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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 545 664
Rank change year-on-year -53 +119 -118
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 109 118 177
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80 80 153
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.09% -26.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,750 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.40% +13.64% -24.14%

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 63,394 38,334 75,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 91.09% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,779 21,614 54,535
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,890 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -27 42 £95,000 +46.15% 19
North of England -16 28 £57,500 +6.98% 11
South East -30 27 £60,000 - 10
Yorkshire -13 15 - -
North West -10 9 £68,250 +13.75% 8
South West -79 9 £77,500 +29.17% 5
North East -46 4 £57,500 +21.05% 3
East Midlands -18 3 £45,000 -40.98% 3
Midlands -33 3 £45,000 -33.33% 7
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 (3.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.59%) AWS
2 4 (3.67%) npm
3 3 (2.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (1.83%) Azure
4 2 (1.83%) Firebase
4 2 (1.83%) GitHub
5 1 (0.92%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.92%) Bitrise
5 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.92%) SaaS
5 1 (0.92%) Serverless
5 1 (0.92%) Stripe
5 1 (0.92%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.83%) SQLite
4 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Maven
1 4 (3.67%) Storybook
2 3 (2.75%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) fastlane
3 2 (1.83%) Gradle
3 2 (1.83%) JUnit
3 2 (1.83%) Mockito
4 1 (0.92%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.92%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.92%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.92%) Xcode
General
1 32 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.17%) Finance
3 5 (4.59%) Publishing
4 4 (3.67%) Retail
5 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Games
5 3 (2.75%) Law
6 1 (0.92%) Back Office
6 1 (0.92%) Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.92%) Front Office
6 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.92%) Marketing
6 1 (0.92%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (80.73%) Developer
2 35 (32.11%) Lead
3 32 (29.36%) React Developer
4 31 (28.44%) Lead Developer
5 29 (26.61%) Mobile Developer
6 28 (25.69%) iOS Developer
7 11 (10.09%) Senior
8 9 (8.26%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Android Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (6.42%) iOS Android Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) .NET Developer
12 4 (3.67%) Angular Developer
12 4 (3.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (3.67%) Senior Mobile Developer
13 3 (2.75%) iOS Software Engineer
13 3 (2.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (51.38%) React Native
2 38 (34.86%) RESTful
3 30 (27.52%) GraphQL
4 13 (11.93%) React
5 12 (11.01%) REST
6 11 (10.09%) SwiftUI
7 10 (9.17%) .NET
8 8 (7.34%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.50%) Flutter
10 5 (4.59%) CSS
10 5 (4.59%) HTML
11 4 (3.67%) MDX
12 3 (2.75%) jQuery
13 2 (1.83%) gRPC
13 2 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
13 2 (1.83%) Redux
14 1 (0.92%) Bootstrap
14 1 (0.92%) Core Data
14 1 (0.92%) Jest
14 1 (0.92%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 62 (56.88%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.83%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (67.89%) Apple iOS
2 59 (54.13%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) iOS Development
2 29 (26.61%) Technical Leadership
3 22 (20.18%) Android Development
4 17 (15.60%) CI/CD
5 14 (12.84%) Performance Optimisation
6 13 (11.93%) Agile
7 11 (10.09%) Memory Management
7 11 (10.09%) Multithreading
7 11 (10.09%) SOLID
7 11 (10.09%) Test Automation
8 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
8 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
9 8 (7.34%) DevOps
9 8 (7.34%) Software Engineering
10 7 (6.42%) E-Commerce
10 7 (6.42%) User Experience
11 6 (5.50%) AI
11 6 (5.50%) Decision-Making
11 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (5.50%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.85%) TypeScript
2 20 (18.35%) Kotlin
2 20 (18.35%) Swift
3 11 (10.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.67%) Java
4 4 (3.67%) SQL
5 2 (1.83%) Dart
6 1 (0.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (2.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.67%) WCAG
3 2 (1.83%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (3.67%) Adobe
2 3 (2.75%) SAP
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.83%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle