Mobile App Jobs

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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 308 202
Rank change year-on-year +38 -106 -75
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 544 910 1,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.93% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 2.61% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 419 742 1,134
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,039
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%

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 18,328 34,871 46,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.05% 35.60% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,867 22,981 24,248
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,293 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Salary trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

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 25 April 2025. 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 -2 476 £57,500 +4.55% 863
UK excluding London +4 343 £55,000 +4.76% 359
Work from Home +56 228 £60,000 +9.09% 471
London +98 181 £65,000 -3.70% 572
Midlands +7 79 £55,000 +10.00% 57
North of England -29 79 £47,500 -5.00% 114
South East +52 74 £47,500 -5.00% 71
West Midlands +25 73 £55,000 +2.80% 36
Scotland +148 51 £60,000 -14.98% 41
North West -34 33 £60,000 +23.08% 59
Yorkshire +55 32 £26,500 -53.91% 40
South West +39 32 £60,000 -4.00% 29
East of England -9 24 £55,000 - 41
North East +39 13 £42,500 - 16
East Midlands +11 6 £37,500 -16.67% 18
Wales +35 4 £70,000 +27.27% 10

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.60%) CMS
2 17 (3.13%) Confluence
3 16 (2.94%) WordPress
4 12 (2.21%) Drupal
5 11 (2.02%) Headless CMS
6 9 (1.65%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.29%) IIS
8 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.37%) Apache
10 2 (0.37%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.18%) Appian
11 1 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.84%) Sketch
2 9 (1.65%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.55%) Notion
6 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.37%) Revit
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) InVision
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (28.68%) AWS
2 94 (17.28%) Azure
3 64 (11.76%) GCP
4 37 (6.80%) SaaS
5 32 (5.88%) Figma
6 27 (4.96%) GitHub
6 27 (4.96%) Serverless
7 22 (4.04%) Power Platform
8 20 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.76%) Firebase
10 12 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.65%) Contentful
13 8 (1.47%) DigitalOcean
13 8 (1.47%) Google Analytics
13 8 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.29%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.13%) Internet
2 9 (1.65%) Bluetooth
3 8 (1.47%) HTTP
4 7 (1.29%) Wireless
5 5 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.74%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.37%) Network Security
7 2 (0.37%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.32%) SQL Server
2 66 (12.13%) MySQL
3 26 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 22 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (2.39%) Power BI
7 8 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.29%) Big Data
9 6 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.92%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.74%) Cloud Spanner
11 4 (0.74%) GIS
11 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.55%) Event Store
13 2 (0.37%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.37%) Redis
14 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (21.14%) Git
2 29 (5.33%) JIRA
3 26 (4.78%) Visual Studio
4 24 (4.41%) Appium
5 23 (4.23%) Jenkins
6 16 (2.94%) Selenium
7 15 (2.76%) JUnit
8 13 (2.39%) Gradle
9 11 (2.02%) GitLab
9 11 (2.02%) Maven
10 10 (1.84%) Xcode
11 9 (1.65%) Android Studio
11 9 (1.65%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.65%) TestNG
12 8 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.29%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
15 5 (0.92%) JMeter
15 5 (0.92%) Storybook
15 5 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 134 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.49%) Finance
3 78 (14.34%) Games
4 55 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (8.64%) Banking
6 43 (7.90%) Marketing
7 34 (6.25%) Legal
8 31 (5.70%) Retail
9 28 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.49%) Law
11 15 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (2.39%) Automotive
14 12 (2.21%) Aviation
15 10 (1.84%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.84%) Public Sector
16 8 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.29%) Local Government
18 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 5 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 229 (42.10%) Developer
2 131 (24.08%) Senior
3 76 (13.97%) Senior Developer
4 73 (13.42%) Lead
5 54 (9.93%) Software Engineer
6 36 (6.62%) Analyst
7 31 (5.70%) iOS Developer
8 25 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (4.41%) React Developer
10 23 (4.23%) Android Engineer
11 22 (4.04%) PHP Developer
11 22 (4.04%) Portal Developer
12 21 (3.86%) Graduate
13 20 (3.68%) Lead Developer
14 19 (3.49%) Android Developer
15 18 (3.31%) IT Support
16 17 (3.13%) Mobile Engineer
16 17 (3.13%) Senior PHP Developer
17 16 (2.94%) .NET Developer
17 16 (2.94%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (22.24%) CSS
2 120 (22.06%) HTML
3 118 (21.69%) React
4 90 (16.54%) .NET
5 59 (10.85%) React Native
6 58 (10.66%) RESTful
7 48 (8.82%) .NET Core
8 47 (8.64%) Laravel
9 41 (7.54%) .NET Framework
10 39 (7.17%) JSON
10 39 (7.17%) LAMP
11 37 (6.80%) REST
12 36 (6.62%) GraphQL
13 33 (6.07%) ASP.NET
13 33 (6.07%) Node.js
14 30 (5.51%) XML
15 27 (4.96%) HTML5
15 27 (4.96%) Vue
16 24 (4.41%) CSS3
16 24 (4.41%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.13%) Hackathon
4 17 (3.13%) Learning Management System
5 16 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.76%) Online Banking
7 14 (2.57%) IoT
7 14 (2.57%) Mobile Games
8 11 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.84%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.47%) EPoS
11 7 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.10%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 143 (26.29%) Android
2 131 (24.08%) Apple iOS
3 31 (5.70%) Windows
4 28 (5.15%) Linux
5 8 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.92%) Rocky
8 4 (0.74%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Unix
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (35.85%) Agile
2 126 (23.16%) Software Engineering
3 123 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (20.22%) User Experience
5 105 (19.30%) CI/CD
6 96 (17.65%) DevOps
7 94 (17.28%) Mobile Application Development
8 84 (15.44%) E-Commerce
9 70 (12.87%) Test Automation
10 64 (11.76%) MVC
11 63 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 63 (11.58%) OOP
11 63 (11.58%) Web Development
12 57 (10.48%) Computer Science
12 57 (10.48%) iOS Development
13 54 (9.93%) Mobile Development
14 52 (9.56%) Android Development
15 51 (9.38%) Analytics
15 51 (9.38%) Software Testing
16 49 (9.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 205 (37.68%) JavaScript
2 88 (16.18%) C#
3 79 (14.52%) SQL
4 75 (13.79%) Kotlin
5 74 (13.60%) TypeScript
6 71 (13.05%) Java
7 62 (11.40%) Python
8 58 (10.66%) Swift
9 52 (9.56%) PHP
10 22 (4.04%) Objective-C
11 15 (2.76%) C++
12 14 (2.57%) C
13 10 (1.84%) Dart
14 6 (1.10%) Ladder Logic
15 4 (0.74%) Go
15 4 (0.74%) Ruby
16 2 (0.37%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.18%) Bash
17 1 (0.18%) Rust
17 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (17.10%) Degree
2 48 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.04%) Master's Degree
4 17 (3.13%) PhD
5 14 (2.57%) Security Cleared
6 9 (1.65%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.47%) CHECK Team Leader
8 7 (1.29%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.74%) ACCA
10 4 (0.74%) CIMA
11 3 (0.55%) CHECK Team Member
11 3 (0.55%) OSCP
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) CSSLP
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.18%) MCT
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.74%) QA
2 20 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.92%) NIST
5 4 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.74%) WCAG
6 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.55%) GRC
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (5.15%) Docker
2 17 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) LXC
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.57%) Terraform
3 7 (1.29%) AirWatch
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.92%) SCCM
5 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.37%) Puppet
5 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 88 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.38%) Google
3 17 (3.13%) IBM
4 15 (2.76%) Zoho
5 13 (2.39%) New Relic
5 13 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.39%) Twitter
5 13 (2.39%) Xamarin
6 12 (2.21%) Adobe
7 11 (2.02%) Apple
8 7 (1.29%) Oracle
8 7 (1.29%) Samsung
9 6 (1.10%) Siemens
10 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.74%) iManage
11 4 (0.74%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.55%) Aderant
12 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.55%) Intapp
13 2 (0.37%) HubSpot