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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 241 299
Rank change year-on-year -28 +58 -101
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 633 541 914
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.28% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 3.20% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 408 416 743
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £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 25,325 16,897 34,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.28% 39.93% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,080 9,221 22,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £81,250 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +9 593 £60,000 +4.35% 239
UK excluding London -17 443 £60,000 +9.09% 196
Work from Home -11 209 £70,000 +19.15% 117
London -13 165 £74,000 +13.85% 92
North of England -1 136 £57,500 +21.05% 59
South East +5 126 £60,000 +26.32% 50
Midlands -22 94 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Yorkshire -23 71 £40,000 +50.94% 24
North West +1 61 £61,250 +2.08% 33
East Midlands +2 52 £45,000 +20.00% 10
South West -38 45 £47,500 -20.83% 27
West Midlands -50 42 £50,000 -9.09% 20
East of England -27 21 £40,000 -27.27% 18
Scotland -51 19 £57,500 -2.13% 7
North East -50 4 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Wales -31 2 £71,500 +2.14% 9

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 (1.58%) Confluence
2 7 (1.11%) ArcGIS
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.79%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
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 (14.06%) Azure
2 77 (12.16%) AWS
3 65 (10.27%) SaaS
4 47 (7.42%) Figma
5 45 (7.11%) GitHub
6 31 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.79%) GCP
8 22 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (3.48%) Serverless
9 19 (3.00%) Firebase
10 18 (2.84%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (1.90%) Stripe
12 12 (1.90%) TestFlight
13 11 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (1.58%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.48%) Broadband
2 23 (3.63%) Wireless
3 20 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.37%) VPN
5 8 (1.26%) Firewall
6 7 (1.11%) DNS
7 6 (0.95%) DHCP
7 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.95%) WAN
8 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.90%) MySQL
2 11 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.26%) GIS
4 7 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.95%) Power BI
6 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
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%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.84%) JIRA
2 14 (2.21%) Burp Suite
2 14 (2.21%) Crashlytics
2 14 (2.21%) Metasploit
3 12 (1.90%) Git
3 12 (1.90%) XCTest
4 11 (1.74%) XCUITest
5 10 (1.58%) Storybook
6 8 (1.26%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.95%) Android Studio
7 6 (0.95%) Xcode
8 5 (0.79%) Appium
8 5 (0.79%) Postman
9 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.47%) fastlane
10 3 (0.47%) GitLab
10 3 (0.47%) Gradle
10 3 (0.47%) Selenium
11 2 (0.32%) NUnit
General
1 87 (13.74%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.27%) Finance
3 46 (7.27%) Games
4 43 (6.79%) Marketing
5 36 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (5.69%) Retail
6 34 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.84%) Banking
9 15 (2.37%) Law
10 13 (2.05%) Health Technology
10 13 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.74%) Billing
11 11 (1.74%) Local Government
12 10 (1.58%) Advertising
12 10 (1.58%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.58%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.26%) Electronics
15 7 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 262 (41.39%) Developer
2 152 (24.01%) Senior
3 69 (10.90%) Lead
4 63 (9.95%) Applications Developer
5 62 (9.79%) iOS Developer
5 62 (9.79%) Senior Developer
6 46 (7.27%) Designer
7 44 (6.95%) Mobile Developer
8 41 (6.48%) .NET Developer
9 37 (5.85%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 34 (5.37%) Senior Designer
11 33 (5.21%) Android Developer
12 29 (4.58%) Analyst
13 26 (4.11%) Product Designer
13 26 (4.11%) React Developer
14 23 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (3.63%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
15 22 (3.48%) Senior Product Designer
15 22 (3.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (17.38%) React Native
2 74 (11.69%) .NET
3 72 (11.37%) React
4 44 (6.95%) RESTful
5 43 (6.79%) SwiftUI
6 34 (5.37%) CSS
7 31 (4.90%) Node.js
8 24 (3.79%) HTML
9 23 (3.63%) REST
10 21 (3.32%) Bootstrap
11 19 (3.00%) GraphQL
12 16 (2.53%) Vue
13 15 (2.37%) Android SDK
14 14 (2.21%) Flutter
15 13 (2.05%) AngularJS
15 13 (2.05%) ASP.NET
15 13 (2.05%) UIKit
16 12 (1.90%) Jest
16 12 (1.90%) Spring
16 12 (1.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.74%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.79%) EPoS
6 20 (3.16%) IoT
6 20 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.53%) Social Media
8 14 (2.21%) PropTech
9 13 (2.05%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.90%) iPhone
11 11 (1.74%) iPad
12 9 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.79%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
16 4 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
16 4 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 173 (27.33%) Apple iOS
2 172 (27.17%) Android
3 19 (3.00%) Windows
4 6 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.79%) Linux
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) Debian
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (30.02%) Agile
2 127 (20.06%) CI/CD
3 119 (18.80%) User Experience
4 105 (16.59%) Mentoring
5 90 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (13.27%) AI
6 84 (13.27%) Android Development
7 83 (13.11%) iOS Development
8 75 (11.85%) Mobile Development
8 75 (11.85%) Test Automation
9 73 (11.53%) Mobile Application Development
10 70 (11.06%) Software Engineering
11 66 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 62 (9.79%) Analytics
13 60 (9.48%) UX Design
14 58 (9.16%) DevOps
15 56 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (8.37%) Collaborative Culture
17 45 (7.11%) Roadmaps
17 45 (7.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 78 (12.32%) Kotlin
2 64 (10.11%) TypeScript
3 54 (8.53%) Swift
4 49 (7.74%) SQL
5 40 (6.32%) Java
6 39 (6.16%) C#
7 37 (5.85%) JavaScript
8 26 (4.11%) Python
9 14 (2.21%) Bash
10 13 (2.05%) PHP
11 9 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.95%) C++
13 5 (0.79%) Dart
14 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.47%) Go
15 3 (0.47%) Perl
15 3 (0.47%) Ruby
16 2 (0.32%) Bicep
16 2 (0.32%) C
17 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (6.00%) Degree
2 29 (4.58%) CREST Certified
2 29 (4.58%) OSCP
3 22 (3.48%) CHECK Team Leader
3 22 (3.48%) CHECK Team Member
4 18 (2.84%) CCSAM
5 13 (2.05%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.58%) SC Cleared
9 5 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.63%) CISSP
10 4 (0.63%) ISEB
11 3 (0.47%) CCSAS
11 3 (0.47%) Cyber Scheme
11 3 (0.47%) Tigerscheme
12 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.32%) CEH
12 2 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.74%) Accessibility
2 27 (4.27%) QA
3 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.11%) GDPR
5 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.79%) GRC
7 4 (0.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (2.05%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (3.00%) Terraform
2 18 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.74%) Nessus
4 9 (1.42%) Ansible
5 8 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.11%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.63%) Nmap
8 3 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 38 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.58%) Adobe
3 25 (3.95%) Apple
4 24 (3.79%) Xamarin
5 19 (3.00%) Google
6 12 (1.90%) Amplitude
7 11 (1.74%) Braze
8 8 (1.26%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.26%) ESRI
9 7 (1.11%) Okta
10 6 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.95%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) Zoho
12 4 (0.63%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.47%) Samsung
13 3 (0.47%) SAP
13 3 (0.47%) WooCommerce
14 2 (0.32%) DevExpress
14 2 (0.32%) Oracle