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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 544 659
Rank change year-on-year +12 +115 -108
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 117 169 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.35% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 101 73 92
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £54,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,684 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

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 50,778 48,019 60,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.25% 91.58% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,009 23,112 46,660
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +18 107 £75,000 +7.14% 38
UK excluding London -24 71 £60,000 -11.11% 28
London +47 44 £90,000 - 13
South East +18 37 £70,000 -6.67% 14
Work from Home +1 32 £80,000 +33.33% 26
Midlands +10 11 £45,000 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -2 11 £45,000 -14.29% 1
North of England -3 10 £57,500 -14.81% 8
North West +14 6 £60,000 -22.58% 6
South West -4 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Northern Ireland -8 5 £70,000 -
North East -2 3 - -
Scotland -19 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -20 1 £55,000 +25.71% 2

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:

Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.68%) SaaS
2 10 (8.55%) AWS
2 10 (8.55%) Azure
3 6 (5.13%) GCP
3 6 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (4.27%) Firebase
5 4 (3.42%) Figma
5 4 (3.42%) Google Play
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.56%) GitHub
7 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.71%) TestFlight
8 1 (0.85%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.85%) Sentry
8 1 (0.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.13%) BigQuery
1 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.56%) MySQL
3 2 (1.71%) GIS
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) CircleCI
2 4 (3.42%) Android Studio
2 4 (3.42%) Git
3 3 (2.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.71%) CMake
4 2 (1.71%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.71%) Xcode
5 1 (0.85%) Storybook
5 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (6.84%) Telecoms
2 7 (5.98%) Banking
2 7 (5.98%) Finance
2 7 (5.98%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.13%) Law
4 5 (4.27%) Electronics
5 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Retail
5 4 (3.42%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.56%) French Language
6 3 (2.56%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.56%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.56%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.71%) Games
7 2 (1.71%) Publishing
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 78 (66.67%) Developer
2 52 (44.44%) Senior
3 43 (36.75%) Android Developer
4 32 (27.35%) Senior Developer
5 26 (22.22%) Senior Android Developer
6 22 (18.80%) Android Engineer
6 22 (18.80%) iOS Developer
7 21 (17.95%) Mobile Developer
8 18 (15.38%) Applications Developer
9 13 (11.11%) Graduate
9 13 (11.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 13 (11.11%) Software Engineer
10 12 (10.26%) Lead
11 11 (9.40%) Senior Android Engineer
12 10 (8.55%) Graduate Applications Developer
12 10 (8.55%) Graduate Developer
12 10 (8.55%) Graduate Mobile Developer
13 9 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (6.84%) Embedded Developer
15 7 (5.98%) iOS Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.80%) RESTful
2 18 (15.38%) Android Jetpack
2 18 (15.38%) Jetpack Compose
3 16 (13.68%) SwiftUI
4 13 (11.11%) React Native
5 10 (8.55%) .NET
6 9 (7.69%) WebSockets
7 8 (6.84%) React
8 6 (5.13%) Node.js
9 4 (3.42%) Android NDK
10 3 (2.56%) CSS
10 3 (2.56%) gRPC
10 3 (2.56%) HTML
10 3 (2.56%) Laravel
10 3 (2.56%) Vue
11 2 (1.71%) Flutter
11 2 (1.71%) Next.js
11 2 (1.71%) OpenGL
11 2 (1.71%) QML
11 2 (1.71%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 61 (52.14%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.98%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.56%) IoT
6 2 (1.71%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.85%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 117 (100.00%) Android
2 44 (37.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.61%) iOS Development
2 29 (24.79%) Mobile Development
2 29 (24.79%) Software Engineering
3 23 (19.66%) Agile
3 23 (19.66%) Performance Optimisation
4 21 (17.95%) AI
5 20 (17.09%) Memory Management
5 20 (17.09%) Multithreading
6 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 16 (13.68%) Computer Science
7 16 (13.68%) SOLID
7 16 (13.68%) User Experience
8 14 (11.97%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.26%) Mobile Application Development
9 12 (10.26%) Roadmaps
9 12 (10.26%) UX Design
10 11 (9.40%) Code Quality
11 10 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.17%) Kotlin
2 19 (16.24%) Swift
3 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
3 14 (11.97%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.26%) Java
5 6 (5.13%) C++
6 5 (4.27%) SQL
7 4 (3.42%) Python
8 3 (2.56%) PHP
9 2 (1.71%) Bash
9 2 (1.71%) C
9 2 (1.71%) C#
9 2 (1.71%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Argo
2 6 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.42%) Google
2 3 (2.56%) WooCommerce
2 3 (2.56%) Xamarin
3 2 (1.71%) Apple
3 2 (1.71%) ESRI
3 2 (1.71%) Mapbox