Android Development Jobs

Android Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Android Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Android Development over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 736 612
Rank change year-on-year +465 -124 -226
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 561 149 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.15% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.18% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 87 121 281
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £125,000 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +4.17%

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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Android Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Android Development.

Salary trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 +459 547 £70,000 +16.67% 71
UK excluding London +446 498 £70,000 +21.74% 52
North of England +294 402 £77,500 +72.22% 17
North West +221 389 £77,500 +55.00% 12
Work from Home +205 113 £70,000 +27.27% 42
London +127 56 £70,000 +3.70% 27
South East +125 28 £61,250 +2.08% 12
East of England +73 23 £50,000 +25.00% 9
South West +102 19 £70,000 +19.15% 3
Midlands +59 14 £65,000 +4.00% 4
Yorkshire +76 12 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Scotland - 12 £127,680 - 7
West Midlands +51 11 £65,000 +8.33% 1
East Midlands +51 3 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1

Android Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (0.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.18%) Sketch
1 1 (0.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 57 (10.16%) AWS
2 54 (9.63%) Azure
3 49 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
3 49 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (3.92%) GitHub
5 9 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (1.07%) Figma
7 5 (0.89%) SonarCloud
8 3 (0.53%) Firebase
9 2 (0.36%) Bitrise
9 2 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.18%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.18%) GCP
10 1 (0.18%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.18%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 397 (70.77%) DNS
1 397 (70.77%) VPN
2 11 (1.96%) Internet
3 7 (1.25%) SSL
4 4 (0.71%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.36%) Network Security
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.73%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (4.46%) Git
2 22 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.14%) JIRA
4 11 (1.96%) Gradle
5 9 (1.60%) Maven
6 8 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.71%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.71%) JUnit
8 3 (0.53%) fastlane
9 2 (0.36%) webpack
9 2 (0.36%) Xcode
10 1 (0.18%) Appium
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.18%) Subversion
10 1 (0.18%) Travis CI
General
1 448 (79.86%) Analytical Skills
2 447 (79.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 429 (76.47%) Finance
4 26 (4.63%) Social Skills
5 19 (3.39%) Games
6 14 (2.50%) Banking
7 7 (1.25%) Electronics
8 6 (1.07%) Legal
9 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.71%) Marketing
9 4 (0.71%) Retail
10 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.18%) Automotive
12 1 (0.18%) Back Office
12 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.18%) French Language
12 1 (0.18%) Law
12 1 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 502 (89.48%) Developer
2 452 (80.57%) Software Developer
3 42 (7.49%) Android Developer
4 27 (4.81%) Lead
5 23 (4.10%) Senior
6 21 (3.74%) Android Engineer
7 14 (2.50%) iOS Developer
7 14 (2.50%) Software Engineer
8 13 (2.32%) iOS Android Developer
9 12 (2.14%) Development Manager
9 12 (2.14%) Senior Developer
10 10 (1.78%) Senior Android Developer
11 9 (1.60%) Lead Developer
12 7 (1.25%) Lead Android Developer
12 7 (1.25%) Lead iOS Developer
13 6 (1.07%) Mobile Developer
13 6 (1.07%) Software Team Leader
13 6 (1.07%) Team Leader
14 5 (0.89%) IT Manager
14 5 (0.89%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.52%) Node.js
2 51 (9.09%) .NET
3 49 (8.73%) Pandas
4 34 (6.06%) Android Jetpack
5 27 (4.81%) Jetpack Compose
6 18 (3.21%) RESTful
7 12 (2.14%) SwiftUI
8 11 (1.96%) REST
9 10 (1.78%) React
10 9 (1.60%) Android SDK
11 8 (1.43%) CSS
11 8 (1.43%) HTML
11 8 (1.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 7 (1.25%) OAuth
12 7 (1.25%) React Native
12 7 (1.25%) UIKit
13 6 (1.07%) JSON
13 6 (1.07%) Laravel
14 5 (0.89%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 446 (79.50%) Cyberattack
2 51 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 19 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.21%) Mobile Games
5 14 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.78%) Educational Technology
6 10 (1.78%) Online Banking
7 9 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.36%) Hackathon
12 2 (0.36%) IoT
13 1 (0.18%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.18%) Embedded Systems
13 1 (0.18%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.18%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.18%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 561 (100.00%) Android
2 457 (81.46%) Linux
3 64 (11.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (86.99%) Agile
2 458 (81.64%) Design Patterns
3 456 (81.28%) Line Management
4 449 (80.04%) OOP
5 447 (79.68%) Mathematics
5 447 (79.68%) OO
6 87 (15.51%) CI/CD
7 79 (14.08%) Software Engineering
8 59 (10.52%) Collaborative Working
8 59 (10.52%) Containerisation
9 54 (9.63%) iOS Development
9 54 (9.63%) OWASP
9 54 (9.63%) Secure Coding
10 49 (8.73%) Kanban
10 49 (8.73%) Statistics
11 40 (7.13%) DevOps
12 34 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (5.70%) User Experience
14 31 (5.53%) Mobile Development
15 27 (4.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 492 (87.70%) Java
2 455 (81.11%) C++
3 452 (80.57%) Go
4 450 (80.21%) Python
5 74 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 61 (10.87%) Kotlin
7 50 (8.91%) Rust
8 35 (6.24%) Swift
9 21 (3.74%) Objective-C
10 6 (1.07%) C#
10 6 (1.07%) PHP
10 6 (1.07%) Ruby
11 5 (0.89%) SQL
11 5 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.71%) Dart
13 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 451 (80.39%) Security Cleared
2 448 (79.86%) DV Cleared
3 20 (3.57%) Degree
4 14 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.28%) QA
2 8 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.07%) IEC 62304
3 6 (1.07%) ISO 13485
3 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 457 (81.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 446 (79.50%) Ansible
2 64 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (1.43%) Google
1 8 (1.43%) New Relic
2 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
3 4 (0.71%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe
5 1 (0.18%) Apple
5 1 (0.18%) Becrypt
5 1 (0.18%) Intel
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle
5 1 (0.18%) Perforce
5 1 (0.18%) Ping Identity