Android Job Trends in England

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Android skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 262 213
Rank change year-on-year +8 -49 -7
Permanent jobs citing Android 505 471 986
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 1.15% 1.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.67% 7.41% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 389 288 677
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -8.70%

All Operating Systems
England

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,733 6,356 10,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.46% 15.47% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,579 3,854 8,996
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Android relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Android job vacancy trend in England

Android
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Android.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Android

Android
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android in England over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Android in England

Android
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the England region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
London -7 137 £85,000 +21.43% 73
North of England +14 124 £32,500 -23.46% 41
South East +21 108 £60,000 +33.33% 36
Yorkshire +4 76 £31,250 +4.17% 18
East of England +8 54 £40,000 -20.00% 19
Midlands -15 39 £33,500 -52.14% 20
South West -12 37 £35,000 -36.36% 18
North West -18 37 £33,000 -49.23% 20
East Midlands -8 29 £33,500 -0.74% 8
North East -6 11 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -26 10 £30,750 -56.07% 12
Android
UK

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (8.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (7.52%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.58%) CMS
4 4 (0.79%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) Confluence
5 2 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.59%) CINEMA 4D
3 3 (0.59%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.99%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.59%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 112 (22.18%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (16.83%) Azure
3 81 (16.04%) Entra ID
4 57 (11.29%) AWS
5 29 (5.74%) SaaS
6 23 (4.55%) GCP
7 10 (1.98%) Figma
7 10 (1.98%) OneDrive
8 8 (1.58%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.39%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.19%) Google Play
11 5 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (0.99%) Firebase
11 5 (0.99%) GitHub
11 5 (0.99%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (8.12%) Broadband
2 40 (7.92%) DNS
3 32 (6.34%) Wi-Fi
4 31 (6.14%) TCP/IP
5 27 (5.35%) LAN
6 26 (5.15%) DHCP
6 26 (5.15%) VPN
7 25 (4.95%) Firewall
8 23 (4.55%) WAN
9 15 (2.97%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (2.18%) 4G
10 11 (2.18%) VoIP
11 10 (1.98%) VLAN
12 9 (1.78%) WAAS
13 7 (1.39%) ATM
14 4 (0.79%) Bluetooth
14 4 (0.79%) IP Telephony
14 4 (0.79%) Wireless
15 3 (0.59%) HTTP
15 3 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.19%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.19%) MySQL
3 5 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.59%) Metadata
5 3 (0.59%) Power BI
6 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.40%) GIS
6 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.20%) Looker
7 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (2.97%) Git
2 10 (1.98%) Xcode
3 9 (1.78%) Android Studio
4 6 (1.19%) JIRA
5 5 (0.99%) XCUITest
6 4 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.59%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.59%) Postman
7 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) CMake
8 2 (0.40%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Appium
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 103 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.71%) Law
3 43 (8.51%) Finance
4 37 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.93%) Games
6 32 (6.34%) Marketing
7 30 (5.94%) Banking
8 23 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (3.56%) Retail
10 16 (3.17%) Electronics
10 16 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.17%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.57%) Advertising
12 11 (2.18%) Legal
13 7 (1.39%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.99%) Back Office
14 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (22.18%) Developer
1 112 (22.18%) Senior
2 87 (17.23%) IT Support
3 60 (11.88%) Analyst
4 58 (11.49%) Support Engineer
5 51 (10.10%) Lead
6 44 (8.71%) Android Developer
6 44 (8.71%) IT Analyst
7 43 (8.51%) Android Engineer
8 36 (7.13%) Support Analyst
9 34 (6.73%) Senior Developer
10 32 (6.34%) 2nd Line Support
11 31 (6.14%) Mobile Developer
12 29 (5.74%) IT Engineer
12 29 (5.74%) IT Support Analyst
12 29 (5.74%) Senior Android Developer
12 29 (5.74%) Support Technician
13 27 (5.35%) Software Engineer
14 26 (5.15%) Applications Developer
14 26 (5.15%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.50%) RESTful
2 32 (6.34%) React Native
3 26 (5.15%) .NET
4 24 (4.75%) SwiftUI
5 22 (4.36%) Android Jetpack
5 22 (4.36%) Jetpack Compose
6 18 (3.56%) GraphQL
7 17 (3.37%) React
8 16 (3.17%) WebSockets
9 15 (2.97%) REST
10 13 (2.57%) CSS
10 13 (2.57%) gRPC
10 13 (2.57%) HTML
11 10 (1.98%) Flutter
11 10 (1.98%) Kafka
12 8 (1.58%) Android SDK
12 8 (1.58%) OpenGL
12 8 (1.58%) Vulkan
13 7 (1.39%) Node.js
14 6 (1.19%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 148 (29.31%) Mobile App
2 51 (10.10%) Onboarding
3 32 (6.34%) Driving Licence
4 22 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.77%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.77%) iPhone
6 13 (2.57%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.18%) Mobile Banking
9 10 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.98%) IoT
10 9 (1.78%) CMDB
10 9 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.58%) CCTV
11 8 (1.58%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.39%) Replication
12 7 (1.39%) Social Media
13 6 (1.19%) NHS
14 5 (0.99%) EPoS
14 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 285 (56.44%) Apple iOS
2 194 (38.42%) Windows
3 44 (8.71%) Mac OS
4 36 (7.13%) Windows 10
5 35 (6.93%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.56%) Linux
7 4 (0.79%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (23.76%) Android Development
2 114 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (19.01%) CI/CD
4 90 (17.82%) Agile
5 82 (16.24%) ITIL
6 79 (15.64%) AI
7 73 (14.46%) Customer Service
8 70 (13.86%) Mentoring
9 55 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (10.69%) Roadmaps
11 52 (10.30%) User Experience
12 49 (9.70%) Service Management
13 48 (9.50%) Mobile Development
14 47 (9.31%) Mobile Device Management
15 43 (8.51%) iOS Development
15 43 (8.51%) Software Engineering
16 41 (8.12%) Service Delivery
16 41 (8.12%) Test Automation
17 38 (7.52%) Computer Science
18 37 (7.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (14.46%) Kotlin
2 39 (7.72%) Java
3 34 (6.73%) Swift
4 32 (6.34%) PowerShell
5 20 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.56%) C#
7 18 (3.56%) C++
8 16 (3.17%) Go
9 14 (2.77%) SQL
10 11 (2.18%) Python
11 10 (1.98%) C
12 8 (1.58%) PHP
13 6 (1.19%) Bash
14 4 (0.79%) XAML
15 2 (0.40%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.20%) Groovy
16 1 (0.20%) Scala
16 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 84 (16.63%) Degree
2 60 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 12 (2.38%) A+ Certification
8 10 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.78%) OSCP
10 8 (1.58%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.40%) CCNA
13 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 2 (0.40%) NVQ Level 3
14 1 (0.20%) CISSP
14 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.31%) SLA
2 37 (7.33%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.94%) QA
4 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.19%) GRC
6 4 (0.79%) WCAG
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) GDPR
8 2 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 84 (16.63%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.76%) Docker
4 16 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.98%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (11.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (7.13%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (4.16%) Kubernetes
4 14 (2.77%) SCCM
5 9 (1.78%) Terraform
6 5 (0.99%) Nessus
6 5 (0.99%) PaperCut
7 4 (0.79%) Argo
8 3 (0.59%) Ansible
9 1 (0.20%) Nmap
9 1 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 142 (28.12%) Microsoft
2 79 (15.64%) Apple
3 42 (8.32%) Samsung
4 26 (5.15%) Cisco
5 25 (4.95%) VMware
6 16 (3.17%) Google
7 13 (2.57%) Xamarin
8 10 (1.98%) Starlink
9 9 (1.78%) Meraki
10 8 (1.58%) Veeam
11 7 (1.39%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.19%) Citrix
13 5 (0.99%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.99%) Dell KACE
13 5 (0.99%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.99%) Sophos
13 5 (0.99%) Zoho
14 4 (0.79%) Adobe
14 4 (0.79%) Remedy
14 4 (0.79%) SolarWinds