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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 257 728
Rank change year-on-year -333 +471 -128
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 147 538 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 1.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 1.35% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 108 70 143
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,130 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 29 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 29 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 -311 136 £70,000 +9.80% 33
UK excluding London -295 106 £60,000 -14.29% 18
South East -10 46 £70,000 +16.67% 6
London -31 39 £107,500 +65.38% 14
North of England -241 35 £50,000 -35.48% 5
Work from Home -48 25 £85,000 +21.43% 13
Yorkshire -50 16 - - 1
North West -184 14 £50,000 -35.48% 2
East Midlands -26 11 £45,000 -
Midlands -32 11 £45,000 -35.71% 1
North East -32 5 £47,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -8 4 £62,500 -51.05% 1
South West -66 3 £77,500 +24.00% 2
East of England -40 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 10 (6.80%) Azure
2 9 (6.12%) SaaS
3 8 (5.44%) GitHub
4 7 (4.76%) AWS
4 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.08%) Google Play
6 5 (3.40%) Firebase
7 4 (2.72%) GCP
7 4 (2.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.36%) Figma
10 1 (0.68%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.68%) Sentry
10 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 10 (6.80%) Android Studio
2 7 (4.76%) Gradle
3 6 (4.08%) fastlane
4 5 (3.40%) Crashlytics
4 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.72%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.72%) Git
6 2 (1.36%) Appium
6 2 (1.36%) JUnit
6 2 (1.36%) Mockito
7 1 (0.68%) GitLab
7 1 (0.68%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.68%) TestRail
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.68%) Xcode
7 1 (0.68%) XCTest
7 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (9.52%) Banking
3 10 (6.80%) Games
4 9 (6.12%) Finance
5 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.08%) Electronics
7 5 (3.40%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.72%) Law
8 4 (2.72%) Retail
9 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.04%) French Language
9 3 (2.04%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.04%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.04%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (65.31%) Developer
2 66 (44.90%) 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 22 (14.97%) Applications Developer
9 20 (13.61%) Lead
10 17 (11.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 16 (10.88%) Software Engineer
12 14 (9.52%) Mobile Developer
12 14 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (8.84%) Graduate
14 12 (8.16%) iOS Android Developer
15 10 (6.80%) Graduate Applications Developer
15 10 (6.80%) Graduate Developer
15 10 (6.80%) Graduate Mobile Developer
15 10 (6.80%) Software Developer
16 9 (6.12%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.05%) Android Jetpack
1 28 (19.05%) Jetpack Compose
2 24 (16.33%) RESTful
3 19 (12.93%) SwiftUI
4 14 (9.52%) Android SDK
5 10 (6.80%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.08%) React Native
7 5 (3.40%) React
7 5 (3.40%) Retrofit
8 4 (2.72%) .NET
8 4 (2.72%) gRPC
8 4 (2.72%) Node.js
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 83 (56.46%) Mobile App
2 14 (9.52%) Mobile Banking
3 9 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.12%) Social Media
4 7 (4.76%) 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 46 (31.29%) CI/CD
2 44 (29.93%) Agile
3 43 (29.25%) iOS Development
4 28 (19.05%) Mobile Development
5 27 (18.37%) Software Engineering
6 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (17.01%) SOLID
6 25 (17.01%) TDD
7 23 (15.65%) AI
8 22 (14.97%) Test Automation
9 19 (12.93%) Performance Optimisation
10 18 (12.24%) Memory Management
11 17 (11.56%) Multithreading
12 15 (10.20%) Design Patterns
12 15 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 15 (10.20%) Roadmaps
13 14 (9.52%) Digital Banking
14 13 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
14 13 (8.84%) Clean Code
14 13 (8.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Kotlin
2 32 (21.77%) Java
3 20 (13.61%) 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 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.08%) WCAG
3 5 (3.40%) QA
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%) Google
1 6 (4.08%) Xamarin
2 5 (3.40%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.04%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.36%) VMware