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 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 277 291
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -88
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 652 489 970
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.12% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 2.61% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 426 361 778
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,800 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +8.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £92,500 £90,375
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 25,108 18,769 35,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.97% 42.91% 34.56%
Number of salaries quoted 14,380 8,823 23,184
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.98% +2.00% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +26 613 £60,000 +4.35% 301
UK excluding London +34 479 £60,000 +9.09% 193
Work from Home +42 202 £70,000 +16.67% 143
North of England +41 163 £55,000 +18.92% 60
London -52 147 £74,000 +13.85% 158
South East +39 126 £60,000 +26.32% 44
Midlands +23 112 £50,000 +5.26% 27
North West +43 83 £60,000 - 36
Yorkshire -7 70 £42,500 +60.38% 16
East Midlands +23 58 £45,000 -14.29% 15
West Midlands -25 54 £50,000 +5.26% 12
South West -46 40 £47,500 -22.45% 20
East of England -7 20 £40,000 -27.27% 18
Scotland -13 16 £60,000 - 20
North East -41 10 £47,000 +7.43% 8
Wales -38 2 £70,750 +1.07% 5

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 12 (1.84%) Confluence
2 7 (1.07%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.77%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.31%) CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (13.50%) Azure
2 82 (12.58%) AWS
3 59 (9.05%) SaaS
4 47 (7.21%) GitHub
5 41 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (6.13%) Figma
7 28 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (4.14%) GCP
9 26 (3.99%) Firebase
10 25 (3.83%) Serverless
11 14 (2.15%) Google Play
11 14 (2.15%) Stripe
11 14 (2.15%) TestFlight
12 12 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (1.84%) Entra ID
13 11 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.53%) Azure Functions
14 10 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.23%) Azure AI
15 8 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.90%) Broadband
2 19 (2.91%) Wireless
3 9 (1.38%) VPN
4 8 (1.23%) Firewall
5 7 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) DHCP
7 1 (0.15%) DNS
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (1.38%) MySQL
3 7 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
3 7 (1.07%) GIS
3 7 (1.07%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.07%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.92%) Power BI
5 5 (0.77%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Redis
7 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.15%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (2.76%) Crashlytics
2 16 (2.45%) JIRA
3 14 (2.15%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.15%) XCTest
4 13 (1.99%) fastlane
4 13 (1.99%) Git
4 13 (1.99%) Metasploit
5 11 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.69%) XCUITest
6 10 (1.53%) Storybook
7 8 (1.23%) Xcode
8 7 (1.07%) Android Studio
8 7 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.07%) Gradle
9 6 (0.92%) Appium
10 4 (0.61%) GitLab
10 4 (0.61%) Postman
11 3 (0.46%) Selenium
12 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 82 (12.58%) Social Skills
2 56 (8.59%) Finance
3 45 (6.90%) Games
3 45 (6.90%) Marketing
4 43 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.83%) Retail
6 30 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.07%) Banking
9 19 (2.91%) Law
10 17 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 13 (1.99%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.69%) Local Government
13 9 (1.38%) Electronics
13 9 (1.38%) Tech for Good
14 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.92%) Advertising
15 6 (0.92%) Billing
15 6 (0.92%) Digital Health
15 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 286 (43.87%) Developer
2 165 (25.31%) Senior
3 81 (12.42%) Senior Developer
4 77 (11.81%) Lead
5 68 (10.43%) iOS Developer
6 51 (7.82%) .NET Developer
7 48 (7.36%) Applications Developer
8 44 (6.75%) Designer
9 43 (6.60%) Android Developer
10 37 (5.67%) Mobile Developer
11 34 (5.21%) Senior Designer
12 31 (4.75%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 29 (4.45%) Software Engineer
14 27 (4.14%) Lead Developer
15 26 (3.99%) React Developer
16 25 (3.83%) Product Designer
16 25 (3.83%) Senior iOS Developer
17 24 (3.68%) Analyst
18 22 (3.37%) Mobile Engineer
18 22 (3.37%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.26%) React Native
2 82 (12.58%) React
3 75 (11.50%) .NET
4 51 (7.82%) RESTful
5 47 (7.21%) SwiftUI
6 36 (5.52%) Node.js
7 34 (5.21%) CSS
8 26 (3.99%) REST
9 24 (3.68%) HTML
10 20 (3.07%) ASP.NET
10 20 (3.07%) Vue
11 18 (2.76%) Android SDK
11 18 (2.76%) Bootstrap
11 18 (2.76%) GraphQL
11 18 (2.76%) UIKit
12 17 (2.61%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.30%) Next.js
14 14 (2.15%) Flutter
15 13 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (1.84%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 45 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 32 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.22%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.30%) Social Media
8 14 (2.15%) PropTech
9 13 (1.99%) EPoS
9 13 (1.99%) IoT
9 13 (1.99%) iPhone
10 9 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.77%) iPad
13 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.77%) Vector Graphics
14 4 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
15 3 (0.46%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 178 (27.30%) Android
2 176 (26.99%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.99%) Windows
4 6 (0.92%) Linux
4 6 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.31%) Debian
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (31.13%) Agile
2 140 (21.47%) CI/CD
3 121 (18.56%) Mentoring
4 118 (18.10%) User Experience
5 98 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (14.26%) Test Automation
7 89 (13.65%) AI
8 86 (13.19%) iOS Development
9 83 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 80 (12.27%) Android Development
11 79 (12.12%) Software Engineering
12 77 (11.81%) Analytics
13 71 (10.89%) Mobile Development
14 66 (10.12%) DevOps
15 61 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (8.90%) UX Design
17 56 (8.59%) Mobile Application Development
18 51 (7.82%) Clean Code
19 50 (7.67%) Roadmaps
20 48 (7.36%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 74 (11.35%) Kotlin
2 64 (9.82%) TypeScript
3 57 (8.74%) Swift
4 56 (8.59%) SQL
5 51 (7.82%) C#
6 44 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 42 (6.44%) Java
8 38 (5.83%) Python
9 12 (1.84%) Bash
10 11 (1.69%) Ruby
11 10 (1.53%) PHP
12 9 (1.38%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.07%) C++
13 7 (1.07%) Dart
14 4 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.46%) Go
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
16 2 (0.31%) Bicep
17 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (5.83%) Degree
2 29 (4.45%) OSCP
3 28 (4.29%) CREST Certified
4 22 (3.37%) CHECK Team Leader
4 22 (3.37%) CHECK Team Member
5 18 (2.76%) CCSAM
6 14 (2.15%) Security Cleared
7 12 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.53%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.38%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.07%) ISEB
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) CISSP
13 3 (0.46%) CCSAS
13 3 (0.46%) Cyber Scheme
13 3 (0.46%) Tigerscheme
14 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.31%) CISA
14 2 (0.31%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.04%) Accessibility
2 29 (4.45%) QA
3 12 (1.84%) WCAG
4 6 (0.92%) GDPR
4 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.77%) GRC
6 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (1.84%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (3.07%) Terraform
2 12 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.69%) Nessus
4 9 (1.38%) Ansible
5 6 (0.92%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.46%) Nmap
8 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 1 (0.15%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (5.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.14%) Adobe
3 26 (3.99%) Google
4 25 (3.83%) Xamarin
5 21 (3.22%) Apple
6 14 (2.15%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.99%) Braze
8 10 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.07%) ESRI
11 5 (0.77%) Okta
11 5 (0.77%) Oracle
12 4 (0.61%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.61%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.61%) SAP
13 3 (0.46%) Optimizely
14 2 (0.31%) Databricks
14 2 (0.31%) Samsung
14 2 (0.31%) WooCommerce