fastlane
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring fastlane skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 643 857
Rank change year-on-year -67 +214 +90
Permanent jobs citing fastlane 6 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.14% 0.094% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - £63,250 £77,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,375 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £84,281 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.84% -0.85% +21.43%
75th Percentile £63,750 £108,418 £90,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

fastlane falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,173 4,255 9,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.80% 10.19% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,007 6,798
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £82,125 £77,715
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,401 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing fastlane relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

fastlane job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing fastlane.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing fastlane

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Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing fastlane within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
UK excluding London -53 6 £62,500 -3.85%
North West -19 3 - -
North of England -59 3 - -
England -67 3 - -
Scotland - 3 £62,500 -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Firebase
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Xcode
3 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) Crashlytics
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) TestRail
3 1 (16.67%) XCTest
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) iOS Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (16.67%) Android SDK
2 1 (16.67%) Core Data
2 1 (16.67%) iOS SDK
2 1 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Retrofit
2 1 (16.67%) SwiftUI
2 1 (16.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (83.33%) iOS Development
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) API Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) Fintech
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (50.00%) OWASP
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (50.00%) UX Design
4 2 (33.33%) Android Development
4 2 (33.33%) MVVM
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Swift
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Google