Up from 20.1 per cent in January 2011.
Google's Android OS appears to be the people's choice, securing over a third of Britain's active mobile phones as of January 2012, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech via the Guardian.
The result enabled Android to climb from third place and overtake former leader Apple, which had shares fall to 28.5 per cent from 29.2 per cent in January 2011.
Meanwhile, RIM climbed into third place from fourth despite losing 0.6 per cent of users and the BlackBerry firm can thank Nokia for the climb.
The Finnish firm's near obsolete Symbian OS halved its 26.7 per cent of users to 13.1 per cent as Nokia chose Windows Phone to power future smartphones.
That said, both Nokia and Microsoft have a lot of work to do, managing to secure just 2.2 per cent of the market.
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The UK OS stats follow our report that over half of Brits now own a smartphone.
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