Android Jobs in the UK excluding London

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 198 244
Rank change year-on-year +66 +46 -56
Permanent jobs citing Android 956 1,036 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.41% 1.38% 1.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.87% 9.68% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 199 642 485
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £26,110
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,889 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,750 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -21.74% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,065 10,697 9,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 14.28% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 8,165 5,978
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,225
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Android in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Android in the UK excluding London

Android
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North of England +136 734 £31,500 -30.00% 100
North West +95 667 £55,000 +22.22% 74
South East -67 74 £47,500 +23.38% 61
Yorkshire +63 64 £30,000 -33.33% 22
Midlands -36 60 £35,000 -3.45% 39
East of England -36 38 £50,000 +11.11% 49
South West +27 34 £70,000 +40.00% 44
West Midlands +19 31 £52,500 +16.67% 24
East Midlands -24 29 £32,000 +42.22% 14
Scotland +77 17 £127,680 +132.15% 26
North East +45 3 £45,000 - 4
Android
UK

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.05%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.10%) CMS
4 1 (0.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 19 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (8.37%) Azure
2 70 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (6.69%) AWS
4 36 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (2.41%) SaaS
6 14 (1.46%) Entra ID
7 8 (0.84%) OneDrive
8 7 (0.73%) Figma
8 7 (0.73%) Firebase
9 6 (0.63%) Apigee
9 6 (0.63%) GitHub
9 6 (0.63%) Google Docs
9 6 (0.63%) Google Workspace
9 6 (0.63%) PaaS
10 4 (0.42%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.42%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.31%) Datadog
11 3 (0.31%) Kibo
12 2 (0.21%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 667 (69.77%) VPN
2 405 (42.36%) DNS
3 287 (30.02%) Cisco IOS
4 27 (2.82%) Firewall
5 16 (1.67%) Internet
6 14 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.94%) DHCP
7 9 (0.94%) HTTP
7 9 (0.94%) VoIP
7 9 (0.94%) Wireless
8 8 (0.84%) LAN
8 8 (0.84%) WAN
9 7 (0.73%) Network Security
9 7 (0.73%) SSL
10 5 (0.52%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.42%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.42%) SSH
12 3 (0.31%) VLAN
13 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.42%) MySQL
4 2 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.10%) Power BI
5 1 (0.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (2.72%) Git
2 13 (1.36%) JIRA
3 10 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.84%) GitLab
4 8 (0.84%) Maven
5 7 (0.73%) Appium
6 6 (0.63%) Android Studio
6 6 (0.63%) Xcode
7 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.31%) XCTest
9 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.21%) fastlane
10 1 (0.10%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.10%) Gradle
10 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.10%) TestRail
General
1 714 (74.69%) Analytical Skills
2 695 (72.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 428 (44.77%) Finance
4 88 (9.21%) Social Skills
5 22 (2.30%) Banking
6 18 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (1.46%) Electronics
8 10 (1.05%) Retail
9 7 (0.73%) Aviation
10 6 (0.63%) Automotive
11 4 (0.42%) Law
11 4 (0.42%) Marketing
11 4 (0.42%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.31%) Legal
12 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.31%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.31%) Publishing
12 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.21%) Games
13 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 477 (49.90%) Developer
2 438 (45.82%) Software Developer
3 263 (27.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 62 (6.49%) IT Support
5 41 (4.29%) Support Engineer
6 36 (3.77%) Desktop Support
7 35 (3.66%) IT Engineer
8 31 (3.24%) IT Support Engineer
9 26 (2.72%) Senior
10 25 (2.62%) Lead
11 19 (1.99%) Analyst
11 19 (1.99%) Android Engineer
12 16 (1.67%) Software Engineer
12 16 (1.67%) Software Support Engineer
13 15 (1.57%) Android Developer
14 14 (1.46%) Support Technician
15 13 (1.36%) Desktop Support Technician
15 13 (1.36%) Desktop Technician
16 12 (1.26%) Development Manager
16 12 (1.26%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (27.20%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (4.92%) .NET
3 42 (4.39%) Node.js
4 36 (3.77%) Pandas
5 23 (2.41%) RESTful
6 18 (1.88%) Android Jetpack
6 18 (1.88%) Jetpack Compose
7 17 (1.78%) React Native
8 14 (1.46%) React
9 13 (1.36%) SwiftUI
10 11 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.05%) UIKit
12 8 (0.84%) OAuth
13 7 (0.73%) Flutter
13 7 (0.73%) HTML
14 6 (0.63%) .NET Core
14 6 (0.63%) JSON
14 6 (0.63%) Laravel
14 6 (0.63%) Redux
15 5 (0.52%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 687 (71.86%) Cyberattack
2 80 (8.37%) Mobile App
3 25 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.67%) Virtual Team
6 11 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.05%) Online Banking
8 8 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 8 (0.84%) Robotics
9 7 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (0.63%) DataPower
11 5 (0.52%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.42%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.42%) Anti-Spyware
12 4 (0.42%) EMV
12 4 (0.42%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.42%) W3C
13 3 (0.31%) CCTV
13 3 (0.31%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 703 (73.54%) Linux
2 389 (40.69%) Windows
3 130 (13.60%) Apple iOS
4 37 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 36 (3.77%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (73.95%) Mathematics
2 696 (72.80%) Line Management
3 487 (50.94%) Android Development
4 475 (49.69%) Agile
5 436 (45.61%) Design Patterns
5 436 (45.61%) OO
6 431 (45.08%) OOP
7 355 (37.13%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (29.60%) DevOps
9 268 (28.03%) Platform Engineering
10 263 (27.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 263 (27.51%) Risk Management
11 262 (27.41%) Task Automation
12 261 (27.30%) Storage Management
13 69 (7.22%) Software Engineering
14 64 (6.69%) CI/CD
15 61 (6.38%) Customer Service
16 54 (5.65%) User Experience
17 53 (5.54%) ITIL
18 50 (5.23%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 695 (72.70%) Python
2 468 (48.95%) Java
3 453 (47.38%) C++
4 428 (44.77%) Go
5 265 (27.72%) PowerShell
6 260 (27.20%) Bash
7 76 (7.95%) JavaScript
8 40 (4.18%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.97%) Rust
10 25 (2.62%) Swift
11 19 (1.99%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.88%) C
13 16 (1.67%) C#
14 11 (1.15%) Objective-C
15 7 (0.73%) Dart
15 7 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.63%) SQL
17 2 (0.21%) VB
18 1 (0.10%) MATLAB
18 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 438 (45.82%) Security Cleared
2 427 (44.67%) DV Cleared
3 43 (4.50%) Degree
4 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (1.15%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (0.84%) MCSA
8 7 (0.73%) A+ Certification
9 5 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.42%) MCP
10 4 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.21%) MCSE
12 2 (0.21%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.10%) PhD
13 1 (0.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (1.78%) SLA
3 14 (1.46%) QA
4 10 (1.05%) GDPR
5 7 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.63%) ISO 13485
7 5 (0.52%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 698 (73.01%) Docker
2 267 (27.93%) Hyper-V
3 261 (27.30%) vSphere
4 260 (27.20%) VMware NSX
5 71 (7.43%) Active Directory
6 13 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.31%) Firmware
7 3 (0.31%) LXC
8 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 691 (72.28%) Ansible
2 307 (32.11%) Terraform
3 44 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 28 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.15%) AirWatch
6 6 (0.63%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (0.63%) QRadar
7 4 (0.42%) SCCM
7 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 287 (30.02%) Cisco
2 266 (27.82%) Splunk
3 260 (27.20%) 3PAR
3 260 (27.20%) Juniper
4 93 (9.73%) Microsoft
5 57 (5.96%) Apple
6 23 (2.41%) Zoho
7 18 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.46%) VMware
9 12 (1.26%) Google
10 10 (1.05%) Samsung
11 7 (0.73%) McAfee
11 7 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.63%) ArcSight
12 6 (0.63%) IBM
12 6 (0.63%) LogLogic
13 5 (0.52%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.42%) Citrix
14 4 (0.42%) Okta
14 4 (0.42%) Perforce