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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 260 734
Rank change year-on-year -310 +474 -134
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 145 551 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 1.26% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.35% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 104 83 131
10th Percentile £45,600 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £125,000 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -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 67,346 40,822 82,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.74% 93.29% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 22,211 59,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -310 133 £70,000 +7.69% 31
UK excluding London -283 106 £60,000 -14.29% 21
South East +6 50 £70,000 +30.23% 8
London -27 37 £107,500 +53.57% 7
North of England -231 31 £50,000 -35.48% 6
Work from Home -56 26 £85,000 +21.43% 9
Yorkshire -50 15 - - 2
North West -178 13 £50,000 -35.48% 2
East Midlands -20 11 £45,000 -
Midlands -26 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland -10 5 £62,500 -51.05% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
North East -37 3 £47,000 - 2
South West -63 3 £77,500 +10.71% 1
East of England -36 1 £75,000 +50.00% 4

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 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.59%) SaaS
2 8 (5.52%) Azure
3 7 (4.83%) AWS
4 6 (4.14%) GitHub
5 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.45%) Google Play
6 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.76%) Firebase
6 4 (2.76%) GCP
6 4 (2.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.07%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.38%) Figma
9 1 (0.69%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.69%) Sentry
9 1 (0.69%) TestFlight
9 1 (0.69%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
1 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.07%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Android Studio
2 5 (3.45%) Git
2 5 (3.45%) Gradle
3 4 (2.76%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.76%) fastlane
3 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.07%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.38%) Appium
5 2 (1.38%) JIRA
5 2 (1.38%) JUnit
5 2 (1.38%) Mockito
5 2 (1.38%) Xcode
6 1 (0.69%) CMake
6 1 (0.69%) GitLab
6 1 (0.69%) Postman
6 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.69%) TestRail
6 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (9.66%) Banking
2 13 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (7.59%) Games
4 7 (4.83%) Finance
5 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.45%) Electronics
6 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Social Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Law
8 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.07%) French Language
8 3 (2.07%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.07%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
8 3 (2.07%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (63.45%) Developer
2 60 (41.38%) Android Developer
3 53 (36.55%) Senior
4 38 (26.21%) Senior Developer
5 33 (22.76%) Senior Android Developer
6 32 (22.07%) Android Engineer
7 29 (20.00%) iOS Developer
8 22 (15.17%) Applications Developer
9 18 (12.41%) Lead
10 17 (11.72%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 17 (11.72%) Software Engineer
11 15 (10.34%) Mobile Developer
12 14 (9.66%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (8.97%) Graduate
14 11 (7.59%) iOS Android Developer
15 10 (6.90%) Graduate Applications Developer
15 10 (6.90%) Graduate Developer
15 10 (6.90%) Graduate Mobile Developer
16 8 (5.52%) Senior Applications Developer
16 8 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.24%) RESTful
2 22 (15.17%) Android Jetpack
2 22 (15.17%) Jetpack Compose
3 21 (14.48%) SwiftUI
4 12 (8.28%) Android SDK
5 10 (6.90%) GraphQL
6 8 (5.52%) React Native
7 5 (3.45%) .NET
7 5 (3.45%) React
7 5 (3.45%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.76%) gRPC
8 4 (2.76%) Node.js
9 3 (2.07%) Android NDK
9 3 (2.07%) CSS
9 3 (2.07%) HTML
9 3 (2.07%) Laravel
9 3 (2.07%) REST
9 3 (2.07%) Retrofit
9 3 (2.07%) Vue
10 2 (1.38%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 83 (57.24%) Mobile App
2 14 (9.66%) Mobile Banking
3 9 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.21%) Social Media
4 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.69%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 145 (100.00%) Android
2 44 (30.34%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.34%) iOS Development
2 42 (28.97%) Agile
3 41 (28.28%) CI/CD
4 31 (21.38%) Mobile Development
5 30 (20.69%) Software Engineering
6 27 (18.62%) SOLID
7 24 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.17%) AI
8 22 (15.17%) Performance Optimisation
9 21 (14.48%) TDD
10 20 (13.79%) Memory Management
10 20 (13.79%) Multithreading
10 20 (13.79%) Test Automation
11 16 (11.03%) Roadmaps
12 14 (9.66%) Digital Banking
13 13 (8.97%) Computer Science
13 13 (8.97%) Design Patterns
13 13 (8.97%) Mentoring
14 12 (8.28%) User Experience
15 10 (6.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.52%) Kotlin
2 32 (22.07%) Java
3 21 (14.48%) Swift
4 10 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.21%) C++
6 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.52%) SQL
7 5 (3.45%) C
7 5 (3.45%) C#
8 3 (2.07%) PHP
8 3 (2.07%) Python
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) Degree
2 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.83%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.07%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.45%) QA
2 4 (2.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.76%) Argo
1 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.76%) Terraform
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (4.14%) Xamarin
2 5 (3.45%) Google
3 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.07%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.38%) VMware
5 1 (0.69%) Apple
5 1 (0.69%) ESRI
5 1 (0.69%) Mapbox