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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 568 599
Rank change year-on-year +50 +31 -148
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 105 162 92
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 78 96 77
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £71,188 £81,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £92,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -17.24% +11.54%

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 39,525 51,629 43,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.31% 84.22% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,668 27,141 33,564
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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 22 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 22 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
South East +29 33 £60,000 - 17
London +55 27 £77,500 -8.82% 29
North of England +40 20 £50,000 -16.67% 16
South West +27 15 £45,000 -30.77% 8
North East +26 11 £50,000 - 3
Midlands +58 8 £53,750 -2.27% 5
West Midlands +51 7 £52,500 -2.33% 5
North West +39 5 £55,000 -12.00% 10
Yorkshire +8 4 £77,500 +93.75% 3
East Midlands +26 1 £70,000 +27.27%
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.95%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.19%) Azure
2 12 (11.43%) GitHub
3 9 (8.57%) SaaS
4 7 (6.67%) Figma
5 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.76%) Google Play
7 4 (3.81%) AWS
8 3 (2.86%) Firebase
8 3 (2.86%) PaaS
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.95%) IaaS
9 1 (0.95%) TestFlight
9 1 (0.95%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.86%) MySQL
2 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.95%) GIS
4 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (21.90%) Git
2 10 (9.52%) Storybook
3 7 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (1.90%) Crashlytics
4 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.95%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.95%) CMake
5 1 (0.95%) fastlane
5 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.95%) Xcode
General
1 20 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.48%) Finance
3 3 (2.86%) Billing
3 3 (2.86%) Marketing
4 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.90%) Publishing
4 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.95%) Law
5 1 (0.95%) Military
5 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (70.48%) Developer
2 43 (40.95%) Mobile Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 11 (10.48%) iOS Developer
5 11 (10.48%) Lead
5 11 (10.48%) Mobile Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) React Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Android Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Bluetooth Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Flutter Developer
8 5 (4.76%) IoT Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Consultant
10 3 (2.86%) Lead iOS Developer
10 3 (2.86%) Principal Consultant
10 3 (2.86%) Principal SAP Consultant
10 3 (2.86%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.24%) React Native
2 23 (21.90%) React
3 20 (19.05%) .NET
4 16 (15.24%) RESTful
5 14 (13.33%) Next.js
5 14 (13.33%) SwiftUI
6 10 (9.52%) Jest
7 9 (8.57%) GraphQL
8 8 (7.62%) Flutter
9 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.71%) REST
10 6 (5.71%) UIKit
11 5 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
11 5 (4.76%) Ionic Framework
11 5 (4.76%) Jetpack Compose
12 4 (3.81%) .NET Framework
12 4 (3.81%) HTML
12 4 (3.81%) OkHttp
12 4 (3.81%) Retrofit
13 3 (2.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (47.62%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.76%) IoT
3 4 (3.81%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Animation
4 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.90%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.95%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.95%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.95%) iPad
6 1 (0.95%) iPhone
6 1 (0.95%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.95%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.95%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 60 (57.14%) Android
1 60 (57.14%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.19%) Agile
2 32 (30.48%) Android Development
2 32 (30.48%) iOS Development
3 26 (24.76%) Clean Code
4 24 (22.86%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 23 (21.90%) User Experience
6 20 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (18.10%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 15 (14.29%) UX Design
9 15 (14.29%) Wireframes
10 12 (11.43%) Code Quality
10 12 (11.43%) DevOps
11 11 (10.48%) Wealth Management
12 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.57%) SOLID
12 9 (8.57%) Test Automation
13 8 (7.62%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.52%) Swift
2 30 (28.57%) Kotlin
3 25 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 24 (22.86%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.43%) C#
6 9 (8.57%) Objective-C
7 7 (6.67%) SQL
8 6 (5.71%) Java
9 4 (3.81%) ABAP
10 2 (1.90%) C++
10 2 (1.90%) PHP
10 2 (1.90%) Ruby
11 1 (0.95%) Bash
11 1 (0.95%) C
11 1 (0.95%) Dart
11 1 (0.95%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (10.48%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) Xamarin
2 5 (4.76%) Google
3 4 (3.81%) Samsung
3 4 (3.81%) SAP
4 3 (2.86%) Apple
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe
5 1 (0.95%) ESRI
5 1 (0.95%) Mapbox