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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 536 664
Rank change year-on-year -4 +128 -87
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 120 160 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.35% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 102 79 97
10th Percentile £45,250 £37,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +4.17%

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 53,091 45,886 65,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.62% 92.19% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,704 22,437 50,836
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +11 110 £75,000 +7.14% 47
UK excluding London -30 74 £60,000 -11.11% 33
London +36 44 £90,000 +2.86% 6
South East +33 39 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Work from Home -5 31 £80,000 +28.00% 30
Midlands +10 11 £45,000 -19.64% 2
East Midlands -3 11 £45,000 -14.29% 2
North of England -13 11 £57,500 -14.81% 9
North West 0 6 £60,000 -22.58% 7
Northern Ireland -14 5 £70,000 -
South West -17 5 £75,000 +7.14% 5
North East -4 3 - -
Scotland -31 3 - -
Yorkshire -35 2 £55,000 +15.79% 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 (2.50%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.33%) SaaS
2 10 (8.33%) AWS
2 10 (8.33%) Azure
3 6 (5.00%) GCP
3 6 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (4.17%) Firebase
5 4 (3.33%) Figma
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.50%) GitHub
6 3 (2.50%) Google Play
7 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.67%) TestFlight
8 1 (0.83%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.83%) Sentry
8 1 (0.83%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) CircleCI
2 5 (4.17%) Android Studio
3 4 (3.33%) Git
4 3 (2.50%) JIRA
5 2 (1.67%) CMake
5 2 (1.67%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.67%) Xcode
6 1 (0.83%) Storybook
6 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (8.33%) Banking
2 7 (5.83%) Finance
2 7 (5.83%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.00%) Law
3 6 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.17%) Electronics
5 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Retail
5 4 (3.33%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.50%) French Language
6 3 (2.50%) Games
6 3 (2.50%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.50%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.50%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.67%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 79 (65.83%) Developer
2 50 (41.67%) Senior
3 43 (35.83%) Android Developer
4 32 (26.67%) Senior Developer
5 26 (21.67%) Senior Android Developer
6 24 (20.00%) Android Engineer
7 22 (18.33%) iOS Developer
8 20 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
9 18 (15.00%) Applications Developer
10 15 (12.50%) Lead
11 13 (10.83%) Graduate
11 13 (10.83%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 13 (10.83%) Software Engineer
12 10 (8.33%) Graduate Applications Developer
12 10 (8.33%) Graduate Developer
12 10 (8.33%) Graduate Mobile Developer
12 10 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (7.50%) Senior Android Engineer
13 9 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (6.67%) Embedded Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.33%) RESTful
2 20 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
2 20 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
3 17 (14.17%) SwiftUI
4 13 (10.83%) React Native
5 10 (8.33%) .NET
6 8 (6.67%) React
6 8 (6.67%) WebSockets
7 6 (5.00%) Node.js
8 4 (3.33%) Android NDK
9 3 (2.50%) CSS
9 3 (2.50%) gRPC
9 3 (2.50%) HTML
9 3 (2.50%) Laravel
9 3 (2.50%) Vue
10 2 (1.67%) Android SDK
10 2 (1.67%) Google Maps API
10 2 (1.67%) OpenGL
10 2 (1.67%) OpenSceneGraph
10 2 (1.67%) QML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (51.67%) Mobile App
2 10 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.50%) IoT
5 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.67%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Social Media
7 1 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 120 (100.00%) Android
2 43 (35.83%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) iOS Development
2 28 (23.33%) Mobile Development
2 28 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 27 (22.50%) Agile
4 23 (19.17%) Performance Optimisation
5 21 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 20 (16.67%) AI
6 20 (16.67%) Memory Management
6 20 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 18 (15.00%) SOLID
8 17 (14.17%) Test Automation
9 15 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 15 (12.50%) User Experience
10 14 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.83%) Mentoring
12 12 (10.00%) TDD
13 11 (9.17%) Mobile Application Development
13 11 (9.17%) UX Design
14 10 (8.33%) Code Quality
14 10 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.83%) Kotlin
2 18 (15.00%) Swift
3 17 (14.17%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.83%) C++
6 5 (4.17%) SQL
7 4 (3.33%) Python
8 3 (2.50%) C
8 3 (2.50%) PHP
9 2 (1.67%) Bash
9 2 (1.67%) C#
9 2 (1.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) Degree
2 12 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Argo
2 6 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (2.50%) Google
1 3 (2.50%) WooCommerce
1 3 (2.50%) Xamarin
2 2 (1.67%) Apple
2 2 (1.67%) ESRI
2 2 (1.67%) Mapbox