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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 739 611
Rank change year-on-year +429 -128 -231
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 538 171 384
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 70 143 268
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £84,688 £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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
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 £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 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 28 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 +401 525 £62,500 +4.17% 148
UK excluding London +413 482 £70,000 +40.00% 99
North of England +266 399 £77,500 +72.22% 36
North West +205 387 £77,500 +58.97% 26
Work from Home +115 95 £70,000 +40.00% 83
London +134 49 £65,000 -3.70% 57
South East +95 25 £60,000 +14.29% 16
East of England +58 22 £50,000 +25.00% 10
Midlands +49 13 £70,000 +40.00% 14
South West +91 12 £73,876 +23.13% 17
Scotland +133 11 £127,680 +155.36% 5
Yorkshire +67 11 £48,750 +8.33% 10
West Midlands +56 10 £70,000 +40.00% 10
East Midlands +40 3 - - 4
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 50 (9.29%) Azure
2 49 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
2 49 (9.11%) AWS
2 49 (9.11%) 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%) SonarCloud
7 1 (0.19%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.19%) GCP
7 1 (0.19%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.19%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 397 (73.79%) DNS
1 397 (73.79%) 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 (9.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.16%) Git
3 8 (1.49%) Gradle
3 8 (1.49%) JIRA
3 8 (1.49%) Maven
4 7 (1.30%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.74%) Android Studio
5 4 (0.74%) JUnit
6 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.37%) Xcode
8 1 (0.19%) Appium
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.19%) fastlane
8 1 (0.19%) git-flow
8 1 (0.19%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.19%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.19%) UI Automator
General
1 447 (83.09%) Analytical Skills
1 447 (83.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 422 (78.44%) Finance
3 24 (4.46%) Social Skills
4 18 (3.35%) Games
5 11 (2.04%) Banking
6 6 (1.12%) 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%) Documentation Skills
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%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 494 (91.82%) Developer
2 455 (84.57%) Software Developer
3 34 (6.32%) Android Developer
4 25 (4.65%) Lead
5 16 (2.97%) Android Engineer
6 13 (2.42%) 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 (1.49%) Lead iOS Developer
11 7 (1.30%) Lead Android Developer
11 7 (1.30%) Mobile Developer
11 7 (1.30%) Senior Developer
12 6 (1.12%) Embedded Developer
12 6 (1.12%) Embedded Software Developer
12 6 (1.12%) Software Engineer
13 5 (0.93%) IT Development Manager
13 5 (0.93%) IT Manager
13 5 (0.93%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.22%) Node.js
2 49 (9.11%) .NET
2 49 (9.11%) Pandas
3 28 (5.20%) Android Jetpack
4 24 (4.46%) Jetpack Compose
5 16 (2.97%) RESTful
6 12 (2.23%) SwiftUI
7 8 (1.49%) UIKit
8 7 (1.30%) OAuth
8 7 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 6 (1.12%) Laravel
9 6 (1.12%) REST
10 5 (0.93%) Android SDK
10 5 (0.93%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (0.93%) React Native
11 4 (0.74%) Dagger
12 3 (0.56%) Flutter
13 2 (0.37%) Redux
13 2 (0.37%) Retrofit
13 2 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 446 (82.90%) Cyberattack
2 40 (7.43%) Mobile App
3 17 (3.16%) Mobile Games
4 15 (2.79%) Virtual Team
5 10 (1.86%) Educational Technology
5 10 (1.86%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.67%) Online Banking
7 8 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.37%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.19%) Animation
12 1 (0.19%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.19%) Hackathon
12 1 (0.19%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.19%) Online Games
12 1 (0.19%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 538 (100.00%) Android
2 457 (84.94%) Linux
3 57 (10.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (89.03%) Agile
2 455 (84.57%) Design Patterns
3 454 (84.39%) Line Management
4 449 (83.46%) OOP
5 448 (83.27%) OO
6 447 (83.09%) Mathematics
7 82 (15.24%) CI/CD
8 68 (12.64%) Software Engineering
9 58 (10.78%) Collaborative Working
10 57 (10.59%) Containerisation
11 54 (10.04%) OWASP
11 54 (10.04%) Secure Coding
12 49 (9.11%) Kanban
12 49 (9.11%) Statistics
13 46 (8.55%) iOS Development
14 33 (6.13%) DevOps
15 26 (4.83%) Mobile Development
15 26 (4.83%) User Experience
16 25 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (4.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 485 (90.15%) Java
2 456 (84.76%) C++
3 448 (83.27%) Python
4 446 (82.90%) Go
5 66 (12.27%) JavaScript
6 53 (9.85%) Kotlin
7 50 (9.29%) Rust
8 37 (6.88%) Swift
9 20 (3.72%) Objective-C
10 6 (1.12%) PHP
11 3 (0.56%) C#
11 3 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.37%) Dart
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 447 (83.09%) Security Cleared
2 446 (82.90%) DV Cleared
3 11 (2.04%) Degree
4 9 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.53%) QA
2 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.93%) GDPR
4 5 (0.93%) IEC 62304
4 5 (0.93%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 454 (84.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 446 (82.90%) Ansible
2 57 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 57 (10.59%) 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