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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 537 592
Rank change year-on-year +25 +55 -116
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 97 139 75
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.31% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 77 80 60
10th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -10.65% +1.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £125,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

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 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +29 43 £65,000 +13.04% 35
London +42 23 £77,500 -6.06% 20
North of England +20 15 £50,000 -27.27% 26
North East +11 8 £50,000 -9.09%
South West +8 8 £40,000 -33.33% 13
Midlands +24 7 £70,000 +21.74% 22
West Midlands +24 6 £62,500 -12.28% 12
Yorkshire +1 4 £77,500 +55.00% 12
North West +22 3 £55,000 -24.14% 14
East Midlands -14 1 £70,000 +24.44% 9
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 (2.06%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.09%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.49%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) GitHub
2 9 (9.28%) SaaS
3 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.15%) Figma
5 4 (4.12%) Google Play
6 2 (2.06%) AWS
6 2 (2.06%) Firebase
6 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.06%) PaaS
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) TestFlight
7 1 (1.03%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.09%) MySQL
3 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.03%) GIS
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) Storybook
3 2 (2.06%) Android Studio
3 2 (2.06%) JIRA
4 1 (1.03%) CMake
4 1 (1.03%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Finance
3 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.09%) Billing
4 3 (3.09%) Marketing
5 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.03%) Law
6 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (73.20%) Developer
2 34 (35.05%) Mobile Developer
3 21 (21.65%) iOS Developer
4 14 (14.43%) React Developer
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 11 (11.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (8.25%) Lead
7 7 (7.22%) Bluetooth Developer
7 7 (7.22%) IoT Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Mobile Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Android Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Android Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Principal Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Principal SAP Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.09%) UI Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.05%) React Native
2 19 (19.59%) .NET
3 18 (18.56%) React
3 18 (18.56%) RESTful
4 17 (17.53%) SwiftUI
5 13 (13.40%) Next.js
6 8 (8.25%) Jest
7 6 (6.19%) Flutter
7 6 (6.19%) Ionic Framework
7 6 (6.19%) REST
8 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.15%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.15%) WebSockets
9 4 (4.12%) UIKit
10 3 (3.09%) Android Jetpack
10 3 (3.09%) Blazor
10 3 (3.09%) gRPC
10 3 (3.09%) iOS SDK
10 3 (3.09%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (3.09%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 58 (59.79%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.22%) IoT
3 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.06%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.03%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.03%) Animation
6 1 (1.03%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.03%) iPad
6 1 (1.03%) iPhone
6 1 (1.03%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 59 (60.82%) Apple iOS
2 51 (52.58%) Android
3 3 (3.09%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.14%) iOS Development
2 28 (28.87%) Android Development
3 27 (27.84%) Agile
4 26 (26.80%) Performance Optimisation
5 23 (23.71%) User Experience
6 21 (21.65%) CI/CD
7 20 (20.62%) Software Engineering
8 18 (18.56%) Clean Code
9 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (16.49%) Memory Management
10 16 (16.49%) UX Design
11 12 (12.37%) DevOps
11 12 (12.37%) Multithreading
11 12 (12.37%) SOLID
11 12 (12.37%) Wireframes
12 11 (11.34%) Design Patterns
12 11 (11.34%) Wealth Management
13 10 (10.31%) AI
13 10 (10.31%) Code Quality
13 10 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.93%) Kotlin
2 28 (28.87%) Swift
3 21 (21.65%) TypeScript
4 17 (17.53%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) C#
6 6 (6.19%) Objective-C
6 6 (6.19%) SQL
7 4 (4.12%) ABAP
7 4 (4.12%) Java
8 2 (2.06%) C++
9 1 (1.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) C
9 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.12%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Google
1 5 (5.15%) Xamarin
2 4 (4.12%) Apple
2 4 (4.12%) SAP
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.03%) ESRI
4 1 (1.03%) Mapbox