (7.24%) SD-WAN
6 82 (6.00%) LAN
7 69 (5.05%) DNS
8 66 (4.83%) TCP/IP
9 58 (4.24%) Firewall
10 56 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (3.80%) DHCP
12 47 (3.44%) VLAN
13 39 (2.85%) Internet
14 34 (2.49%) VPN
15 24 (1.76%) Network Security
16 23 (1.68%) VoIP
17 19 (1.39%) Skype
18 16 (1.17%) WLAN
19 15 (1.10%) Wireshark
20 9 (0.66%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (19.09%) NoSQL
2 243 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
3 240 (17.56%) MongoDB
4 238 (17.41%) DB2
5 129 (9.44%) Relational Database
6 68 (4.97%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.83%) MySQL
8 12 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.37%) Power BI
10 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.22%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.22%) MS Access
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.15%) Big Data
12 2 (0.15%) DTS
12 2 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 78 (5.71%) Git
2 62 (4.54%) Android Studio
3 47 (3.44%) JIRA
4 24 (1.76%) Appium
5 22 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 17 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.17%) JUnit
8 15 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.02%) Postman
10 13 (0.95%) Vagrant
11 10 (0.73%) Selenium
12 8 (0.59%) Crashlytics
12 8 (0.59%) Xcode
13 7 (0.51%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.44%) fastlane
14 6 (0.44%) Mockito
15 5 (0.37%) UI Automator
16 3 (0.22%) Jenkins
16 3 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 405 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 245 (17.92%) Public Sector
3 169 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 142 (10.39%) Finance
5 65 (4.75%) Banking
5 65 (4.75%) Law
6 60 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (3.88%) Legal
8 40 (2.93%) Automotive
9 37 (2.71%) Retail
10 35 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.19%) Marketing
12 30 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.12%) Investment Banking
14 23 (1.68%) Games
15 16 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.10%) Electronics
17 12 (0.88%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 403 (29.48%) Developer
2 235 (17.19%) IT Support
3 147 (10.75%) Senior
4 131 (9.58%) Full Stack Developer
5 125 (9.14%) Azure Developer
6 120 (8.78%) Support Specialist
7 115 (8.41%) Full Stack Engineer
8 114 (8.34%) Software Engineer
9 113 (8.27%) IT Support Specialist
10 112 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
11 90 (6.58%) Analyst
12 79 (5.78%) Android Developer
12 79 (5.78%) Support Engineer
13 78 (5.71%) Senior Developer
14 72 (5.27%) IT Engineer
15 66 (4.83%) Lead
16 54 (3.95%) IT Support Engineer
17 51 (3.73%) Android Engineer
18 48 (3.51%) C# Developer
19 47 (3.44%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (27.36%) .NET
2 307 (22.46%) AngularJS
3 302 (22.09%) ASP.NET
3 302 (22.09%) React
4 299 (21.87%) CSS
5 294 (21.51%) HTML
6 288 (21.07%) REST
7 281 (20.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 268 (19.60%) Web Services
9 255 (18.65%) Vue
10 246 (18.00%) jQuery
11 242 (17.70%) ASP.NET Core
12 241 (17.63%) Backbone.js
12 241 (17.63%) Ember.js
13 134 (9.80%) Node.js
14 69 (5.05%) Android Jetpack
15 56 (4.10%) .NET Framework
16 54 (3.95%) .NET Core
17 51 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
18 48 (3.51%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 280 (20.48%) Algorithms
2 247 (18.07%) Data Structures
3 244 (17.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 238 (17.41%) Blockchain
5 220 (16.09%) Mobile App
6 137 (10.02%) Video Conferencing
7 116 (8.49%) e-Learning
8 97 (7.10%) Wiki
9 67 (4.90%) iPhone
10 64 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
11 41 (3.00%) Client/Server
12 39 (2.85%) Smartphone
13 34 (2.49%) IoT
14 30 (2.19%) Driving Licence
14 30 (2.19%) Management Information System
14 30 (2.19%) Product Ownership
15 26 (1.90%) Blog
15 26 (1.90%) Cloud Native
16 23 (1.68%) BYOD
16 23 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 827 (60.50%) Apple iOS
2 706 (51.65%) Windows
3 341 (24.95%) Linux
4 257 (18.80%) Windows 10
5 72 (5.27%) Windows Server
6 61 (4.46%) Mac OS
7 25 (1.83%) Mac OS X
8 16 (1.17%) Windows 7
9 15 (1.10%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.95%) CentOS
12 11 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.51%) Windows Mobile
13 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
16 4 (0.29%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.29%) Windows XP
17 3 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (27.80%) Agile
2 325 (23.77%) User Experience
3 319 (23.34%) MVC
4 314 (22.97%) MVVM
5 297 (21.73%) Full Stack Development
6 292 (21.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 292 (21.36%) Design Patterns
7 262 (19.17%) SOLID
8 257 (18.80%) OO
8 257 (18.80%) OOP
9 250 (18.29%) Web Development
10 242 (17.70%) Responsive Web Design
11 238 (17.41%) Co-Creation
11 238 (17.41%) Design Thinking
12 221 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
13 219 (16.02%) DevOps
14 199 (14.56%) Mentoring
15 181 (13.24%) Computer Science
16 169 (12.36%) Software Engineering
17 153 (11.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 414 (30.29%) JavaScript
2 375 (27.43%) C#
3 311 (22.75%) SQL
4 230 (16.83%) Java
5 205 (15.00%) Python
6 161 (11.78%) Kotlin
7 76 (5.56%) Swift
8 63 (4.61%) C
9 57 (4.17%) C++
10 55 (4.02%) TypeScript
11 36 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 22 (1.61%) Objective-C
13 11 (0.80%) Go
13 11 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.73%) PHP
15 8 (0.59%) Rust
15 8 (0.59%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.51%) Ruby
17 5 (0.37%) Dart
18 4 (0.29%) JSX
Qualifications
1 261 (19.09%) Degree
2 165 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (7.83%) Master's Degree
4 28 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (1.98%) Security Cleared
6 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (1.02%) CCSP
8 14 (1.02%) CEH
8 14 (1.02%) CISSP
8 14 (1.02%) SANS
8 14 (1.02%) SSCP
9 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.66%) CCIE
11 8 (0.59%) MCSE
12 7 (0.51%) A+ Certification
13 6 (0.44%) CCNP
13 6 (0.44%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.29%) QA
2 40 (2.93%) SLA
3 27 (1.98%) GDPR
4 24 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.02%) NIST
8 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.29%) NCSC
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 280 (20.48%) Active Directory
2 101 (7.39%) XenApp
3 98 (7.17%) VMware ESXi
3 98 (7.17%) XenDesktop
4 97 (7.10%) Microsoft App-V
5 29 (2.12%) Docker
5 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (1.61%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.66%) Firmware
9 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 137 (10.02%) SCCM
2 98 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 97 (7.10%) AirWatch
4 26 (1.90%) Kubernetes
5 19 (1.39%) Ansible
6 17 (1.24%) Terraform
7 16 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (1.02%) Nmap
9 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.22%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.073%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.073%) MobiControl
11 1 (0.073%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.073%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.073%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 499 (36.50%) Microsoft
2 239 (17.48%) Red Hat
3 238 (17.41%) IBM
4 128 (9.36%) Cisco
4 128 (9.36%) Citrix
5 121 (8.85%) Google
6 103 (7.53%) Apple
7 44 (3.22%) Xamarin
8 41 (3.00%) VMware
9 27 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 21 (1.54%) Dell
11 16 (1.17%) Qualys
12 15 (1.10%) Barracuda Networks
13 14 (1.02%) Rapid7
13 14 (1.02%) Splunk
13 14 (1.02%) Thycotic
13 14 (1.02%) Xilinx
14 12 (0.88%) SAP
15 11 (0.80%) HP
16 9 (0.66%) Sun