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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 762 758
Rank change year-on-year +92 -4 +168
Permanent jobs citing Android SDK 6 34 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.044% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.076% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 16
10th Percentile £58,000 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,992 £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 £86,889 £92,500 £95,436
90th Percentile £91,022 £94,292 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year -17.65% +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 7,921 15,360 16,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.67% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 9,843 13,390
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Android SDK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Android SDK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Android SDK 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Android SDK in the UK

Android SDK
Top 8 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 18 September 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 +84 6 £70,000 -17.65% 5
UK excluding London +99 4 £70,000 -17.65% 3
Work from Home +72 4 £70,000 +75.00% 2
North of England +24 3 £67,500 - 1
London +54 2 - - 3
North West +11 2 £67,500 -
Yorkshire +27 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £85,253 -

Android SDK
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Android Studio
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Android Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Android Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Android Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Android Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (50.00%) Dagger
1 3 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) OkHttp
2 2 (33.33%) Retrofit
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hackathon
1 1 (16.67%) Online Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Android Development
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) MVVM
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Benchmarking
4 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) SOLID
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Kotlin
2 3 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google