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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 232 285
Rank change year-on-year -26 +53 -111
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 589 574 844
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.33% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% 3.42% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 358 418 707
10th Percentile £37,275 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,125 £90,000 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 22,990 16,791 30,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 39.05% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,661 8,900 21,750
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 March 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 March 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 -6 541 £60,000 +4.35% 296
UK excluding London -11 402 £55,000 - 254
Work from Home -24 189 £60,000 - 122
London -15 157 £70,000 +7.69% 106
North of England +7 123 £57,500 +17.95% 67
South East +12 108 £60,000 +26.32% 75
Midlands -25 76 £45,000 -28.00% 43
Yorkshire 0 67 £40,000 -5.88% 27
North West +1 48 £62,500 +4.17% 35
East Midlands +5 46 £45,000 +2.86% 20
South West -11 45 £47,500 -20.83% 20
West Midlands -36 30 £50,000 -24.53% 23
Scotland -47 26 £34,000 -42.13% 17
East of England -25 23 £40,000 -27.27% 23
North East -27 8 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -14 2 £65,000 - 12

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 (1.36%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.19%) CMS
2 7 (1.19%) Confluence
3 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Appian
6 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Sketch
3 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (16.98%) Azure
2 64 (10.87%) AWS
3 59 (10.02%) SaaS
4 48 (8.15%) Figma
5 35 (5.94%) GitHub
6 30 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.74%) GCP
8 20 (3.40%) Firebase
9 19 (3.23%) Serverless
10 17 (2.89%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (1.70%) Azure Functions
14 10 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.70%) TestFlight
15 9 (1.53%) Stripe
16 7 (1.19%) Google Play
17 6 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.19%) Broadband
2 23 (3.90%) Wireless
3 22 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.55%) VPN
5 8 (1.36%) Firewall
6 7 (1.19%) DNS
7 6 (1.02%) DHCP
7 6 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.02%) WAN
8 4 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.34%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.34%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) 4G
10 1 (0.17%) HTTP
10 1 (0.17%) Internet
10 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.21%) MySQL
2 10 (1.70%) GIS
2 10 (1.70%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.36%) Geospatial Data
3 8 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (3.06%) Git
1 18 (3.06%) JIRA
2 14 (2.38%) Burp Suite
2 14 (2.38%) Metasploit
3 13 (2.21%) Xcode
4 11 (1.87%) Crashlytics
5 10 (1.70%) XCUITest
6 9 (1.53%) XCTest
7 8 (1.36%) Storybook
8 7 (1.19%) Android Studio
8 7 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.02%) Postman
10 5 (0.85%) Appium
11 4 (0.68%) Jenkins
12 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.51%) fastlane
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 2 (0.34%) CMake
13 2 (0.34%) GitLab
13 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (16.64%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.53%) Finance
3 47 (7.98%) Games
4 45 (7.64%) Retail
5 36 (6.11%) Marketing
6 34 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.57%) Banking
10 19 (3.23%) Advertising
11 18 (3.06%) Billing
12 14 (2.38%) Legal
13 13 (2.21%) Health Technology
13 13 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.87%) Electronics
15 11 (1.87%) Tech for Good
16 10 (1.70%) Law
16 10 (1.70%) Public Sector
17 8 (1.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 224 (38.03%) Developer
2 141 (23.94%) Senior
3 59 (10.02%) Applications Developer
4 58 (9.85%) Lead
5 52 (8.83%) iOS Developer
6 48 (8.15%) Mobile Developer
7 42 (7.13%) Senior Developer
8 41 (6.96%) Designer
9 39 (6.62%) Analyst
10 33 (5.60%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 32 (5.43%) Senior Designer
12 30 (5.09%) .NET Developer
13 27 (4.58%) Product Designer
14 26 (4.41%) Android Developer
15 23 (3.90%) Senior Product Designer
16 22 (3.74%) React Developer
17 21 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (3.40%) Applications Engineer
18 20 (3.40%) Software Engineer
19 18 (3.06%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (17.66%) React Native
2 69 (11.71%) .NET
3 66 (11.21%) React
4 46 (7.81%) RESTful
5 40 (6.79%) SwiftUI
6 39 (6.62%) CSS
7 34 (5.77%) HTML
8 27 (4.58%) Node.js
9 17 (2.89%) Bootstrap
9 17 (2.89%) GraphQL
10 16 (2.72%) REST
11 15 (2.55%) Android SDK
12 14 (2.38%) Flutter
12 14 (2.38%) Vue
13 12 (2.04%) Spring
13 12 (2.04%) Spring Boot
13 12 (2.04%) UIKit
14 11 (1.87%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.87%) Next.js
15 10 (1.70%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.15%) Onboarding
2 41 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.41%) EPoS
5 22 (3.74%) IoT
6 17 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.89%) Security Posture
6 17 (2.89%) Social Media
7 12 (2.04%) iPhone
8 11 (1.87%) iPad
9 9 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.36%) PropTech
11 7 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.68%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.68%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 168 (28.52%) Android
2 164 (27.84%) Apple iOS
3 22 (3.74%) Windows
4 6 (1.02%) Linux
4 6 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) Debian
7 2 (0.34%) Nucleus RTOS
7 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (34.13%) Agile
2 117 (19.86%) CI/CD
3 112 (19.02%) User Experience
4 109 (18.51%) Mentoring
5 102 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (14.26%) Mobile Application Development
7 82 (13.92%) AI
8 75 (12.73%) Android Development
9 71 (12.05%) iOS Development
10 68 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 68 (11.54%) Test Automation
11 64 (10.87%) Mobile Development
12 62 (10.53%) UX Design
13 60 (10.19%) Analytics
13 60 (10.19%) DevOps
14 59 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
16 53 (9.00%) Collaborative Culture
17 48 (8.15%) Roadmaps
18 47 (7.98%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.38%) Kotlin
2 51 (8.66%) Swift
3 45 (7.64%) TypeScript
4 39 (6.62%) C#
4 39 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 36 (6.11%) Java
6 35 (5.94%) SQL
7 24 (4.07%) Python
8 15 (2.55%) Bash
9 13 (2.21%) PHP
10 9 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.36%) C++
11 8 (1.36%) VBA
12 5 (0.85%) C
13 4 (0.68%) XAML
14 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.51%) Perl
14 3 (0.51%) Ruby
15 2 (0.34%) Dart
15 2 (0.34%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 41 (6.96%) Degree
2 25 (4.24%) CREST Certified
2 25 (4.24%) OSCP
3 21 (3.57%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (3.40%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.06%) CCSAM
6 12 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.19%) Security Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.51%) CISSP
12 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) CCSAS
12 2 (0.34%) CEH
12 2 (0.34%) CISA
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Scheme
12 2 (0.34%) ISEB
12 2 (0.34%) PhD
12 2 (0.34%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (12.39%) Accessibility
2 27 (4.58%) QA
3 7 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.19%) WCAG
4 6 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.85%) GDPR
5 5 (0.85%) SLA
6 4 (0.68%) GRC
7 2 (0.34%) Section 508
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (2.55%) Docker
2 8 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (3.57%) Terraform
2 18 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.87%) Nessus
4 10 (1.70%) Ansible
4 10 (1.70%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.68%) Nmap
8 3 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 35 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.09%) Adobe
3 27 (4.58%) Apple
4 24 (4.07%) Xamarin
5 20 (3.40%) Google
6 10 (1.70%) ESRI
7 9 (1.53%) Amplitude
8 8 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.36%) Blue Prism
8 8 (1.36%) Pega
9 7 (1.19%) Okta
10 6 (1.02%) Samsung
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.85%) Zoho
12 4 (0.68%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.68%) VMware
13 3 (0.51%) Mapbox
13 3 (0.51%) SAP
13 3 (0.51%) WooCommerce
14 2 (0.34%) Facebook