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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 565 589
Rank change year-on-year +48 +24 -156
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 97 151 103
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 70 90 88
10th Percentile £42,375 £45,000 £43,000
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 £106,250
90th Percentile £86,500 £90,000 £128,250
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 38,107 50,570 44,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.72% 82.89% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 23,702 26,628 34,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +44 29 £77,500 -8.82% 70
South East +12 27 £60,000 - 49
North of England +10 19 £50,000 -16.67% 30
South West +33 12 £45,000 -28.00% 26
North East +17 10 £50,000 - 1
Midlands +44 8 £53,750 +7.50% 4
West Midlands +43 7 £52,500 +5.00% 3
North West +14 5 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Yorkshire +13 4 £77,500 +93.75% 3
East Midlands +23 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 17 (17.53%) 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%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.12%) AWS
8 3 (3.09%) Firebase
8 3 (3.09%) Google Play
8 3 (3.09%) PaaS
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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Bluetooth
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 20 (20.62%) 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%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.03%) Military
5 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (67.01%) Developer
2 38 (39.18%) Mobile Developer
3 13 (13.40%) 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
7 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Flutter Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.12%) React Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Development Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.09%) Lead iOS Developer
11 3 (3.09%) Principal Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Principal SAP Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) React Native
2 24 (24.74%) React
3 18 (18.56%) .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%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (47.42%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.19%) 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
7 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.03%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.03%) IoT
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%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.03%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 57 (58.76%) Android
1 57 (58.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.21%) Agile
2 29 (29.90%) Android Development
2 29 (29.90%) iOS Development
3 26 (26.80%) Clean Code
4 25 (25.77%) Software Engineering
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
12 12 (12.37%) DevOps
13 11 (11.34%) Wealth Management
14 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
14 9 (9.28%) Test Automation
15 8 (8.25%) Computer Science
15 8 (8.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.93%) Swift
2 29 (29.90%) Kotlin
3 25 (25.77%) TypeScript
4 24 (24.74%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.37%) 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 8 (8.25%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Xamarin
2 4 (4.12%) Samsung
2 4 (4.12%) SAP
3 3 (3.09%) Google
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe
4 1 (1.03%) Apple