Android Development Jobs

Android Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Android Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Android Development over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 607 376
Rank change year-on-year -116 -231 +14
Permanent jobs citing Android Development 186 367 1,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.39% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.41% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 151 262 699
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,087 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.61% +2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Android Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Android Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android Development over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Android Development in the UK

Android Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 -118 166 £60,000 -11.11% 55
UK excluding London -52 139 £55,000 -12.00% 30
Work from Home -18 110 £50,000 -28.57% 30
South West -28 41 £60,000 +9.09% 2
London -18 37 £67,500 -14.63% 28
North of England +40 30 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Midlands -2 26 £50,000 -4.76% 3
North West +8 24 £48,750 -25.00% 9
South East -42 24 £60,000 -11.11% 6
West Midlands -3 19 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Wales +16 8 £70,000 -
East of England -5 7 £40,000 -50.00% 6
Yorkshire +65 6 £45,000 -21.74%
East Midlands -22 3 £42,500 -19.05%
Scotland -67 3 £50,000 +25.00% 4

Android Development
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 13 (6.99%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.54%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Sage 200
1 2 (1.08%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.44%) Azure
2 20 (10.75%) Firebase
3 17 (9.14%) GitHub
4 15 (8.06%) AWS
5 13 (6.99%) Google Play
6 12 (6.45%) SaaS
7 7 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.61%) GCP
8 3 (1.61%) TestFlight
9 2 (1.08%) SonarCloud
10 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.69%) BGP
2 5 (2.69%) Bluetooth
2 5 (2.69%) Firewall
2 5 (2.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (2.69%) IPsec
2 5 (2.69%) LAN
2 5 (2.69%) Network Security
2 5 (2.69%) NGFW
2 5 (2.69%) OSPF
2 5 (2.69%) SSL
2 5 (2.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.69%) VLAN
2 5 (2.69%) VPN
2 5 (2.69%) WAN
2 5 (2.69%) Wireless
3 3 (1.61%) VoIP
4 2 (1.08%) Internet
5 1 (0.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.30%) NoSQL
1 8 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.69%) MS Access
2 5 (2.69%) MySQL
3 2 (1.08%) SQLite
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (23.12%) Git
2 22 (11.83%) Android Studio
3 15 (8.06%) Bitbucket
3 15 (8.06%) JIRA
4 10 (5.38%) Appium
5 9 (4.84%) Visual Studio
6 8 (4.30%) JUnit
7 6 (3.23%) Mockito
8 5 (2.69%) fastlane
9 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.54%) CMake
10 1 (0.54%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.54%) Xcode
10 1 (0.54%) XCTest
General
1 29 (15.59%) Finance
1 29 (15.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.60%) Legal
3 6 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.69%) Banking
4 5 (2.69%) Electronics
5 4 (2.15%) Aviation
5 4 (2.15%) Games
6 3 (1.61%) Automotive
6 3 (1.61%) Back Office
6 3 (1.61%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.61%) Retail
7 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Military
7 2 (1.08%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.54%) iGaming
8 1 (0.54%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 139 (74.73%) Developer
2 94 (50.54%) Android Developer
3 60 (32.26%) Senior
4 53 (28.49%) Senior Developer
5 50 (26.88%) Senior Android Developer
6 29 (15.59%) Software Engineer
7 23 (12.37%) Applications Developer
8 15 (8.06%) Mobile Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Android Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Senior Mobile Developer
12 5 (2.69%) C# Developer
12 5 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (2.15%) Android Software Engineer
13 4 (2.15%) Mobile Applications Developer
14 3 (1.61%) C++ Software Engineer
14 3 (1.61%) Full Stack Developer
14 3 (1.61%) SQL Developer
14 3 (1.61%) Web Applications Developer
14 3 (1.61%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.66%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (22.04%) REST
3 31 (16.67%) React
4 25 (13.44%) .NET
5 22 (11.83%) HTML
6 19 (10.22%) Android SDK
6 19 (10.22%) CSS
7 17 (9.14%) JSON
8 16 (8.60%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.60%) Jetpack Compose
9 14 (7.53%) HTML5
10 13 (6.99%) Apache Cordova
10 13 (6.99%) Vue
11 11 (5.91%) Ionic Framework
12 9 (4.84%) RESTful
12 9 (4.84%) Web Services
13 8 (4.30%) OpenGL
13 8 (4.30%) Retrofit
14 7 (3.76%) Dagger
15 6 (3.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.20%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.38%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.23%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.23%) PropTech
7 5 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.15%) IoT
9 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.08%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (1.08%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 186 (100.00%) Android
2 78 (41.94%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.84%) Windows
4 2 (1.08%) Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.08%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.17%) iOS Development
2 61 (32.80%) Agile
3 49 (26.34%) Software Engineering
4 42 (22.58%) Mobile Development
5 40 (21.51%) MVVM
6 37 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (18.82%) Computer Science
8 31 (16.67%) User Experience
9 29 (15.59%) Design Patterns
9 29 (15.59%) MVC
10 26 (13.98%) CI/CD
11 24 (12.90%) Domain-Driven Design
12 22 (11.83%) TDD
13 21 (11.29%) Clean Code
13 21 (11.29%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.75%) SOLID
15 18 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (9.68%) Test Automation
16 16 (8.60%) Mobile Application Development
17 15 (8.06%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.32%) Kotlin
2 44 (23.66%) Java
3 41 (22.04%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.13%) C#
5 21 (11.29%) Swift
6 20 (10.75%) SQL
7 16 (8.60%) Objective-C
8 14 (7.53%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.30%) Python
10 6 (3.23%) C++
11 5 (2.69%) C
11 5 (2.69%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.61%) Go
12 3 (1.61%) Ruby
12 3 (1.61%) VBA
13 2 (1.08%) VBScript
14 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.54%) Bash
14 1 (0.54%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (18.28%) Degree
2 31 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.53%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.69%) CCIE
4 5 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.69%) JNCIE
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) Firmware
2 1 (0.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.69%) Ansible
2 4 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 21 (11.29%) Google
2 17 (9.14%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.99%) Xamarin
4 7 (3.76%) Apple
5 2 (1.08%) Sage
5 2 (1.08%) Xero
6 1 (0.54%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.54%) Cadence
6 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.54%) Salesforce