Mobile First Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mobile First skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 545 545
Rank change year-on-year +44 0 +194
Permanent jobs citing Mobile First 8 21 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.058% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.066% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 21
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,875 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £40,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £41,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £57,001 £63,750
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.59% -8.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Mobile First 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Mobile First
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mobile First relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Mobile First job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mobile First.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mobile First

Mobile First
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile First within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
North of England +10 4 - - 6
Midlands +20 3 £35,000 -33.33%
West Midlands +19 3 £35,000 -33.33%
North West +19 2 - - 4
North East - 2 - - 1
South East +27 1 - - 9
Mobile First
UK

Mobile First
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Umbraco
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Figma
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) SVG
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Blazor
2 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) React Native
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) W3C
3 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Content Management
1 3 (37.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
1 3 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
1 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (37.50%) Web Development
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Identity
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile Development
2 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) KYC
3 1 (12.50%) Storyboarding
3 1 (12.50%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Xamarin
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe