Android Developer: market
An Android Developer builds Android apps: Jetpack Compose interfaces, architecture, networking and data, performance and store publishing. We currently track 591 open positions for this role, 559 of them fresh. The core is Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines and Flow, architecture (MVVM, MVI), DI (Hilt or Koin), Room, tests; increasingly — Kotlin Multiplatform. By co-occurrence in requirements, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Java and Android appear most often. 50% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Android Developer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Android Developer market currently has 591 open roles, 559 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,500/mo.
50% of Android Developer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 23 of 591 jobs; remote share from 498 with a stated format; 559 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Android Developer postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 123
New sources connected: 11 May +3 · 18 May +8 · 1 Jun +4 · 8 Jun +5 · 15 Jun +2 · 22 Jun +7 · 29 Jun +13 · 6 Jul +9 · 13 Jul +12 · 20 Jul +12 · 27 Jul +4 · 3 Aug +3 · 10 Aug +1 · 17 Aug +4 · 24 Aug +2 · 31 Aug +1 · 7 Sept +1 · 14 Sept +3 · 21 Sept +2 · 28 Sept +3 · 5 Oct +9 · 12 Oct +9
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of Android Developer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Android Developer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Android Developer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Android Developer
| Open demand | 591 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Android Developer
One in ten earns under $2,250, one in ten over $13,958. Half the market falls between $4,000 and $7,699. Sample: 23.
The range histogram for Android Developer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 23 salaries out of 591 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: Android Developer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 96 |
| PL | 91 |
| IN | 31 |
| RU | 29 |
| GB | 26 |
| DE | 16 |
| CA | 14 |
| NL | 13 |
| SE | 11 |
| ES | 11 |
The top country for Android Developer demand is the US (96 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Android Developer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Java and Android.
Demand by grade: Android Developer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 261 |
| middle | 29 |
| principal | 17 |
| junior | 10 |
| lead | 5 |
Senior-and-above is about 88% of 322 Android Developer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Android Developer
Demand is spread across 279 employers. The largest accounts for 11.9%, the top ten for 34.3%; the remaining 65.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 11.9% |
| top-3 | 23.6% |
| top-10 | 34.3% |
| long tail | 65.7% |
Android Developer openings come from 279 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 62 sources; the largest accounts for 15.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Android Developer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Android Developer
- Android Engineer (Fixed-term) · GB
- Senior Android Developer (Fixed Term) · AE
- Android Engineer - Saudi Based · SA
- Android Developer · PL
- Android Engineer - Creative App · DE
- Senior Android Developer (Kotlin) · PT
- Senior Android Developer (Kotlin) · AU
- Senior Android Developer (Kotlin) · ZA
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Android Developer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an Android Developer do?
An Android Developer builds Android apps: Jetpack Compose interfaces, architecture, networking and data, performance and store publishing.
Which skills do Android Developer postings require?
The core is Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines and Flow, architecture (MVVM, MVI), DI (Hilt or Koin), Room, tests; increasingly — Kotlin Multiplatform. In the current slice, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Java and Android appear in requirements most often.
Does an Android developer need Java?
New code is written in Kotlin, but mature apps contain a lot of Java, and postings often expect the ability to work with it.
How remote-friendly are Android Developer jobs?
50% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 591 open positions.
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