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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 202 263
Rank change year-on-year +73 +61 -78
Permanent jobs citing Android 971 1,003 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.44% 1.40% 1.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.75% 9.50% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 214 616 498
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £26,110
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,500 £34,081
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.92% -7.50%

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 5,178 10,563 9,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.99% 14.77% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 8,148 6,119
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 £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
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 18 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 18 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 +140 736 £31,500 -30.00% 90
North West +102 673 £57,500 +27.78% 63
South East -55 79 £47,500 +26.67% 98
Midlands -28 63 £41,750 +19.29% 28
Yorkshire +71 62 £30,000 -33.33% 26
East of England -32 43 £50,000 +25.00% 71
South West +29 36 £70,000 +40.00% 27
West Midlands +21 35 £60,000 +33.33% 17
East Midlands -40 28 £32,000 +28.00% 9
Scotland +67 15 £127,680 +143.20% 27
North East +29 1 - - 2
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 37 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.24%) IBM Domino
3 10 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.10%) CMS
5 1 (0.10%) Confluence
5 1 (0.10%) IIS
5 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.62%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (9.37%) Azure
2 70 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (6.90%) AWS
4 36 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (2.16%) SaaS
6 11 (1.13%) Entra ID
7 9 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (0.82%) GitHub
9 7 (0.72%) Firebase
10 6 (0.62%) Apigee
10 6 (0.62%) Figma
10 6 (0.62%) Google Docs
10 6 (0.62%) Google Workspace
10 6 (0.62%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.62%) PaaS
11 5 (0.51%) Kibo
12 4 (0.41%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.41%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.31%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 666 (68.59%) VPN
2 406 (41.81%) DNS
3 286 (29.45%) Cisco IOS
4 27 (2.78%) Firewall
5 19 (1.96%) Internet
6 13 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.03%) DHCP
8 9 (0.93%) HTTP
8 9 (0.93%) VoIP
9 8 (0.82%) LAN
9 8 (0.82%) Network Security
9 8 (0.82%) WAN
10 7 (0.72%) SSL
10 7 (0.72%) Wireless
11 4 (0.41%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.41%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.41%) SSH
12 3 (0.31%) VLAN
13 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.13%) MySQL
4 3 (0.31%) MariaDB
4 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.21%) SQLite
6 1 (0.10%) Power BI
6 1 (0.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (3.09%) Git
2 14 (1.44%) JIRA
3 11 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.13%) Maven
4 8 (0.82%) Appium
5 7 (0.72%) GitLab
5 7 (0.72%) Xcode
6 5 (0.51%) Android Studio
6 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.41%) Gradle
8 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.31%) Subversion
8 3 (0.31%) XCTest
9 1 (0.10%) fastlane
9 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.10%) JUnit
9 1 (0.10%) Qt Creator
9 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.10%) TestRail
General
1 712 (73.33%) Analytical Skills
2 694 (71.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 429 (44.18%) Finance
4 83 (8.55%) Social Skills
5 24 (2.47%) Banking
6 16 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (1.54%) Retail
8 13 (1.34%) Electronics
9 6 (0.62%) Aviation
10 5 (0.51%) Automotive
10 5 (0.51%) Marketing
10 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.41%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.31%) Legal
12 3 (0.31%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.21%) Games
13 2 (0.21%) Law
13 2 (0.21%) Publishing
14 1 (0.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 486 (50.05%) Developer
2 436 (44.90%) Software Developer
3 263 (27.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 58 (5.97%) IT Support
5 39 (4.02%) Senior
6 38 (3.91%) Support Engineer
7 33 (3.40%) Desktop Support
8 32 (3.30%) IT Engineer
9 28 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (2.47%) Software Engineer
11 23 (2.37%) Lead
12 20 (2.06%) Android Developer
13 19 (1.96%) Analyst
13 19 (1.96%) Android Engineer
14 18 (1.85%) Senior Developer
15 16 (1.65%) Software Support Engineer
16 14 (1.44%) Support Technician
17 12 (1.24%) Desktop Support Technician
17 12 (1.24%) Desktop Technician
17 12 (1.24%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (26.78%) Elastic Stack
2 58 (5.97%) .NET
3 44 (4.53%) Node.js
4 36 (3.71%) Pandas
5 23 (2.37%) RESTful
6 22 (2.27%) React
7 20 (2.06%) Android Jetpack
7 20 (2.06%) Jetpack Compose
8 17 (1.75%) React Native
9 16 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.44%) SwiftUI
11 10 (1.03%) Laravel
12 9 (0.93%) Android SDK
13 8 (0.82%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.82%) Flutter
13 8 (0.82%) HTML
13 8 (0.82%) UIKit
14 7 (0.72%) OAuth
14 7 (0.72%) Vue
15 6 (0.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 687 (70.75%) Cyberattack
2 82 (8.44%) Mobile App
3 24 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.24%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.13%) Online Banking
8 8 (0.82%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.72%) Robotics
10 6 (0.62%) DataPower
10 6 (0.62%) Driving Licence
10 6 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.51%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.41%) Anti-Spyware
12 4 (0.41%) EMV
12 4 (0.41%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.41%) W3C
13 3 (0.31%) CCTV
13 3 (0.31%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 701 (72.19%) Linux
2 387 (39.86%) Windows
3 140 (14.42%) Apple iOS
4 36 (3.71%) Windows 10
5 32 (3.30%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (72.61%) Mathematics
2 696 (71.68%) Line Management
3 493 (50.77%) Android Development
4 480 (49.43%) Agile
5 433 (44.59%) Design Patterns
5 433 (44.59%) OO
6 431 (44.39%) OOP
7 354 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (30.28%) DevOps
9 269 (27.70%) Platform Engineering
10 263 (27.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 263 (27.09%) Task Automation
11 262 (26.98%) Risk Management
12 261 (26.88%) Storage Management
13 77 (7.93%) Software Engineering
14 71 (7.31%) CI/CD
15 58 (5.97%) Customer Service
16 56 (5.77%) User Experience
17 53 (5.46%) Containerisation
18 47 (4.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 694 (71.47%) Python
2 474 (48.82%) Java
3 455 (46.86%) C++
4 429 (44.18%) Go
5 266 (27.39%) PowerShell
6 260 (26.78%) Bash
7 77 (7.93%) JavaScript
8 42 (4.33%) Kotlin
9 37 (3.81%) Rust
10 24 (2.47%) Swift
11 21 (2.16%) C#
12 18 (1.85%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.65%) C
14 12 (1.24%) Objective-C
15 11 (1.13%) PHP
16 9 (0.93%) SQL
17 8 (0.82%) Dart
18 2 (0.21%) VB
19 1 (0.10%) VBScript
19 1 (0.10%) XAML
Qualifications
1 439 (45.21%) Security Cleared
2 428 (44.08%) DV Cleared
3 46 (4.74%) Degree
4 12 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (1.24%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (0.72%) MCSA
7 6 (0.62%) A+ Certification
7 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (0.51%) MCP
9 4 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.21%) MCSE
11 1 (0.10%) CCA
11 1 (0.10%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.10%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (1.65%) QA
3 15 (1.54%) SLA
4 8 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.72%) GDPR
5 7 (0.72%) ISO 13485
6 6 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.62%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.10%) NCSC
8 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 702 (72.30%) Docker
2 267 (27.50%) Hyper-V
3 261 (26.88%) vSphere
4 260 (26.78%) VMware NSX
5 68 (7.00%) Active Directory
6 13 (1.34%) 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
9 1 (0.10%) XenApp
9 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 691 (71.16%) Ansible
2 307 (31.62%) Terraform
3 48 (4.94%) Kubernetes
4 22 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.93%) AirWatch
6 6 (0.62%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (0.62%) QRadar
7 4 (0.41%) SCCM
7 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.10%) SCOM
8 1 (0.10%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 286 (29.45%) Cisco
2 266 (27.39%) Splunk
3 260 (26.78%) 3PAR
3 260 (26.78%) Juniper
4 87 (8.96%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.77%) Apple
6 21 (2.16%) Zoho
7 16 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.44%) VMware
9 13 (1.34%) Google
10 11 (1.13%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.72%) McAfee
11 7 (0.72%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.62%) ArcSight
12 6 (0.62%) IBM
12 6 (0.62%) LogLogic
12 6 (0.62%) Samsung
13 5 (0.51%) Citrix
13 5 (0.51%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.41%) Perforce