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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 260 306
Rank change year-on-year -6 +46 -105
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 638 521 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.19% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 2.85% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 414 403 757
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 23,995 18,304 34,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 41.86% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,486 9,288 23,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £41,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +30 601 £60,000 +4.35% 253
UK excluding London +20 458 £60,000 +9.09% 181
Work from Home +28 209 £70,000 +16.67% 91
London -23 155 £72,500 +11.54% 101
North of England +33 145 £55,000 +12.82% 63
South East +41 126 £60,000 +14.29% 41
Midlands -3 104 £50,000 - 31
North West +36 71 £60,000 - 32
Yorkshire -20 67 £40,000 +50.94% 22
East Midlands +20 57 £45,000 +20.00% 16
West Midlands -43 47 £50,000 - 15
South West -30 46 £47,500 -20.83% 19
East of England -17 20 £40,000 -27.27% 15
Scotland -31 16 £60,000 - 10
North East -41 7 £47,000 +10.59% 9
Wales -29 1 £71,500 +2.14% 4

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 10 (1.57%) Confluence
2 7 (1.10%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.78%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.31%) Sketch
4 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (14.11%) Azure
2 79 (12.38%) AWS
3 66 (10.34%) SaaS
4 46 (7.21%) GitHub
5 42 (6.58%) Figma
6 38 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.92%) GCP
7 25 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (3.61%) Serverless
9 21 (3.29%) Firebase
10 16 (2.51%) Entra ID
11 13 (2.04%) Google Play
11 13 (2.04%) Stripe
11 13 (2.04%) TestFlight
12 12 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.57%) Azure Functions
15 8 (1.25%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.09%) Broadband
2 22 (3.45%) Wireless
3 13 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (1.88%) VPN
5 7 (1.10%) Firewall
6 5 (0.78%) DNS
7 4 (0.63%) DHCP
7 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.63%) WAN
8 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.16%) LAN
9 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 12 (1.88%) MySQL
2 9 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.25%) GIS
4 7 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.94%) Power BI
6 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.16%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.51%) JIRA
2 15 (2.35%) Crashlytics
3 13 (2.04%) Burp Suite
3 13 (2.04%) Git
3 13 (2.04%) Metasploit
3 13 (2.04%) XCTest
4 11 (1.72%) XCUITest
5 10 (1.57%) Storybook
6 8 (1.25%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.10%) Android Studio
7 7 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.10%) fastlane
7 7 (1.10%) Xcode
8 5 (0.78%) Appium
8 5 (0.78%) Gradle
8 5 (0.78%) Postman
9 3 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.47%) GitLab
9 3 (0.47%) Selenium
10 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
General
1 80 (12.54%) Social Skills
2 61 (9.56%) Finance
3 45 (7.05%) Games
4 42 (6.58%) Marketing
5 39 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.49%) Retail
7 32 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (2.98%) Banking
10 18 (2.82%) Law
11 13 (2.04%) Health Technology
11 13 (2.04%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.72%) Local Government
13 9 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.41%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.10%) Back Office
14 7 (1.10%) Billing
14 7 (1.10%) Electronics
15 6 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (43.10%) Developer
2 157 (24.61%) Senior
3 71 (11.13%) Lead
4 69 (10.82%) Senior Developer
5 64 (10.03%) iOS Developer
6 56 (8.78%) Applications Developer
7 49 (7.68%) .NET Developer
8 45 (7.05%) Designer
9 36 (5.64%) Android Developer
9 36 (5.64%) Mobile Developer
10 34 (5.33%) Senior Designer
11 33 (5.17%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 28 (4.39%) Software Engineer
13 27 (4.23%) Analyst
14 25 (3.92%) Product Designer
14 25 (3.92%) React Developer
15 23 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (3.61%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.45%) Mobile Engineer
16 22 (3.45%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (17.40%) React Native
2 83 (13.01%) React
3 78 (12.23%) .NET
4 51 (7.99%) RESTful
5 44 (6.90%) SwiftUI
6 36 (5.64%) CSS
7 34 (5.33%) Node.js
8 26 (4.08%) HTML
9 25 (3.92%) REST
10 21 (3.29%) Bootstrap
11 19 (2.98%) ASP.NET
11 19 (2.98%) GraphQL
12 18 (2.82%) Vue
13 16 (2.51%) Android SDK
14 15 (2.35%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.35%) UIKit
15 13 (2.04%) Flutter
16 12 (1.88%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (1.88%) Jest
16 12 (1.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.31%) Product Ownership
2 48 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.98%) Security Posture
6 18 (2.82%) EPoS
7 17 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.51%) iPhone
9 15 (2.35%) Social Media
10 14 (2.19%) PropTech
11 13 (2.04%) IoT
12 9 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.41%) iPad
13 7 (1.10%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.63%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
16 3 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
16 3 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 176 (27.59%) Android
2 172 (26.96%) Apple iOS
3 16 (2.51%) Windows
4 5 (0.78%) Linux
5 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.31%) Debian
7 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (30.88%) Agile
2 132 (20.69%) CI/CD
3 114 (17.87%) User Experience
4 109 (17.08%) Mentoring
5 91 (14.26%) AI
5 91 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (13.17%) iOS Development
7 83 (13.01%) Android Development
8 82 (12.85%) Test Automation
9 78 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 77 (12.07%) Software Engineering
11 71 (11.13%) Mobile Development
12 66 (10.34%) Analytics
13 65 (10.19%) Mobile Application Development
14 63 (9.87%) DevOps
15 57 (8.93%) UX Design
16 56 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (7.99%) Collaborative Culture
18 47 (7.37%) Clean Code
19 46 (7.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (11.60%) Kotlin
2 67 (10.50%) TypeScript
3 56 (8.78%) SQL
4 53 (8.31%) Swift
5 47 (7.37%) C#
6 44 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 42 (6.58%) Java
8 30 (4.70%) Python
9 13 (2.04%) Bash
9 13 (2.04%) PHP
10 9 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.10%) C++
11 7 (1.10%) Ruby
12 5 (0.78%) Dart
13 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.47%) Go
14 3 (0.47%) Perl
15 2 (0.31%) Bicep
15 2 (0.31%) C
16 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 38 (5.96%) Degree
2 29 (4.55%) OSCP
3 28 (4.39%) CREST Certified
4 22 (3.45%) CHECK Team Leader
4 22 (3.45%) CHECK Team Member
5 18 (2.82%) CCSAM
6 13 (2.04%) Security Cleared
7 12 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.57%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.94%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.78%) ISEB
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.63%) CISSP
12 3 (0.47%) CCSAS
12 3 (0.47%) Cyber Scheme
12 3 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
13 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.31%) CEH
13 2 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.82%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.92%) QA
3 8 (1.25%) WCAG
4 7 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.78%) GDPR
6 5 (0.78%) GRC
7 3 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (2.04%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (2.98%) Terraform
2 15 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.72%) Nessus
4 9 (1.41%) Ansible
5 7 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.10%) Kubernetes
6 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.47%) Argo
7 3 (0.47%) Nmap
8 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 40 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.39%) Adobe
3 26 (4.08%) Xamarin
4 25 (3.92%) Google
5 24 (3.76%) Apple
6 13 (2.04%) Amplitude
7 12 (1.88%) Braze
8 8 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.25%) ESRI
9 7 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.94%) Okta
11 5 (0.78%) VMware
12 4 (0.63%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle
13 3 (0.47%) SAP
13 3 (0.47%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.47%) Zoho
14 2 (0.31%) Mapbox