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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 332 292
Rank change year-on-year -8 -40 -58
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 571 407 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.82% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 1.97% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 378 299 556
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £38,515
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.43% -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 27,729 20,645 27,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.13% 41.47% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,429 10,356 16,278
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -1 516 £60,000 - 399
UK excluding London +48 423 £58,500 +11.43% 241
Work from Home +17 196 £65,000 - 146
North of England +30 159 £55,000 +22.22% 76
London -73 117 £76,250 +1.67% 205
South East +9 93 £60,000 +4.35% 57
Midlands -6 91 £50,000 +5.26% 37
North West +33 89 £60,000 +2.13% 37
Yorkshire -8 55 £55,000 +107.55% 33
West Midlands -32 46 £50,000 +5.26% 18
East Midlands +15 45 £54,000 +2.86% 19
South West -45 42 £60,000 - 22
Scotland +12 18 £60,000 - 15
North East -50 15 £47,000 +4.44% 8
East of England -31 13 £55,000 - 24
Wales -57 7 £55,000 -21.43% 15

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 13 (2.28%) Confluence
2 5 (0.88%) IIS
2 5 (0.88%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Zeplin
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 103 (18.04%) Azure
2 87 (15.24%) AWS
3 54 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (8.58%) GitHub
5 37 (6.48%) SaaS
6 34 (5.95%) GCP
7 33 (5.78%) Firebase
8 31 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (4.73%) Serverless
10 26 (4.55%) Google Play
11 17 (2.98%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.80%) TestFlight
13 14 (2.45%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.45%) Stripe
14 13 (2.28%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (2.10%) Figma
16 9 (1.58%) Cloud Functions
17 8 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
18 7 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
18 7 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.90%) Broadband
2 7 (1.23%) Firewall
3 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.53%) Internet
4 3 (0.53%) VPN
4 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.18%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (2.80%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.10%) MySQL
3 12 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.40%) Redis
7 6 (1.05%) Power BI
8 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.53%) Big Data
9 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.35%) GIS
10 2 (0.35%) SQLite
11 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (4.20%) Git
2 19 (3.33%) Crashlytics
3 18 (3.15%) JIRA
4 17 (2.98%) XCTest
5 16 (2.80%) fastlane
6 14 (2.45%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.10%) XCUITest
8 11 (1.93%) Xcode
9 10 (1.75%) Appium
10 8 (1.40%) Gradle
11 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.23%) Postman
12 6 (1.05%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.88%) JMeter
13 5 (0.88%) Storybook
14 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.53%) GitLab
14 3 (0.53%) JUnit
14 3 (0.53%) Selenium
15 2 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 94 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 48 (8.41%) Finance
3 47 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.65%) Law
5 36 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.90%) Games
7 24 (4.20%) Marketing
8 22 (3.85%) Retail
9 20 (3.50%) Banking
10 19 (3.33%) Public Sector
11 18 (3.15%) Publishing
12 10 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.05%) Back Office
13 6 (1.05%) Digital Health
13 6 (1.05%) Local Government
14 5 (0.88%) Advertising
14 5 (0.88%) Electronics
14 5 (0.88%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 231 (40.46%) Developer
2 143 (25.04%) Senior
3 73 (12.78%) Senior Developer
4 60 (10.51%) Lead
5 56 (9.81%) iOS Developer
6 46 (8.06%) .NET Developer
7 42 (7.36%) Android Developer
8 38 (6.65%) Software Engineer
9 37 (6.48%) Mobile Developer
10 31 (5.43%) Applications Developer
11 26 (4.55%) Designer
12 25 (4.38%) Senior iOS Developer
12 25 (4.38%) Senior Mobile Developer
13 23 (4.03%) Mobile Applications Developer
14 22 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
15 21 (3.68%) UX Designer
16 19 (3.33%) Senior Android Developer
17 18 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (3.15%) Senior Applications Developer
17 18 (3.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (15.94%) React
2 86 (15.06%) React Native
3 67 (11.73%) RESTful
4 65 (11.38%) .NET
5 50 (8.76%) SwiftUI
6 38 (6.65%) REST
7 36 (6.30%) Node.js
8 32 (5.60%) CSS
9 31 (5.43%) ASP.NET
10 26 (4.55%) GraphQL
11 25 (4.38%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 24 (4.20%) UIKit
13 23 (4.03%) HTML
13 23 (4.03%) Vue
14 21 (3.68%) Blazor
15 19 (3.33%) .NET Core
15 19 (3.33%) Next.js
16 18 (3.15%) Android SDK
16 18 (3.15%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.73%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
3 29 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.68%) iPhone
6 18 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.45%) IoT
8 12 (2.10%) Social Media
9 8 (1.40%) Blog
9 8 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.23%) PropTech
11 6 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.05%) Vector Graphics
12 5 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.88%) Hackathon
12 5 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 174 (30.47%) Android
2 164 (28.72%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.10%) Windows
4 7 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.70%) Linux
6 2 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (31.17%) Agile
2 160 (28.02%) CI/CD
3 112 (19.61%) Test Automation
4 110 (19.26%) User Experience
5 100 (17.51%) AI
6 83 (14.54%) Analytics
7 80 (14.01%) iOS Development
8 76 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (13.31%) DevOps
9 74 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 74 (12.96%) Mentoring
10 73 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (12.61%) Android Development
12 71 (12.43%) Mobile Development
13 60 (10.51%) Software Engineering
14 59 (10.33%) Roadmaps
15 55 (9.63%) Clean Code
16 52 (9.11%) Code Quality
17 49 (8.58%) Observability
18 46 (8.06%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 78 (13.66%) Kotlin
2 70 (12.26%) TypeScript
3 67 (11.73%) JavaScript
3 67 (11.73%) SQL
4 63 (11.03%) Swift
5 57 (9.98%) C#
6 41 (7.18%) Java
7 30 (5.25%) Python
8 10 (1.75%) PHP
9 9 (1.58%) C++
9 9 (1.58%) Dart
10 8 (1.40%) Ruby
11 6 (1.05%) Go
12 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.35%) Bash
14 2 (0.35%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (5.95%) Degree
2 23 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 15 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.75%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.58%) ISEB
7 8 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.05%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.05%) OSCP
9 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.53%) CHECK Team Leader
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.35%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.35%) Tigerscheme
12 1 (0.18%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.84%) Accessibility
2 43 (7.53%) QA
3 23 (4.03%) WCAG
4 8 (1.40%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) GRC
5 3 (0.53%) WAI
5 3 (0.53%) WAI-ARIA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (2.28%) Docker
2 6 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.05%) Firmware
3 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.10%) Terraform
2 11 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.05%) Grafana
4 3 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.30%) Google
3 25 (4.38%) Apple
4 17 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.28%) Amplitude
5 13 (2.28%) Braze
5 13 (2.28%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.10%) Xamarin
7 7 (1.23%) Okta
7 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.05%) Oracle
9 5 (0.88%) SAP
9 5 (0.88%) VMware
10 4 (0.70%) Adobe
10 4 (0.70%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.70%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.53%) Hotjar
11 3 (0.53%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.35%) Databricks
12 2 (0.35%) IFS