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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 544 639
Rank change year-on-year -72 +95 -68
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 121 120 137
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 88 81 115
10th Percentile £53,375 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +28.71% -32.67%

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 67,626 39,031 60,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 89.63% 81.40%
Number of salaries quoted 47,761 22,628 41,205
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -29 48 £95,000 +46.15% 27
North of England -23 34 £65,000 +30.00% 13
South East -37 23 £60,000 - 8
North West +6 16 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Yorkshire -17 14 - - 5
South West -80 11 £77,500 +29.17% 7
East Midlands -25 5 £43,750 -42.62% 5
Midlands -37 5 £43,750 -35.19% 5
North East -56 4 £57,500 +15.00% 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 4 (3.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.44%) AWS
2 4 (3.31%) Azure
2 4 (3.31%) Firebase
2 4 (3.31%) npm
3 2 (1.65%) Bitrise
3 2 (1.65%) GCP
3 2 (1.65%) GitHub
3 2 (1.65%) Google Play
3 2 (1.65%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (0.83%) Azure AKS
4 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.83%) Serverless
4 1 (0.83%) Stripe
4 1 (0.83%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.65%) MySQL
3 2 (1.65%) SQLite
4 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) Maven
2 4 (3.31%) Storybook
3 3 (2.48%) Appium
4 2 (1.65%) fastlane
4 2 (1.65%) Gradle
4 2 (1.65%) JUnit
4 2 (1.65%) Mockito
4 2 (1.65%) Xcode
5 1 (0.83%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.83%) CocoaPods
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
5 1 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 40 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Finance
3 7 (5.79%) Law
3 7 (5.79%) Publishing
4 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Banking
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.48%) Marketing
7 2 (1.65%) Games
7 2 (1.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 93 (76.86%) Developer
2 41 (33.88%) Lead
3 36 (29.75%) Mobile Developer
4 32 (26.45%) Lead Developer
5 30 (24.79%) React Developer
6 25 (20.66%) iOS Developer
7 19 (15.70%) Senior
8 14 (11.57%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.26%) Software Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Lead Mobile Developer
10 9 (7.44%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Android Developer
11 7 (5.79%) iOS Android Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.31%) Angular Developer
14 4 (3.31%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 3 (2.48%) Android Engineer
15 3 (2.48%) iOS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (55.37%) React Native
2 40 (33.06%) RESTful
3 36 (29.75%) GraphQL
4 22 (18.18%) REST
5 19 (15.70%) React
6 14 (11.57%) SwiftUI
7 10 (8.26%) Flutter
8 8 (6.61%) .NET
8 8 (6.61%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.31%) CSS
9 4 (3.31%) HTML
9 4 (3.31%) MDX
10 3 (2.48%) WebdriverIO
11 2 (1.65%) gRPC
11 2 (1.65%) jQuery
11 2 (1.65%) Playwright
11 2 (1.65%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (1.65%) Redux
11 2 (1.65%) Vue
11 2 (1.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (55.37%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.48%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.65%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 85 (70.25%) Apple iOS
2 71 (58.68%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.27%) iOS Development
2 31 (25.62%) Technical Leadership
3 26 (21.49%) Android Development
4 21 (17.36%) CI/CD
5 17 (14.05%) Agile
6 16 (13.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 15 (12.40%) Test Automation
8 14 (11.57%) Software Engineering
9 12 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.92%) Memory Management
9 12 (9.92%) Multithreading
9 12 (9.92%) SOLID
9 12 (9.92%) User Experience
10 11 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.61%) AI
11 8 (6.61%) Clean Code
11 8 (6.61%) DevOps
11 8 (6.61%) E-Commerce
11 8 (6.61%) Mentoring
11 8 (6.61%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.62%) TypeScript
2 29 (23.97%) Swift
3 27 (22.31%) Kotlin
4 15 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.79%) Java
6 6 (4.96%) SQL
7 2 (1.65%) Dart
7 2 (1.65%) PHP
8 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.31%) WCAG
3 2 (1.65%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (3.31%) Adobe
2 2 (1.65%) Apple
2 2 (1.65%) Google
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.65%) SAP
2 2 (1.65%) VMware
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle