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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 242 302
Rank change year-on-year -62 +60 -152
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 399 679 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.24% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 3.36% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 288 385 458
10th Percentile £31,375 £36,850 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,250 £46,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.51%
75th Percentile £77,875 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 20,622 20,200 19,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 36.90% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,338 9,577 14,258
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,640
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,219 £54,650
% change year-on-year -13.78% -0.79% -0.64%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -74 360 £60,000 - 665
UK excluding London -66 239 £52,500 -4.55% 552
London +26 140 £90,000 +12.50% 314
Work from Home -44 140 £71,250 +16.33% 421
North of England -17 67 £60,000 +20.00% 89
South East -42 64 £60,000 +14.29% 219
Midlands -27 37 £45,000 -30.77% 93
South West +3 36 £50,000 -16.67% 48
North West 0 32 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Scotland -22 25 £34,000 -38.18% 26
Yorkshire -5 23 £40,000 -11.11% 34
West Midlands -13 21 £48,750 -30.36% 38
East Midlands -11 16 £45,000 -10.00% 49
North East +3 12 £50,000 +17.65% 9
East of England -19 8 £60,000 -20.00% 73
Wales +4 3 £50,000 - 14

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 (2.01%) CMS
2 6 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) Confluence
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Appian
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.26%) Sketch
2 7 (1.75%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.50%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.75%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (19.80%) Azure
2 58 (14.54%) SaaS
3 35 (8.77%) AWS
4 32 (8.02%) Figma
5 31 (7.77%) GitHub
6 24 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.01%) GCP
8 14 (3.51%) Serverless
9 11 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (2.76%) Azure Functions
9 11 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (2.76%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.26%) Firebase
11 8 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.25%) Google Play
14 4 (1.00%) Azure App Service
14 4 (1.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.51%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (2.51%) Broadband
3 9 (2.26%) VPN
3 9 (2.26%) Wireless
4 7 (1.75%) DNS
5 6 (1.50%) DHCP
5 6 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.50%) WAN
6 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.75%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.50%) 4G
8 2 (0.50%) Firewall
8 2 (0.50%) LAN
9 1 (0.25%) HTTP
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) RFID
9 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.01%) MySQL
3 8 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.75%) GIS
7 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.50%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.25%) Big Data
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.25%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (5.51%) Git
2 13 (3.26%) JIRA
3 12 (3.01%) Xcode
4 10 (2.51%) Storybook
5 7 (1.75%) Android Studio
5 7 (1.75%) Postman
6 6 (1.50%) Burp Suite
6 6 (1.50%) Metasploit
6 6 (1.50%) Selenium
6 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.00%) JMeter
8 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.50%) Appium
9 2 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.50%) CMake
9 2 (0.50%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 97 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.78%) Finance
3 35 (8.77%) Retail
4 25 (6.27%) Marketing
5 23 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.26%) Billing
7 20 (5.01%) Advertising
8 19 (4.76%) Banking
9 17 (4.26%) Legal
10 16 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.76%) Electronics
12 10 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.26%) Back Office
13 9 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.26%) Manufacturing
14 8 (2.01%) Games
14 8 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.50%) Public Sector
15 6 (1.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (40.35%) Developer
2 67 (16.79%) Senior
3 41 (10.28%) Applications Developer
4 38 (9.52%) Lead
5 37 (9.27%) Mobile Developer
6 28 (7.02%) Analyst
6 28 (7.02%) iOS Developer
7 26 (6.52%) Architect
7 26 (6.52%) React Developer
8 25 (6.27%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 25 (6.27%) Senior Developer
9 24 (6.02%) .NET Developer
9 24 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.01%) Consultant
12 15 (3.76%) Designer
12 15 (3.76%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.76%) Recruitment Consultant
13 14 (3.51%) Field Engineer
13 14 (3.51%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (24.56%) React Native
2 79 (19.80%) React
3 60 (15.04%) .NET
4 43 (10.78%) Node.js
5 41 (10.28%) RESTful
6 35 (8.77%) CSS
7 34 (8.52%) HTML
8 20 (5.01%) SwiftUI
9 16 (4.01%) Vue
10 15 (3.76%) REST
11 13 (3.26%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.26%) Flutter
12 12 (3.01%) Next.js
13 11 (2.76%) Bootstrap
14 10 (2.51%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.51%) Laravel
15 9 (2.26%) Express.js
15 9 (2.26%) Jest
15 9 (2.26%) WebSockets
16 8 (2.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.76%) Onboarding
1 23 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (4.51%) IoT
3 15 (3.76%) EPoS
4 13 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.51%) iPad
5 10 (2.51%) iPhone
6 7 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.50%) PropTech
7 6 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.25%) NHS
8 5 (1.25%) Smart Home
9 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 113 (28.32%) Apple iOS
2 110 (27.57%) Android
3 20 (5.01%) Windows
4 6 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.75%) Linux
7 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.50%) Nucleus RTOS
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.32%) Agile
2 74 (18.55%) User Experience
3 63 (15.79%) Mobile Application Development
3 63 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (14.79%) CI/CD
5 57 (14.29%) DevOps
5 57 (14.29%) Mobile Development
6 56 (14.04%) Mentoring
7 54 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (12.28%) B2B
9 48 (12.03%) Android Development
9 48 (12.03%) Test Automation
9 48 (12.03%) UX Design
10 42 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
11 41 (10.28%) iOS Development
12 39 (9.77%) AI
13 36 (9.02%) Software Engineering
14 34 (8.52%) B2C
14 34 (8.52%) Wireframes
15 31 (7.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 48 (12.03%) JavaScript
2 47 (11.78%) TypeScript
3 38 (9.52%) C#
4 35 (8.77%) Kotlin
5 32 (8.02%) Swift
6 23 (5.76%) Java
6 23 (5.76%) SQL
7 13 (3.26%) Python
8 11 (2.76%) PHP
9 9 (2.26%) C
9 9 (2.26%) C++
10 8 (2.01%) VBA
11 7 (1.75%) Bash
12 6 (1.50%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.00%) XAML
14 3 (0.75%) Perl
14 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.75%) Ruby
15 2 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (9.27%) Degree
2 20 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.76%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.75%) CREST Certified
4 7 (1.75%) OSCP
5 6 (1.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.50%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.25%) CHECK Team Member
7 4 (1.00%) CCSAM
7 4 (1.00%) CHECK Team Leader
7 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.50%) CEH
8 2 (0.50%) CISA
8 2 (0.50%) CISSP
8 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.50%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.27%) Accessibility
2 30 (7.52%) QA
3 9 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.50%) GDPR
4 6 (1.50%) SLA
4 6 (1.50%) WCAG
5 5 (1.25%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) Section 508
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (3.51%) Docker
2 9 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.01%) Terraform
2 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.50%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.25%) Ansible
6 4 (1.00%) Nessus
7 3 (0.75%) Nmap
8 2 (0.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.76%) Apple
2 19 (4.76%) Google
2 19 (4.76%) Xamarin
3 18 (4.51%) Adobe
4 8 (2.01%) Blue Prism
4 8 (2.01%) Pega
5 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.50%) Okta
6 4 (1.00%) Samsung
6 4 (1.00%) SAP
6 4 (1.00%) VMware
6 4 (1.00%) Zoho
7 3 (0.75%) Cvent
7 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.75%) ESRI
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle
7 3 (0.75%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.50%) Lotus
8 2 (0.50%) Salesforce