Android Development Jobs

Android Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Android Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Android Development over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 743 608
Rank change year-on-year +436 -135 -228
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 539 172 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.17% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.20% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 71 143 264
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £70,000 £88,283
90th Percentile £146,300 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -20.00% +8.70%

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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Android Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Android Development.

Salary trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 May 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 +396 526 £63,750 +6.25% 149
UK excluding London +414 483 £70,000 +40.00% 112
North of England +262 398 £77,500 +72.22% 40
North West +210 386 £77,500 +58.97% 32
Work from Home +110 94 £70,000 +40.00% 94
London +114 49 £65,000 -3.70% 61
South East +105 26 £60,000 +14.29% 31
East of England +56 22 £50,000 +25.00% 11
South West +91 13 £62,500 +4.17% 15
Midlands +48 13 £70,000 +40.00% 10
Scotland +133 11 £127,680 +155.36% 7
Yorkshire +63 11 £48,750 +8.33% 9
West Midlands +48 10 £70,000 +40.00% 7
East Midlands +34 3 - - 3
North East - 1 - -

Android Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 51 (9.46%) Azure
2 49 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 49 (9.09%) AWS
2 49 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (3.53%) GitHub
4 7 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (0.56%) Bitrise
5 3 (0.56%) Figma
5 3 (0.56%) Firebase
6 2 (0.37%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (0.37%) SonarCloud
7 1 (0.19%) GCP
7 1 (0.19%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.19%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 397 (73.65%) DNS
1 397 (73.65%) VPN
2 9 (1.67%) Internet
3 7 (1.30%) SSL
4 4 (0.74%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.71%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.15%) Git
3 9 (1.67%) JIRA
4 8 (1.48%) Gradle
4 8 (1.48%) Maven
5 7 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.93%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.74%) JUnit
8 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.37%) Xcode
10 1 (0.19%) Appium
10 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.19%) fastlane
10 1 (0.19%) git-flow
10 1 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.19%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.19%) UI Automator
General
1 447 (82.93%) Analytical Skills
1 447 (82.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 422 (78.29%) Finance
3 26 (4.82%) Social Skills
4 18 (3.34%) Games
5 11 (2.04%) Banking
6 7 (1.30%) Electronics
7 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.56%) Marketing
9 2 (0.37%) Law
9 2 (0.37%) Legal
9 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.19%) Advertising
10 1 (0.19%) Automotive
10 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.19%) Publishing
10 1 (0.19%) Retail
10 1 (0.19%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 495 (91.84%) Developer
2 455 (84.42%) Software Developer
3 34 (6.31%) Android Developer
4 25 (4.64%) Lead
5 16 (2.97%) Android Engineer
6 13 (2.41%) Senior
7 12 (2.23%) Development Manager
7 12 (2.23%) iOS Developer
8 10 (1.86%) iOS Android Developer
9 9 (1.67%) Lead Developer
10 8 (1.48%) Lead iOS Developer
11 7 (1.30%) Lead Android Developer
11 7 (1.30%) Mobile Developer
11 7 (1.30%) Senior Developer
12 6 (1.11%) Embedded Developer
12 6 (1.11%) Embedded Software Developer
12 6 (1.11%) Software Engineer
13 5 (0.93%) IT Development Manager
13 5 (0.93%) IT Manager
13 5 (0.93%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.20%) Node.js
2 49 (9.09%) .NET
2 49 (9.09%) Pandas
3 28 (5.19%) Android Jetpack
4 24 (4.45%) Jetpack Compose
5 17 (3.15%) RESTful
6 12 (2.23%) SwiftUI
7 8 (1.48%) UIKit
8 7 (1.30%) OAuth
8 7 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 6 (1.11%) Laravel
9 6 (1.11%) REST
10 5 (0.93%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (0.93%) React Native
11 4 (0.74%) Android SDK
11 4 (0.74%) Dagger
11 4 (0.74%) Flutter
12 3 (0.56%) JSON
13 2 (0.37%) CSS
13 2 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 446 (82.75%) Cyberattack
2 40 (7.42%) Mobile App
3 17 (3.15%) Mobile Games
4 15 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 10 (1.86%) Educational Technology
6 9 (1.67%) Online Banking
7 8 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.37%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.19%) Animation
13 1 (0.19%) Embedded Systems
13 1 (0.19%) Hackathon
13 1 (0.19%) Media Streaming
13 1 (0.19%) Online Games
13 1 (0.19%) Robotics
13 1 (0.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 539 (100.00%) Android
2 457 (84.79%) Linux
3 58 (10.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (88.68%) Agile
2 455 (84.42%) Design Patterns
3 454 (84.23%) Line Management
4 449 (83.30%) OO
4 449 (83.30%) OOP
5 447 (82.93%) Mathematics
6 81 (15.03%) CI/CD
7 69 (12.80%) Software Engineering
8 58 (10.76%) Collaborative Working
9 57 (10.58%) Containerisation
10 54 (10.02%) OWASP
10 54 (10.02%) Secure Coding
11 49 (9.09%) Kanban
11 49 (9.09%) Statistics
12 47 (8.72%) iOS Development
13 33 (6.12%) DevOps
14 28 (5.19%) User Experience
15 25 (4.64%) Mobile Development
16 24 (4.45%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (4.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 486 (90.17%) Java
2 456 (84.60%) C++
3 448 (83.12%) Python
4 446 (82.75%) Go
5 67 (12.43%) JavaScript
6 53 (9.83%) Kotlin
7 50 (9.28%) Rust
8 37 (6.86%) Swift
9 20 (3.71%) Objective-C
10 6 (1.11%) PHP
11 3 (0.56%) C#
11 3 (0.56%) Dart
11 3 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 448 (83.12%) Security Cleared
2 446 (82.75%) DV Cleared
3 12 (2.23%) Degree
4 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.53%) QA
2 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.93%) GDPR
4 5 (0.93%) IEC 62304
4 5 (0.93%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 454 (84.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 446 (82.75%) Ansible
2 57 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 57 (10.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (1.30%) Google
1 7 (1.30%) New Relic
2 5 (0.93%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe
3 1 (0.19%) Apple
3 1 (0.19%) Intel
3 1 (0.19%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.19%) Xamarin