Mobile Development Job Trends in the West Midlands

Mobile Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Mobile Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 192 169
Rank change year-on-year +17 -23 +88
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 5 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £56,625 £51,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £60,938 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,250 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% -14.75% +51.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,938 £91,934
90th Percentile £70,179 £84,875 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £65,750
% change year-on-year +2.13% -10.65% +1.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,343 3,932 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.57% 90.66% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 1,772 2,527
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mobile Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Mobile Development job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Mobile Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mobile Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mobile Development

Mobile Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mobile Development in the West Midlands

Mobile Development
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +28 4 £62,500 -26.47% 3
Coventry - 1 £47,500 -
Mobile Development
England

Mobile Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Mobile Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Cordova
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Vue
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (20.00%) Blazor
3 1 (20.00%) Core Animation
3 1 (20.00%) Core Data
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Animation
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Android Development
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile First
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Push Notifications
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Swift
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Xamarin
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft