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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 250 726
Rank change year-on-year -332 +476 -121
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 145 558 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 1.28% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.37% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 108 88 125
10th Percentile £46,400 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £125,000 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -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 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £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 9 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 9 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 -294 133 £75,000 +7.14% 27
UK excluding London -293 103 £61,250 -12.50% 18
South East +7 50 £70,000 +30.23% 6
London -36 40 £107,500 +53.57% 6
Work from Home -61 28 £85,000 +21.43% 7
North of England -242 28 £50,000 -35.48% 7
Yorkshire -51 13 - - 3
North West -187 12 £50,000 -35.48% 2
East Midlands -16 11 £45,000 -
Midlands -40 11 £45,000 -30.77%
Scotland -17 5 £62,500 -51.05% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
North East -43 3 £47,000 - 2
South West -64 3 £77,500 +10.71% 1
East of England -31 1 £75,000 +50.00% 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.97%) SaaS
2 11 (7.59%) Azure
3 9 (6.21%) AWS
4 7 (4.83%) GitHub
5 6 (4.14%) GCP
5 6 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.45%) Firebase
6 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.45%) Google Play
7 3 (2.07%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.07%) Figma
8 1 (0.69%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.69%) Sentry
8 1 (0.69%) TestFlight
8 1 (0.69%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) BigQuery
1 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.07%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Android Studio
2 6 (4.14%) CircleCI
3 5 (3.45%) Git
3 5 (3.45%) Gradle
4 4 (2.76%) Crashlytics
4 4 (2.76%) fastlane
4 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.07%) JIRA
6 2 (1.38%) Appium
6 2 (1.38%) JUnit
6 2 (1.38%) Mockito
6 2 (1.38%) Xcode
7 1 (0.69%) CMake
7 1 (0.69%) GitLab
7 1 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.69%) TestRail
7 1 (0.69%) XCTest
7 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%) Law
5 6 (4.14%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.45%) Electronics
6 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
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%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (63.45%) Developer
2 59 (40.69%) Android Developer
3 56 (38.62%) Senior
4 39 (26.90%) Senior Developer
5 34 (23.45%) Senior Android Developer
6 30 (20.69%) Android Engineer
7 28 (19.31%) iOS Developer
8 23 (15.86%) Applications Developer
9 19 (13.10%) Software Engineer
10 18 (12.41%) Lead
11 17 (11.72%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 15 (10.34%) Mobile Developer
13 14 (9.66%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (8.97%) Graduate
15 10 (6.90%) Graduate Applications Developer
15 10 (6.90%) Graduate Developer
15 10 (6.90%) Graduate Mobile Developer
15 10 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 9 (6.21%) iOS Android Developer
16 9 (6.21%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.62%) RESTful
2 23 (15.86%) Android Jetpack
2 23 (15.86%) Jetpack Compose
3 22 (15.17%) SwiftUI
4 13 (8.97%) Android SDK
5 10 (6.90%) GraphQL
5 10 (6.90%) React Native
6 7 (4.83%) React
7 6 (4.14%) Node.js
8 5 (3.45%) .NET
8 5 (3.45%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.76%) gRPC
10 3 (2.07%) Android NDK
10 3 (2.07%) CSS
10 3 (2.07%) HTML
10 3 (2.07%) Laravel
10 3 (2.07%) REST
10 3 (2.07%) Retrofit
10 3 (2.07%) Vue
11 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 6 (4.14%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
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 45 (31.03%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (31.03%) iOS Development
2 43 (29.66%) Agile
3 42 (28.97%) CI/CD
4 32 (22.07%) Software Engineering
5 30 (20.69%) Mobile Development
6 28 (19.31%) SOLID
7 23 (15.86%) Performance Optimisation
7 23 (15.86%) Test Automation
8 22 (15.17%) AI
8 22 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (14.48%) Memory Management
9 21 (14.48%) Multithreading
9 21 (14.48%) TDD
10 16 (11.03%) Roadmaps
11 14 (9.66%) Computer Science
11 14 (9.66%) Digital Banking
11 14 (9.66%) Mentoring
12 13 (8.97%) Design Patterns
12 13 (8.97%) User Experience
13 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (46.90%) Kotlin
2 32 (22.07%) Java
3 22 (15.17%) Swift
4 12 (8.28%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.21%) C++
7 7 (4.83%) SQL
8 5 (3.45%) C
9 4 (2.76%) C#
10 3 (2.07%) PHP
10 3 (2.07%) Python
11 1 (0.69%) Bash
11 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (13.79%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) 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 6 (4.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 4 (2.76%) WCAG
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.14%) Argo
1 6 (4.14%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (3.45%) Google
1 5 (3.45%) Xamarin
2 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.07%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.38%) VMware
4 1 (0.69%) Apple
4 1 (0.69%) ESRI
4 1 (0.69%) Mapbox