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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 262 718
Rank change year-on-year -357 +456 -114
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 133 545 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 1.21% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 83 76 153
10th Percentile £45,250 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £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 £79,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,625 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -16.00%

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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £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 £92,000
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 21 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 21 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 -331 123 £70,000 +16.67% 23
UK excluding London -309 96 £60,000 -5.88% 16
South East -15 37 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North of England -231 36 £50,000 -32.20% 1
London -31 32 £90,000 +38.46% 9
Work from Home -69 19 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Yorkshire -30 16 - - 1
North West -182 14 £50,000 -35.48%
Midlands -23 10 £37,500 -42.31% 2
East Midlands -20 8 £37,500 -
North East -42 6 £47,000 -
Scotland -4 5 £62,500 -51.05%
East of England -32 4 £66,250 +32.50% 3
South West -73 4 £77,500 +72.22% 5
West Midlands -31 2 - - 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 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
8 1 (0.75%) Sentry
8 1 (0.75%) Vercel
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 11 (8.27%) Banking
3 10 (7.52%) Games
4 8 (6.02%) Finance
5 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.51%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Electronics
7 5 (3.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.26%) French Language
8 3 (2.26%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.26%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.26%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.50%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (67.67%) Developer
2 68 (51.13%) Android Developer
3 41 (30.83%) Senior
4 36 (27.07%) Senior Developer
5 33 (24.81%) Senior Android Developer
6 25 (18.80%) iOS Developer
7 24 (18.05%) Android Engineer
8 20 (15.04%) Applications Developer
9 16 (12.03%) Lead
10 15 (11.28%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 15 (11.28%) Software Engineer
11 12 (9.02%) iOS Android Developer
11 12 (9.02%) Mobile Developer
12 11 (8.27%) Graduate
12 11 (8.27%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (7.52%) Senior Applications Developer
13 10 (7.52%) Software Developer
14 8 (6.02%) Graduate Applications Developer
14 8 (6.02%) Graduate Developer
14 8 (6.02%) Graduate Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.05%) Android Jetpack
1 24 (18.05%) Jetpack Compose
2 22 (16.54%) RESTful
3 16 (12.03%) Android SDK
3 16 (12.03%) SwiftUI
4 10 (7.52%) GraphQL
5 6 (4.51%) Retrofit
6 5 (3.76%) .NET
7 4 (3.01%) React
7 4 (3.01%) React Native
8 3 (2.26%) CSS
8 3 (2.26%) HTML
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%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (0.75%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 74 (55.64%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.27%) 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 37 (27.82%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.83%) CI/CD
2 42 (31.58%) Agile
3 37 (27.82%) iOS Development
4 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
6 23 (17.29%) Mobile Development
7 22 (16.54%) TDD
8 21 (15.79%) SOLID
9 20 (15.04%) Test Automation
10 18 (13.53%) AI
11 17 (12.78%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (12.03%) Clean Code
13 14 (10.53%) Design Patterns
13 14 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 13 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (9.02%) Memory Management
15 12 (9.02%) Multithreading
15 12 (9.02%) Roadmaps
15 12 (9.02%) User Experience
16 11 (8.27%) Digital Banking
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.36%) Kotlin
2 32 (24.06%) 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
8 5 (3.76%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.01%) Python
10 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
1 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.26%) WCAG
3 5 (3.76%) 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 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.26%) Revolut
4 2 (1.50%) VMware
5 1 (0.75%) WooCommerce