Mobile Application Development Job Trends in the Midlands

Mobile App Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 252 216
Rank change year-on-year +23 -36 +116
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Application Development 4 15 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.072% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.20% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 18
10th Percentile - - £40,350
25th Percentile £26,250 £67,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £70,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +20.69% +3.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £76,000 £78,000 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% -26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Mobile Application Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,801 7,361 4,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.75% 80.85% 93.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 3,330 3,771
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £31,938 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £52,170
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -0.33% +4.34%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mobile Application Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Mobile Application Development job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Mobile Application Development
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Mobile Application Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Mobile Application Development in the Midlands

Mobile Application Development
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Application Development within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
West Midlands +46 4 £48,750 -30.36% 4
Mobile Application Development
England

Mobile Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Firebase
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Contentful
3 1 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Storybook
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Xamarin Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) React Native
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Laravel
2 2 (50.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) Express.js
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) hapi
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
3 1 (25.00%) MEAN Stack
3 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
3 1 (25.00%) MvvmCross
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Xamarin