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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 267 716
Rank change year-on-year -355 +449 -127
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 129 544 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 1.17% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 1.28% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 77 79 150
10th Percentile £46,700 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £42,813
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 £78,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £102,000 £86,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -331 121 £70,000 +16.67% 56
UK excluding London -317 93 £60,000 -7.69% 34
North of England -232 36 £50,000 -32.20% 5
South East -19 35 £60,000 - 8
London -47 31 £90,000 +38.46% 25
Work from Home -74 18 £85,000 +21.43% 30
Yorkshire -28 16 - - 2
North West -186 14 £50,000 -35.48% 3
Midlands -43 9 £37,500 -42.31%
East Midlands -22 6 £37,500 -
North East -47 6 £47,000 -
South West -71 6 £77,500 +47.62% 13
East of England -32 4 £66,250 +32.50% 5
Scotland +7 3 £62,500 -38.33% 2
West Midlands -38 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (7.75%) GitHub
2 9 (6.98%) Azure
3 8 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (6.20%) Google Play
4 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.65%) Firebase
6 3 (2.33%) AWS
6 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.55%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.55%) GCP
7 2 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.55%) SaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.78%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.78%) NFC
2 1 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.78%) Power BI
2 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Android Studio
2 8 (6.20%) Gradle
3 7 (5.43%) fastlane
4 6 (4.65%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.65%) Git
4 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.55%) Appium
5 2 (1.55%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.55%) JUnit
5 2 (1.55%) Mockito
6 1 (0.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) JIRA
6 1 (0.78%) Postman
6 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.78%) TestRail
6 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.78%) Xcode
6 1 (0.78%) XCTest
6 1 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (7.75%) Banking
3 9 (6.98%) Finance
3 9 (6.98%) Games
4 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.88%) Retail
6 4 (3.10%) Electronics
7 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.33%) French Language
7 3 (2.33%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.33%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.33%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.55%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (67.44%) Developer
2 69 (53.49%) Android Developer
3 38 (29.46%) Senior
4 34 (26.36%) Senior Developer
5 33 (25.58%) Senior Android Developer
6 24 (18.60%) iOS Developer
7 23 (17.83%) Android Engineer
8 18 (13.95%) Applications Developer
9 15 (11.63%) Lead
9 15 (11.63%) Software Engineer
10 13 (10.08%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 12 (9.30%) iOS Android Developer
12 10 (7.75%) Mobile Developer
12 10 (7.75%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (7.75%) Senior Applications Developer
12 10 (7.75%) Software Developer
13 9 (6.98%) Graduate
14 8 (6.20%) Senior Mobile Developer
15 7 (5.43%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
16 6 (4.65%) Graduate Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.60%) Android Jetpack
1 24 (18.60%) Jetpack Compose
2 22 (17.05%) RESTful
3 16 (12.40%) Android SDK
4 15 (11.63%) SwiftUI
5 9 (6.98%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.65%) Retrofit
7 5 (3.88%) .NET
8 3 (2.33%) CSS
8 3 (2.33%) HTML
8 3 (2.33%) React
8 3 (2.33%) React Native
8 3 (2.33%) REST
9 2 (1.55%) gRPC
9 2 (1.55%) Node.js
9 2 (1.55%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (0.78%) Jest
10 1 (0.78%) OpenCV
10 1 (0.78%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.78%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 72 (55.81%) Mobile App
2 10 (7.75%) Mobile Banking
3 9 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.98%) Social Media
4 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.10%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.33%) Smart City
7 2 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.55%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.78%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 129 (100.00%) Android
2 34 (26.36%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.65%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.11%) CI/CD
2 40 (31.01%) Agile
3 34 (26.36%) iOS Development
4 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
6 23 (17.83%) Mobile Development
7 22 (17.05%) TDD
8 21 (16.28%) SOLID
9 18 (13.95%) AI
9 18 (13.95%) Test Automation
10 17 (13.18%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (11.63%) Clean Code
11 15 (11.63%) Design Patterns
12 14 (10.85%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (9.30%) Memory Management
13 12 (9.30%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.30%) Multithreading
14 11 (8.53%) Roadmaps
15 10 (7.75%) Digital Banking
15 10 (7.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (44.96%) Kotlin
2 31 (24.03%) Java
3 16 (12.40%) Swift
4 9 (6.98%) C++
5 8 (6.20%) SQL
6 7 (5.43%) C#
7 6 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.88%) C
9 4 (3.10%) Python
10 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.20%) Degree
3 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.43%) WCAG
3 4 (3.10%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Argo
1 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.20%) Google
2 6 (4.65%) Dynatrace
2 6 (4.65%) Xamarin
3 4 (3.10%) Revolut
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.55%) VMware