Mobile App Job Trends

Mobile Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 246 291
Rank change year-on-year -29 +45 -137
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 500 647 719
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.27% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 3.39% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 328 392 624
10th Percentile £33,525 £36,250 £31,528
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,250 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year - +1.38% -1.36%

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile App falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,263 19,081 26,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.84% 37.33% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10,707 8,877 19,374
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +7.35% -11.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mobile App relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Mobile App job vacancy trend in the UK

Mobile App
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile App.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile App within the UK over the 6 months to 5 February 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
England -8 453 £60,000 - 369
UK excluding London -31 309 £55,000 - 311
London +19 161 £80,000 +6.67% 125
Work from Home -51 158 £62,241 +3.73% 151
North of England -8 90 £57,500 +15.00% 81
South East -20 85 £60,000 +14.29% 93
Midlands +1 53 £45,000 -33.33% 41
North West -8 45 £65,000 +8.33% 43
South West +9 41 £48,750 -18.75% 38
Yorkshire -7 35 £40,000 -11.11% 30
East Midlands +3 27 £45,000 -10.00% 26
West Midlands -10 26 £50,000 -28.57% 15
Scotland -33 24 £34,000 -38.18% 15
East of England -9 15 £60,000 -20.00% 35
North East -17 10 £50,000 +17.65% 8
Wales +4 2 £65,000 - 11

Mobile App
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (1.60%) CMS
2 5 (1.00%) Confluence
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.80%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.20%) Appian
4 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.60%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (18.00%) Azure
2 65 (13.00%) SaaS
3 43 (8.60%) AWS
4 41 (8.20%) Figma
5 27 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.40%) GitHub
6 18 (3.60%) GCP
7 15 (3.00%) Serverless
8 14 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 12 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (2.40%) Azure Functions
9 12 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.80%) Firebase
12 7 (1.40%) Google Play
13 6 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.80%) BigCommerce
15 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.20%) Broadband
2 23 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (4.60%) Wireless
3 10 (2.00%) VPN
4 7 (1.40%) DNS
5 6 (1.20%) DHCP
5 6 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.80%) Firewall
6 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.60%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.40%) 4G
8 2 (0.40%) LAN
9 1 (0.20%) HTTP
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.40%) MySQL
2 9 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.20%) GIS
4 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 19 (3.80%) Git
2 14 (2.80%) Burp Suite
2 14 (2.80%) JIRA
2 14 (2.80%) Metasploit
3 12 (2.40%) Xcode
4 9 (1.80%) Storybook
5 7 (1.40%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.00%) Postman
6 5 (1.00%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Appium
7 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.40%) CMake
8 2 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
General
1 101 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 63 (12.60%) Finance
3 48 (9.60%) Retail
4 39 (7.80%) Marketing
5 26 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.40%) Billing
6 22 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.00%) Advertising
7 20 (4.00%) Banking
8 18 (3.60%) Games
9 16 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.00%) Legal
11 14 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.60%) Electronics
13 12 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.00%) Tech for Good
15 9 (1.80%) Health Technology
16 8 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.60%) Public Sector
17 7 (1.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 190 (38.00%) Developer
2 111 (22.20%) Senior
3 51 (10.20%) Applications Developer
3 51 (10.20%) Lead
4 40 (8.00%) iOS Developer
4 40 (8.00%) Mobile Developer
5 39 (7.80%) Analyst
6 36 (7.20%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.00%) Designer
8 28 (5.60%) .NET Developer
8 28 (5.60%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 27 (5.40%) React Developer
10 21 (4.20%) Product Designer
10 21 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (4.20%) Senior Designer
11 18 (3.60%) Architect
12 17 (3.40%) Android Developer
12 17 (3.40%) Senior Product Designer
13 16 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (3.20%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (20.60%) React Native
2 80 (16.00%) React
3 64 (12.80%) .NET
4 40 (8.00%) RESTful
5 39 (7.80%) CSS
6 37 (7.40%) HTML
7 36 (7.20%) Node.js
8 24 (4.80%) SwiftUI
9 17 (3.40%) REST
10 16 (3.20%) Bootstrap
11 15 (3.00%) Vue
12 14 (2.80%) Next.js
13 13 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 12 (2.40%) Flutter
15 10 (2.00%) Laravel
15 10 (2.00%) Spring
15 10 (2.00%) Spring Boot
16 9 (1.80%) Express.js
16 9 (1.80%) Jest
16 9 (1.80%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 26 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.80%) IoT
5 17 (3.40%) EPoS
6 16 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.40%) iPhone
8 11 (2.20%) iPad
9 9 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.60%) PropTech
11 7 (1.40%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.80%) Social Media
14 4 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 124 (24.80%) Android
2 121 (24.20%) Apple iOS
3 21 (4.20%) Windows
4 6 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.40%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (30.80%) Agile
2 92 (18.40%) User Experience
3 90 (18.00%) Mentoring
4 89 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (15.80%) Mobile Application Development
6 70 (14.00%) CI/CD
7 64 (12.80%) Software Engineering
8 62 (12.40%) Android Development
9 61 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 59 (11.80%) UX Design
11 58 (11.60%) Mobile Development
12 56 (11.20%) DevOps
13 53 (10.60%) iOS Development
14 52 (10.40%) Collaborative Culture
15 51 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (9.40%) AI
17 46 (9.20%) B2B
17 46 (9.20%) Wireframes
18 41 (8.20%) Test Automation
18 41 (8.20%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 49 (9.80%) TypeScript
2 47 (9.40%) JavaScript
3 39 (7.80%) Kotlin
4 34 (6.80%) Swift
5 32 (6.40%) C#
6 26 (5.20%) SQL
7 23 (4.60%) Python
8 21 (4.20%) Java
9 14 (2.80%) Bash
10 11 (2.20%) PHP
11 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.60%) C++
12 8 (1.60%) VBA
13 5 (1.00%) C
14 4 (0.80%) Perl
14 4 (0.80%) XAML
15 3 (0.60%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.60%) Ruby
16 2 (0.40%) Groovy
17 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (8.00%) Degree
2 24 (4.80%) CREST Certified
2 24 (4.80%) OSCP
3 21 (4.20%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (4.00%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.60%) CCSAM
6 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.80%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.40%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.60%) CISSP
10 2 (0.40%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.40%) CEH
10 2 (0.40%) CISA
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.40%) GPEN
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) Tigerscheme
11 1 (0.20%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.40%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.60%) QA
3 7 (1.40%) GDPR
3 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.20%) SLA
5 5 (1.00%) WCAG
6 4 (0.80%) GRC
7 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) Section 508
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (2.80%) Docker
2 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (4.20%) Terraform
2 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.20%) Nessus
4 9 (1.80%) Ansible
4 9 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.80%) Nmap
6 3 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (5.20%) Adobe
1 26 (5.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.20%) Xamarin
3 20 (4.00%) Apple
4 18 (3.60%) Google
5 8 (1.60%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.60%) Blue Prism
5 8 (1.60%) Pega
6 7 (1.40%) Okta
7 6 (1.20%) ESRI
8 5 (1.00%) SAP
8 5 (1.00%) Zoho
9 4 (0.80%) Samsung
9 4 (0.80%) VMware
10 3 (0.60%) Cvent
10 3 (0.60%) Mapbox
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) WooCommerce
11 2 (0.40%) Facebook
11 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow