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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 240 284
Rank change year-on-year -15 +44 -114
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 576 579 829
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.33% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.54% 3.40% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 347 413 697
10th Percentile £35,000 £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% -12.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
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 22,719 17,028 30,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.89% 38.97% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,516 8,795 21,608
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,000 £76,950
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 12 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 12 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 -17 531 £60,000 +2.13% 305
UK excluding London -15 395 £55,000 - 254
Work from Home -35 184 £60,000 - 138
London -8 153 £70,000 +7.69% 119
North of England +12 124 £58,750 +17.50% 69
South East +1 107 £60,000 +26.32% 68
Midlands -29 71 £45,000 -30.77% 43
Yorkshire -4 67 £40,000 -8.57% 26
North West +2 47 £64,482 +7.47% 36
South West -12 44 £47,500 -20.83% 21
East Midlands -5 41 £45,000 +2.86% 23
West Midlands -38 30 £50,000 -25.93% 20
Scotland -38 25 £34,000 -42.13% 17
East of England -14 23 £40,000 -27.27% 24
North East -21 10 £50,000 +17.65% 8
Wales -11 2 £65,000 - 13

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 (1.39%) ArcGIS
2 7 (1.22%) CMS
2 7 (1.22%) Confluence
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.35%) 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 (1.39%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.52%) 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 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (16.84%) Azure
2 61 (10.59%) AWS
3 60 (10.42%) SaaS
4 48 (8.33%) Figma
5 31 (5.38%) GitHub
6 26 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.17%) GCP
8 19 (3.30%) Serverless
9 17 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 16 (2.78%) Firebase
11 14 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (1.74%) Azure Functions
13 10 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.39%) TestFlight
16 7 (1.22%) Stripe
17 6 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (1.04%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.42%) Broadband
2 23 (3.99%) Wireless
3 22 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.60%) VPN
5 8 (1.39%) Firewall
6 7 (1.22%) DNS
7 6 (1.04%) DHCP
7 6 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.04%) WAN
8 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.35%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.35%) 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 (2.26%) MySQL
2 10 (1.74%) GIS
3 9 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.52%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.35%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.35%) 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 17 (2.95%) Git
2 16 (2.78%) JIRA
3 14 (2.43%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.43%) Metasploit
4 11 (1.91%) Xcode
5 8 (1.39%) Crashlytics
5 8 (1.39%) XCUITest
6 6 (1.04%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.04%) Storybook
6 6 (1.04%) XCTest
7 5 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.87%) Postman
8 4 (0.69%) Appium
9 3 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) CMake
10 2 (0.35%) GitLab
10 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 96 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.42%) Finance
3 47 (8.16%) Games
4 45 (7.81%) Retail
5 35 (6.08%) Marketing
6 31 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.65%) Banking
10 20 (3.47%) Advertising
10 20 (3.47%) Billing
11 14 (2.43%) Legal
12 13 (2.26%) Health Technology
12 13 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.91%) Electronics
14 11 (1.91%) Tech for Good
15 10 (1.74%) Law
16 8 (1.39%) Local Government
17 7 (1.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 217 (37.67%) Developer
2 135 (23.44%) Senior
3 58 (10.07%) Applications Developer
4 54 (9.38%) Lead
5 49 (8.51%) iOS Developer
6 47 (8.16%) Mobile Developer
7 41 (7.12%) Designer
8 39 (6.77%) Analyst
8 39 (6.77%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 32 (5.56%) Senior Designer
10 30 (5.21%) .NET Developer
11 27 (4.69%) Product Designer
12 24 (4.17%) Android Developer
13 23 (3.99%) Senior Product Designer
14 22 (3.82%) React Developer
15 21 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (3.47%) Software Engineer
17 19 (3.30%) Applications Engineer
18 16 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.19%) React Native
2 68 (11.81%) .NET
3 67 (11.63%) React
4 44 (7.64%) RESTful
5 40 (6.94%) CSS
6 38 (6.60%) HTML
7 36 (6.25%) SwiftUI
8 29 (5.03%) Node.js
9 19 (3.30%) Bootstrap
10 17 (2.95%) GraphQL
10 17 (2.95%) Vue
11 15 (2.60%) AngularJS
11 15 (2.60%) REST
12 14 (2.43%) Android SDK
13 12 (2.08%) Flutter
14 11 (1.91%) Next.js
14 11 (1.91%) Spring
14 11 (1.91%) Spring Boot
15 10 (1.74%) Laravel
16 9 (1.56%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 37 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (4.51%) EPoS
4 22 (3.82%) IoT
5 17 (2.95%) Security Posture
5 17 (2.95%) Social Media
6 13 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.08%) iPhone
8 11 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.91%) iPad
9 9 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.39%) PropTech
11 7 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.69%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.69%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 164 (28.47%) Android
2 157 (27.26%) Apple iOS
3 22 (3.82%) Windows
4 6 (1.04%) Linux
4 6 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) Debian
7 2 (0.35%) Nucleus RTOS
7 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (33.68%) Agile
2 109 (18.92%) CI/CD
3 107 (18.58%) Mentoring
4 106 (18.40%) User Experience
5 101 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (14.24%) AI
7 81 (14.06%) Mobile Application Development
8 73 (12.67%) Android Development
9 67 (11.63%) Software Engineering
10 66 (11.46%) iOS Development
11 63 (10.94%) Mobile Development
12 60 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
13 59 (10.24%) UX Design
14 58 (10.07%) DevOps
14 58 (10.07%) Test Automation
15 57 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (9.55%) Analytics
17 52 (9.03%) Collaborative Culture
18 48 (8.33%) Roadmaps
19 47 (8.16%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 62 (10.76%) Kotlin
2 46 (7.99%) Swift
3 44 (7.64%) TypeScript
4 42 (7.29%) JavaScript
5 37 (6.42%) C#
6 35 (6.08%) Java
7 34 (5.90%) SQL
8 23 (3.99%) Python
9 15 (2.60%) Bash
10 12 (2.08%) PHP
11 9 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.39%) C++
12 8 (1.39%) VBA
13 5 (0.87%) C
14 4 (0.69%) XAML
15 3 (0.52%) Perl
15 3 (0.52%) Ruby
16 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.35%) Groovy
16 2 (0.35%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 38 (6.60%) Degree
2 25 (4.34%) CREST Certified
2 25 (4.34%) OSCP
3 21 (3.65%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (3.47%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.13%) CCSAM
6 11 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.91%) Security Cleared
7 10 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.56%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.52%) CISSP
9 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.35%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.35%) CEH
10 2 (0.35%) CISA
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.35%) GPEN
10 2 (0.35%) PhD
10 2 (0.35%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 26 (4.51%) QA
3 7 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.87%) GDPR
5 5 (0.87%) SLA
6 4 (0.69%) GRC
6 4 (0.69%) WCAG
7 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.35%) Section 508
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (2.60%) Docker
2 9 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (3.82%) Terraform
2 18 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.91%) Ansible
3 11 (1.91%) Nessus
4 10 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.69%) Nmap
7 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.17%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 35 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.21%) Adobe
3 24 (4.17%) Apple
4 23 (3.99%) Xamarin
5 21 (3.65%) Google
6 10 (1.74%) ESRI
7 8 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.39%) Blue Prism
7 8 (1.39%) Pega
8 7 (1.22%) Amplitude
8 7 (1.22%) Okta
9 6 (1.04%) Samsung
10 5 (0.87%) Zoho
11 4 (0.69%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.69%) VMware
12 3 (0.52%) Mapbox
12 3 (0.52%) SAP
12 3 (0.52%) WooCommerce
13 2 (0.35%) Facebook