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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 724 574
Rank change year-on-year +117 -150 -177
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 102 188 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.22% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 65 168 317
10th Percentile £51,250 £32,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -20.08% +1.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £88,283
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +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 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile 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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 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 +109 95 £60,000 +9.09% 714
UK excluding London +97 62 £60,000 +20.00% 707
Work from Home +98 47 £60,000 +20.00% 596
London +124 38 £65,000 -14.75% 93
South East +70 23 £60,000 +9.09% 168
South West +95 14 £61,250 +28.95% 87
North of England +16 9 £57,500 +6.98% 175
Scotland +111 7 £65,750 -12.33% 35
Midlands +44 7 £67,500 +50.00% 130
North West -16 7 £61,250 +22.50% 89
West Midlands +50 5 £67,500 +50.00% 73
East Midlands +35 2 £76,250 +69.44% 49
East of England +34 2 £37,000 -24.10% 104
North East +48 1 £45,000 -23.40% 19
Yorkshire +47 1 £50,000 -33.33% 67

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 (1.96%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.96%) WordPress
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.63%) AWS
2 14 (13.73%) Azure
3 13 (12.75%) GitHub
4 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (5.88%) Firebase
6 4 (3.92%) Figma
7 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.94%) Supabase
7 3 (2.94%) Vercel
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.96%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.96%) DigitalOcean
8 2 (1.96%) GCP
8 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.96%) SaaS
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.98%) Bitrise
9 1 (0.98%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.86%) SSL
2 2 (1.96%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.98%) Internet
3 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.92%) MySQL
3 2 (1.96%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.96%) Power BI
4 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Git
2 7 (6.86%) Gradle
2 7 (6.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.86%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.88%) GitLab
4 4 (3.92%) Xcode
5 3 (2.94%) JIRA
5 3 (2.94%) XCTest
6 2 (1.96%) git-flow
6 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.98%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.98%) fastlane
General
1 34 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Aviation
4 8 (7.84%) Banking
4 8 (7.84%) Games
5 5 (4.90%) Private Banking
6 4 (3.92%) Marketing
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.98%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.98%) Electronics
8 1 (0.98%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (48.04%) Developer
2 20 (19.61%) Lead
3 18 (17.65%) iOS Developer
4 17 (16.67%) Senior
5 13 (12.75%) Development Manager
5 13 (12.75%) Software Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Android Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Team Leader
8 9 (8.82%) Flutter Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Lead Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Lead iOS Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Mobile Developer
10 7 (6.86%) iOS Android Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Lead Android Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Software Manager
12 5 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Software Development Manager
13 4 (3.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.49%) React Native
2 17 (16.67%) Flutter
3 15 (14.71%) .NET
3 15 (14.71%) React
4 13 (12.75%) RESTful
5 12 (11.76%) SwiftUI
6 9 (8.82%) Android Jetpack
6 9 (8.82%) Jetpack Compose
7 8 (7.84%) CSS
7 8 (7.84%) UIKit
8 7 (6.86%) OAuth
8 7 (6.86%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 6 (5.88%) HTML
10 4 (3.92%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.92%) Jest
10 4 (3.92%) JSON
10 4 (3.92%) Redux
10 4 (3.92%) REST
11 3 (2.94%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 47 (46.08%) Mobile App
2 21 (20.59%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (12.75%) Virtual Team
4 12 (11.76%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (6.86%) Mobile Games
6 5 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.94%) IoT
7 3 (2.94%) Lidar
7 3 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.94%) W3C
8 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.98%) Animation
9 1 (0.98%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.98%) NHS
9 1 (0.98%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 63 (61.76%) Apple iOS
2 49 (48.04%) Android
3 2 (1.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.12%) Agile
2 42 (41.18%) iOS Development
3 32 (31.37%) Software Engineering
4 30 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 30 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 30 (29.41%) User Experience
5 25 (24.51%) Android Development
5 25 (24.51%) DevOps
6 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (21.57%) Coaching
8 21 (20.59%) SOLID
9 15 (14.71%) Clean Code
9 15 (14.71%) Computer Science
10 14 (13.73%) Design Patterns
11 13 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (10.78%) Product Management
13 11 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 11 (10.78%) Scrum
13 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 43 (42.16%) Swift
2 25 (24.51%) Kotlin
3 21 (20.59%) Java
4 19 (18.63%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.71%) C#
5 15 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.80%) Objective-C
7 6 (5.88%) Dart
7 6 (5.88%) SQL
8 4 (3.92%) C++
8 4 (3.92%) Python
9 3 (2.94%) C
10 2 (1.96%) PHP
10 2 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (8.82%) DBS Check
1 9 (8.82%) Degree
2 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.61%) QA
2 7 (6.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.98%) Marathon
Vendors
1 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
1 7 (6.86%) New Relic
2 2 (1.96%) Apple
2 2 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (0.98%) Spotify
3 1 (0.98%) Xamarin