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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 658 662 760
Rank change year-on-year +4 +98 +154
Permanent jobs citing Android SDK 2 33 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.066% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% 0.30% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 16
10th Percentile - £58,750 £63,234
25th Percentile - £65,000 £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.24% +11.44%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £91,934
90th Percentile - £88,387 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £67,500 £83,577
% change year-on-year - -19.24% +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 7,567 11,016 17,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.35% 22.13% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 6,643 14,288
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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
Top 5 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 13 February 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 +11 2 £90,000 +30.91% 8
London +27 1 £90,000 - 2
North of England -4 1 - - 1
UK excluding London -10 1 - - 5
Yorkshire -30 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Firebase
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Android Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR