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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 540 605
Rank change year-on-year -9 +65 -72
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 94 166 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84 70 87
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £90,193 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +8.33%

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 48,914 49,911 47,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.01% 89.84% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,739 24,946 36,141
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 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 +16 84 £75,000 +3.45% 138
UK excluding London -15 57 £65,000 -1.89% 111
London +62 37 £86,250 -4.17% 39
Work from Home +18 30 £80,000 +39.13% 94
South East +17 28 £60,000 -25.00% 34
North of England +3 8 £60,000 -7.69% 23
Midlands +22 6 £45,000 -10.00% 17
East Midlands +2 5 £45,000 -14.29% 11
South West -2 5 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Northern Ireland -4 5 £70,000 - 1
Scotland -8 5 £65,000 +20.37% 7
North West +10 4 £80,000 +10.34% 17
North East +14 3 - -
West Midlands +28 1 £55,000 +12.82% 5
Yorkshire -12 1 £55,000 +25.71% 6

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 3 (3.19%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) SaaS
2 9 (9.57%) Azure
3 8 (8.51%) AWS
4 5 (5.32%) Firebase
5 4 (4.26%) Figma
5 4 (4.26%) GCP
5 4 (4.26%) GitHub
5 4 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.19%) Google Play
7 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.13%) TestFlight
8 1 (1.06%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) Sentry
8 1 (1.06%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) BigQuery
1 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.19%) MySQL
3 2 (2.13%) GIS
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Git
2 4 (4.26%) Android Studio
2 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.19%) JIRA
4 2 (2.13%) CMake
4 2 (2.13%) Crashlytics
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.13%) Storybook
4 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.13%) Xcode
5 1 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (8.51%) Telecoms
2 6 (6.38%) Finance
3 5 (5.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.26%) Banking
4 4 (4.26%) Law
4 4 (4.26%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.13%) Electronics
5 2 (2.13%) Publishing
6 1 (1.06%) Advertising
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Games
6 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (67.02%) Developer
2 46 (48.94%) Senior
3 34 (36.17%) Android Developer
4 26 (27.66%) Senior Developer
5 22 (23.40%) iOS Developer
6 21 (22.34%) Android Engineer
6 21 (22.34%) Mobile Developer
7 20 (21.28%) Senior Android Developer
8 13 (13.83%) Senior Android Engineer
9 11 (11.70%) iOS Android Developer
10 10 (10.64%) Lead
11 9 (9.57%) Applications Developer
11 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
12 7 (7.45%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 7 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (6.38%) Embedded Developer
14 5 (5.32%) Lead Developer
14 5 (5.32%) Lead iOS Developer
14 5 (5.32%) Senior Mobile Developer
15 4 (4.26%) Graduate Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.28%) RESTful
2 17 (18.09%) Android Jetpack
2 17 (18.09%) Jetpack Compose
3 11 (11.70%) React Native
3 11 (11.70%) SwiftUI
4 9 (9.57%) WebSockets
5 8 (8.51%) .NET
5 8 (8.51%) React
6 4 (4.26%) Android NDK
6 4 (4.26%) Node.js
7 3 (3.19%) gRPC
7 3 (3.19%) JSON
7 3 (3.19%) Laravel
7 3 (3.19%) Next.js
7 3 (3.19%) REST
7 3 (3.19%) Vue
8 2 (2.13%) Flutter
8 2 (2.13%) Google Maps API
8 2 (2.13%) Jest
8 2 (2.13%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 43 (45.74%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.26%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (4.26%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (4.26%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.19%) IoT
4 2 (2.13%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.06%) Animation
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.06%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 94 (100.00%) Android
2 41 (43.62%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.55%) iOS Development
2 32 (34.04%) Mobile Development
3 24 (25.53%) AI
4 19 (20.21%) Performance Optimisation
4 19 (20.21%) Software Engineering
5 18 (19.15%) Agile
6 16 (17.02%) Memory Management
6 16 (17.02%) Multithreading
7 15 (15.96%) User Experience
8 13 (13.83%) Code Quality
8 13 (13.83%) Test Automation
8 13 (13.83%) UX Design
9 12 (12.77%) CI/CD
9 12 (12.77%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.77%) SOLID
10 11 (11.70%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (10.64%) Design Patterns
12 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.57%) Software Architecture
13 8 (8.51%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) Kotlin
2 16 (17.02%) Swift
3 14 (14.89%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.64%) Java
4 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.38%) C++
6 3 (3.19%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.19%) PHP
7 2 (2.13%) Bash
7 2 (2.13%) C
7 2 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (1.06%) Python
8 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) Degree
2 12 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.26%) Argo
2 4 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.19%) Google
1 3 (3.19%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.13%) Apple
2 2 (2.13%) ESRI
2 2 (2.13%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.13%) Xamarin