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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 516 674
Rank change year-on-year -77 +158 -143
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 111 110 187
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 82 70 161
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £32,500
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% -26.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £83,875 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -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 61,307 36,819 78,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 92.52% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,146 20,189 56,768
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,497
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 20 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 20 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
London -29 40 £95,000 +46.15% 9
South East -18 30 £60,000 - 4
North of England -8 28 £57,500 - 6
Yorkshire - 15 - -
North West +5 9 £68,250 +13.75% 3
South West -72 9 £77,500 +29.17% 2
Midlands -30 4 £45,000 -33.33% 2
North East -48 4 £57,500 +27.78% 3
East Midlands -31 3 £45,000 -40.98% 2
West Midlands -23 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 4 (3.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.50%) AWS
2 4 (3.60%) npm
3 3 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (1.80%) Azure
4 2 (1.80%) Firebase
4 2 (1.80%) GitHub
5 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.90%) Bitrise
5 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.90%) SaaS
5 1 (0.90%) Serverless
5 1 (0.90%) Stripe
5 1 (0.90%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.80%) SQLite
4 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Maven
1 4 (3.60%) Storybook
2 3 (2.70%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) fastlane
3 2 (1.80%) Gradle
3 2 (1.80%) JUnit
3 2 (1.80%) Mockito
4 1 (0.90%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.90%) CocoaPods
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.90%) Xcode
General
1 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.01%) Finance
3 5 (4.50%) Publishing
4 4 (3.60%) Retail
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.70%) Games
5 3 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (0.90%) Back Office
6 1 (0.90%) Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.90%) Front Office
6 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.90%) Marketing
6 1 (0.90%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 90 (81.08%) Developer
2 33 (29.73%) Lead
3 32 (28.83%) React Developer
4 31 (27.93%) iOS Developer
5 29 (26.13%) Lead Developer
6 28 (25.23%) Mobile Developer
7 11 (9.91%) Senior
8 9 (8.11%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Android Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (6.31%) iOS Android Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) .NET Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Angular Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (3.60%) Senior Mobile Developer
13 3 (2.70%) iOS Software Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (48.65%) React Native
2 37 (33.33%) RESTful
3 28 (25.23%) GraphQL
4 13 (11.71%) React
5 12 (10.81%) SwiftUI
6 10 (9.01%) .NET
6 10 (9.01%) REST
7 8 (7.21%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.41%) Flutter
9 5 (4.50%) CSS
9 5 (4.50%) HTML
10 4 (3.60%) MDX
11 3 (2.70%) Ionic Framework
11 3 (2.70%) jQuery
12 2 (1.80%) gRPC
12 2 (1.80%) Protocol Buffers
12 2 (1.80%) Redux
13 1 (0.90%) Core Data
13 1 (0.90%) Jest
13 1 (0.90%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 68 (61.26%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.80%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (65.77%) Apple iOS
2 58 (52.25%) Android
3 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.53%) iOS Development
2 27 (24.32%) Technical Leadership
3 23 (20.72%) Android Development
4 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
5 15 (13.51%) Performance Optimisation
6 13 (11.71%) Agile
7 12 (10.81%) Memory Management
7 12 (10.81%) Multithreading
7 12 (10.81%) SOLID
8 11 (9.91%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.11%) Mentoring
9 9 (8.11%) Roadmaps
9 9 (8.11%) Software Engineering
9 9 (8.11%) User Experience
10 8 (7.21%) DevOps
11 7 (6.31%) E-Commerce
12 6 (5.41%) AI
12 6 (5.41%) Decision-Making
12 6 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (5.41%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) TypeScript
2 21 (18.92%) Kotlin
3 19 (17.12%) Swift
4 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.60%) Java
5 4 (3.60%) SQL
6 2 (1.80%) Dart
7 1 (0.90%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) WCAG
3 2 (1.80%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (3.60%) Adobe
2 3 (2.70%) SAP
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.80%) VMware
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle