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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 264 704
Rank change year-on-year -336 +440 -110
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 135 545 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 1.22% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 1.32% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 88 76 152
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £90,000 £82,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £125,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -12.00%

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 67,867 41,257 88,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 92.63% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46,626 22,001 62,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,353 £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 £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Top 16 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 15 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 -332 126 £70,000 +16.67% 36
UK excluding London -295 96 £60,000 -7.69% 20
South East -3 40 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North of England -228 36 £50,000 -35.48% 3
London -36 35 £90,000 +38.46% 17
Work from Home -71 20 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Yorkshire -25 16 - - 1
North West -184 14 £50,000 -35.48% 2
Midlands -27 10 £45,000 -30.77% 2
East Midlands -12 9 £45,000 -
North East -42 6 £47,000 -
Scotland +5 4 £62,500 -51.05%
South West -75 3 £77,500 +72.22% 7
East of England -40 2 £71,250 +42.50% 3
West Midlands -28 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £70,000 - 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.67%) Azure
1 9 (6.67%) GitHub
2 8 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.19%) Google Play
4 6 (4.44%) Firebase
5 4 (2.96%) AWS
6 3 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.22%) SaaS
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (1.48%) GCP
7 2 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.74%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.74%) Sentry
8 1 (0.74%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.41%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.48%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.48%) MySQL
1 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.74%) Power BI
2 1 (0.74%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Android Studio
2 8 (5.93%) Gradle
3 7 (5.19%) fastlane
4 6 (4.44%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.96%) Git
6 2 (1.48%) Appium
6 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.48%) JUnit
6 2 (1.48%) Mockito
7 1 (0.74%) GitLab
7 1 (0.74%) JIRA
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.74%) TestRail
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.74%) Xcode
7 1 (0.74%) XCTest
7 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (8.89%) Banking
3 10 (7.41%) Games
4 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.19%) Finance
6 6 (4.44%) Electronics
6 6 (4.44%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Retail
8 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.22%) French Language
8 3 (2.22%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.22%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.22%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.48%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (68.15%) Developer
2 67 (49.63%) Android Developer
3 44 (32.59%) Senior
4 39 (28.89%) Senior Developer
5 35 (25.93%) Senior Android Developer
6 26 (19.26%) iOS Developer
7 25 (18.52%) Android Engineer
8 21 (15.56%) Applications Developer
9 17 (12.59%) Lead
10 16 (11.85%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 14 (10.37%) Software Engineer
12 13 (9.63%) Mobile Developer
13 12 (8.89%) Graduate
13 12 (8.89%) iOS Android Developer
13 12 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (7.41%) Senior Applications Developer
14 10 (7.41%) Software Developer
15 9 (6.67%) Graduate Applications Developer
15 9 (6.67%) Graduate Developer
15 9 (6.67%) Graduate Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.52%) Android Jetpack
1 25 (18.52%) Jetpack Compose
2 22 (16.30%) RESTful
3 17 (12.59%) SwiftUI
4 15 (11.11%) Android SDK
5 10 (7.41%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.44%) Retrofit
7 5 (3.70%) .NET
8 4 (2.96%) React Native
9 3 (2.22%) CSS
9 3 (2.22%) HTML
9 3 (2.22%) React
9 3 (2.22%) REST
10 2 (1.48%) gRPC
10 2 (1.48%) Laravel
10 2 (1.48%) Node.js
10 2 (1.48%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (1.48%) Vue
11 1 (0.74%) Jest
11 1 (0.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (56.30%) Mobile App
2 12 (8.89%) Mobile Banking
3 9 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.67%) Social Media
4 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.48%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 135 (100.00%) Android
2 38 (28.15%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.44%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.07%) CI/CD
2 42 (31.11%) Agile
3 38 (28.15%) iOS Development
4 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (19.26%) Software Engineering
5 25 (18.52%) Mobile Development
6 24 (17.78%) TDD
7 23 (17.04%) SOLID
8 20 (14.81%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.33%) AI
10 16 (11.85%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (11.11%) Design Patterns
12 14 (10.37%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (10.37%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.37%) Memory Management
12 14 (10.37%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.63%) Multithreading
13 13 (9.63%) Roadmaps
14 12 (8.89%) Digital Banking
15 10 (7.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 61 (45.19%) Kotlin
2 31 (22.96%) Java
3 18 (13.33%) Swift
4 8 (5.93%) C++
4 8 (5.93%) SQL
5 7 (5.19%) C#
6 6 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.70%) C
7 5 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.22%) Python
9 2 (1.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 10 (7.41%) Degree
2 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.96%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.19%) WCAG
3 4 (2.96%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.74%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.48%) Argo
1 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.19%) Google
2 6 (4.44%) Dynatrace
2 6 (4.44%) Xamarin
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.22%) Revolut
4 2 (1.48%) VMware
4 2 (1.48%) WooCommerce