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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 267 708
Rank change year-on-year -358 +441 -115
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 133 545 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 1.20% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.30% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 81 77 152
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £107,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -20.00%

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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 June 2026.

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 June 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 -334 123 £70,000 +16.67% 28
UK excluding London -308 97 £60,000 -4.00% 17
South East -19 37 £70,000 +16.67% 6
North of England -234 36 £50,000 -32.20% 1
London -56 31 £90,000 +38.46% 12
Work from Home -81 19 £85,000 +21.43% 9
Yorkshire -25 16 - - 1
North West -184 14 £50,000 -35.48%
Midlands -26 10 £37,500 -42.31% 1
East Midlands -26 8 £37,500 -
North East -41 6 £47,000 -
Scotland +1 5 £62,500 -51.05%
South West -71 5 £77,500 +47.62% 6
East of England -31 4 £66,250 +32.50% 3
West Midlands -27 2 - - 1

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.77%) Azure
1 9 (6.77%) GitHub
2 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (6.02%) Google Play
3 7 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.51%) Firebase
5 4 (3.01%) AWS
6 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.50%) GCP
7 2 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.50%) SaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.75%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.75%) NFC
2 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.75%) MySQL
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Android Studio
2 8 (6.02%) Gradle
3 7 (5.26%) fastlane
4 6 (4.51%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.51%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.76%) Git
6 2 (1.50%) Appium
6 2 (1.50%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.50%) JUnit
6 2 (1.50%) 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%) Xcode
7 1 (0.75%) XCTest
7 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (12.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (7.52%) Banking
2 10 (7.52%) Games
3 8 (6.02%) Finance
4 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.51%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Electronics
6 5 (3.76%) Retail
7 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.26%) French Language
7 3 (2.26%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.26%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.26%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.50%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (68.42%) Developer
2 70 (52.63%) Android Developer
3 41 (30.83%) Senior
4 36 (27.07%) Senior Developer
5 34 (25.56%) Senior Android Developer
6 25 (18.80%) iOS Developer
7 23 (17.29%) Android Engineer
8 20 (15.04%) Applications Developer
9 15 (11.28%) Lead
9 15 (11.28%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 15 (11.28%) Software Engineer
10 12 (9.02%) iOS Android Developer
10 12 (9.02%) Mobile Developer
11 11 (8.27%) Graduate
12 10 (7.52%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (7.52%) Senior Applications Developer
12 10 (7.52%) Software Developer
13 8 (6.02%) Graduate Applications Developer
13 8 (6.02%) Graduate Developer
13 8 (6.02%) Graduate Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.29%) Android Jetpack
1 23 (17.29%) Jetpack Compose
2 22 (16.54%) RESTful
3 16 (12.03%) Android SDK
3 16 (12.03%) SwiftUI
4 9 (6.77%) GraphQL
5 6 (4.51%) Retrofit
6 5 (3.76%) .NET
7 4 (3.01%) React Native
8 3 (2.26%) CSS
8 3 (2.26%) HTML
8 3 (2.26%) React
8 3 (2.26%) REST
9 2 (1.50%) gRPC
9 2 (1.50%) Node.js
9 2 (1.50%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (0.75%) Flutter
10 1 (0.75%) Jest
10 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.75%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 75 (56.39%) Mobile App
2 10 (7.52%) Mobile Banking
3 9 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.77%) Social Media
4 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.50%) Smart City
7 2 (1.50%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 133 (100.00%) Android
2 36 (27.07%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.08%) CI/CD
2 41 (30.83%) Agile
3 36 (27.07%) iOS Development
4 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
6 23 (17.29%) Mobile Development
7 21 (15.79%) SOLID
7 21 (15.79%) TDD
8 19 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.53%) AI
10 17 (12.78%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (11.28%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.53%) Design Patterns
12 14 (10.53%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
14 12 (9.02%) Memory Management
14 12 (9.02%) Multithreading
15 11 (8.27%) Roadmaps
15 11 (8.27%) User Experience
16 10 (7.52%) Digital Banking
Programming Languages
1 58 (43.61%) Kotlin
2 31 (23.31%) Java
3 17 (12.78%) Swift
4 9 (6.77%) C++
5 8 (6.02%) SQL
6 7 (5.26%) C#
7 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.76%) C
9 4 (3.01%) Python
9 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (8.27%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.77%) Degree
3 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.26%) WCAG
3 4 (3.01%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Argo
1 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.02%) Google
2 6 (4.51%) Dynatrace
2 6 (4.51%) Xamarin
3 4 (3.01%) Revolut
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.50%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) WooCommerce