Android Development Job Trends

Android Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Android Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 282 608
Rank change year-on-year -393 +326 -5
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 134 515 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 1.04% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 1.17% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 75 57 113
10th Percentile £48,500 £40,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £89,000 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Android Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Android Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Android Development
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android Development

Android Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android Development within the UK over the 6 months to 11 September 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
England -374 121 £77,500 +29.17% 42
UK excluding London -356 85 £60,000 - 20
London -49 38 £82,500 +10.00% 27
North of England -245 30 £50,000 -32.20% 4
South East -42 29 £60,000 - 3
Work from Home -83 23 £85,000 +33.33% 11
North West -198 17 £50,000 -32.20% 3
South West -78 13 £77,500 +72.22% 5
East of England -43 7 £75,000 +50.00% 2
Yorkshire -48 7 - - 1
North East - 6 £47,000 -
Scotland +2 3 £62,500 -3.85% 3
West Midlands -33 3 - - 1
Midlands -51 3 - - 3

Android Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (11.94%) GitHub
2 11 (8.21%) Google Play
3 9 (6.72%) Azure
4 8 (5.97%) Firebase
4 8 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (5.97%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.48%) AWS
7 5 (3.73%) ChatGPT
8 3 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.24%) Bitrise
8 3 (2.24%) Serverless
9 2 (1.49%) GCP
10 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.75%) Broadband
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
1 1 (0.75%) NFC
1 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
1 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (9.70%) Git
2 8 (5.97%) Android Studio
2 8 (5.97%) Gradle
3 7 (5.22%) fastlane
4 6 (4.48%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.99%) Xcode
6 2 (1.49%) Appium
6 2 (1.49%) JUnit
6 2 (1.49%) Mockito
7 1 (0.75%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) JIRA
7 1 (0.75%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.75%) TestRail
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.75%) XCTest
7 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (11.94%) Finance
2 12 (8.96%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Retail
4 7 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Banking
5 5 (3.73%) Publishing
6 4 (2.99%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.24%) Automotive
7 3 (2.24%) Games
7 3 (2.24%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.75%) Electronics
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (71.64%) Developer
2 79 (58.96%) Android Developer
3 42 (31.34%) Senior
4 40 (29.85%) Senior Developer
5 38 (28.36%) Senior Android Developer
6 31 (23.13%) iOS Developer
7 20 (14.93%) iOS Android Developer
8 18 (13.43%) Software Engineer
9 17 (12.69%) Mobile Developer
10 16 (11.94%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 15 (11.19%) Software Developer
12 14 (10.45%) Applications Developer
12 14 (10.45%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 14 (10.45%) Senior Applications Developer
12 14 (10.45%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
13 10 (7.46%) Android Engineer
13 10 (7.46%) Senior iOS Android Developer
13 10 (7.46%) Senior iOS Developer
14 8 (5.97%) Lead
15 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.90%) RESTful
2 22 (16.42%) Android Jetpack
2 22 (16.42%) Jetpack Compose
3 16 (11.94%) SwiftUI
4 9 (6.72%) Android SDK
5 8 (5.97%) REST
6 6 (4.48%) React Native
6 6 (4.48%) Retrofit
7 4 (2.99%) React
8 3 (2.24%) CarPlay
8 3 (2.24%) Flutter
8 3 (2.24%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.24%) Node.js
9 2 (1.49%) .NET
9 2 (1.49%) gRPC
9 2 (1.49%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (1.49%) UIKit
10 1 (0.75%) Jest
10 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.75%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 68 (50.75%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.99%) Hackathon
5 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.24%) IoT
5 3 (2.24%) NHS
5 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.24%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (2.24%) Smart City
6 2 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.49%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 134 (100.00%) Android
2 50 (37.31%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.97%) Linux
4 3 (2.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.31%) iOS Development
2 36 (26.87%) CI/CD
3 35 (26.12%) Mobile Development
4 34 (25.37%) Agile
5 25 (18.66%) Software Engineering
6 23 (17.16%) Performance Optimisation
7 22 (16.42%) Architectural Patterns
8 21 (15.67%) AI
8 21 (15.67%) Clean Code
9 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
10 19 (14.18%) TDD
11 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.94%) Multithreading
13 13 (9.70%) Memory Management
13 13 (9.70%) SDLC
13 13 (9.70%) SOLID
14 12 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (8.21%) Design Patterns
15 11 (8.21%) MVVM
15 11 (8.21%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.81%) Kotlin
2 21 (15.67%) Swift
3 20 (14.93%) Java
4 10 (7.46%) C++
5 6 (4.48%) C#
6 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.99%) SQL
6 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.24%) C
7 3 (2.24%) Embedded C++
7 3 (2.24%) Python
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.99%) Degree
4 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.22%) WCAG
3 6 (4.48%) QA
4 3 (2.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
1 1 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (8.21%) Google
2 10 (7.46%) Revolut
3 6 (4.48%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.73%) Apple
4 5 (3.73%) Xamarin
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.49%) VMware