Mobile Developer Jobs

Mobile Developer
UK

The median Mobile Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 802 830
Rank change year-on-year +133 +28 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Mobile Developer 15 83 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.084% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.089% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 69 109
10th Percentile £44,250 £49,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £61,125 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,375 £84,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Mobile Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Mobile Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Developer 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
UK excluding London +158 12 £50,000 -28.57% 10
England +127 11 £50,000 -28.57% 19
Work from Home +158 6 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Scotland +127 3 - - 2
Midlands +54 3 £56,000 -25.33%
West Midlands +51 3 £56,000 -25.33%
London +87 2 - - 10
North of England +72 2 £48,750 -18.75% 2
Yorkshire +69 2 £48,750 -35.00%
East of England +58 2 £50,000 -9.09% 2
South West +112 1 - - 1
South East +90 1 £82,500 +26.92% 4

Mobile Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Mobile Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Mobile Developer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Mobile App
2 10 (66.67%) Android
2 10 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 9 (60.00%) User Experience
3 9 (60.00%) Mobile Development
4 8 (53.33%) Kotlin
4 8 (53.33%) Agile
5 7 (46.67%) Git
6 6 (40.00%) Swift
6 6 (40.00%) Android Development
6 6 (40.00%) iOS Development
7 5 (33.33%) RESTful
7 5 (33.33%) Objective-C
7 5 (33.33%) Java
8 4 (26.67%) Node.js
8 4 (26.67%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
8 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
9 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (20.00%) Firebase
9 3 (20.00%) GitHub
9 3 (20.00%) UX Design
9 3 (20.00%) Degree
9 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (20.00%) Google
10 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 2 (13.33%) XAML
10 2 (13.33%) CSS
10 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence

Mobile Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Firebase
1 3 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Google Play
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Gradle
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.67%) Xcode
3 1 (6.67%) XCTest
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) French Language
2 1 (6.67%) Games
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (13.33%) AutoMapper
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
3 2 (13.33%) Express.js
3 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) SwiftUI
4 1 (6.67%) Android SDK
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (6.67%) Core Animation
4 1 (6.67%) Flutter
4 1 (6.67%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Animation
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile Games
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Android
1 10 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Mobile Development
1 9 (60.00%) User Experience
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Android Development
3 6 (40.00%) iOS Development
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Mobile Application Development
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) UX Design
6 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (6.67%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Kotlin
2 6 (40.00%) Swift
3 5 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) Objective-C
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) XAML
5 1 (6.67%) Dart
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Xamarin
3 1 (6.67%) New Relic
3 1 (6.67%) SAP