Mobile App Job Trends

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 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 250 290
Rank change year-on-year -15 +40 -126
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 531 624 737
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.27% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.43% 3.35% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 340 385 635
10th Percentile £34,875 £36,250 £31,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

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 21,845 18,633 27,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.38% 38.02% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,040 8,637 19,829
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,751 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -5 486 £60,000 - 321
UK excluding London -20 347 £55,000 -4.35% 286
Work from Home -46 170 £60,000 -4.00% 127
London -5 156 £70,000 - 96
North of England -7 102 £57,500 +9.52% 79
South East -6 93 £60,000 +20.00% 80
Midlands -2 63 £45,000 -33.33% 43
North West +2 47 £65,000 +8.33% 42
Yorkshire -15 45 £40,000 -11.11% 31
South West +3 42 £47,500 -20.83% 30
East Midlands +16 34 £45,000 -10.00% 21
West Midlands -18 29 £50,000 -28.57% 22
Scotland -38 25 £34,000 -42.13% 16
East of England -1 21 £47,500 -36.67% 28
North East -15 10 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -4 2 £65,000 - 10

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 (1.51%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.32%) CMS
3 6 (1.13%) Confluence
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.51%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.56%) Sketch
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (17.14%) Azure
2 62 (11.68%) SaaS
3 51 (9.60%) AWS
4 42 (7.91%) Figma
5 29 (5.46%) GitHub
6 26 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.77%) GCP
8 17 (3.20%) Entra ID
9 15 (2.82%) Serverless
10 12 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.07%) Firebase
12 10 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.88%) Azure Functions
12 10 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.13%) Google Play
14 5 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.75%) BigCommerce
15 4 (0.75%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.34%) Broadband
2 23 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (4.33%) Wireless
3 13 (2.45%) VPN
4 7 (1.32%) DNS
5 6 (1.13%) DHCP
5 6 (1.13%) Firewall
5 6 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.13%) WAN
6 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.56%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.38%) 4G
8 2 (0.38%) LAN
9 1 (0.19%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) Internet
9 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.07%) MySQL
2 10 (1.88%) GIS
3 9 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Big Data
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.19%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 17 (3.20%) Git
2 15 (2.82%) JIRA
3 14 (2.64%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.64%) Metasploit
4 11 (2.07%) Xcode
5 9 (1.69%) Storybook
6 6 (1.13%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.13%) Postman
7 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.94%) Selenium
7 5 (0.94%) XCUITest
8 4 (0.75%) Appium
8 4 (0.75%) Crashlytics
9 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.38%) CMake
10 2 (0.38%) GitLab
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) XCTest
General
1 99 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 63 (11.86%) Finance
3 48 (9.04%) Retail
4 39 (7.34%) Marketing
5 26 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.90%) Games
6 22 (4.14%) Billing
6 22 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.95%) Banking
8 20 (3.77%) Advertising
8 20 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.82%) Legal
9 15 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.45%) Electronics
11 12 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.07%) Health Technology
12 11 (2.07%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.69%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (36.53%) Developer
2 123 (23.16%) Senior
3 53 (9.98%) Applications Developer
4 52 (9.79%) Lead
5 43 (8.10%) Mobile Developer
6 41 (7.72%) iOS Developer
7 39 (7.34%) Analyst
8 36 (6.78%) Designer
8 36 (6.78%) Senior Developer
9 30 (5.65%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 27 (5.08%) Product Designer
10 27 (5.08%) Senior Designer
11 26 (4.90%) .NET Developer
12 23 (4.33%) React Developer
12 23 (4.33%) Senior Product Designer
13 21 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (3.39%) Android Developer
15 17 (3.20%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.01%) Consultant
17 15 (2.82%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (18.64%) React Native
2 74 (13.94%) React
3 64 (12.05%) .NET
4 39 (7.34%) RESTful
5 37 (6.97%) CSS
6 36 (6.78%) HTML
7 32 (6.03%) Node.js
8 28 (5.27%) SwiftUI
9 16 (3.01%) Bootstrap
10 15 (2.82%) REST
10 15 (2.82%) Vue
11 14 (2.64%) Next.js
12 13 (2.45%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.45%) Flutter
13 12 (2.26%) Spring
13 12 (2.26%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.88%) Laravel
15 9 (1.69%) Express.js
15 9 (1.69%) Jest
16 8 (1.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.34%) Onboarding
2 32 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (4.52%) EPoS
5 20 (3.77%) IoT
6 17 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.26%) iPhone
8 11 (2.07%) iPad
9 9 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.51%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.51%) PropTech
11 7 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.94%) Social Media
13 4 (0.75%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 140 (26.37%) Android
2 137 (25.80%) Apple iOS
3 23 (4.33%) Windows
4 6 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.94%) Linux
6 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.38%) Debian
8 2 (0.38%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (31.83%) Agile
2 98 (18.46%) Mentoring
3 97 (18.27%) User Experience
4 92 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (15.44%) CI/CD
6 76 (14.31%) Mobile Application Development
7 63 (11.86%) Android Development
7 63 (11.86%) Software Engineering
8 61 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (10.92%) Mobile Development
10 57 (10.73%) UX Design
11 56 (10.55%) AI
11 56 (10.55%) DevOps
12 55 (10.36%) iOS Development
13 52 (9.79%) Collaborative Culture
13 52 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (8.85%) Analytics
14 47 (8.85%) Test Automation
14 47 (8.85%) User Research
15 45 (8.47%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 46 (8.66%) TypeScript
2 45 (8.47%) JavaScript
3 44 (8.29%) Kotlin
4 37 (6.97%) Swift
5 33 (6.21%) C#
6 29 (5.46%) SQL
7 24 (4.52%) Java
8 23 (4.33%) Python
9 14 (2.64%) Bash
10 11 (2.07%) PHP
11 9 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.51%) C++
12 8 (1.51%) VBA
13 5 (0.94%) C
14 4 (0.75%) XAML
15 3 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.56%) Ruby
16 2 (0.38%) Go
16 2 (0.38%) Groovy
16 2 (0.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 38 (7.16%) Degree
2 25 (4.71%) CREST Certified
2 25 (4.71%) OSCP
3 21 (3.95%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (3.77%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.39%) CCSAM
6 11 (2.07%) Security Cleared
7 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.69%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.56%) CISSP
10 2 (0.38%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.38%) CEH
10 2 (0.38%) CISA
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.38%) GPEN
10 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.38%) PhD
10 2 (0.38%) Tigerscheme
11 1 (0.19%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.85%) Accessibility
2 26 (4.90%) QA
3 7 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.13%) GDPR
4 6 (1.13%) SLA
5 5 (0.94%) WCAG
6 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.75%) GRC
7 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.38%) Section 508
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (2.64%) Docker
2 9 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.33%) Terraform
2 16 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.07%) Nessus
4 10 (1.88%) Ansible
4 10 (1.88%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.75%) Nmap
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 33 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.27%) Adobe
3 24 (4.52%) Apple
4 23 (4.33%) Xamarin
5 18 (3.39%) Google
6 10 (1.88%) ESRI
7 8 (1.51%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.51%) Blue Prism
7 8 (1.51%) Pega
8 7 (1.32%) Okta
9 6 (1.13%) Samsung
10 5 (0.94%) SAP
10 5 (0.94%) Zoho
11 4 (0.75%) VMware
12 3 (0.56%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.56%) Cvent
12 3 (0.56%) Mapbox
12 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.56%) WooCommerce
13 2 (0.38%) TikTok