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 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 256 296
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -127
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 561 568 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.24% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 3.23% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 346 381 651
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 22,683 17,596 28,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 38.49% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,516 8,608 20,435
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,086
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +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 March 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 March 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 0 515 £60,000 - 307
UK excluding London +2 379 £55,000 - 260
Work from Home -36 180 £60,000 - 118
London -5 154 £70,000 +7.69% 110
North of England +15 117 £60,000 +20.00% 74
South East -12 101 £60,000 +26.32% 62
Midlands -9 66 £45,000 -33.33% 45
Yorkshire +3 61 £40,000 -11.11% 25
North West -3 46 £65,000 +8.33% 42
South West -3 45 £47,500 -20.83% 27
East Midlands +7 36 £45,000 +2.86% 27
West Midlands -33 30 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Scotland -31 26 £34,000 -43.33% 19
East of England -5 23 £40,000 -37.25% 24
North East -18 10 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales -9 2 £65,000 - 10

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 (1.43%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.25%) CMS
2 7 (1.25%) Confluence
3 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Appian
6 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.43%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.53%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (16.40%) Azure
2 62 (11.05%) SaaS
3 56 (9.98%) AWS
4 44 (7.84%) Figma
5 26 (4.63%) GitHub
6 24 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (4.10%) GCP
8 16 (2.85%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.85%) Serverless
9 14 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.32%) Firebase
11 11 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.78%) Azure Functions
12 10 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.07%) Google Play
14 5 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.89%) TestFlight
15 4 (0.71%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.63%) Broadband
2 23 (4.10%) Wireless
3 22 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.67%) VPN
5 8 (1.43%) Firewall
6 7 (1.25%) DNS
7 6 (1.07%) DHCP
7 6 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.07%) WAN
8 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.53%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.36%) LAN
11 1 (0.18%) 4G
11 1 (0.18%) HTTP
11 1 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.32%) MySQL
2 10 (1.78%) GIS
3 9 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.18%) Big Data
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.18%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 17 (3.03%) Git
2 16 (2.85%) JIRA
3 14 (2.50%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.50%) Metasploit
4 11 (1.96%) Xcode
5 6 (1.07%) Android Studio
5 6 (1.07%) Storybook
5 6 (1.07%) XCUITest
6 5 (0.89%) Crashlytics
6 5 (0.89%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.89%) Postman
7 4 (0.71%) Appium
7 4 (0.71%) Selenium
8 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.53%) XCTest
9 2 (0.36%) CMake
9 2 (0.36%) GitLab
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 95 (16.93%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.16%) Finance
3 47 (8.38%) Retail
4 41 (7.31%) Games
5 35 (6.24%) Marketing
6 25 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.92%) Banking
7 22 (3.92%) Billing
7 22 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.74%) Advertising
9 14 (2.50%) Legal
10 13 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.14%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.96%) Electronics
12 11 (1.96%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.43%) Law
13 8 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 206 (36.72%) Developer
2 130 (23.17%) Senior
3 57 (10.16%) Applications Developer
3 57 (10.16%) Lead
4 47 (8.38%) iOS Developer
5 44 (7.84%) Mobile Developer
6 40 (7.13%) Designer
7 38 (6.77%) Analyst
8 37 (6.60%) Senior Developer
9 31 (5.53%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 31 (5.53%) Senior Designer
10 28 (4.99%) .NET Developer
11 27 (4.81%) Product Designer
12 23 (4.10%) Senior Product Designer
13 21 (3.74%) Android Developer
13 21 (3.74%) React Developer
13 21 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
14 19 (3.39%) Software Engineer
15 16 (2.85%) Applications Engineer
15 16 (2.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (17.29%) React Native
2 69 (12.30%) React
3 64 (11.41%) .NET
4 41 (7.31%) RESTful
5 38 (6.77%) CSS
6 36 (6.42%) HTML
7 31 (5.53%) SwiftUI
8 30 (5.35%) Node.js
9 17 (3.03%) Bootstrap
9 17 (3.03%) Vue
10 15 (2.67%) REST
11 14 (2.50%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.50%) Flutter
12 11 (1.96%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.96%) Next.js
12 11 (1.96%) Spring
12 11 (1.96%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.78%) Laravel
14 9 (1.60%) Express.js
15 8 (1.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.56%) Onboarding
2 34 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.63%) EPoS
5 22 (3.92%) IoT
6 17 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.14%) iPhone
8 11 (1.96%) iPad
8 11 (1.96%) Social Media
9 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
10 9 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.43%) PropTech
12 7 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
15 4 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 156 (27.81%) Android
2 151 (26.92%) Apple iOS
3 22 (3.92%) Windows
4 6 (1.07%) Linux
4 6 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.36%) Debian
7 2 (0.36%) Nucleus RTOS
7 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Unix
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (32.62%) Agile
2 107 (19.07%) Mentoring
3 100 (17.83%) User Experience
4 97 (17.29%) CI/CD
5 95 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (14.08%) Mobile Application Development
7 75 (13.37%) AI
8 68 (12.12%) Android Development
9 64 (11.41%) Software Engineering
10 61 (10.87%) iOS Development
10 61 (10.87%) Mobile Development
11 60 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 58 (10.34%) UX Design
13 55 (9.80%) DevOps
14 53 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (9.45%) Test Automation
15 52 (9.27%) Collaborative Culture
16 49 (8.73%) Analytics
17 47 (8.38%) User Research
18 46 (8.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (9.27%) Kotlin
2 41 (7.31%) JavaScript
2 41 (7.31%) Swift
2 41 (7.31%) TypeScript
3 35 (6.24%) C#
4 31 (5.53%) SQL
5 29 (5.17%) Java
6 24 (4.28%) Python
7 15 (2.67%) Bash
8 12 (2.14%) PHP
9 9 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.43%) C++
10 8 (1.43%) VBA
11 5 (0.89%) C
12 4 (0.71%) XAML
13 3 (0.53%) Perl
13 3 (0.53%) Ruby
14 2 (0.36%) Go
14 2 (0.36%) Groovy
14 2 (0.36%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 39 (6.95%) Degree
2 25 (4.46%) CREST Certified
2 25 (4.46%) OSCP
3 21 (3.74%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (3.57%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.21%) CCSAM
6 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.96%) Security Cleared
7 10 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.60%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.53%) CISSP
9 3 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.36%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.36%) CEH
10 2 (0.36%) CISA
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.36%) GPEN
10 2 (0.36%) PhD
10 2 (0.36%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.87%) Accessibility
2 26 (4.63%) QA
3 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.89%) GDPR
5 5 (0.89%) SLA
6 4 (0.71%) GRC
6 4 (0.71%) WCAG
7 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.36%) Section 508
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (2.67%) Docker
2 9 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.10%) Terraform
2 18 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.96%) Ansible
3 11 (1.96%) Nessus
4 10 (1.78%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.71%) Nmap
7 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 34 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.17%) Adobe
3 23 (4.10%) Apple
3 23 (4.10%) Xamarin
4 20 (3.57%) Google
5 10 (1.78%) ESRI
6 8 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.43%) Blue Prism
6 8 (1.43%) Pega
7 7 (1.25%) Okta
8 6 (1.07%) Samsung
9 5 (0.89%) Zoho
10 4 (0.71%) Amplitude
10 4 (0.71%) VMware
11 3 (0.53%) Hotjar
11 3 (0.53%) Mapbox
11 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.53%) SAP
11 3 (0.53%) WooCommerce
12 2 (0.36%) Facebook