Mobile First Job Trends

Mobile First
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Mobile First skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 658 655
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 +280
Permanent jobs citing Mobile First 28 41 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.077% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.084% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23 23 36
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,140 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,001 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -10.59% -8.93%
75th Percentile £112,500 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,500 £101,149 £90,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +29.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile First 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Mobile First
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mobile First job vacancy trend in the UK

Mobile First
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile First.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile First

Mobile First
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile First over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile First within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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
England +50 28 £75,000 +20.48% 19
London +52 18 £86,250 +38.55% 9
Work from Home +64 11 £60,000 -15.79% 7
UK excluding London +44 8 £35,000 -36.36% 16
North of England +10 4 - - 6
Midlands +20 3 £35,000 -33.33%
West Midlands +19 3 £35,000 -33.33%
North West +19 2 - - 4
North East - 2 - - 1
South East +27 1 - - 9

Mobile First
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) CMS
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) Umbraco
3 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe XD
1 2 (7.14%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Figma
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure App Service
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (10.71%) Firebase
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Sentry
5 2 (7.14%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) JMeter
2 3 (10.71%) Postman
2 3 (10.71%) Selenium
2 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.14%) Storybook
4 1 (3.57%) Crashlytics
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Designer
4 4 (14.29%) UX Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Digital Developer
5 3 (10.71%) React Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) UI Designer
6 2 (7.14%) UI/UX Designer
7 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) .NET
1 11 (39.29%) CSS
2 9 (32.14%) .NET Core
2 9 (32.14%) RESTful
3 8 (28.57%) HTML
3 8 (28.57%) React Native
3 8 (28.57%) Redux
4 7 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 7 (25.00%) React
5 6 (21.43%) Node.js
5 6 (21.43%) SignalR
6 5 (17.86%) Jest
6 5 (17.86%) Vue
7 4 (14.29%) REST
7 4 (14.29%) Sass
8 3 (10.71%) Nuxt
8 3 (10.71%) OpenAPI
8 3 (10.71%) SVG
8 3 (10.71%) Swagger
8 3 (10.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Mobile App
2 8 (28.57%) AI Agents
3 6 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (17.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
5 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (10.71%) W3C
6 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
6 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (7.14%) VUI
7 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (3.57%) NHS
7 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Android
1 6 (21.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (46.43%) Microservices
3 11 (39.29%) Front End Development
4 10 (35.71%) AI
5 9 (32.14%) Responsive Web Design
5 9 (32.14%) User Experience
6 8 (28.57%) Agile
6 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 7 (25.00%) DevOps
7 7 (25.00%) Workflow
8 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (21.43%) Generative AI
8 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 6 (21.43%) SDLC
8 6 (21.43%) UX Design
8 6 (21.43%) Wireframes
9 5 (17.86%) API Design
9 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
9 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
9 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) TypeScript
2 11 (39.29%) C#
2 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) Rust
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) Accessibility
2 7 (25.00%) QA
2 7 (25.00%) WCAG
3 5 (17.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Adobe
2 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.71%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) SendGrid
3 2 (7.14%) Xamarin
4 1 (3.57%) Apple