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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 587 594
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -84
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 79 168 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 68 73 96
10th Percentile £50,125 £41,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £87,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £109,000 £92,387 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 46,039 54,754 46,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 86.35% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 28,458 35,978
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -1.41%

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 4 December 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 4 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 +30 68 £75,000 +3.45% 76
UK excluding London +36 51 £60,000 -11.11% 74
Work from Home +37 29 £75,000 +30.43% 47
London +58 28 £82,500 -8.33% 22
South East +19 21 £60,000 -25.00% 29
Scotland +21 11 £65,000 +20.37% 3
South West +15 9 £50,000 -28.57% 9
North of England +25 8 £60,000 -4.00% 7
North West +36 4 £80,000 +18.52% 6
North East +15 3 - -
Midlands +45 2 £50,000 +2.56% 9
West Midlands +41 1 £55,000 +15.79%
East Midlands +18 1 £45,000 -14.29% 9
Yorkshire 0 1 £55,000 +37.50% 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.53%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.86%) Azure
1 7 (8.86%) SaaS
2 5 (6.33%) Firebase
2 5 (6.33%) GitHub
3 4 (5.06%) AWS
4 3 (3.80%) Figma
4 3 (3.80%) Google Play
5 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.53%) GCP
5 2 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (2.53%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.27%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.27%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.53%) GIS
1 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.27%) MySQL
2 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Git
2 7 (8.86%) JIRA
3 5 (6.33%) Android Studio
4 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.53%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.53%) CMake
5 2 (2.53%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.53%) JUnit
5 2 (2.53%) Storybook
5 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.53%) Xcode
6 1 (1.27%) git-flow
6 1 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.27%) UI Automator
General
1 7 (8.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.59%) Finance
2 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.80%) Law
3 3 (3.80%) Publishing
3 3 (3.80%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Advertising
5 1 (1.27%) Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Games
5 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.27%) Marketing
5 1 (1.27%) Military
5 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (67.09%) Developer
2 40 (50.63%) Senior
3 31 (39.24%) Android Developer
4 25 (31.65%) Mobile Developer
5 24 (30.38%) iOS Developer
5 24 (30.38%) Senior Developer
6 21 (26.58%) Senior Android Developer
7 18 (22.78%) Android Engineer
8 16 (20.25%) iOS Android Developer
9 11 (13.92%) Senior Android Engineer
9 11 (13.92%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 10 (12.66%) Senior iOS Android Developer
10 10 (12.66%) Senior iOS Developer
11 8 (10.13%) Software Engineer
12 7 (8.86%) Lead
13 5 (6.33%) Applications Developer
13 5 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (5.06%) Lead Developer
14 4 (5.06%) Lead iOS Developer
15 3 (3.80%) Embedded Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.78%) Android Jetpack
1 18 (22.78%) Jetpack Compose
2 17 (21.52%) RESTful
3 10 (12.66%) React Native
4 8 (10.13%) .NET
4 8 (10.13%) SwiftUI
5 7 (8.86%) WebSockets
6 6 (7.59%) Retrofit
7 5 (6.33%) OkHttp
7 5 (6.33%) React
8 4 (5.06%) REST
9 3 (3.80%) Android NDK
9 3 (3.80%) JSON
9 3 (3.80%) RxJava
10 2 (2.53%) Dagger
10 2 (2.53%) Flutter
10 2 (2.53%) gRPC
10 2 (2.53%) Next.js
10 2 (2.53%) Qt Quick
10 2 (2.53%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 29 (36.71%) Mobile App
2 10 (12.66%) Augmented Reality
2 10 (12.66%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.80%) IoT
4 2 (2.53%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Animation
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.27%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Android
2 41 (51.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.63%) Mobile Development
2 39 (49.37%) iOS Development
3 26 (32.91%) AI
4 19 (24.05%) Agile
5 15 (18.99%) Performance Optimisation
6 14 (17.72%) Software Engineering
7 13 (16.46%) Multithreading
7 13 (16.46%) User Experience
8 12 (15.19%) Code Quality
9 11 (13.92%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (13.92%) Memory Management
9 11 (13.92%) SOLID
9 11 (13.92%) UX Design
10 10 (12.66%) Design Patterns
11 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
11 9 (11.39%) Computer Science
11 9 (11.39%) Software Architecture
12 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
13 7 (8.86%) Analytics
13 7 (8.86%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.16%) Kotlin
2 15 (18.99%) Swift
3 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.13%) Java
4 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.33%) C++
6 3 (3.80%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.53%) Bash
7 2 (2.53%) C
7 2 (2.53%) C#
8 1 (1.27%) PHP
8 1 (1.27%) Python
8 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.06%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Argo
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.06%) Samsung
2 3 (3.80%) Google
3 2 (2.53%) Apple
3 2 (2.53%) ESRI
3 2 (2.53%) Mapbox
3 2 (2.53%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.27%) WooCommerce