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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 235 302
Rank change year-on-year -33 +67 -104
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 626 548 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.32% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.53% 3.34% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 399 422 748
10th Percentile £39,950 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,200 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

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 24,769 16,383 34,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.89% 39.50% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12,698 9,112 22,964
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,739 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,725 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -14 581 £60,000 +4.35% 262
UK excluding London -22 432 £60,000 +9.09% 201
Work from Home -18 205 £64,000 +6.67% 145
London -9 167 £72,500 +11.54% 94
North of England -4 131 £60,000 +26.32% 61
South East +3 121 £60,000 +26.32% 53
Midlands -38 89 £50,000 -9.09% 26
Yorkshire -15 66 £40,000 +38.89% 28
North West -1 60 £62,500 +4.17% 27
East Midlands -10 51 £45,000 +2.86% 7
South West -46 44 £47,500 -20.83% 28
West Midlands -52 38 £50,000 -9.91% 19
Scotland -50 24 £53,000 -7.83% 11
East of England -35 21 £40,000 -27.27% 18
North East -40 5 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales -28 2 £71,500 +2.14% 7

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 (1.28%) Confluence
2 7 (1.12%) ArcGIS
3 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (15.34%) Azure
2 78 (12.46%) AWS
3 66 (10.54%) SaaS
4 48 (7.67%) Figma
5 41 (6.55%) GitHub
6 31 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.83%) GCP
8 23 (3.67%) Serverless
9 20 (3.19%) Firebase
9 20 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (2.88%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (1.92%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.76%) Stripe
14 11 (1.76%) TestFlight
15 7 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (0.96%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.58%) Broadband
2 23 (3.67%) Wireless
3 21 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.40%) VPN
5 8 (1.28%) Firewall
6 7 (1.12%) DNS
7 6 (0.96%) DHCP
7 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.96%) WAN
8 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) 4G
10 1 (0.16%) HTTP
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.24%) MySQL
2 11 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.28%) GIS
4 7 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.80%) Power BI
7 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.16%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.88%) JIRA
2 15 (2.40%) Git
3 14 (2.24%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.24%) Metasploit
4 13 (2.08%) Crashlytics
5 12 (1.92%) XCUITest
6 11 (1.76%) XCTest
7 10 (1.60%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.60%) Storybook
8 8 (1.28%) Xcode
9 6 (0.96%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.96%) Postman
10 5 (0.80%) Appium
11 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.48%) fastlane
11 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.48%) Selenium
12 2 (0.32%) JMeter
12 2 (0.32%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.32%) NUnit
General
1 93 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.38%) Finance
3 46 (7.35%) Games
4 45 (7.19%) Retail
5 38 (6.07%) Marketing
6 35 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.83%) Banking
9 22 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.24%) Advertising
10 14 (2.24%) Billing
11 13 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.08%) Health Technology
11 13 (2.08%) Law
11 13 (2.08%) Legal
11 13 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.76%) Local Government
13 10 (1.60%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.60%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 251 (40.10%) Developer
2 157 (25.08%) Senior
3 68 (10.86%) Lead
4 62 (9.90%) Applications Developer
5 57 (9.11%) iOS Developer
5 57 (9.11%) Senior Developer
6 46 (7.35%) Mobile Developer
7 45 (7.19%) Designer
8 39 (6.23%) .NET Developer
9 38 (6.07%) Analyst
10 36 (5.75%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 34 (5.43%) Senior Designer
12 29 (4.63%) Android Developer
13 26 (4.15%) Product Designer
14 23 (3.67%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.67%) React Developer
15 22 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
15 22 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (3.51%) Senior Product Designer
15 22 (3.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (17.57%) React Native
2 75 (11.98%) .NET
3 72 (11.50%) React
4 45 (7.19%) RESTful
5 42 (6.71%) SwiftUI
6 36 (5.75%) CSS
7 31 (4.95%) Node.js
8 26 (4.15%) HTML
9 21 (3.35%) REST
10 19 (3.04%) Bootstrap
11 18 (2.88%) Vue
12 17 (2.72%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.40%) Android SDK
14 14 (2.24%) AngularJS
14 14 (2.24%) ASP.NET
14 14 (2.24%) Flutter
15 12 (1.92%) Jest
15 12 (1.92%) Spring
15 12 (1.92%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.92%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.67%) Onboarding
2 42 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (3.99%) EPoS
5 24 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.19%) IoT
7 19 (3.04%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.72%) Social Media
9 15 (2.40%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.08%) PropTech
11 12 (1.92%) iPhone
12 11 (1.76%) iPad
13 9 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
16 5 (0.80%) AI Agents
16 5 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
17 4 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
17 4 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 170 (27.16%) Android
1 170 (27.16%) Apple iOS
2 20 (3.19%) Windows
3 6 (0.96%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.80%) Linux
5 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Debian
6 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Nucleus RTOS
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (30.67%) Agile
2 127 (20.29%) CI/CD
3 118 (18.85%) User Experience
4 109 (17.41%) Mentoring
5 94 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (13.26%) AI
7 81 (12.94%) Test Automation
8 79 (12.62%) Mobile Application Development
9 78 (12.46%) Android Development
10 77 (12.30%) iOS Development
11 71 (11.34%) Software Engineering
12 70 (11.18%) Mobile Development
13 65 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 63 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (9.74%) Analytics
15 61 (9.74%) UX Design
16 58 (9.27%) DevOps
17 53 (8.47%) Collaborative Culture
18 47 (7.51%) SOLID
18 47 (7.51%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.14%) Kotlin
2 59 (9.42%) TypeScript
3 54 (8.63%) Swift
4 44 (7.03%) SQL
5 43 (6.87%) C#
6 41 (6.55%) Java
7 38 (6.07%) JavaScript
8 26 (4.15%) Python
9 14 (2.24%) Bash
9 14 (2.24%) PHP
10 9 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.44%) VBA
11 6 (0.96%) C++
12 5 (0.80%) Dart
13 4 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.48%) C
14 3 (0.48%) Go
14 3 (0.48%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) Ruby
15 2 (0.32%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (6.23%) Degree
2 28 (4.47%) CREST Certified
2 28 (4.47%) OSCP
3 21 (3.35%) CHECK Team Leader
3 21 (3.35%) CHECK Team Member
4 18 (2.88%) CCSAM
5 12 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.44%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.12%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.64%) CISSP
9 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.48%) ISEB
11 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.32%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.32%) CEH
11 2 (0.32%) CISA
11 2 (0.32%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.32%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.86%) Accessibility
2 27 (4.31%) QA
3 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.96%) GDPR
5 5 (0.80%) WCAG
6 4 (0.64%) GRC
6 4 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (2.40%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (3.35%) Terraform
2 19 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.76%) Nessus
4 9 (1.44%) Ansible
4 9 (1.44%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.64%) Nmap
8 3 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.79%) Adobe
3 26 (4.15%) Apple
3 26 (4.15%) Xamarin
4 19 (3.04%) Google
5 11 (1.76%) Amplitude
6 10 (1.60%) Braze
7 9 (1.44%) Blue Prism
7 9 (1.44%) Pega
8 8 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.28%) ESRI
9 7 (1.12%) Okta
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.80%) Samsung
10 5 (0.80%) VMware
10 5 (0.80%) Zoho
11 4 (0.64%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.48%) SAP
12 3 (0.48%) WooCommerce