Android Engineer Jobs

Android Engineer
UK

The median Android Engineer salary in the UK is £98,562 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 845 885
Rank change year-on-year +187 +40 -66
Permanent jobs requiring an Android Engineer 34 51 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.052% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.055% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 29 21 41
10th Percentile £43,500 £62,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,562 £82,500 £78,142
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% +5.58% +16.38%
75th Percentile £146,300 £91,934 £89,852
90th Percentile - £95,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £106,466 £83,577 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.39% +33.72% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Android Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Android Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Android Engineer in the UK

Android Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +187 25 £76,788 -6.92% 16
UK excluding London +192 18 £106,466 +27.39% 9
London +118 15 £98,562 +40.80% 10
Work from Home +195 13 £127,680 +52.77% 13
Scotland +110 8 £127,680 +52.77% 1
Midlands +86 5 £47,500 -36.67% 1
West Midlands +53 4 £47,500 -36.67%
South West +107 2 £84,415 +1.00%
East of England - 2 £45,000 - 3
North of England +85 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Android Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Android Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Android Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Android
2 23 (67.65%) Mobile App
3 21 (61.76%) Android Development
4 20 (58.82%) Kotlin
5 19 (55.88%) Test Automation
6 18 (52.94%) Finance
7 17 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
8 15 (44.12%) Banking
9 12 (35.29%) RESTful
10 11 (32.35%) User Experience
10 11 (32.35%) TDD
11 10 (29.41%) Online Banking
11 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
11 10 (29.41%) Internet
11 10 (29.41%) UX Design
11 10 (29.41%) Unit Testing
11 10 (29.41%) Jetpack Compose
11 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
12 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
12 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (26.47%) Mobile Device Management
12 9 (26.47%) MVVM
13 8 (23.53%) Apple iOS
13 8 (23.53%) Maven
13 8 (23.53%) Pair Programming
13 8 (23.53%) Apple
13 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
13 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
13 8 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (23.53%) Terraform

Android Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (14.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Figma
1 5 (14.71%) SonarCloud
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) BrowserStack
2 2 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Internet
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
1 8 (23.53%) Maven
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
3 4 (11.76%) Git
4 3 (8.82%) Appium
5 2 (5.88%) fastlane
5 2 (5.88%) JUnit
5 2 (5.88%) TestNG
5 2 (5.88%) webpack
6 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.94%) Xcode
General
1 18 (52.94%) Finance
2 15 (44.12%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Electronics
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 12 (35.29%) RESTful
3 10 (29.41%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (17.65%) Dagger
5 5 (14.71%) OpenAPI
5 5 (14.71%) Swagger
6 3 (8.82%) Android SDK
6 3 (8.82%) JSON
7 2 (5.88%) CSS
7 2 (5.88%) HTML
7 2 (5.88%) pytest
7 2 (5.88%) React
7 2 (5.88%) Redux
7 2 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (67.65%) Mobile App
2 10 (29.41%) Online Banking
3 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 8 (23.53%) Virtual Team
4 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.88%) Hackathon
6 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Android
2 8 (23.53%) Apple iOS
3 7 (20.59%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Android Development
2 19 (55.88%) Test Automation
3 11 (32.35%) TDD
3 11 (32.35%) User Experience
4 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 10 (29.41%) Unit Testing
4 10 (29.41%) UX Design
5 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (26.47%) Mobile Device Management
5 9 (26.47%) MVVM
5 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
6 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 8 (23.53%) DevOps
6 8 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (23.53%) Line Management
6 8 (23.53%) Microservices
6 8 (23.53%) Pair Programming
6 8 (23.53%) Push Notifications
7 7 (20.59%) ITIL
7 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Kotlin
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) Python
5 2 (5.88%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Apple
2 7 (20.59%) Samsung
2 7 (20.59%) ServiceNow
3 5 (14.71%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Becrypt
4 1 (2.94%) Perforce