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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 263 701
Rank change year-on-year -320 +438 -116
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 147 536 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 1.26% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 1.35% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 107 69 141
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £129,260 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -18.37%

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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -309 136 £70,000 +7.69% 32
UK excluding London -274 107 £60,000 -14.29% 17
South East +12 48 £70,000 +16.67% 6
London -32 38 £107,500 +65.38% 14
North of England -234 34 £50,000 -35.48% 5
Work from Home -67 25 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Yorkshire -45 16 - -
North West -180 14 £50,000 -35.48% 2
East Midlands -24 11 £45,000 -
Midlands -43 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -7 4 £62,500 -51.05% 1
North East -38 4 £47,000 - 3
South West -71 3 £77,500 +4.91% 1
East of England -43 2 £71,250 +42.50% 3

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 2 (1.36%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.12%) Azure
1 9 (6.12%) SaaS
2 7 (4.76%) AWS
2 7 (4.76%) GitHub
3 6 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.40%) Google Play
5 4 (2.72%) Firebase
5 4 (2.72%) GCP
5 4 (2.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.36%) Figma
8 1 (0.68%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.68%) Sentry
8 1 (0.68%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.80%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
1 4 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Android Studio
2 6 (4.08%) Gradle
3 5 (3.40%) fastlane
4 4 (2.72%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.72%) Crashlytics
4 4 (2.72%) Git
4 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.36%) Appium
5 2 (1.36%) JUnit
5 2 (1.36%) Mockito
6 1 (0.68%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
6 1 (0.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.68%) TestRail
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.68%) Xcode
6 1 (0.68%) XCTest
6 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (9.52%) Banking
1 14 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (6.80%) Games
3 9 (6.12%) Finance
4 6 (4.08%) Electronics
4 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.40%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.72%) Law
7 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.04%) French Language
7 3 (2.04%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.04%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.04%) Retail
7 3 (2.04%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (65.31%) Developer
2 65 (44.22%) Android Developer
3 51 (34.69%) Senior
4 39 (26.53%) Senior Developer
5 34 (23.13%) Senior Android Developer
6 31 (21.09%) Android Engineer
7 28 (19.05%) iOS Developer
8 21 (14.29%) Applications Developer
9 20 (13.61%) Lead
10 16 (10.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 16 (10.88%) Software Engineer
11 14 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (8.84%) Graduate
12 13 (8.84%) Mobile Developer
13 11 (7.48%) iOS Android Developer
14 10 (6.80%) Graduate Applications Developer
14 10 (6.80%) Graduate Developer
14 10 (6.80%) Graduate Mobile Developer
14 10 (6.80%) Software Developer
15 8 (5.44%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.37%) Android Jetpack
1 27 (18.37%) Jetpack Compose
2 24 (16.33%) RESTful
3 20 (13.61%) SwiftUI
4 13 (8.84%) Android SDK
5 10 (6.80%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.08%) React Native
7 5 (3.40%) React
8 4 (2.72%) .NET
8 4 (2.72%) gRPC
8 4 (2.72%) Node.js
8 4 (2.72%) Retrofit
8 4 (2.72%) WebSockets
9 3 (2.04%) CSS
9 3 (2.04%) HTML
9 3 (2.04%) Laravel
9 3 (2.04%) REST
9 3 (2.04%) Vue
10 2 (1.36%) Android NDK
10 2 (1.36%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 82 (55.78%) Mobile App
2 14 (9.52%) Mobile Banking
3 9 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.12%) Social Media
4 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.72%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.36%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 147 (100.00%) Android
2 43 (29.25%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.61%) CI/CD
2 43 (29.25%) Agile
2 43 (29.25%) iOS Development
3 29 (19.73%) Mobile Development
4 28 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 26 (17.69%) SOLID
6 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.33%) TDD
8 23 (15.65%) AI
9 21 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 20 (13.61%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (12.93%) Memory Management
12 18 (12.24%) Multithreading
13 15 (10.20%) Design Patterns
13 15 (10.20%) Mentoring
13 15 (10.20%) Roadmaps
14 14 (9.52%) Digital Banking
15 12 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (8.16%) Clean Code
15 12 (8.16%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Kotlin
2 31 (21.09%) Java
3 21 (14.29%) Swift
4 10 (6.80%) C++
5 9 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.44%) SQL
7 7 (4.76%) C#
7 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.40%) C
9 3 (2.04%) PHP
9 3 (2.04%) Python
10 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 16 (10.88%) Degree
2 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.40%) QA
2 5 (3.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Argo
1 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.72%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (4.08%) Xamarin
2 5 (3.40%) Google
3 4 (2.72%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.04%) WooCommerce
5 2 (1.36%) VMware