Mobile Development Job Trends in England

Mobile Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Mobile Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 564 583
Rank change year-on-year +29 +19 -154
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 97 152 109
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 69 91 94
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £90,000 £127,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,244 50,577 45,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 87.66% 82.96% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 22,866 26,769 35,084
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,788 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,537 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.11% - -

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Mobile Development job vacancy trend in England

Mobile Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mobile Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mobile Development

Mobile Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Mobile Development in England

Mobile Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Development within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +51 30 £77,500 -8.82% 31
South East +14 28 £60,000 - 16
North of England +11 19 £50,000 -16.67% 15
South West +30 10 £45,000 -30.77% 9
North East +21 10 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Midlands +32 8 £53,750 +7.50% 4
West Midlands +43 7 £52,500 +5.00% 3
North West 0 5 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Yorkshire +6 4 £77,500 +93.75% 2
East Midlands +12 1 £70,000 +27.27% 1
Mobile Development
UK

Mobile Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.03%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.03%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.56%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) GitHub
3 8 (8.25%) SaaS
4 7 (7.22%) Figma
5 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.15%) AWS
6 5 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.09%) Firebase
7 3 (3.09%) PaaS
8 2 (2.06%) Google Play
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.03%) IaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.09%) MySQL
2 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) Storybook
3 6 (6.19%) JIRA
4 2 (2.06%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.03%) fastlane
5 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Finance
3 3 (3.09%) Billing
3 3 (3.09%) Marketing
4 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.03%) Law
5 1 (1.03%) Military
5 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (65.98%) Developer
2 37 (38.14%) Mobile Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Senior
4 12 (12.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 12 (12.37%) Mobile Engineer
5 11 (11.34%) Lead
6 8 (8.25%) iOS Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Flutter Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Android Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Consultant
10 3 (3.09%) Development Consultant
10 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Lead iOS Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Lead Mobile Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Principal SAP Consultant
10 3 (3.09%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.84%) React Native
2 24 (24.74%) React
3 19 (19.59%) .NET
4 14 (14.43%) Next.js
4 14 (14.43%) RESTful
5 12 (12.37%) SwiftUI
6 10 (10.31%) GraphQL
6 10 (10.31%) Jest
7 8 (8.25%) Flutter
8 7 (7.22%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.19%) REST
9 6 (6.19%) UIKit
10 5 (5.15%) Android Jetpack
10 5 (5.15%) Ionic Framework
10 5 (5.15%) Jetpack Compose
11 4 (4.12%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.12%) HTML
11 4 (4.12%) OkHttp
11 4 (4.12%) Retrofit
12 3 (3.09%) Core Animation
Miscellaneous
1 45 (46.39%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.12%) Client/Server
4 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.09%) Animation
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Smart Home
6 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.03%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.03%) iPad
7 1 (1.03%) iPhone
7 1 (1.03%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.03%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 57 (58.76%) Android
1 57 (58.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.24%) Agile
2 30 (30.93%) Android Development
2 30 (30.93%) iOS Development
3 27 (27.84%) Software Engineering
4 26 (26.80%) Clean Code
5 24 (24.74%) User Experience
6 23 (23.71%) CI/CD
7 20 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (16.49%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (15.46%) Design Patterns
10 15 (15.46%) UX Design
10 15 (15.46%) Wireframes
11 13 (13.40%) Code Quality
11 13 (13.40%) DevOps
12 11 (11.34%) Wealth Management
13 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
13 9 (9.28%) SOLID
13 9 (9.28%) Test Automation
14 8 (8.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.96%) Swift
2 30 (30.93%) Kotlin
3 25 (25.77%) TypeScript
4 24 (24.74%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.40%) C#
6 8 (8.25%) Objective-C
7 7 (7.22%) SQL
8 5 (5.15%) Java
9 4 (4.12%) ABAP
10 2 (2.06%) PHP
10 2 (2.06%) Ruby
11 1 (1.03%) C++
11 1 (1.03%) Dart
11 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.28%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Xamarin
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Samsung
2 4 (4.12%) SAP
3 2 (2.06%) Google
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe