Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 212 219
Rank change year-on-year +56 +7 -83
Permanent jobs citing Android 1,132 1,380 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 1.33% 1.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.81% 9.82% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 294 857 1,014
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -14.29% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
UK

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,159 14,054 15,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 13.56% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 10,700 10,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Android
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android in the UK

Android
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Android in the UK

Android
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Android in the UK

Android
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +60 1,106 £47,500 +5.56% 514
UK excluding London +66 956 £44,500 -1.11% 334
North of England +136 734 £31,500 -30.00% 100
North West +95 667 £55,000 +22.22% 74
Work from Home +87 459 £57,500 +9.52% 355
London -3 154 £65,000 - 223
South East -67 74 £47,500 +23.38% 61
Yorkshire +63 64 £30,000 -33.33% 22
Midlands -36 60 £35,000 -3.45% 39
East of England -36 38 £50,000 +11.11% 49
South West +27 34 £70,000 +40.00% 44
West Midlands +19 31 £52,500 +16.67% 24
East Midlands -24 29 £32,000 +42.22% 14
Scotland +77 17 £127,680 +132.15% 26
North East +45 3 £45,000 - 4

Android
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 44 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.88%) IBM Domino
4 4 (0.35%) Confluence
5 2 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.088%) Drupal
6 1 (0.088%) IIS
6 1 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.088%) Simulink
5 1 (0.088%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.44%) Exchequer
3 2 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.18%) Shopify
4 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 124 (10.95%) Azure
2 106 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (8.39%) AWS
4 49 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
4 49 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (2.65%) Entra ID
6 27 (2.39%) SaaS
7 26 (2.30%) GitHub
8 16 (1.41%) Figma
9 14 (1.24%) OneDrive
10 11 (0.97%) PaaS
11 10 (0.88%) Firebase
12 8 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.62%) Mimecast
14 6 (0.53%) Apigee
14 6 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.53%) Google Docs
14 6 (0.53%) Google Workspace
15 5 (0.44%) BrowserStack
15 5 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 678 (59.89%) VPN
2 429 (37.90%) DNS
3 297 (26.24%) Cisco IOS
4 41 (3.62%) Firewall
5 27 (2.39%) DHCP
6 19 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.59%) LAN
8 16 (1.41%) Internet
8 16 (1.41%) VLAN
8 16 (1.41%) VoIP
8 16 (1.41%) WAN
9 11 (0.97%) Wireless
10 9 (0.80%) HTTP
10 9 (0.80%) IPv4
10 9 (0.80%) PBX
10 9 (0.80%) SAN
11 8 (0.71%) FTP
11 8 (0.71%) SMTP
11 8 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.24%) MongoDB
4 13 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.06%) DB2
5 12 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.53%) GIS
7 4 (0.35%) MySQL
8 3 (0.27%) Metadata
8 3 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.088%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.088%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.088%) Power BI
9 1 (0.088%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 43 (3.80%) Git
2 22 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.41%) JIRA
4 14 (1.24%) Android Studio
5 13 (1.15%) Appium
6 12 (1.06%) Xcode
7 11 (0.97%) GitLab
8 8 (0.71%) Gradle
8 8 (0.71%) JUnit
8 8 (0.71%) Maven
9 7 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.35%) TestNG
12 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.27%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.27%) fastlane
12 3 (0.27%) XCTest
13 1 (0.088%) Charles Proxy
13 1 (0.088%) TestRail
General
1 745 (65.81%) Analytical Skills
2 733 (64.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 462 (40.81%) Finance
4 150 (13.25%) Social Skills
5 26 (2.30%) Banking
6 24 (2.12%) Games
7 22 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.68%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.24%) Electronics
9 14 (1.24%) Law
10 11 (0.97%) Retail
11 9 (0.80%) Marketing
12 8 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.62%) Aviation
13 7 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.62%) Legal
14 6 (0.53%) Automotive
15 5 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.44%) Private Banking
15 5 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 534 (47.17%) Developer
2 457 (40.37%) Software Developer
3 268 (23.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 85 (7.51%) IT Support
5 57 (5.04%) Senior
6 47 (4.15%) Support Engineer
7 46 (4.06%) Lead
8 41 (3.62%) IT Engineer
9 40 (3.53%) Desktop Support
10 37 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
11 36 (3.18%) Android Developer
12 34 (3.00%) Analyst
13 30 (2.65%) Android Engineer
14 19 (1.68%) Software Engineer
15 18 (1.59%) Senior Developer
15 18 (1.59%) Support Technician
16 16 (1.41%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (1.41%) Software Support Engineer
17 14 (1.24%) Mobile Engineer
18 13 (1.15%) Desktop Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (23.14%) Elastic Stack
2 64 (5.65%) .NET
3 59 (5.21%) Node.js
4 49 (4.33%) Pandas
5 37 (3.27%) React
6 34 (3.00%) React Native
7 32 (2.83%) RESTful
8 28 (2.47%) Android Jetpack
9 25 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 24 (2.12%) Jetpack Compose
11 18 (1.59%) SwiftUI
12 14 (1.24%) HTML
13 13 (1.15%) jQuery
14 12 (1.06%) Backbone.js
14 12 (1.06%) Bootstrap
14 12 (1.06%) Ember.js
15 11 (0.97%) CSS
15 11 (0.97%) Flutter
15 11 (0.97%) REST
16 10 (0.88%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 708 (62.54%) Cyberattack
2 126 (11.13%) Mobile App
3 29 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (1.50%) Mobile Games
6 16 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 16 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
6 16 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 15 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.24%) e-Learning
9 13 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.15%) iPhone
10 12 (1.06%) Educational Technology
10 12 (1.06%) Onboarding
11 10 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 10 (0.88%) Online Banking
12 8 (0.71%) CCTV
12 8 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
12 8 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 749 (66.17%) Linux
2 447 (39.49%) Windows
3 238 (21.02%) Apple iOS
4 53 (4.68%) Windows 10
4 53 (4.68%) Windows Server
5 26 (2.30%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.088%) Android TV
9 1 (0.088%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.088%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (64.31%) Mathematics
2 717 (63.34%) Line Management
3 543 (47.97%) Agile
3 543 (47.97%) Android Development
4 468 (41.34%) Design Patterns
5 457 (40.37%) OO
6 452 (39.93%) OOP
7 394 (34.81%) Problem-Solving
8 316 (27.92%) DevOps
9 270 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 270 (23.85%) Platform Engineering
10 265 (23.41%) Risk Management
11 264 (23.32%) Task Automation
12 263 (23.23%) Storage Management
13 108 (9.54%) CI/CD
14 99 (8.75%) Software Engineering
15 96 (8.48%) User Experience
16 76 (6.71%) Customer Service
17 71 (6.27%) ITIL
18 67 (5.92%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 728 (64.31%) Python
2 512 (45.23%) Java
3 473 (41.78%) C++
4 449 (39.66%) Go
5 278 (24.56%) PowerShell
6 263 (23.23%) Bash
7 104 (9.19%) JavaScript
8 71 (6.27%) Kotlin
9 52 (4.59%) Rust
9 52 (4.59%) Swift
10 34 (3.00%) TypeScript
11 29 (2.56%) Objective-C
12 25 (2.21%) C#
13 22 (1.94%) SQL
14 19 (1.68%) C
15 10 (0.88%) PHP
16 9 (0.80%) Dart
17 2 (0.18%) VB
18 1 (0.088%) MATLAB
18 1 (0.088%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 460 (40.64%) Security Cleared
2 446 (39.40%) DV Cleared
3 69 (6.10%) Degree
4 21 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.24%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (0.71%) A+ Certification
8 8 (0.71%) CCNA
8 8 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (0.71%) MCSA
9 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.35%) MCP
13 3 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.18%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.18%) MCSE
14 2 (0.18%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.62%) QA
2 25 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.50%) SLA
5 11 (0.97%) GDPR
6 9 (0.80%) WCAG
7 7 (0.62%) ISO 13485
8 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.44%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.088%) NCSC
System Software
1 723 (63.87%) Docker
2 283 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 263 (23.23%) vSphere
4 262 (23.14%) VMware NSX
5 96 (8.48%) Active Directory
6 18 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.27%) Firmware
9 3 (0.27%) LXC
10 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 714 (63.07%) Ansible
2 328 (28.98%) Terraform
3 63 (5.57%) Kubernetes
4 43 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.77%) SCCM
6 14 (1.24%) AirWatch
7 8 (0.71%) WSUS
8 6 (0.53%) ArcSight ESM
8 6 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.53%) QRadar
9 5 (0.44%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.18%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.088%) Grafana
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.088%) SCOM
Vendors
1 301 (26.59%) Cisco
2 269 (23.76%) Splunk
3 262 (23.14%) 3PAR
3 262 (23.14%) Juniper
4 131 (11.57%) Microsoft
5 70 (6.18%) Apple
6 23 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.03%) VMware
6 23 (2.03%) Zoho
7 18 (1.59%) IBM
8 16 (1.41%) Google
9 15 (1.33%) Citrix
9 15 (1.33%) Sophos
10 14 (1.24%) Samsung
11 12 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.71%) Veeam
12 8 (0.71%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.62%) McAfee
13 7 (0.62%) New Relic