Android SDK Job Trends

Android Software Development Kit (SDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Android SDK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 704 707
Rank change year-on-year +56 +3 +214
Permanent jobs citing Android SDK 5 46 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.068% 0.033%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.069% 0.33% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 14
10th Percentile £58,000 £63,750 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +1.70% +28.58%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £94,702
90th Percentile £88,000 - £95,436
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £85,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year -20.59% +1.70% +28.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Android SDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,280 13,940 13,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.57% 20.75% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,280 8,438 11,177
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Android SDK
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Android SDK relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Android SDK job vacancy trend in the UK

Android SDK
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android SDK.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Android SDK

Android SDK
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android SDK over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android SDK within the UK over the 6 months to 26 November 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 +73 5 £70,000 -17.65% 7
London +51 3 £90,000 -
Work from Home +82 2 £67,500 +1.89% 1
UK excluding London +61 2 £67,500 -20.59% 6
North of England +48 2 £67,500 +1.89% 2
North West +46 2 £67,500 +1.89% 2

Android SDK
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) Firebase
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Android Studio
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Crashlytics
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Android Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Android Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (60.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Dagger
2 2 (40.00%) OkHttp
2 2 (40.00%) Retrofit
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Android Development
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR