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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 220 257
Rank change year-on-year +73 +37 -60
Permanent jobs citing Android 718 961 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.98% 1.37% 1.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.71% 9.05% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 214 584 554
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £34,493
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -16.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £68,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 4,571 10,614 10,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.60% 15.14% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,971 8,265 6,470
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +126 484 £32,000 -28.89% 79
North West +82 425 £65,000 +44.44% 47
South East -15 80 £47,500 +35.71% 64
Yorkshire +76 58 £30,000 -33.33% 29
Midlands -16 58 £45,000 +28.57% 24
East of England -11 43 £50,000 +25.00% 71
West Midlands +49 38 £65,000 +44.44% 13
South West +43 38 £70,000 +40.00% 29
East Midlands -11 20 £32,000 +42.22% 11
Scotland +91 15 £127,680 +143.20% 36
North East +46 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
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 38 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.67%) IBM Domino
3 8 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 19 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 95 (13.23%) Azure
2 72 (10.03%) AWS
3 68 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (2.92%) SaaS
6 12 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (1.39%) GitHub
8 9 (1.25%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.11%) Firebase
10 6 (0.84%) Apigee
10 6 (0.84%) Figma
10 6 (0.84%) Google Docs
10 6 (0.84%) Google Workspace
10 6 (0.84%) PaaS
11 5 (0.70%) Kibo
12 4 (0.56%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.56%) Nutanix
12 4 (0.56%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 406 (56.55%) DNS
1 406 (56.55%) VPN
2 27 (3.76%) Firewall
3 24 (3.34%) Cisco IOS
4 19 (2.65%) Internet
5 13 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.39%) DHCP
6 10 (1.39%) VoIP
7 9 (1.25%) HTTP
8 8 (1.11%) LAN
8 8 (1.11%) WAN
9 7 (0.97%) Network Security
9 7 (0.97%) SSL
10 5 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.70%) Wireless
11 4 (0.56%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.56%) SSH
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
12 3 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.95%) MySQL
4 8 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.70%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.42%) SQLite
7 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.14%) DB2
8 1 (0.14%) GIS
8 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.14%) Power BI
8 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (4.46%) Git
2 14 (1.95%) JIRA
3 11 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.53%) Maven
4 8 (1.11%) Appium
4 8 (1.11%) Xcode
5 7 (0.97%) GitLab
6 5 (0.70%) Android Studio
6 5 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.70%) Gradle
7 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.42%) Subversion
8 3 (0.42%) XCTest
9 2 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.14%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 453 (63.09%) Analytical Skills
2 434 (60.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 431 (60.03%) Finance
4 83 (11.56%) Social Skills
5 23 (3.20%) Banking
6 16 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (2.09%) Retail
8 14 (1.95%) Electronics
9 7 (0.97%) Legal
10 5 (0.70%) Automotive
10 5 (0.70%) Aviation
10 5 (0.70%) Marketing
10 5 (0.70%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.42%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Games
13 2 (0.28%) Law
13 2 (0.28%) Publishing
14 1 (0.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 491 (68.38%) Developer
2 434 (60.45%) Software Developer
3 54 (7.52%) IT Support
4 47 (6.55%) Senior
5 36 (5.01%) Support Engineer
6 31 (4.32%) Desktop Support
7 30 (4.18%) IT Engineer
8 28 (3.90%) Software Engineer
9 26 (3.62%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (3.34%) Lead
11 23 (3.20%) Senior Developer
12 21 (2.92%) Analyst
12 21 (2.92%) Android Developer
13 18 (2.51%) Android Engineer
14 15 (2.09%) Software Support Engineer
15 12 (1.67%) Development Manager
15 12 (1.67%) Support Technician
16 11 (1.53%) Senior Xamarin Developer
16 11 (1.53%) Xamarin Developer
17 10 (1.39%) Desktop Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.91%) .NET
2 46 (6.41%) Node.js
3 36 (5.01%) Pandas
4 25 (3.48%) React
5 24 (3.34%) RESTful
6 22 (3.06%) Android Jetpack
6 22 (3.06%) Jetpack Compose
7 18 (2.51%) AngularJS
8 17 (2.37%) React Native
9 15 (2.09%) SwiftUI
10 11 (1.53%) HTML
10 11 (1.53%) Laravel
11 10 (1.39%) Android SDK
11 10 (1.39%) REST
12 9 (1.25%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.25%) CSS
12 9 (1.25%) MvvmCross
12 9 (1.25%) Vue
13 8 (1.11%) UIKit
14 7 (0.97%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 427 (59.47%) Cyberattack
2 88 (12.26%) Mobile App
3 27 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.51%) Virtual Team
6 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.53%) Online Banking
8 9 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.97%) Driving Licence
9 7 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.84%) DataPower
10 6 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (0.84%) Robotics
11 5 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.56%) Anti-Spyware
12 4 (0.56%) EMV
12 4 (0.56%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 440 (61.28%) Linux
2 148 (20.61%) Apple iOS
3 124 (17.27%) Windows
4 34 (4.74%) Windows 10
5 30 (4.18%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (69.64%) Android Development
2 489 (68.11%) Agile
3 444 (61.84%) Mathematics
4 438 (61.00%) Line Management
5 436 (60.72%) Design Patterns
6 435 (60.58%) OO
7 433 (60.31%) OOP
8 95 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (11.14%) Software Engineering
10 78 (10.86%) CI/CD
11 59 (8.22%) Customer Service
12 58 (8.08%) User Experience
13 54 (7.52%) Containerisation
14 46 (6.41%) Collaborative Working
15 45 (6.27%) Secure Coding
16 44 (6.13%) ITIL
17 41 (5.71%) OWASP
18 38 (5.29%) DevOps
19 37 (5.15%) iOS Development
19 37 (5.15%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 472 (65.74%) Java
2 451 (62.81%) C++
3 438 (61.00%) Python
4 434 (60.45%) Go
5 80 (11.14%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.57%) Kotlin
7 37 (5.15%) Rust
8 28 (3.90%) C#
9 23 (3.20%) Swift
10 18 (2.51%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.95%) C
12 12 (1.67%) Objective-C
12 12 (1.67%) PHP
13 10 (1.39%) SQL
14 7 (0.97%) Dart
14 7 (0.97%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.56%) Ruby
16 2 (0.28%) VB
16 2 (0.28%) XAML
17 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 440 (61.28%) Security Cleared
2 430 (59.89%) DV Cleared
3 47 (6.55%) Degree
4 13 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.97%) MCSA
8 6 (0.84%) A+ Certification
8 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.84%) MCP
9 5 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.28%) CCA
11 2 (0.28%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.28%) MCSE
12 1 (0.14%) PhD
12 1 (0.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.06%) QA
2 17 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.09%) SLA
4 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.11%) ISO 13485
5 7 (0.97%) IEC 62304
6 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.70%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 443 (61.70%) Docker
2 66 (9.19%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
6 3 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.42%) LXC
7 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) XenApp
7 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 431 (60.03%) Ansible
2 53 (7.38%) Kubernetes
3 47 (6.55%) Terraform
4 17 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.25%) AirWatch
6 5 (0.70%) ArcSight ESM
6 5 (0.70%) QRadar
7 4 (0.56%) SCCM
7 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.28%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.28%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.52%) Apple
3 24 (3.34%) Cisco
4 20 (2.79%) Zoho
5 16 (2.23%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.09%) VMware
6 15 (2.09%) Xamarin
7 14 (1.95%) Google
8 7 (0.97%) IBM
8 7 (0.97%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.84%) Citrix
9 6 (0.84%) McAfee
10 5 (0.70%) ArcSight
10 5 (0.70%) LogLogic
10 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.70%) Splunk
11 4 (0.56%) Okta
11 4 (0.56%) Perforce
11 4 (0.56%) Samsung
12 3 (0.42%) Avaya