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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 246 292
Rank change year-on-year -24 +46 -144
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 477 651 665
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.24% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 3.33% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 323 386 581
10th Percentile £33,150 £36,250 £32,500
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% -15.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 21,027 19,576 24,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.32% 37.35% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,548 9,061 18,131
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
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 28 January 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 28 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
England -24 431 £60,000 - 316
UK excluding London -46 287 £55,000 - 300
London +18 161 £75,000 -6.25% 79
Work from Home -57 153 £64,741 +7.90% 141
North of England -7 82 £60,000 +20.00% 75
South East -26 76 £60,000 +14.29% 94
Midlands -15 52 £45,000 -33.33% 30
North West +3 44 £67,500 +12.50% 38
South West +7 40 £50,000 -16.67% 40
Yorkshire -17 28 £40,000 -11.11% 31
East Midlands +6 27 £45,000 -10.00% 18
West Midlands -10 25 £50,000 -28.57% 12
Scotland -34 24 £34,000 -38.18% 13
East of England -9 12 £60,000 -20.00% 37
North East -10 10 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Wales +6 2 £65,000 - 13

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 (1.68%) CMS
2 5 (1.05%) Confluence
2 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.63%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Appian
5 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.63%) Sketch
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.21%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Shopify
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (18.45%) Azure
2 66 (13.84%) SaaS
3 41 (8.60%) Figma
4 40 (8.39%) AWS
5 28 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (5.66%) GitHub
7 17 (3.56%) GCP
8 16 (3.35%) Serverless
9 13 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (2.73%) Azure Functions
9 13 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (2.73%) Entra ID
10 12 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (1.89%) Firebase
12 8 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (1.47%) Google Play
14 5 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.84%) OneDrive
16 3 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.03%) Broadband
2 23 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (3.98%) Wireless
4 9 (1.89%) VPN
5 7 (1.47%) DNS
6 6 (1.26%) DHCP
6 6 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.26%) WAN
7 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.63%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.42%) 4G
9 2 (0.42%) Firewall
9 2 (0.42%) LAN
10 1 (0.21%) HTTP
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.52%) MySQL
2 11 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.05%) GIS
5 5 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Big Data
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.21%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (3.98%) Git
2 14 (2.94%) JIRA
3 12 (2.52%) Burp Suite
3 12 (2.52%) Metasploit
3 12 (2.52%) Xcode
4 9 (1.89%) Storybook
5 7 (1.47%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.26%) Selenium
7 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.05%) Postman
8 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.63%) Appium
9 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.63%) JMeter
10 2 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.42%) CMake
10 2 (0.42%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.42%) XCUITest
General
1 101 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 59 (12.37%) Finance
3 50 (10.48%) Retail
4 40 (8.39%) Marketing
5 26 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.61%) Billing
6 22 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.19%) Advertising
7 20 (4.19%) Banking
8 16 (3.35%) Legal
8 16 (3.35%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.73%) Electronics
10 12 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.31%) Games
12 10 (2.10%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.89%) Health Technology
13 9 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 189 (39.62%) Developer
2 102 (21.38%) Senior
3 52 (10.90%) Applications Developer
4 48 (10.06%) Lead
5 40 (8.39%) Mobile Developer
6 38 (7.97%) iOS Developer
7 37 (7.76%) Analyst
7 37 (7.76%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.29%) .NET Developer
9 29 (6.08%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 28 (5.87%) React Developer
11 23 (4.82%) Designer
12 20 (4.19%) Architect
13 19 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.56%) Android Developer
15 17 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.35%) Consultant
16 16 (3.35%) Lead Developer
16 16 (3.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (21.59%) React Native
2 81 (16.98%) React
3 66 (13.84%) .NET
4 41 (8.60%) RESTful
5 39 (8.18%) CSS
6 38 (7.97%) Node.js
7 37 (7.76%) HTML
8 23 (4.82%) SwiftUI
9 17 (3.56%) REST
10 16 (3.35%) Vue
11 15 (3.14%) Bootstrap
12 13 (2.73%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.73%) Next.js
13 11 (2.31%) Flutter
14 10 (2.10%) Laravel
15 9 (1.89%) Express.js
15 9 (1.89%) GraphQL
15 9 (1.89%) Jest
15 9 (1.89%) Spring
15 9 (1.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.08%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.77%) IoT
5 16 (3.35%) EPoS
6 14 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.52%) iPhone
8 11 (2.31%) iPad
9 8 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (1.68%) PropTech
10 7 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.84%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 117 (24.53%) Android
2 113 (23.69%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.19%) Windows
4 6 (1.26%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.63%) Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.42%) Nucleus RTOS
7 2 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (28.93%) Agile
2 91 (19.08%) User Experience
3 83 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (16.77%) Mentoring
5 79 (16.56%) Mobile Application Development
6 64 (13.42%) Software Engineering
7 63 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 61 (12.79%) Android Development
8 61 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (12.37%) UX Design
10 56 (11.74%) DevOps
10 56 (11.74%) Mobile Development
11 52 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (10.69%) iOS Development
13 47 (9.85%) B2B
14 46 (9.64%) Collaborative Culture
15 45 (9.43%) Wireframes
16 41 (8.60%) Test Automation
17 38 (7.97%) AI
18 34 (7.13%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 49 (10.27%) TypeScript
2 47 (9.85%) JavaScript
3 37 (7.76%) Kotlin
4 35 (7.34%) C#
5 33 (6.92%) Swift
6 27 (5.66%) SQL
7 21 (4.40%) Python
8 20 (4.19%) Java
9 13 (2.73%) Bash
10 11 (2.31%) PHP
11 8 (1.68%) C++
11 8 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.68%) VBA
12 5 (1.05%) C
13 4 (0.84%) XAML
14 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.63%) Perl
15 2 (0.42%) Groovy
15 2 (0.42%) Ruby
15 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (7.97%) Degree
2 20 (4.19%) CREST Certified
3 19 (3.98%) OSCP
4 17 (3.56%) CHECK Team Member
5 16 (3.35%) CHECK Team Leader
6 14 (2.94%) CCSAM
7 13 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.52%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.89%) Security Cleared
10 7 (1.47%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.42%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.42%) CEH
11 2 (0.42%) CISA
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) PhD
11 2 (0.42%) Tigerscheme
12 1 (0.21%) GPEN
12 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.71%) Accessibility
2 24 (5.03%) QA
3 9 (1.89%) GDPR
4 8 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.26%) SLA
5 6 (1.26%) WCAG
6 4 (0.84%) GRC
7 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.42%) Section 508
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (2.94%) Docker
2 9 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.19%) Terraform
2 10 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (1.89%) Nessus
3 9 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.68%) Ansible
5 7 (1.47%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.84%) Nmap
7 3 (0.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (5.45%) Adobe
1 26 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.61%) Xamarin
3 20 (4.19%) Apple
4 17 (3.56%) Google
5 8 (1.68%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.68%) Blue Prism
5 8 (1.68%) Pega
6 7 (1.47%) Okta
7 5 (1.05%) ESRI
7 5 (1.05%) SAP
7 5 (1.05%) Zoho
8 4 (0.84%) Samsung
8 4 (0.84%) VMware
9 3 (0.63%) Cvent
9 3 (0.63%) Mapbox
9 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.63%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.42%) Facebook
10 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow