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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 529 655
Rank change year-on-year -91 +126 -102
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 115 118 155
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.30% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 86 80 133
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% +20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,750 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.85% +30.00% -31.03%

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 65,072 38,960 70,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 90.13% 82.28%
Number of salaries quoted 46,074 22,313 49,745
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,760 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -19 43 £95,000 +46.15% 10
North of England -32 33 £65,000 +30.00% 7
South East -22 26 £60,000 - 9
Yorkshire -19 15 - - 1
North West +8 14 £67,500 +12.50% 6
South West -70 9 £77,500 +29.17% 4
East Midlands -13 4 £45,000 -40.98% 4
Midlands -39 4 £45,000 -33.33% 6
North East -57 4 £57,500 +15.00%
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 (3.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.96%) AWS
2 4 (3.48%) npm
3 3 (2.61%) Azure
3 3 (2.61%) Firebase
4 2 (1.74%) GitHub
4 2 (1.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.87%) Bitrise
5 1 (0.87%) GCP
5 1 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.87%) Google Play
5 1 (0.87%) SaaS
5 1 (0.87%) Serverless
5 1 (0.87%) Stripe
5 1 (0.87%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.74%) MySQL
3 2 (1.74%) SQLite
4 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Git
1 4 (3.48%) Maven
1 4 (3.48%) Storybook
2 2 (1.74%) fastlane
2 2 (1.74%) Gradle
2 2 (1.74%) JUnit
2 2 (1.74%) Mockito
3 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.87%) CocoaPods
3 1 (0.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.87%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.87%) Xcode
General
1 35 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Finance
3 6 (5.22%) Publishing
4 4 (3.48%) Law
5 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.61%) Games
5 3 (2.61%) Retail
6 1 (0.87%) Back Office
6 1 (0.87%) Banking
6 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.87%) Front Office
6 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.87%) Marketing
6 1 (0.87%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 91 (79.13%) Developer
2 35 (30.43%) Lead
3 33 (28.70%) Mobile Developer
4 31 (26.96%) Lead Developer
4 31 (26.96%) React Developer
5 27 (23.48%) iOS Developer
6 15 (13.04%) Senior
7 10 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.83%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Android Developer
10 7 (6.09%) iOS Android Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (4.35%) iOS Software Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Mobile Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.48%) .NET Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Angular Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (51.30%) React Native
2 38 (33.04%) RESTful
3 30 (26.09%) GraphQL
4 15 (13.04%) React
4 15 (13.04%) REST
5 12 (10.43%) SwiftUI
6 10 (8.70%) .NET
7 8 (6.96%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.09%) Flutter
9 4 (3.48%) CSS
9 4 (3.48%) HTML
9 4 (3.48%) MDX
10 2 (1.74%) gRPC
10 2 (1.74%) jQuery
10 2 (1.74%) Laravel
10 2 (1.74%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (1.74%) Redux
10 2 (1.74%) Vue
10 2 (1.74%) Web Services
11 1 (0.87%) Core Data
Miscellaneous
1 62 (53.91%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.74%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.87%) IoT
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Smart Home
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (67.83%) Apple iOS
2 60 (52.17%) Android
3 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.57%) iOS Development
2 29 (25.22%) Technical Leadership
3 23 (20.00%) Android Development
4 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
5 14 (12.17%) Agile
5 14 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
6 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
6 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
7 11 (9.57%) Memory Management
7 11 (9.57%) Multithreading
7 11 (9.57%) SOLID
8 10 (8.70%) Roadmaps
9 8 (6.96%) DevOps
9 8 (6.96%) E-Commerce
9 8 (6.96%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.09%) AI
10 7 (6.09%) Computer Vision
10 7 (6.09%) User Experience
11 6 (5.22%) Decision-Making
11 6 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) TypeScript
2 23 (20.00%) Swift
3 21 (18.26%) Kotlin
4 12 (10.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.35%) Java
6 4 (3.48%) SQL
7 2 (1.74%) Dart
7 2 (1.74%) PHP
8 1 (0.87%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (2.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.48%) WCAG
3 2 (1.74%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (3.48%) Adobe
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.74%) SAP
2 2 (1.74%) VMware
3 1 (0.87%) Apple
3 1 (0.87%) Google
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle