Android Development Jobs

Android Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Android Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Android Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 734 614
Rank change year-on-year +424 -120 -225
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 545 189 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.18% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.21% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 80 150 249
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £79,063 £70,000 £88,283
90th Percentile £127,130 £86,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +13.64%

All Process and 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 53,012 89,076 85,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.30% 82.54% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27,252 61,390 52,814
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Android Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Top 15 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 1 July 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 +403 528 £60,000 - 321
UK excluding London +398 494 £65,000 +30.00% 192
North of England +272 397 £73,750 +63.89% 68
North West +217 386 £77,500 +58.97% 48
Work from Home +106 92 £70,000 +40.00% 173
London +113 44 £65,000 -3.70% 166
South East +82 27 £60,000 -29.41% 50
East of England +55 22 £50,000 +25.00% 16
South West +90 19 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Scotland +104 15 £127,680 +155.36% 23
Midlands +64 14 £65,000 +30.00% 9
West Midlands +60 11 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Yorkshire +56 10 £47,500 +5.56% 20
East Midlands +44 3 - - 4
North East - 1 - -

Android Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 51 (9.36%) Azure
2 49 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
2 49 (8.99%) AWS
2 49 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (2.94%) GitHub
4 4 (0.73%) Bitrise
4 4 (0.73%) Firebase
5 3 (0.55%) Figma
5 3 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (0.37%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (0.37%) Google Play
7 1 (0.18%) GCP
7 1 (0.18%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.18%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 397 (72.84%) DNS
1 397 (72.84%) VPN
2 9 (1.65%) Internet
3 7 (1.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (2.94%) Git
1 16 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.02%) JIRA
3 8 (1.47%) Maven
4 7 (1.28%) Android Studio
5 6 (1.10%) JUnit
6 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.37%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.37%) fastlane
7 2 (0.37%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) Gradle
7 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.37%) UI Automator
8 1 (0.18%) Appium
8 1 (0.18%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 448 (82.20%) Analytical Skills
1 448 (82.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 422 (77.43%) Finance
3 22 (4.04%) Social Skills
4 13 (2.39%) Games
5 11 (2.02%) Banking
6 6 (1.10%) Electronics
7 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.55%) Law
8 3 (0.55%) Marketing
8 3 (0.55%) Publishing
9 2 (0.37%) Legal
9 2 (0.37%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.18%) Automotive
10 1 (0.18%) Aviation
10 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.18%) Retail
10 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 500 (91.74%) Developer
2 454 (83.30%) Software Developer
3 38 (6.97%) Android Developer
4 20 (3.67%) Lead
5 18 (3.30%) Senior
6 17 (3.12%) Android Engineer
7 16 (2.94%) Mobile Developer
8 12 (2.20%) Development Manager
8 12 (2.20%) iOS Developer
8 12 (2.20%) Senior Developer
9 10 (1.83%) Senior Android Developer
10 9 (1.65%) iOS Android Developer
11 8 (1.47%) Senior iOS Developer
11 8 (1.47%) Software Engineer
12 7 (1.28%) Senior iOS Android Developer
13 6 (1.10%) Android Software Engineer
13 6 (1.10%) Embedded Developer
13 6 (1.10%) Embedded Software Developer
13 6 (1.10%) Senior Mobile Developer
14 5 (0.92%) IT Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.91%) Node.js
2 49 (8.99%) .NET
2 49 (8.99%) Pandas
3 32 (5.87%) Android Jetpack
4 29 (5.32%) Jetpack Compose
5 18 (3.30%) RESTful
6 12 (2.20%) SwiftUI
7 9 (1.65%) UIKit
8 8 (1.47%) Retrofit
9 7 (1.28%) OAuth
10 6 (1.10%) Android SDK
10 6 (1.10%) Laravel
10 6 (1.10%) OkHttp
10 6 (1.10%) REST
11 5 (0.92%) CodeIgniter
11 5 (0.92%) Dagger
12 4 (0.73%) Flutter
13 3 (0.55%) JSON
13 3 (0.55%) React Native
13 3 (0.55%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 446 (81.83%) Cyberattack
2 33 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 21 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 12 (2.20%) Mobile Games
5 10 (1.83%) Educational Technology
6 9 (1.65%) Online Banking
6 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (0.92%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.37%) Animation
11 2 (0.37%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.18%) Hackathon
12 1 (0.18%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.18%) Online Games
12 1 (0.18%) Robotics
12 1 (0.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 545 (100.00%) Android
2 457 (83.85%) Linux
3 60 (11.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (87.71%) Agile
2 454 (83.30%) Line Management
3 453 (83.12%) Design Patterns
4 451 (82.75%) OO
5 450 (82.57%) OOP
6 447 (82.02%) Mathematics
7 76 (13.94%) CI/CD
8 66 (12.11%) Software Engineering
9 57 (10.46%) Collaborative Working
9 57 (10.46%) Containerisation
10 54 (9.91%) OWASP
10 54 (9.91%) Secure Coding
11 50 (9.17%) Kanban
12 49 (8.99%) Statistics
13 48 (8.81%) iOS Development
14 33 (6.06%) Mobile Development
15 29 (5.32%) User Experience
16 26 (4.77%) DevOps
17 23 (4.22%) Roadmaps
18 19 (3.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 483 (88.62%) Java
2 456 (83.67%) C++
3 448 (82.20%) Python
4 446 (81.83%) Go
5 64 (11.74%) JavaScript
6 55 (10.09%) Kotlin
7 50 (9.17%) Rust
8 36 (6.61%) Swift
9 16 (2.94%) Objective-C
10 6 (1.10%) PHP
11 4 (0.73%) C#
12 3 (0.55%) Dart
13 1 (0.18%) C
13 1 (0.18%) SQL
13 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 453 (83.12%) Security Cleared
2 447 (82.02%) DV Cleared
3 7 (1.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.10%) Degree
5 5 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.57%) QA
2 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.92%) GDPR
5 3 (0.55%) IEC 62304
5 3 (0.55%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 454 (83.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 446 (81.83%) Ansible
2 57 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 57 (10.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (1.28%) Google
2 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
3 4 (0.73%) Samsung
4 2 (0.37%) New Relic
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe
5 1 (0.18%) Apple