Mobile Application Development Jobs

Mobile App Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Application Development over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 727 828
Rank change year-on-year +135 +101 -109
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Application Development 92 158 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 65 122 111
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,813 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -17.24%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £48,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% +22.40% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile Application Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development.

Salary trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Top 15 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +128 85 £70,000 +21.74% 73
UK excluding London +131 54 £65,000 +10.64% 41
Work from Home +175 48 £70,000 +40.00% 47
London +113 37 £70,000 +1.82% 36
Midlands +44 19 £70,000 +55.56% 10
West Midlands +47 18 £70,000 +33.33% 8
South East +119 16 £60,000 +9.09% 10
North of England +57 7 £55,000 -25.68% 9
East of England +58 5 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Yorkshire +58 4 - - 7
Scotland +119 3 £60,750 -19.00%
North West +18 3 £55,000 -21.43% 2
Wales - 3 £70,000 - 5
South West +83 1 - - 1
East Midlands +36 1 £70,000 +64.71% 2

Mobile Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (18.48%) CMS
2 9 (9.78%) Drupal
2 9 (9.78%) WordPress
3 8 (8.70%) Headless CMS
4 5 (5.43%) IIS
5 4 (4.35%) Confluence
6 3 (3.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (3.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.17%) AutoCAD
1 2 (2.17%) Revit
2 1 (1.09%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.09%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.65%) Azure
2 31 (33.70%) AWS
3 19 (20.65%) GCP
4 10 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.87%) Serverless
5 9 (9.78%) SaaS
6 8 (8.70%) Contentful
6 8 (8.70%) Figma
7 5 (5.43%) Firebase
8 4 (4.35%) GitHub
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.17%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.09%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.09%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.09%) PaaS
10 1 (1.09%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.43%) MySQL
5 3 (3.26%) Big Data
5 3 (3.26%) GIS
5 3 (3.26%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) Storybook
3 3 (3.26%) Android Studio
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.26%) Eclipse
3 3 (3.26%) Gradle
3 3 (3.26%) JMeter
3 3 (3.26%) Maven
3 3 (3.26%) Subversion
4 2 (2.17%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.17%) NUnit
4 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.17%) Xcode
5 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.09%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.09%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Finance
3 9 (9.78%) Games
3 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Retail
7 4 (4.35%) Marketing
8 3 (3.26%) Local Government
9 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 2 (2.17%) Electronics
9 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Publishing
10 1 (1.09%) French Language
10 1 (1.09%) Legal
10 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (61.96%) Developer
2 34 (36.96%) Senior
3 23 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 16 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (16.30%) Lead
6 11 (11.96%) JavaScript Developer
6 11 (11.96%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) CMS Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Lead Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Xamarin Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Xamarin Developer
8 8 (8.70%) .NET Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 7 (7.61%) Architect
9 7 (7.61%) Mobile Software Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (6.52%) C# Developer
10 6 (6.52%) React Developer
10 6 (6.52%) Senior Architect
10 6 (6.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) React
2 26 (28.26%) .NET
3 24 (26.09%) CSS
3 24 (26.09%) HTML
4 20 (21.74%) React Native
5 17 (18.48%) Vue
6 15 (16.30%) AngularJS
7 14 (15.22%) REST
8 13 (14.13%) Flutter
9 12 (13.04%) ASP.NET
10 10 (10.87%) GraphQL
10 10 (10.87%) RESTful
11 9 (9.78%) Django
11 9 (9.78%) FastAPI
11 9 (9.78%) MvvmCross
11 9 (9.78%) Node.js
12 8 (8.70%) Express.js
12 8 (8.70%) hapi
12 8 (8.70%) HTML5
12 8 (8.70%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 92 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 17 (18.48%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.52%) Mobile Games
4 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.26%) Online Games
4 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.09%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.04%) Apple iOS
2 29 (31.52%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.13%) Agile
2 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (27.17%) Software Engineering
6 23 (25.00%) DevOps
6 23 (25.00%) User Experience
7 22 (23.91%) Computer Science
8 19 (20.65%) Microservices
9 16 (17.39%) Scrum
10 14 (15.22%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 12 (13.04%) iOS Development
11 12 (13.04%) OOP
11 12 (13.04%) SDLC
12 11 (11.96%) Mobile Development
13 10 (10.87%) Code Quality
13 10 (10.87%) OO
13 10 (10.87%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) JavaScript
2 28 (30.43%) C#
3 19 (20.65%) TypeScript
4 17 (18.48%) SQL
5 16 (17.39%) Kotlin
5 16 (17.39%) Swift
6 14 (15.22%) Python
7 10 (10.87%) Java
8 4 (4.35%) Objective-C
9 3 (3.26%) Dart
10 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (26.09%) Degree
2 19 (20.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (20.65%) Google
2 9 (9.78%) Xamarin
3 3 (3.26%) Adobe
3 3 (3.26%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle
4 2 (2.17%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.09%) Apple
5 1 (1.09%) SAP