Google Open Handset Alliance Android
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Android skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Android over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 230 146
Rank change year-on-year +14 -84 +6
Permanent jobs citing Android 1,369 1,638 4,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.58% 2.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.71% 9.87% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 820 1,097 1,877
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

Android is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,101 16,590 29,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 15.99% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,896 11,178 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Android in the UK

Android
Top 16 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 3 May 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 +27 1,233 £45,000 -18.18% 278
UK excluding London +58 985 £45,000 -14.29% 187
Work from Home -42 441 £55,000 -8.33% 133
London -46 328 £65,000 - 107
South East -23 247 £35,000 -33.33% 39
North of England +136 241 £45,000 -2.17% 42
North West +85 178 £45,000 - 21
Midlands +50 163 £35,000 -22.22% 26
East of England +90 129 £40,000 -1.84% 34
South West -10 116 £50,000 -4.76% 27
East Midlands +57 101 £24,250 -53.81% 10
Scotland -64 59 £52,500 -4.55% 19
West Midlands -7 58 £45,000 - 16
Yorkshire +97 55 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Wales +33 30 £55,000 +83.33% 4
North East -8 8 £45,000 +30.43% 8

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
1 182 (13.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.61%) CMS
4 15 (1.10%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.80%) NServiceBus
6 8 (0.58%) Confluence
7 4 (0.29%) nginx
7 4 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 112 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.02%) Simulink
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.44%) Trello
7 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.073%) 1Password
9 1 (0.073%) Blender
9 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Shopify
2 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.15%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.073%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.073%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 521 (38.06%) Azure
2 379 (27.68%) Microsoft 365
3 238 (17.38%) IBM Cloud
4 155 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 133 (9.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 126 (9.20%) Serverless
7 125 (9.13%) Azure API Management
7 125 (9.13%) Azure Functions
7 125 (9.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 109 (7.96%) AWS
9 81 (5.92%) Google Play
10 65 (4.75%) Entra ID
11 40 (2.92%) OneDrive
12 35 (2.56%) SaaS
13 33 (2.41%) GCP
14 29 (2.12%) Firebase
15 24 (1.75%) GitHub
16 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 177 (12.93%) WAN
2 143 (10.45%) Wireless
3 118 (8.62%) Cisco IOS
4 102 (7.45%) WebEx
5 100 (7.30%) SD-WAN
6 82 (5.99%) LAN
7 69 (5.04%) DNS
8 66 (4.82%) TCP/IP
9 58 (4.24%) Firewall
10 56 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (3.80%) DHCP
12 47 (3.43%) VLAN
13 39 (2.85%) Internet
14 34 (2.48%) VPN
15 24 (1.75%) Network Security
16 23 (1.68%) VoIP
17 19 (1.39%) Skype
18 16 (1.17%) WLAN
19 15 (1.10%) Wireshark
20 9 (0.66%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (19.07%) NoSQL
2 243 (17.75%) PostgreSQL
3 240 (17.53%) MongoDB
4 238 (17.38%) DB2
5 129 (9.42%) Relational Database
6 68 (4.97%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.83%) MySQL
8 12 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.37%) Power BI
10 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.22%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.22%) MS Access
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.15%) Big Data
12 2 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.15%) Metadata
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 78 (5.70%) Git
2 62 (4.53%) Android Studio
3 47 (3.43%) JIRA
4 24 (1.75%) Appium
5 22 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 17 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.17%) JUnit
8 15 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.02%) Postman
10 13 (0.95%) Vagrant
11 10 (0.73%) Selenium
12 8 (0.58%) Crashlytics
12 8 (0.58%) Xcode
13 7 (0.51%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.44%) fastlane
14 6 (0.44%) Mockito
15 5 (0.37%) UI Automator
16 3 (0.22%) Jenkins
16 3 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 407 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 245 (17.90%) Public Sector
3 169 (12.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 143 (10.45%) Finance
5 65 (4.75%) Banking
5 65 (4.75%) Law
6 60 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (3.87%) Legal
8 40 (2.92%) Automotive
9 37 (2.70%) Retail
10 35 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.19%) Marketing
12 30 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.12%) Investment Banking
14 23 (1.68%) Games
15 16 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.10%) Electronics
17 12 (0.88%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 403 (29.44%) Developer
2 236 (17.24%) IT Support
3 147 (10.74%) Senior
4 131 (9.57%) Full Stack Developer
5 125 (9.13%) Azure Developer
6 121 (8.84%) Support Specialist
7 115 (8.40%) Full Stack Engineer
8 114 (8.33%) IT Support Specialist
8 114 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 112 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
10 90 (6.57%) Analyst
11 79 (5.77%) Android Developer
11 79 (5.77%) Support Engineer
12 78 (5.70%) Senior Developer
13 72 (5.26%) IT Engineer
14 66 (4.82%) Lead
15 54 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
16 51 (3.73%) Android Engineer
17 48 (3.51%) C# Developer
18 47 (3.43%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (27.32%) .NET
2 307 (22.43%) AngularJS
3 302 (22.06%) ASP.NET
3 302 (22.06%) React
4 299 (21.84%) CSS
5 294 (21.48%) HTML
6 288 (21.04%) REST
7 281 (20.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 268 (19.58%) Web Services
9 255 (18.63%) Vue
10 246 (17.97%) jQuery
11 242 (17.68%) ASP.NET Core
12 241 (17.60%) Backbone.js
12 241 (17.60%) Ember.js
13 134 (9.79%) Node.js
14 69 (5.04%) Android Jetpack
15 56 (4.09%) .NET Framework
16 54 (3.94%) .NET Core
17 51 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
18 48 (3.51%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 280 (20.45%) Algorithms
2 247 (18.04%) Data Structures
3 244 (17.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 238 (17.38%) Blockchain
5 221 (16.14%) Mobile App
6 138 (10.08%) Video Conferencing
7 116 (8.47%) e-Learning
8 98 (7.16%) Wiki
9 67 (4.89%) iPhone
10 64 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
11 41 (2.99%) Client/Server
12 39 (2.85%) Smartphone
13 34 (2.48%) IoT
14 30 (2.19%) Driving Licence
14 30 (2.19%) Management Information System
14 30 (2.19%) Product Ownership
15 26 (1.90%) Blog
15 26 (1.90%) Cloud Native
16 23 (1.68%) BYOD
16 23 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 828 (60.48%) Apple iOS
2 707 (51.64%) Windows
3 341 (24.91%) Linux
4 258 (18.85%) Windows 10
5 72 (5.26%) Windows Server
6 61 (4.46%) Mac OS
7 25 (1.83%) Mac OS X
8 16 (1.17%) Windows 7
9 15 (1.10%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.95%) CentOS
12 11 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.51%) Windows Mobile
13 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
16 4 (0.29%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.29%) Windows XP
17 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (27.76%) Agile
2 326 (23.81%) User Experience
3 319 (23.30%) MVC
4 314 (22.94%) MVVM
5 297 (21.69%) Full Stack Development
6 292 (21.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 292 (21.33%) Design Patterns
7 262 (19.14%) SOLID
8 257 (18.77%) OO
8 257 (18.77%) OOP
9 250 (18.26%) Web Development
10 242 (17.68%) Responsive Web Design
11 238 (17.38%) Co-Creation
11 238 (17.38%) Design Thinking
12 221 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
13 219 (16.00%) DevOps
14 199 (14.54%) Mentoring
15 182 (13.29%) Computer Science
16 169 (12.34%) Software Engineering
17 153 (11.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 414 (30.24%) JavaScript
2 375 (27.39%) C#
3 311 (22.72%) SQL
4 230 (16.80%) Java
5 205 (14.97%) Python
6 161 (11.76%) Kotlin
7 76 (5.55%) Swift
8 63 (4.60%) C
9 57 (4.16%) C++
10 55 (4.02%) TypeScript
11 36 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 22 (1.61%) Objective-C
13 11 (0.80%) Go
13 11 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.73%) PHP
15 8 (0.58%) Rust
15 8 (0.58%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.51%) Ruby
17 5 (0.37%) Dart
18 4 (0.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 262 (19.14%) Degree
2 166 (12.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 108 (7.89%) Master's Degree
4 28 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (1.97%) Security Cleared
6 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (1.02%) CCSP
8 14 (1.02%) CEH
8 14 (1.02%) CISSP
8 14 (1.02%) SANS
8 14 (1.02%) SSCP
9 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.66%) CCIE
11 8 (0.58%) MCSE
12 7 (0.51%) A+ Certification
13 6 (0.44%) CCNP
13 6 (0.44%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.28%) QA
2 40 (2.92%) SLA
3 27 (1.97%) GDPR
4 24 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.02%) NIST
8 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.29%) NCSC
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 281 (20.53%) Active Directory
2 102 (7.45%) XenApp
3 99 (7.23%) VMware ESXi
3 99 (7.23%) XenDesktop
4 98 (7.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 29 (2.12%) Docker
5 29 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (1.61%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.66%) Firmware
9 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 138 (10.08%) SCCM
2 98 (7.16%) AirWatch
2 98 (7.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.39%) Ansible
5 17 (1.24%) Terraform
6 16 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.02%) Nmap
8 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.22%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.073%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.073%) MobiControl
10 1 (0.073%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.073%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.073%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 500 (36.52%) Microsoft
2 239 (17.46%) Red Hat
3 238 (17.38%) IBM
4 129 (9.42%) Cisco
4 129 (9.42%) Citrix
5 121 (8.84%) Google
6 103 (7.52%) Apple
7 44 (3.21%) Xamarin
8 41 (2.99%) VMware
9 27 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 21 (1.53%) Dell
11 16 (1.17%) Qualys
12 15 (1.10%) Barracuda Networks
13 14 (1.02%) Rapid7
13 14 (1.02%) Splunk
13 14 (1.02%) Thycotic
13 14 (1.02%) Xilinx
14 12 (0.88%) SAP
15 11 (0.80%) HP
16 9 (0.66%) Sun