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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 552 604
Rank change year-on-year -5 +52 -73
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 90 164 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 80 71 86
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £90,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +8.33%

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 49,042 50,361 46,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.17% 89.77% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,825 25,280 35,250
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +19 78 £75,000 +3.45% 110
UK excluding London -9 54 £65,000 -1.89% 100
London +60 36 £87,500 -2.78% 20
Work from Home +33 30 £80,000 +39.13% 75
South East +17 25 £60,000 -25.00% 32
North of England +5 8 £60,000 -7.69% 20
Scotland -6 7 £65,000 +20.37% 5
South West +1 5 £75,000 +7.14% 10
Northern Ireland -1 5 £70,000 - 1
Midlands +22 4 £45,000 -10.00% 17
North West +12 4 £80,000 +10.34% 15
North East +12 3 - -
East Midlands -7 3 £45,000 -14.29% 12
West Midlands +26 1 £55,000 +12.82% 5
Yorkshire -11 1 £55,000 +25.71% 5

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 (3.33%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) SaaS
2 9 (10.00%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) AWS
4 5 (5.56%) Firebase
5 4 (4.44%) Figma
5 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 4 (4.44%) GitHub
5 4 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (3.33%) Google Play
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.22%) TestFlight
8 1 (1.11%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.11%) Sentry
8 1 (1.11%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
1 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.22%) GIS
2 2 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (4.44%) Android Studio
2 4 (4.44%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.33%) JIRA
4 2 (2.22%) CMake
4 2 (2.22%) Crashlytics
4 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.22%) Storybook
4 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.22%) Xcode
5 1 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (8.89%) Telecoms
2 6 (6.67%) Finance
3 5 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Banking
4 4 (4.44%) Law
4 4 (4.44%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.22%) Publishing
6 1 (1.11%) Advertising
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Electronics
6 1 (1.11%) Games
6 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (65.56%) Developer
2 45 (50.00%) Senior
3 33 (36.67%) Android Developer
4 25 (27.78%) Senior Developer
5 23 (25.56%) iOS Developer
6 21 (23.33%) Android Engineer
6 21 (23.33%) Mobile Developer
7 20 (22.22%) Senior Android Developer
8 13 (14.44%) iOS Android Developer
8 13 (14.44%) Senior Android Engineer
9 10 (11.11%) Lead
10 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
11 7 (7.78%) Applications Developer
11 7 (7.78%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 7 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) Senior iOS Android Developer
12 6 (6.67%) Senior iOS Developer
13 5 (5.56%) Lead Developer
13 5 (5.56%) Lead iOS Developer
13 5 (5.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) RESTful
2 17 (18.89%) Android Jetpack
2 17 (18.89%) Jetpack Compose
3 11 (12.22%) React Native
4 10 (11.11%) SwiftUI
5 9 (10.00%) WebSockets
6 8 (8.89%) .NET
6 8 (8.89%) React
7 4 (4.44%) Android NDK
7 4 (4.44%) Node.js
8 3 (3.33%) gRPC
8 3 (3.33%) JSON
8 3 (3.33%) Next.js
8 3 (3.33%) REST
9 2 (2.22%) Flutter
9 2 (2.22%) Google Maps API
9 2 (2.22%) Jest
9 2 (2.22%) Vue
9 2 (2.22%) Vulkan
9 2 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (42.22%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.67%) Augmented Reality
2 6 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.44%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.33%) IoT
5 2 (2.22%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.11%) Animation
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.11%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 90 (100.00%) Android
2 41 (45.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.44%) iOS Development
2 33 (36.67%) Mobile Development
3 25 (27.78%) AI
4 18 (20.00%) Agile
4 18 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 15 (16.67%) Memory Management
5 15 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 15 (16.67%) User Experience
6 13 (14.44%) Code Quality
6 13 (14.44%) UX Design
7 12 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 12 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 11 (12.22%) Architectural Patterns
8 11 (12.22%) SOLID
9 10 (11.11%) Design Patterns
10 9 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.00%) Software Architecture
11 8 (8.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.67%) Kotlin
2 15 (16.67%) Swift
3 13 (14.44%) TypeScript
4 10 (11.11%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.67%) C++
6 3 (3.33%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.22%) Bash
7 2 (2.22%) C
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) Python
8 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Degree
2 12 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.44%) Argo
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.33%) Google
2 2 (2.22%) Apple
2 2 (2.22%) ESRI
2 2 (2.22%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.22%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.22%) Xamarin