Android Job Trends in Lancashire

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Android skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 75 25
Rank change year-on-year +59 -50 +57
Permanent jobs citing Android 165 7 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 21.71% 0.64% 6.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.74% 10.94% 37.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £60,658 - £20,250
25th Percentile £60,751 £37,500 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,864 £40,000 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% +50.94% -40.11%
75th Percentile £67,286 £42,500 £27,250
90th Percentile £67,564 - £32,350
North West median annual salary £33,000 £48,750 £33,500
% change year-on-year -32.31% +45.52% -39.09%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 263 64 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 34.61% 5.82% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 45 34 51
10th Percentile £22,625 £29,175 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +49.61%
75th Percentile £46,022 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,300 £67,968 £61,250
North West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +11.76%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Android job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Android
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Android.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Android

Android
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
Blackpool - 3 £63,864 -
Accrington - 3 - -
Skelmersdale - 3 - -
Blackburn - 2 - - 1
Preston - 2 - - 1
Rossendale - 2 - -
Chorley - 2 - - 1
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Darwen - 2 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 2 - -
Ormskirk - 1 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 1 - -
Android
North West

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (0.61%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.21%) AWS
1 2 (1.21%) Azure
2 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 164 (99.39%) VPN
2 163 (98.79%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 163 (98.79%) Analytical Skills
1 163 (98.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (1.21%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (99.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (1.21%) Senior
3 1 (0.61%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (0.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (0.61%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (0.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (98.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.61%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 163 (98.79%) Cyberattack
2 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 163 (98.79%) Linux
1 163 (98.79%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (99.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 163 (98.79%) DevOps
2 163 (98.79%) Line Management
2 163 (98.79%) Mathematics
2 163 (98.79%) Platform Engineering
2 163 (98.79%) Problem-Solving
2 163 (98.79%) Risk Management
2 163 (98.79%) Storage Management
2 163 (98.79%) Task Automation
3 2 (1.21%) Coaching
3 2 (1.21%) Mentoring
4 1 (0.61%) Agile
4 1 (0.61%) CI/CD
4 1 (0.61%) Functional Testing
4 1 (0.61%) Incident Management
4 1 (0.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (0.61%) Integration Testing
4 1 (0.61%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (0.61%) Test Automation
4 1 (0.61%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 163 (98.79%) Bash
1 163 (98.79%) PowerShell
1 163 (98.79%) Python
2 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
System Software
1 163 (98.79%) Docker
1 163 (98.79%) Hyper-V
1 163 (98.79%) VMware NSX
1 163 (98.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (98.79%) Ansible
1 163 (98.79%) Terraform
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 163 (98.79%) 3PAR
1 163 (98.79%) Cisco
1 163 (98.79%) Juniper
1 163 (98.79%) Splunk
2 2 (1.21%) Samsung
3 1 (0.61%) Apple
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft