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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 249 294
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 -131
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 536 623 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.27% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.43% 3.35% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 342 389 630
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £31,475
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 £72,188 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -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 22,088 18,594 27,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.21% 38.02% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,217 8,739 19,795
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 20 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 20 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 +4 490 £60,000 - 327
UK excluding London -22 351 £52,500 -8.70% 292
Work from Home -51 169 £60,000 -4.00% 134
London +5 158 £70,000 +7.69% 96
North of England 0 101 £57,500 +4.55% 80
South East -26 96 £60,000 +20.00% 76
Midlands -15 63 £45,000 -33.33% 47
North West -5 46 £64,741 +7.90% 42
Yorkshire -9 45 £40,000 -11.11% 32
South West -4 43 £47,500 -20.83% 35
East Midlands +9 34 £45,000 -10.00% 23
West Midlands -25 29 £50,000 -28.57% 24
Scotland -35 26 £34,000 -42.13% 18
East of England -5 21 £47,500 -36.67% 26
North East -17 10 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -1 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 (1.49%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.31%) CMS
2 7 (1.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.56%) Sketch
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (17.16%) Azure
2 62 (11.57%) SaaS
3 52 (9.70%) AWS
4 42 (7.84%) Figma
5 29 (5.41%) GitHub
6 26 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.92%) GCP
8 17 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 15 (2.80%) Serverless
10 13 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.05%) Firebase
12 10 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.87%) Azure Functions
12 10 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.12%) Google Play
14 5 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.75%) BigCommerce
15 4 (0.75%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.28%) Broadband
2 23 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (4.29%) Wireless
3 14 (2.61%) VPN
4 7 (1.31%) DNS
4 7 (1.31%) Firewall
5 6 (1.12%) DHCP
5 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.12%) WAN
6 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.56%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.37%) 4G
8 2 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.19%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) Internet
9 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.24%) MySQL
2 10 (1.87%) GIS
3 9 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Big Data
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.19%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 18 (3.36%) Git
2 16 (2.99%) JIRA
3 14 (2.61%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.61%) Metasploit
4 11 (2.05%) Xcode
5 9 (1.68%) Storybook
6 6 (1.12%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.12%) Postman
7 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.93%) Selenium
7 5 (0.93%) XCUITest
8 4 (0.75%) Appium
8 4 (0.75%) Crashlytics
9 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.37%) CMake
10 2 (0.37%) GitLab
10 2 (0.37%) JMeter
10 2 (0.37%) XCTest
General
1 100 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 61 (11.38%) Finance
3 49 (9.14%) Retail
4 38 (7.09%) Marketing
5 26 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.85%) Games
6 22 (4.10%) Billing
6 22 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.92%) Banking
8 20 (3.73%) Advertising
8 20 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.61%) Legal
9 14 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.24%) Electronics
11 11 (2.05%) Health Technology
11 11 (2.05%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.49%) Law
12 8 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 199 (37.13%) Developer
2 125 (23.32%) Senior
3 54 (10.07%) Applications Developer
4 52 (9.70%) Lead
5 43 (8.02%) iOS Developer
5 43 (8.02%) Mobile Developer
6 39 (7.28%) Analyst
7 37 (6.90%) Designer
7 37 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 30 (5.60%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 28 (5.22%) Senior Designer
10 27 (5.04%) .NET Developer
10 27 (5.04%) Product Designer
11 23 (4.29%) React Developer
11 23 (4.29%) Senior Product Designer
12 21 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
13 18 (3.36%) Android Developer
13 18 (3.36%) Software Engineer
14 16 (2.99%) Consultant
15 15 (2.80%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (18.66%) React Native
2 75 (13.99%) React
3 65 (12.13%) .NET
4 39 (7.28%) RESTful
5 38 (7.09%) CSS
6 36 (6.72%) HTML
7 34 (6.34%) Node.js
8 28 (5.22%) SwiftUI
9 17 (3.17%) Vue
10 16 (2.99%) Bootstrap
11 15 (2.80%) Next.js
11 15 (2.80%) REST
12 14 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.61%) Flutter
13 11 (2.05%) Spring
13 11 (2.05%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.87%) Jest
14 10 (1.87%) Laravel
15 9 (1.68%) Express.js
16 8 (1.49%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.28%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (4.48%) EPoS
5 21 (3.92%) IoT
6 17 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.24%) iPhone
8 11 (2.05%) iPad
9 9 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.49%) PropTech
11 7 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.93%) Social Media
13 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 140 (26.12%) Android
2 139 (25.93%) Apple iOS
3 23 (4.29%) Windows
4 6 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.93%) Linux
6 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (31.34%) Agile
2 99 (18.47%) User Experience
3 98 (18.28%) Mentoring
4 92 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (15.11%) CI/CD
6 77 (14.37%) Mobile Application Development
7 64 (11.94%) Software Engineering
8 63 (11.75%) Android Development
9 61 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 59 (11.01%) Mobile Development
11 58 (10.82%) AI
11 58 (10.82%) UX Design
12 57 (10.63%) iOS Development
13 56 (10.45%) DevOps
14 52 (9.70%) Collaborative Culture
14 52 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (8.77%) Test Automation
15 47 (8.77%) User Research
16 46 (8.58%) Analytics
17 45 (8.40%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 47 (8.77%) TypeScript
2 46 (8.58%) JavaScript
3 44 (8.21%) Kotlin
4 37 (6.90%) Swift
5 34 (6.34%) C#
6 30 (5.60%) SQL
7 24 (4.48%) Python
8 23 (4.29%) Java
9 14 (2.61%) Bash
10 12 (2.24%) PHP
11 9 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.49%) C++
12 8 (1.49%) VBA
13 5 (0.93%) C
14 4 (0.75%) XAML
15 3 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.56%) Ruby
16 2 (0.37%) Go
16 2 (0.37%) Groovy
16 2 (0.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 37 (6.90%) Degree
2 25 (4.66%) CREST Certified
2 25 (4.66%) OSCP
3 21 (3.92%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (3.73%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.36%) CCSAM
6 11 (2.05%) Security Cleared
7 10 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.68%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.56%) CISSP
10 2 (0.37%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.37%) CEH
10 2 (0.37%) CISA
10 2 (0.37%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.37%) GPEN
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.37%) PhD
10 2 (0.37%) Tigerscheme
11 1 (0.19%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.96%) Accessibility
2 26 (4.85%) QA
3 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.12%) GDPR
4 6 (1.12%) SLA
5 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.93%) WCAG
6 4 (0.75%) GRC
7 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.37%) Section 508
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (2.61%) Docker
2 9 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.29%) Terraform
2 17 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.05%) Nessus
4 10 (1.87%) Ansible
4 10 (1.87%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.75%) Nmap
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (6.34%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.22%) Adobe
3 24 (4.48%) Apple
4 23 (4.29%) Xamarin
5 19 (3.54%) Google
6 10 (1.87%) ESRI
7 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.49%) Blue Prism
7 8 (1.49%) Pega
8 7 (1.31%) Okta
9 6 (1.12%) Samsung
10 5 (0.93%) Zoho
11 4 (0.75%) SAP
11 4 (0.75%) VMware
12 3 (0.56%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.56%) Mapbox
12 3 (0.56%) WooCommerce
13 2 (0.37%) Cvent
13 2 (0.37%) Instagram
13 2 (0.37%) YouTube