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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 551 597
Rank change year-on-year +29 +46 -139
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 88 152 79
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66 89 65
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - -28.21% +28.58%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,387 £129,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +8.33% -28.21% +28.58%

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 40,909 48,885 42,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.14% 86.89% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,069 25,461 32,479
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £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% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 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 6 December 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
South East +20 34 £60,000 - 19
London +48 23 £77,500 -8.82% 8
North of England +32 15 £50,000 -20.00% 5
South West +20 9 £40,000 -38.46% 2
North East +16 8 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Midlands +27 6 £62,500 +8.70% 2
West Midlands +32 5 £55,000 -22.81% 1
Yorkshire -2 4 £77,500 +93.75%
North West +35 3 £55,000 -20.00% 4
East Midlands +14 1 £70,000 +24.44% 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 2 (2.27%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.18%) Azure
2 11 (12.50%) GitHub
3 9 (10.23%) SaaS
4 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.82%) Figma
5 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.55%) Google Play
6 2 (2.27%) AWS
6 2 (2.27%) Firebase
6 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (1.14%) GCP
7 1 (1.14%) TestFlight
7 1 (1.14%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.14%) GIS
4 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Git
2 10 (11.36%) Storybook
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.14%) CMake
4 1 (1.14%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.14%) Xcode
General
1 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (3.41%) Billing
3 3 (3.41%) Marketing
3 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.14%) Law
5 1 (1.14%) Military
5 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (67.05%) Developer
2 32 (36.36%) Mobile Developer
3 13 (14.77%) iOS Developer
3 13 (14.77%) Senior
4 11 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (12.50%) React Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Mobile Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Lead
7 5 (5.68%) Bluetooth Developer
7 5 (5.68%) IoT Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Android Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Development Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Principal Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Principal SAP Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Senior Android Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.36%) React Native
2 19 (21.59%) .NET
2 19 (21.59%) React
3 16 (18.18%) SwiftUI
4 15 (17.05%) RESTful
5 13 (14.77%) Next.js
6 8 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 8 (9.09%) Jest
7 6 (6.82%) Flutter
7 6 (6.82%) REST
8 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.68%) Ionic Framework
9 4 (4.55%) UIKit
9 4 (4.55%) WebSockets
10 3 (3.41%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.41%) Blazor
10 3 (3.41%) Entity Framework
10 3 (3.41%) iOS SDK
10 3 (3.41%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (3.41%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (55.68%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.68%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.68%) IoT
3 4 (4.55%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.27%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.14%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.14%) Animation
6 1 (1.14%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.14%) iPad
6 1 (1.14%) iPhone
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.14%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 55 (62.50%) Apple iOS
2 49 (55.68%) Android
3 3 (3.41%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.09%) iOS Development
2 29 (32.95%) Agile
3 25 (28.41%) Android Development
4 22 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 22 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 22 (25.00%) User Experience
5 19 (21.59%) Clean Code
5 19 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (17.05%) UX Design
7 13 (14.77%) Wireframes
8 12 (13.64%) Design Patterns
8 12 (13.64%) DevOps
8 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.50%) Code Quality
9 11 (12.50%) Memory Management
9 11 (12.50%) Wealth Management
10 9 (10.23%) AI
10 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
10 9 (10.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.82%) Swift
2 26 (29.55%) Kotlin
3 21 (23.86%) TypeScript
4 18 (20.45%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.23%) C#
6 8 (9.09%) Objective-C
7 6 (6.82%) SQL
8 4 (4.55%) ABAP
8 4 (4.55%) Java
9 2 (2.27%) C++
10 1 (1.14%) Bash
10 1 (1.14%) C
10 1 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Degree
2 7 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.68%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Google
1 5 (5.68%) Xamarin
2 4 (4.55%) Apple
2 4 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) ESRI
4 1 (1.14%) Mapbox