Mobile Development Jobs

Mobile Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Mobile Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mobile 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 565 711 569
Rank change year-on-year +146 -142 -179
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 119 175 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.21% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 77 154 346
10th Percentile £47,500 £30,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £88,283
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile 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 Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile 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 +142 110 £62,500 +13.64% 94
UK excluding London +145 74 £60,000 +20.00% 55
Work from Home +175 58 £65,000 +23.81% 63
London +118 42 £65,000 -3.70% 46
South East +101 23 £60,000 +9.09% 6
South West +110 18 £66,250 +39.47% 7
Midlands +48 11 £67,500 +54.29% 4
North of England +55 9 £61,250 +22.50% 25
West Midlands +42 9 £67,500 +54.29% 2
North West +23 8 £65,000 +30.00% 21
Scotland +125 7 £57,500 -23.33% 6
East of England +60 6 £50,000 +2.56% 7
East Midlands +45 2 £76,250 +84.85% 2
Yorkshire +52 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3

Mobile 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 2 (1.68%) Confluence
1 2 (1.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.68%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.68%) WordPress
2 1 (0.84%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.69%) AWS
2 18 (15.13%) Azure
2 18 (15.13%) GitHub
3 8 (6.72%) Firebase
3 8 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.20%) Figma
5 4 (3.36%) SaaS
6 3 (2.52%) Supabase
6 3 (2.52%) Vercel
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.68%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.68%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (1.68%) GCP
7 2 (1.68%) Google Play
7 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) SSL
2 2 (1.68%) Internet
2 2 (1.68%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (1.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) MySQL
1 6 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.68%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (1.68%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.68%) Power BI
2 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.68%) SQLite
3 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (28.57%) Git
2 11 (9.24%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.40%) Gradle
4 8 (6.72%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.04%) GitLab
6 5 (4.20%) JIRA
6 5 (4.20%) Xcode
7 4 (3.36%) XCTest
8 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.52%) fastlane
8 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.68%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.68%) git-flow
9 2 (1.68%) Maven
9 2 (1.68%) Subversion
9 2 (1.68%) webpack
10 1 (0.84%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.84%) Appium
10 1 (0.84%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 40 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.37%) Finance
3 12 (10.08%) Aviation
4 11 (9.24%) Banking
5 10 (8.40%) Games
6 5 (4.20%) Marketing
6 5 (4.20%) Private Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Retail
8 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Electronics
9 1 (0.84%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (51.26%) Developer
2 24 (20.17%) Senior
3 22 (18.49%) iOS Developer
4 20 (16.81%) Lead
5 16 (13.45%) Android Developer
5 16 (13.45%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Development Manager
7 10 (8.40%) Flutter Developer
7 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.40%) Team Leader
8 9 (7.56%) iOS Android Developer
8 9 (7.56%) Mobile Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Lead Android Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Lead iOS Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Software Development Manager
11 5 (4.20%) Software Manager
12 4 (3.36%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.01%) React Native
2 20 (16.81%) Flutter
3 19 (15.97%) .NET
4 17 (14.29%) React
5 16 (13.45%) RESTful
6 14 (11.76%) SwiftUI
7 12 (10.08%) CSS
8 11 (9.24%) REST
9 10 (8.40%) Android Jetpack
9 10 (8.40%) HTML
9 10 (8.40%) Jetpack Compose
10 9 (7.56%) OAuth
11 8 (6.72%) .NET Core
11 8 (6.72%) JSON
11 8 (6.72%) UIKit
11 8 (6.72%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 6 (5.04%) Android SDK
12 6 (5.04%) Redux
13 4 (3.36%) Jest
13 4 (3.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (46.22%) Mobile App
2 22 (18.49%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (10.08%) Product Ownership
3 12 (10.08%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.72%) Mobile Games
5 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.52%) IoT
6 3 (2.52%) Lidar
6 3 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.52%) W3C
7 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.68%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 68 (57.14%) Apple iOS
2 58 (48.74%) Android
3 2 (1.68%) Linux
3 2 (1.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.02%) Agile
2 45 (37.82%) iOS Development
3 37 (31.09%) User Experience
4 36 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 36 (30.25%) Software Engineering
5 32 (26.89%) DevOps
5 32 (26.89%) Mentoring
6 31 (26.05%) Android Development
6 31 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (19.33%) SOLID
8 20 (16.81%) Coaching
9 19 (15.97%) Design Patterns
10 17 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 15 (12.61%) Clean Code
12 13 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.92%) Scrum
13 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (10.08%) Product Management
13 12 (10.08%) Roadmaps
13 12 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.82%) Swift
2 31 (26.05%) Java
2 31 (26.05%) Kotlin
3 20 (16.81%) C#
4 18 (15.13%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.76%) Objective-C
7 9 (7.56%) Dart
8 8 (6.72%) SQL
9 6 (5.04%) Python
10 4 (3.36%) Ruby
11 3 (2.52%) C++
12 2 (1.68%) Delphi
12 2 (1.68%) PHP
12 2 (1.68%) XAML
13 1 (0.84%) C
13 1 (0.84%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (10.92%) Degree
2 10 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.56%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.68%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.84%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.97%) QA
2 7 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) MIIS
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Marathon
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) New Relic
3 7 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (3.36%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.68%) Apple
5 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.84%) Adobe
6 1 (0.84%) Spotify