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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 542 587
Rank change year-on-year -120 +45 +4
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 110 93 155
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.24% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 75 65 93
10th Percentile £53,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile - £86,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% +4.17% -20.00%

All Process & 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 76,626 38,274 53,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 88.94% 82.71%
Number of salaries quoted 53,560 21,879 28,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,246 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 11 October 2026.

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 11 October 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
London -37 46 £95,000 +22.58% 87
North of England -51 31 £65,000 +30.00% 16
South East -59 16 £60,000 - 4
North West -12 15 £68,750 +27.91% 11
Yorkshire -34 12 - - 4
Midlands -49 7 £43,750 -37.50% 4
East Midlands -25 6 £42,500 -44.26% 2
South West -79 5 £80,000 +77.78% 8
North East -71 4 £57,500 +15.00% 1
East of England - 4 £140,000 -
West Midlands -53 1 £61,000 +10.91% 2
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 4 (3.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.18%) AWS
2 4 (3.64%) Bitrise
2 4 (3.64%) npm
3 3 (2.73%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (2.73%) Firebase
4 2 (1.82%) Azure
4 2 (1.82%) GCP
4 2 (1.82%) Google Play
4 2 (1.82%) IaaS
4 2 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) GitHub
5 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.91%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) MySQL
3 2 (1.82%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Appium
2 4 (3.64%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) Maven
2 4 (3.64%) Storybook
2 4 (3.64%) Xcode
3 2 (1.82%) fastlane
4 1 (0.91%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.91%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.91%) GitLab
4 1 (0.91%) Gradle
4 1 (0.91%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.91%) JUnit
4 1 (0.91%) Mockito
General
1 43 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Finance
3 13 (11.82%) Law
4 10 (9.09%) Banking
5 8 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.36%) Publishing
7 6 (5.45%) Marketing
8 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.55%) Health Technology
8 5 (4.55%) Retail
9 3 (2.73%) Automotive
9 3 (2.73%) Games
9 3 (2.73%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.91%) Front Office
10 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (67.27%) Developer
2 34 (30.91%) Lead
3 29 (26.36%) Mobile Developer
4 23 (20.91%) Lead Developer
5 22 (20.00%) iOS Developer
6 20 (18.18%) React Developer
7 19 (17.27%) Senior
8 15 (13.64%) Software Engineer
9 13 (11.82%) Android Developer
10 12 (10.91%) iOS Android Developer
10 12 (10.91%) Senior Developer
11 7 (6.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) Software Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Lead Mobile Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Senior Mobile Developer
13 4 (3.64%) Angular Developer
13 4 (3.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 4 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
14 3 (2.73%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (47.27%) React Native
2 32 (29.09%) GraphQL
2 32 (29.09%) RESTful
3 25 (22.73%) REST
4 19 (17.27%) React
5 14 (12.73%) SwiftUI
6 9 (8.18%) Flutter
7 8 (7.27%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.45%) .NET
8 6 (5.45%) WebdriverIO
9 4 (3.64%) CSS
9 4 (3.64%) HTML
9 4 (3.64%) MDX
9 4 (3.64%) Playwright
9 4 (3.64%) Redux
10 3 (2.73%) CarPlay
10 3 (2.73%) Web Services
11 2 (1.82%) jQuery
11 2 (1.82%) Spring
11 2 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (49.09%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.45%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (5.45%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.55%) NHS
4 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.64%) IoT
6 3 (2.73%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.73%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.91%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.91%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 77 (70.00%) Apple iOS
2 69 (62.73%) Android
3 3 (2.73%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (2.73%) Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.82%) iOS Development
2 34 (30.91%) Android Development
3 22 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (17.27%) Software Engineering
5 18 (16.36%) CI/CD
5 18 (16.36%) Performance Optimisation
6 17 (15.45%) Agile
7 16 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.73%) Multithreading
8 14 (12.73%) Roadmaps
8 14 (12.73%) User Experience
9 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.91%) AI
10 12 (10.91%) SOLID
11 11 (10.00%) Clean Code
11 11 (10.00%) Memory Management
12 10 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
14 8 (7.27%) Microservices
14 8 (7.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) Swift
2 32 (29.09%) TypeScript
3 31 (28.18%) Kotlin
4 16 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.73%) Java
6 5 (4.55%) SQL
7 4 (3.64%) C++
8 3 (2.73%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.82%) Dart
9 2 (1.82%) PHP
10 1 (0.91%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (2.73%) Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.64%) WCAG
3 1 (0.91%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (4.55%) Apple
2 4 (3.64%) Adobe
3 3 (2.73%) Google
4 2 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.91%) VMware