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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 521 593
Rank change year-on-year +5 +72 -100
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 86 141 90
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.32% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 69 80 73
10th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £71,000 £78,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 43,077 43,814 44,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.14% 90.86% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25,929 21,493 34,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
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 £79,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +26 43 £60,000 - 25
London +45 21 £65,000 -18.75% 8
North of England +7 9 £66,250 -3.64% 17
South West -8 8 £40,000 -33.33% 7
Midlands +16 4 £58,750 +2.17% 11
North West +20 3 £55,000 -24.14% 9
West Midlands +17 3 £47,500 -33.33% 5
North East +12 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -15 3 £77,500 +55.00% 7
East Midlands -14 1 £70,000 +24.44% 6
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 (2.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.49%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.12%) Azure
2 9 (10.47%) SaaS
3 6 (6.98%) GitHub
4 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.65%) Figma
5 4 (4.65%) Google Play
6 2 (2.33%) AWS
6 2 (2.33%) Firebase
6 2 (2.33%) PaaS
7 1 (1.16%) GCP
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) TestFlight
7 1 (1.16%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.49%) MySQL
3 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.16%) GIS
4 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Git
1 7 (8.14%) Storybook
2 2 (2.33%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.16%) CMake
3 1 (1.16%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.16%) Xcode
General
1 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Finance
3 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.49%) Billing
4 3 (3.49%) Marketing
5 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.16%) Publishing
6 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (76.74%) Developer
2 26 (30.23%) Mobile Developer
3 22 (25.58%) iOS Developer
4 15 (17.44%) React Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 10 (11.63%) Senior
6 7 (8.14%) Bluetooth Developer
6 7 (8.14%) IoT Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
8 4 (4.65%) Android Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Android Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Android Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) Development Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) Principal Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) Principal SAP Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.49%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.40%) React Native
2 17 (19.77%) RESTful
2 17 (19.77%) SwiftUI
3 16 (18.60%) .NET
4 15 (17.44%) React
5 10 (11.63%) Next.js
6 7 (8.14%) Ionic Framework
7 5 (5.81%) Flutter
7 5 (5.81%) Jest
7 5 (5.81%) REST
7 5 (5.81%) WebSockets
8 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.49%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (3.49%) gRPC
9 3 (3.49%) iOS SDK
9 3 (3.49%) Jetpack Compose
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (3.49%) SAPUI5
9 3 (3.49%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 57 (66.28%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.14%) IoT
3 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.49%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.33%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.16%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.16%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.16%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 51 (59.30%) Apple iOS
2 43 (50.00%) Android
3 3 (3.49%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) iOS Development
2 28 (32.56%) Performance Optimisation
3 27 (31.40%) Android Development
4 22 (25.58%) Agile
4 22 (25.58%) User Experience
5 18 (20.93%) Memory Management
6 17 (19.77%) CI/CD
7 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
7 15 (17.44%) UX Design
8 14 (16.28%) Multithreading
8 14 (16.28%) SOLID
9 13 (15.12%) Clean Code
9 13 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.63%) AI
10 10 (11.63%) DevOps
11 8 (9.30%) API Integration
11 8 (9.30%) Code Quality
11 8 (9.30%) Wealth Management
11 8 (9.30%) Wireframes
12 7 (8.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.40%) Kotlin
2 23 (26.74%) Swift
3 18 (20.93%) TypeScript
4 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.14%) C#
6 6 (6.98%) SQL
7 4 (4.65%) ABAP
8 2 (2.33%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.16%) Bash
9 1 (1.16%) C
9 1 (1.16%) C++
9 1 (1.16%) Java
9 1 (1.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.65%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (5.81%) Google
1 5 (5.81%) SAP
1 5 (5.81%) Xamarin
2 4 (4.65%) Apple
3 1 (1.16%) ESRI
3 1 (1.16%) Mapbox
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft