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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 541 621
Rank change year-on-year 0 +80 -74
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 101 164 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.34% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 91 69 90
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £37,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £90,387 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +20 92 £75,000 +5.26% 41
UK excluding London -9 63 £60,000 -11.11% 28
London +42 38 £90,000 - 15
South East +22 33 £70,000 -12.50% 11
Work from Home +28 31 £80,000 +39.13% 15
Midlands +24 10 £45,000 -12.20% 5
East Midlands +1 9 £45,000 -14.29% 5
North of England 0 6 £60,000 -9.43% 6
Northern Ireland -5 5 £70,000 -
South West -5 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Scotland -7 4 £65,000 +14.04% 2
North East +5 3 - -
North West +11 2 £60,000 -22.58% 3
West Midlands +29 1 £55,000 +10.00%
Yorkshire -20 1 £55,000 +25.71% 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 3 (2.97%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.97%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) SaaS
2 8 (7.92%) AWS
2 8 (7.92%) Azure
3 5 (4.95%) Firebase
4 4 (3.96%) Figma
4 4 (3.96%) GCP
4 4 (3.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (2.97%) GitHub
5 3 (2.97%) Google Play
6 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.98%) TestFlight
7 1 (0.99%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.99%) Sentry
7 1 (0.99%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.97%) MySQL
3 2 (1.98%) GIS
4 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Git
2 4 (3.96%) Android Studio
2 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.97%) JIRA
4 2 (1.98%) CMake
4 2 (1.98%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.98%) Xcode
5 1 (0.99%) Storybook
5 1 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (7.92%) Telecoms
2 5 (4.95%) Banking
3 4 (3.96%) Electronics
3 4 (3.96%) Finance
3 4 (3.96%) Law
3 4 (3.96%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.96%) Tech for Good
4 3 (2.97%) Retail
5 2 (1.98%) Games
5 2 (1.98%) Publishing
6 1 (0.99%) Advertising
6 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (68.32%) Developer
2 46 (45.54%) Senior
3 37 (36.63%) Android Developer
4 26 (25.74%) Senior Developer
5 22 (21.78%) iOS Developer
6 21 (20.79%) Android Engineer
6 21 (20.79%) Mobile Developer
6 21 (20.79%) Senior Android Developer
7 15 (14.85%) Applications Developer
8 12 (11.88%) Senior Android Engineer
9 11 (10.89%) Lead
9 11 (10.89%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 10 (9.90%) Software Engineer
11 8 (7.92%) Embedded Developer
11 8 (7.92%) Graduate
11 8 (7.92%) Graduate Applications Developer
11 8 (7.92%) Graduate Developer
11 8 (7.92%) Graduate Mobile Developer
11 8 (7.92%) iOS Android Developer
11 8 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.79%) RESTful
2 17 (16.83%) Android Jetpack
2 17 (16.83%) Jetpack Compose
3 14 (13.86%) SwiftUI
4 11 (10.89%) React Native
5 9 (8.91%) WebSockets
6 7 (6.93%) .NET
7 6 (5.94%) React
8 4 (3.96%) Android NDK
8 4 (3.96%) Node.js
9 3 (2.97%) gRPC
9 3 (2.97%) Laravel
9 3 (2.97%) Vue
10 2 (1.98%) Flutter
10 2 (1.98%) Next.js
10 2 (1.98%) OpenSceneGraph
10 2 (1.98%) QML
10 2 (1.98%) Qt
10 2 (1.98%) Qt Quick
10 2 (1.98%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 52 (51.49%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.95%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (3.96%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.97%) IoT
5 2 (1.98%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.99%) Animation
6 1 (0.99%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.99%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.99%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 101 (100.00%) Android
2 39 (38.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.61%) iOS Development
2 29 (28.71%) Mobile Development
3 22 (21.78%) Software Engineering
4 21 (20.79%) Performance Optimisation
5 20 (19.80%) Agile
5 20 (19.80%) AI
6 18 (17.82%) Memory Management
6 18 (17.82%) Multithreading
7 15 (14.85%) User Experience
8 14 (13.86%) SOLID
9 13 (12.87%) CI/CD
9 13 (12.87%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.88%) Code Quality
10 12 (11.88%) Computer Science
10 12 (11.88%) UX Design
11 11 (10.89%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.90%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (9.90%) Mobile Application Development
13 9 (8.91%) Design Patterns
13 9 (8.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (42.57%) Kotlin
2 18 (17.82%) Swift
3 12 (11.88%) TypeScript
4 10 (9.90%) Java
5 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.94%) C++
7 3 (2.97%) PHP
8 2 (1.98%) Bash
8 2 (1.98%) C
8 2 (1.98%) C#
8 2 (1.98%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.99%) Python
9 1 (0.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) Degree
2 12 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.92%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.96%) Argo
2 4 (3.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (2.97%) Google
1 3 (2.97%) WooCommerce
2 2 (1.98%) Apple
2 2 (1.98%) ESRI
2 2 (1.98%) Mapbox
2 2 (1.98%) Xamarin