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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 519 674
Rank change year-on-year -65 +155 -141
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 104 111 162
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 87 72 148
10th Percentile - £47,500 £29,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -20.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -18.52%

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 60,747 36,431 71,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.63% 93.15% 85.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38,643 20,635 53,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%

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 May 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 7 May 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
South East +4 49 £60,000 - 3
London -27 30 £95,000 +46.15% 10
North of England -45 12 £65,000 +13.04% 9
South West -58 12 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire -48 7 - - 3
North West -18 4 £65,000 +6.12% 5
West Midlands -30 1 £70,000 +3.70%
Midlands -34 1 £70,000 +3.70% 2
North East - 1 - - 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.92%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.88%) Azure
1 3 (2.88%) Google Play
2 2 (1.92%) AWS
2 2 (1.92%) Figma
2 2 (1.92%) SaaS
3 1 (0.96%) Azure AKS
3 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (0.96%) Firebase
3 1 (0.96%) GCP
3 1 (0.96%) GitHub
3 1 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (0.96%) Serverless
3 1 (0.96%) Stripe
3 1 (0.96%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Bluetooth
2 3 (2.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.96%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (0.96%) GIS
3 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Git
2 2 (1.92%) Android Studio
2 2 (1.92%) Gradle
2 2 (1.92%) JUnit
2 2 (1.92%) Mockito
3 1 (0.96%) CMake
3 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.96%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.96%) Xcode
General
1 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.73%) Finance
3 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.88%) Games
4 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.92%) Retail
4 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.96%) Back Office
5 1 (0.96%) Banking
5 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.96%) Law
5 1 (0.96%) Marketing
5 1 (0.96%) Polish Language
5 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (84.62%) Developer
2 39 (37.50%) iOS Developer
3 34 (32.69%) React Developer
4 27 (25.96%) Mobile Developer
5 21 (20.19%) Lead
6 17 (16.35%) Lead Developer
7 12 (11.54%) Senior
8 7 (6.73%) Bluetooth Developer
8 7 (6.73%) IoT Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Android Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.81%) iOS Android Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Android Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.88%) Development Manager
12 3 (2.88%) iOS Software Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (45.19%) React Native
2 35 (33.65%) RESTful
3 18 (17.31%) GraphQL
3 18 (17.31%) SwiftUI
4 8 (7.69%) React
5 7 (6.73%) .NET
6 6 (5.77%) REST
7 4 (3.85%) Flutter
7 4 (3.85%) gRPC
8 3 (2.88%) Ionic Framework
9 2 (1.92%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (1.92%) CSS
9 2 (1.92%) HTML
9 2 (1.92%) Jetpack Compose
9 2 (1.92%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (1.92%) WebSockets
10 1 (0.96%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.96%) OpenGL
10 1 (0.96%) Qt Quick
10 1 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (67.31%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.73%) IoT
3 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.92%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.96%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (71.15%) Apple iOS
2 60 (57.69%) Android
3 3 (2.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.31%) iOS Development
2 30 (28.85%) Android Development
3 24 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
4 21 (20.19%) Memory Management
5 20 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (18.27%) SOLID
7 18 (17.31%) Multithreading
8 15 (14.42%) Agile
9 13 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.65%) User Experience
11 8 (7.69%) AI
11 8 (7.69%) Software Engineering
11 8 (7.69%) Test Automation
12 7 (6.73%) Mobile Application Development
13 6 (5.77%) Decision-Making
14 5 (4.81%) Continuous Integration
14 5 (4.81%) Data Modelling
14 5 (4.81%) UX Design
15 4 (3.85%) E-Commerce
15 4 (3.85%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.96%) Kotlin
2 21 (20.19%) Swift
3 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.81%) SQL
6 1 (0.96%) Bash
6 1 (0.96%) C
6 1 (0.96%) C#
6 1 (0.96%) C++
6 1 (0.96%) Java
6 1 (0.96%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (2.88%) Degree
2 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.96%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (3.85%) Apple
1 4 (3.85%) Google
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) VMware
3 1 (0.96%) ESRI
3 1 (0.96%) Mapbox
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle
3 1 (0.96%) SAP
3 1 (0.96%) Xamarin