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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 262 299
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 -102
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 642 511 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 2.77% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 415 397 755
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% +1.90%

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 24,137 18,430 34,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.54% 42.35% 35.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13,586 9,129 22,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,751 £41,250 £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 £111,250 £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 15 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 15 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 +36 605 £60,000 +4.35% 243
UK excluding London +28 463 £60,000 +9.09% 180
Work from Home +41 209 £70,000 +16.67% 89
London -40 154 £72,500 +11.54% 98
North of England +35 147 £55,000 +10.00% 64
South East +30 127 £60,000 +26.32% 38
Midlands -2 108 £50,000 - 29
North West +41 72 £60,000 - 33
Yorkshire -19 68 £40,000 +44.67% 21
East Midlands +31 58 £45,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands -43 50 £50,000 - 15
South West -35 45 £47,500 -20.83% 18
East of England -15 19 £40,000 -27.27% 15
Scotland -32 16 £60,000 - 13
North East -40 7 £47,000 +10.59% 10
Wales -33 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 11 (1.71%) Confluence
2 7 (1.09%) 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 (1.09%) 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 89 (13.86%) Azure
2 80 (12.46%) AWS
3 65 (10.12%) SaaS
4 46 (7.17%) GitHub
5 42 (6.54%) Figma
6 37 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (3.89%) GCP
9 24 (3.74%) Serverless
10 22 (3.43%) Firebase
11 16 (2.49%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.18%) Stripe
12 14 (2.18%) TestFlight
13 13 (2.02%) Google Play
14 12 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.56%) Azure Functions
17 8 (1.25%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.03%) Broadband
2 22 (3.43%) Wireless
3 12 (1.87%) VPN
3 12 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.09%) Firewall
5 5 (0.78%) DNS
6 4 (0.62%) DHCP
6 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.62%) WAN
7 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.16%) LAN
8 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
1 12 (1.87%) MySQL
2 9 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.25%) GIS
4 7 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.93%) Power BI
6 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.31%) 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 17 (2.65%) JIRA
2 16 (2.49%) Crashlytics
3 14 (2.18%) XCTest
4 13 (2.02%) Burp Suite
4 13 (2.02%) Git
4 13 (2.02%) Metasploit
5 11 (1.71%) XCUITest
6 10 (1.56%) Storybook
7 8 (1.25%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.09%) Android Studio
8 7 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.09%) fastlane
8 7 (1.09%) Xcode
9 5 (0.78%) Appium
9 5 (0.78%) Gradle
9 5 (0.78%) Postman
10 3 (0.47%) GitLab
10 3 (0.47%) Selenium
11 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 81 (12.62%) Social Skills
2 61 (9.50%) Finance
3 45 (7.01%) Games
4 42 (6.54%) Marketing
5 39 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.45%) Retail
7 31 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (3.27%) Banking
8 21 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (2.80%) Law
10 13 (2.02%) Health Technology
10 13 (2.02%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.71%) Local Government
12 9 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 9 (1.40%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.09%) Back Office
13 7 (1.09%) Billing
13 7 (1.09%) Electronics
14 6 (0.93%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 276 (42.99%) Developer
2 157 (24.45%) Senior
3 72 (11.21%) Lead
4 69 (10.75%) Senior Developer
5 64 (9.97%) iOS Developer
6 53 (8.26%) Applications Developer
7 49 (7.63%) .NET Developer
8 45 (7.01%) Designer
9 37 (5.76%) Android Developer
10 35 (5.45%) Mobile Developer
11 34 (5.30%) Senior Designer
12 32 (4.98%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 27 (4.21%) Analyst
13 27 (4.21%) Software Engineer
14 26 (4.05%) React Developer
15 25 (3.89%) Product Designer
16 24 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (3.58%) Lead Developer
17 23 (3.58%) Mobile Engineer
18 22 (3.43%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (17.29%) React Native
2 83 (12.93%) React
3 77 (11.99%) .NET
4 51 (7.94%) RESTful
5 45 (7.01%) SwiftUI
6 36 (5.61%) CSS
7 33 (5.14%) Node.js
8 26 (4.05%) HTML
9 25 (3.89%) REST
10 20 (3.12%) Bootstrap
11 19 (2.96%) ASP.NET
11 19 (2.96%) GraphQL
12 18 (2.80%) Vue
13 16 (2.49%) Android SDK
13 16 (2.49%) UIKit
14 15 (2.34%) AngularJS
15 13 (2.02%) Flutter
16 12 (1.87%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (1.87%) Jest
16 12 (1.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.26%) Product Ownership
2 48 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 33 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 17 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.65%) EPoS
7 16 (2.49%) iPhone
8 15 (2.34%) Social Media
9 14 (2.18%) PropTech
10 13 (2.02%) IoT
11 9 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.40%) iPad
12 7 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.62%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.62%) Video\Live Streaming
15 3 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 177 (27.57%) Android
2 173 (26.95%) Apple iOS
3 16 (2.49%) Windows
4 5 (0.78%) Linux
5 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.62%) 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
1 198 (30.84%) Agile
2 135 (21.03%) CI/CD
3 115 (17.91%) User Experience
4 112 (17.45%) Mentoring
5 91 (14.17%) AI
5 91 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (13.08%) iOS Development
6 84 (13.08%) Test Automation
7 83 (12.93%) Android Development
8 78 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 76 (11.84%) Software Engineering
10 73 (11.37%) Mobile Development
11 69 (10.75%) Analytics
12 64 (9.97%) DevOps
13 62 (9.66%) Mobile Application Development
14 59 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (8.88%) UX Design
16 51 (7.94%) Collaborative Culture
17 48 (7.48%) Clean Code
18 46 (7.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 75 (11.68%) Kotlin
2 68 (10.59%) TypeScript
3 55 (8.57%) SQL
4 54 (8.41%) Swift
5 47 (7.32%) C#
6 45 (7.01%) JavaScript
7 42 (6.54%) Java
8 30 (4.67%) Python
9 13 (2.02%) Bash
9 13 (2.02%) PHP
10 9 (1.40%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.09%) C++
11 7 (1.09%) Ruby
12 5 (0.78%) Dart
13 4 (0.62%) 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 40 (6.23%) Degree
2 29 (4.52%) OSCP
3 28 (4.36%) CREST Certified
4 22 (3.43%) CHECK Team Leader
4 22 (3.43%) CHECK Team Member
5 18 (2.80%) CCSAM
6 14 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.02%) Security Cleared
8 10 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.56%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.25%) ISTQB
10 7 (1.09%) ISEB
11 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.62%) 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%) CISA
13 2 (0.31%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.75%) Accessibility
2 26 (4.05%) QA
3 8 (1.25%) WCAG
4 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.93%) 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 12 (1.87%) 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 18 (2.80%) Terraform
2 15 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.71%) Nessus
4 9 (1.40%) Ansible
5 7 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.93%) Kubernetes
6 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.47%) Nmap
8 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 40 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.36%) Adobe
3 26 (4.05%) Xamarin
4 25 (3.89%) Google
5 24 (3.74%) Apple
6 14 (2.18%) Amplitude
7 13 (2.02%) Braze
8 8 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.25%) ESRI
9 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.93%) Okta
11 5 (0.78%) VMware
12 4 (0.62%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.62%) SAP
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle
13 3 (0.47%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.47%) Zoho
14 2 (0.31%) Mapbox