Android Job Trends in Scotland

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Android skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 132 187
Rank change year-on-year +3 +55 -32
Permanent jobs citing Android 9 21 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.27% 0.88% 1.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.84% 11.93% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 35
10th Percentile - - £26,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +36.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £146,300 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £91,934
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -18.18%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 186 176 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.56% 7.38% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 107 127 424
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,938 £45,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £87,161 £75,875
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,996
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.60% -12.39%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Android job vacancy trend in Scotland

Android
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Android.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Android

Android
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Edinburgh +5 8 £61,250 -52.03% 1
Glasgow +14 1 - - 4
Android
UK

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (22.22%) Google Play
2 1 (11.11%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) fastlane
2 1 (11.11%) Android Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) Crashlytics
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
2 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
2 1 (11.11%) Xcode
2 1 (11.11%) XCTest
2 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Android Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Android SDK
1 2 (22.22%) iOS SDK
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Android Development
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) API Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Application Security
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Kanban
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Embedded C
2 2 (22.22%) Embedded C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) QA
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace