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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 531 656
Rank change year-on-year -59 +125 -126
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 110 111 178
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 83 71 160
10th Percentile £54,000 £42,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -21.43%

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 60,313 36,433 75,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.30% 93.06% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 41,346 19,656 55,190
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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
South East -11 37 £60,000 -
London -18 36 £95,000 +46.15% 26
North of England -15 27 £57,500 - 5
Yorkshire -25 15 - -
South West -65 9 £77,500 +29.17% 1
North West +5 8 £68,250 +13.75% 3
North East -40 4 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Midlands -30 1 £70,000 +3.70% 2
West Midlands -37 1 £70,000 +5.66%
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 3 (2.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.91%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.64%) AWS
2 3 (2.73%) npm
2 3 (2.73%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 2 (1.82%) Azure
3 2 (1.82%) Firebase
3 2 (1.82%) GitHub
4 1 (0.91%) Azure AKS
4 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.91%) Bitrise
4 1 (0.91%) Figma
4 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.91%) SaaS
4 1 (0.91%) Serverless
4 1 (0.91%) Stripe
4 1 (0.91%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) Broadband
2 2 (1.82%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.91%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Maven
1 3 (2.73%) Storybook
2 2 (1.82%) fastlane
2 2 (1.82%) Git
2 2 (1.82%) Gradle
2 2 (1.82%) JUnit
2 2 (1.82%) Mockito
3 1 (0.91%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.91%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.91%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.91%) GitLab
3 1 (0.91%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.91%) Xcode
General
1 25 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (3.64%) Publishing
3 4 (3.64%) Retail
4 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.73%) Games
5 1 (0.91%) Back Office
5 1 (0.91%) Banking
5 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.91%) Front Office
5 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.91%) Law
5 1 (0.91%) Marketing
5 1 (0.91%) Polish Language
5 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (83.64%) Developer
2 36 (32.73%) iOS Developer
3 31 (28.18%) Lead
3 31 (28.18%) React Developer
4 27 (24.55%) Lead Developer
4 27 (24.55%) Mobile Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Senior
6 9 (8.18%) Lead Mobile Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Android Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (6.36%) iOS Android Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Angular Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 3 (2.73%) Android Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) iOS Software Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (43.64%) React Native
2 35 (31.82%) RESTful
3 25 (22.73%) GraphQL
4 14 (12.73%) SwiftUI
5 10 (9.09%) React
6 9 (8.18%) .NET
7 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.45%) Flutter
8 6 (5.45%) REST
9 4 (3.64%) CSS
9 4 (3.64%) HTML
10 3 (2.73%) gRPC
10 3 (2.73%) Ionic Framework
10 3 (2.73%) jQuery
10 3 (2.73%) MDX
11 2 (1.82%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (1.82%) WebSockets
12 1 (0.91%) Bootstrap
12 1 (0.91%) Entity Framework
12 1 (0.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 71 (64.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.82%) IoT
3 2 (1.82%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (66.36%) Apple iOS
2 59 (53.64%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.36%) iOS Development
2 26 (23.64%) Android Development
3 25 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
4 17 (15.45%) Performance Optimisation
5 16 (14.55%) Memory Management
6 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.64%) SOLID
7 14 (12.73%) Multithreading
8 13 (11.82%) Agile
9 11 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
11 8 (7.27%) Software Engineering
11 8 (7.27%) User Experience
12 7 (6.36%) AI
12 7 (6.36%) E-Commerce
12 7 (6.36%) Roadmaps
13 6 (5.45%) Decision-Making
13 6 (5.45%) DevOps
14 5 (4.55%) Mobile Application Development
14 5 (4.55%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.82%) Kotlin
2 19 (17.27%) TypeScript
3 18 (16.36%) Swift
4 9 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.64%) SQL
6 3 (2.73%) Java
7 2 (1.82%) Dart
8 1 (0.91%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.73%) WCAG
3 1 (0.91%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (2.73%) Adobe
1 3 (2.73%) SAP
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.82%) VMware
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle