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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 233 288
Rank change year-on-year -21 +55 -86
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 623 552 903
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.35% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.57% 3.46% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 393 426 745
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £73,250 £72,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.36% +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 24,271 15,969 33,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.28% 39.06% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 12,458 9,051 22,686
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £43,750 £38,397
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 9 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 9 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 -11 574 £60,000 +4.35% 245
UK excluding London -32 426 £58,500 +6.36% 200
Work from Home -13 206 £61,500 +2.50% 129
London -23 166 £71,250 +9.62% 94
North of England -28 127 £57,500 +15.00% 53
South East +9 118 £60,000 +26.32% 53
Midlands -39 87 £50,000 -9.91% 35
Yorkshire -24 65 £40,000 +38.89% 20
North West -10 56 £62,500 +4.17% 26
East Midlands -12 50 £45,000 +2.86% 13
South West -20 45 £47,500 -20.83% 21
West Midlands -61 37 £50,000 -14.89% 22
Scotland -37 25 £51,000 -13.19% 13
East of England -33 22 £40,000 -27.27% 17
North East -38 6 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales - 2 £71,500 - 9

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%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.12%) Confluence
3 6 (0.96%) CMS
3 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.28%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.64%) 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
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (15.57%) Azure
2 77 (12.36%) AWS
3 64 (10.27%) SaaS
4 48 (7.70%) Figma
5 39 (6.26%) GitHub
6 31 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.69%) GCP
8 20 (3.21%) Firebase
8 20 (3.21%) Serverless
9 19 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (2.89%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (1.61%) Azure Functions
13 10 (1.61%) Stripe
13 10 (1.61%) TestFlight
14 7 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (0.96%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.63%) Broadband
2 23 (3.69%) Wireless
3 21 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.41%) 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%) Internet
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.41%) MySQL
2 10 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.44%) GIS
4 8 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.64%) Power BI
7 4 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.16%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.89%) JIRA
2 15 (2.41%) Git
3 14 (2.25%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.25%) Metasploit
4 12 (1.93%) Crashlytics
4 12 (1.93%) XCUITest
5 10 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.61%) Storybook
5 10 (1.61%) XCTest
6 9 (1.44%) Xcode
7 6 (0.96%) Android Studio
7 6 (0.96%) Postman
8 5 (0.80%) Appium
9 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.48%) fastlane
9 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.48%) Selenium
10 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.32%) NUnit
General
1 91 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.27%) Finance
3 46 (7.38%) Games
4 45 (7.22%) Retail
5 38 (6.10%) Marketing
6 34 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (3.69%) Banking
9 22 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.57%) Advertising
11 15 (2.41%) Billing
12 14 (2.25%) Legal
13 13 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.09%) Health Technology
13 13 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.93%) Law
15 11 (1.77%) Local Government
16 10 (1.61%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.61%) Tech for Good
17 9 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 248 (39.81%) Developer
2 154 (24.72%) Senior
3 66 (10.59%) Lead
4 62 (9.95%) Applications Developer
5 57 (9.15%) iOS Developer
6 53 (8.51%) Senior Developer
7 48 (7.70%) Mobile Developer
8 44 (7.06%) Designer
9 38 (6.10%) Analyst
10 36 (5.78%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 35 (5.62%) .NET Developer
12 33 (5.30%) Senior Designer
13 28 (4.49%) Android Developer
14 26 (4.17%) Product Designer
15 23 (3.69%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
16 22 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (3.53%) Senior Product Designer
16 22 (3.53%) Software Engineer
17 21 (3.37%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (17.98%) React Native
2 73 (11.72%) React
3 72 (11.56%) .NET
4 45 (7.22%) RESTful
5 41 (6.58%) CSS
5 41 (6.58%) SwiftUI
6 31 (4.98%) HTML
6 31 (4.98%) Node.js
7 19 (3.05%) Vue
8 18 (2.89%) Bootstrap
8 18 (2.89%) REST
9 17 (2.73%) GraphQL
10 15 (2.41%) Android SDK
10 15 (2.41%) Flutter
11 14 (2.25%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.09%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.09%) Jest
13 12 (1.93%) Spring
13 12 (1.93%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.77%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.70%) Onboarding
2 44 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (4.01%) EPoS
5 22 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.21%) IoT
7 18 (2.89%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.73%) Social Media
9 15 (2.41%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.93%) iPhone
10 12 (1.93%) PropTech
11 11 (1.77%) iPad
12 9 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.28%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.80%) AI Agents
17 4 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
17 4 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 171 (27.45%) Apple iOS
2 169 (27.13%) Android
3 20 (3.21%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.80%) Linux
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) Debian
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Nucleus RTOS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (31.14%) Agile
2 128 (20.55%) CI/CD
3 117 (18.78%) User Experience
4 109 (17.50%) Mentoring
5 96 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (13.80%) AI
7 85 (13.64%) Mobile Application Development
8 80 (12.84%) Test Automation
9 77 (12.36%) Android Development
9 77 (12.36%) iOS Development
10 71 (11.40%) Mobile Development
10 71 (11.40%) Software Engineering
11 64 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 62 (9.95%) Analytics
13 61 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (9.79%) UX Design
14 59 (9.47%) DevOps
15 53 (8.51%) Collaborative Culture
16 47 (7.54%) Roadmaps
16 47 (7.54%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.72%) Kotlin
2 59 (9.47%) TypeScript
3 54 (8.67%) Swift
4 43 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 43 (6.90%) SQL
5 41 (6.58%) Java
6 40 (6.42%) C#
7 26 (4.17%) Python
8 15 (2.41%) PHP
9 14 (2.25%) Bash
10 9 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.44%) VBA
11 7 (1.12%) C++
12 5 (0.80%) Dart
13 4 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.48%) C
14 3 (0.48%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) Ruby
15 2 (0.32%) Go
15 2 (0.32%) XAML
Qualifications
1 41 (6.58%) Degree
2 26 (4.17%) CREST Certified
2 26 (4.17%) OSCP
3 21 (3.37%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (3.21%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (2.89%) CCSAM
6 13 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.12%) Security Cleared
9 5 (0.80%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.48%) CISSP
11 3 (0.48%) ISEB
12 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.32%) CCSAS
12 2 (0.32%) CEH
12 2 (0.32%) CISA
12 2 (0.32%) GPEN
12 2 (0.32%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.56%) Accessibility
2 28 (4.49%) QA
3 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.96%) GDPR
4 6 (0.96%) WCAG
5 4 (0.64%) GRC
5 4 (0.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.16%) Section 508
System Software
1 16 (2.57%) 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 (3.37%) Terraform
2 18 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.77%) Nessus
4 10 (1.61%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.44%) Ansible
6 8 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.64%) Nmap
9 3 (0.48%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (5.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.82%) Adobe
3 27 (4.33%) Apple
4 25 (4.01%) Xamarin
5 19 (3.05%) Google
6 10 (1.61%) Amplitude
7 9 (1.44%) Blue Prism
7 9 (1.44%) Braze
7 9 (1.44%) ESRI
7 9 (1.44%) Pega
8 8 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.12%) Okta
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.80%) Samsung
10 5 (0.80%) Zoho
11 4 (0.64%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.64%) VMware
12 3 (0.48%) SAP
12 3 (0.48%) WooCommerce