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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 601 594
Rank change year-on-year +317 -7 -174
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 514 192 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 56 109 167
10th Percentile £45,625 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,375 £90,000 £95,436
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +18.18%

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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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

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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Top 14 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 16 September 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 +329 502 £60,000 -4.00% 54
UK excluding London +283 475 £60,000 -4.00% 43
North of England +241 394 £73,750 +63.89% 12
North West +186 385 £73,750 +55.26% 3
Work from Home +40 70 £65,000 +30.00% 33
London +59 32 £75,000 -11.76% 18
South East +25 28 £60,000 -29.41% 17
East of England +13 21 £50,000 - 1
South West +55 15 £45,000 -30.77% 3
Scotland +52 10 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Yorkshire +17 9 - - 6
Midlands +46 7 £53,750 +7.50% 7
West Midlands +42 5 £53,750 +7.50% 2
East Midlands +19 2 - - 5

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 4 (0.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.12%) Azure
2 50 (9.73%) AWS
3 49 (9.53%) Amazon EKS
3 49 (9.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (1.17%) GitHub
5 2 (0.39%) Bitrise
5 2 (0.39%) Firebase
5 2 (0.39%) Google Play
6 1 (0.19%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.19%) Figma
6 1 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 397 (77.24%) DNS
1 397 (77.24%) VPN
2 4 (0.78%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.53%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (2.72%) Git
2 6 (1.17%) Android Studio
2 6 (1.17%) JUnit
3 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.97%) JIRA
4 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.39%) Crashlytics
4 2 (0.39%) git-flow
4 2 (0.39%) Storybook
4 2 (0.39%) UI Automator
5 1 (0.19%) fastlane
General
1 448 (87.16%) Analytical Skills
1 448 (87.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 409 (79.57%) Finance
3 9 (1.75%) Social Skills
4 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (0.58%) Law
4 3 (0.58%) Publishing
5 2 (0.39%) Electronics
5 2 (0.39%) Marketing
6 1 (0.19%) Aviation
6 1 (0.19%) Banking
6 1 (0.19%) Games
6 1 (0.19%) Military
6 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.19%) Retail
6 1 (0.19%) Swedish Language
6 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 493 (95.91%) Developer
2 453 (88.13%) Software Developer
3 31 (6.03%) Android Developer
4 25 (4.86%) Senior
5 23 (4.47%) Mobile Developer
6 17 (3.31%) Senior Developer
7 14 (2.72%) iOS Developer
7 14 (2.72%) Senior Android Developer
8 11 (2.14%) iOS Android Developer
8 11 (2.14%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 10 (1.95%) Android Engineer
9 10 (1.95%) Senior iOS Android Developer
9 10 (1.95%) Senior iOS Developer
10 7 (1.36%) Lead
11 6 (1.17%) Embedded Developer
11 6 (1.17%) Embedded Software Developer
12 5 (0.97%) Android Software Engineer
12 5 (0.97%) Senior Android Engineer
12 5 (0.97%) Software Engineer
13 4 (0.78%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.92%) .NET
2 49 (9.53%) Node.js
2 49 (9.53%) Pandas
3 21 (4.09%) Android Jetpack
3 21 (4.09%) Jetpack Compose
4 9 (1.75%) RESTful
5 8 (1.56%) REST
5 8 (1.56%) Retrofit
6 7 (1.36%) SwiftUI
6 7 (1.36%) UIKit
7 6 (1.17%) OkHttp
8 5 (0.97%) Android SDK
9 4 (0.78%) Dagger
9 4 (0.78%) JSON
9 4 (0.78%) OAuth
9 4 (0.78%) React Native
9 4 (0.78%) RxJava
10 3 (0.58%) Core Data
10 3 (0.58%) Flutter
10 3 (0.58%) React
Miscellaneous
1 446 (86.77%) Cyberattack
2 15 (2.92%) Mobile App
3 14 (2.72%) Virtual Team
4 10 (1.95%) Augmented Reality
5 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.58%) Animation
7 2 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.19%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.19%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.19%) Mobile Computing
8 1 (0.19%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.19%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.19%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.19%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.19%) Robotics
8 1 (0.19%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 514 (100.00%) Android
2 447 (86.96%) Linux
3 40 (7.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (90.66%) Agile
2 457 (88.91%) Design Patterns
3 450 (87.55%) OO
4 449 (87.35%) OOP
5 446 (86.77%) Line Management
5 446 (86.77%) Mathematics
6 62 (12.06%) CI/CD
7 61 (11.87%) Software Engineering
8 53 (10.31%) Collaborative Working
9 50 (9.73%) Kanban
10 49 (9.53%) Containerisation
10 49 (9.53%) OWASP
10 49 (9.53%) Secure Coding
10 49 (9.53%) Statistics
11 38 (7.39%) Mobile Development
12 36 (7.00%) iOS Development
13 16 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence
14 15 (2.92%) MVVM
15 10 (1.95%) User Experience
16 8 (1.56%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 466 (90.66%) Java
2 453 (88.13%) C++
3 446 (86.77%) Go
3 446 (86.77%) Python
4 53 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 49 (9.53%) Rust
6 34 (6.61%) Kotlin
7 20 (3.89%) Swift
8 4 (0.78%) C#
9 3 (0.58%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.19%) Dart
Qualifications
1 452 (87.94%) Security Cleared
2 447 (86.96%) DV Cleared
3 6 (1.17%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.78%) Degree
5 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.36%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 446 (86.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 446 (86.77%) Ansible
2 49 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (0.78%) Samsung
2 3 (0.58%) Google