Android Developer Jobs

Android Developer
UK

The median Android Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 808 778
Rank change year-on-year +166 -30 -79
Permanent jobs requiring an Android Developer 42 77 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.078% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.083% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32 57 151
10th Percentile - £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £78,375 £90,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Android Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Android Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Android Developer.

Salary trend for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Android Developer in the UK

Android Developer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +160 37 £50,000 -23.08% 19
Work from Home +177 29 £37,500 -42.31% 11
UK excluding London +170 21 £61,250 -5.77% 16
London +108 19 £30,000 -53.85% 5
North of England +78 5 £65,000 - 6
East of England +61 5 £50,000 -29.82% 2
South West +99 4 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North West +26 4 £65,000 - 6
South East +111 3 £47,500 +18.75% 3
Scotland - 3 £82,500 - 1
Midlands +50 1 £45,000 -28.00% 3
West Midlands +44 1 £45,000 -35.71%
North East - 1 - -

Android Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Android Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Android Developer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Android
1 42 (100.00%) Android Development
2 30 (71.43%) Java
3 29 (69.05%) Kotlin
4 26 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (57.14%) Apple iOS
6 22 (52.38%) DevOps
7 21 (50.00%) GitHub
8 19 (45.24%) Mobile App
8 19 (45.24%) Swift
8 19 (45.24%) QA
9 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
10 17 (40.48%) Mobile Games
10 17 (40.48%) Games
10 17 (40.48%) Objective-C
11 16 (38.10%) Mobile Development
12 14 (33.33%) User Experience
12 14 (33.33%) iOS Development
12 14 (33.33%) Git
12 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
13 11 (26.19%) Prototyping
13 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
13 11 (26.19%) Mentoring
13 11 (26.19%) Degree
13 11 (26.19%) Agile
14 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
14 10 (23.81%) Linux
14 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
14 10 (23.81%) Game Development
14 10 (23.81%) Rapid Prototyping

Android Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) GitHub
2 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (2.38%) AWS
3 1 (2.38%) Bitrise
3 1 (2.38%) Firebase
3 1 (2.38%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Bluetooth
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) LTE
2 1 (2.38%) TETRA
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Git
2 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 9 (21.43%) Gradle
4 7 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 4 (9.52%) JUnit
6 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.76%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.38%) JIRA
8 1 (2.38%) Xcode
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 17 (40.48%) Games
3 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Advertising
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) French Language
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Android SDK
1 7 (16.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (9.52%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (9.52%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (4.76%) Flutter
3 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.76%) JNI
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) React Native
3 2 (4.76%) Redux
4 1 (2.38%) Express.js
4 1 (2.38%) iOS SDK
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.38%) RAML
4 1 (2.38%) REST
4 1 (2.38%) RxJava
4 1 (2.38%) WireMock
4 1 (2.38%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (45.24%) Mobile App
2 17 (40.48%) Mobile Games
3 10 (23.81%) Educational Technology
4 7 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (11.90%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
7 1 (2.38%) Media Streaming
7 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Android
2 24 (57.14%) Apple iOS
3 10 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Android Development
2 26 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (52.38%) DevOps
4 16 (38.10%) Mobile Development
5 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 14 (33.33%) iOS Development
5 14 (33.33%) User Experience
6 11 (26.19%) Agile
6 11 (26.19%) Mentoring
6 11 (26.19%) Prototyping
7 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
7 10 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (23.81%) Game Development
7 10 (23.81%) Rapid Prototyping
7 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
9 8 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
10 7 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 30 (71.43%) Java
2 29 (69.05%) Kotlin
3 19 (45.24%) Swift
4 17 (40.48%) Objective-C
5 6 (14.29%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) Dart
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 10 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (45.24%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) New Relic
2 2 (4.76%) Google
2 2 (4.76%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity