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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 695 631 853
Rank change year-on-year -64 +222 +52
Permanent jobs citing Android SDK 15 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.027% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.13% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £64,125 £57,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £68,438 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -16.24% +6.95%
75th Percentile £83,438 £86,592 £91,934
90th Percentile £87,375 £92,672 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year -10.71% -16.24% +55.49%

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 8,582 8,684 20,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 21.08% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,277 6,572 15,623
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 14 April 2026.

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 14 April 2026. 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 -62 14 £90,000 +22.03% 5
UK excluding London -77 14 £62,500 -10.71% 4
North of England -44 13 - - 1
Yorkshire -49 13 - - 1
Scotland -16 1 £62,500 +4.17%
London - 1 £90,000 - 1

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 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (13.33%) Firebase
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Android Studio
1 2 (13.33%) Crashlytics
2 1 (6.67%) fastlane
2 1 (6.67%) Gradle
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 14 (93.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (86.67%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) Android Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Applications Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Android Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Development Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Android Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (13.33%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (13.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 13 (86.67%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (86.67%) Social Media
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (86.67%) AI
2 13 (86.67%) Design Patterns
2 13 (86.67%) Observability
2 13 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (86.67%) Software Architecture
2 13 (86.67%) SOLID
3 11 (73.33%) Android Development
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Kanban
4 2 (13.33%) MVVM
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) UX Design
5 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 14 (93.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) Google