Mobile App Jobs

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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 299 228
Rank change year-on-year -42 -71 -121
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 460 1,004 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.93% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 2.78% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 349 785 981
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -6.96%

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 21,345 36,142 38,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.76% 33.49% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,087 23,020 21,762
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £40,584 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Salary trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 -66 407 £57,500 +4.55% 2,249
UK excluding London -81 269 £55,000 +2.80% 1,262
London +75 164 £65,000 - 1,185
Work from Home -59 164 £60,000 +9.09% 1,073
North of England -35 77 £47,500 -5.00% 320
South East +7 63 £55,000 +4.76% 327
Midlands -10 56 £47,500 -5.00% 172
West Midlands +31 50 £47,500 -9.52% 112
North West -61 38 £60,000 +20.00% 170
Yorkshire +40 30 £26,500 -52.89% 116
Scotland +84 29 £74,000 +5.28% 114
South West +12 22 £61,250 -2.00% 117
East of England -37 17 £55,000 - 154
North East +30 9 £43,750 +2.94% 36
East Midlands -10 6 £52,500 +16.67% 60
Wales +26 5 £70,000 +33.33% 47

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (5.00%) CMS
2 14 (3.04%) WordPress
3 13 (2.83%) Confluence
4 11 (2.39%) Headless CMS
5 10 (2.17%) Drupal
6 9 (1.96%) IIS
7 4 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) Appian
8 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Sketch
2 5 (1.09%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 135 (29.35%) AWS
2 72 (15.65%) Azure
3 45 (9.78%) GCP
4 34 (7.39%) Figma
4 34 (7.39%) SaaS
5 24 (5.22%) Serverless
6 22 (4.78%) Power Platform
7 18 (3.91%) Firebase
8 17 (3.70%) GitHub
9 10 (2.17%) Contentful
10 9 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.74%) DigitalOcean
11 8 (1.74%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.52%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.09%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.09%) Bitrise
14 5 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.87%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.17%) Internet
2 5 (1.09%) HTTP
3 4 (0.87%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.22%) Calico
5 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) Wireless
5 1 (0.22%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.39%) SQL Server
2 46 (10.00%) MySQL
3 34 (7.39%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.04%) Power BI
5 14 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.87%) Big Data
10 4 (0.87%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.87%) Event Store
11 3 (0.65%) Redis
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.43%) GIS
13 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 76 (16.52%) Git
2 29 (6.30%) JIRA
3 21 (4.57%) Appium
4 18 (3.91%) Jenkins
5 17 (3.70%) Visual Studio
6 13 (2.83%) Selenium
7 9 (1.96%) GitLab
8 8 (1.74%) Android Studio
8 8 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.74%) Maven
9 7 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.52%) Storybook
10 6 (1.30%) Xcode
11 5 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (1.09%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.09%) JMeter
11 5 (1.09%) JUnit
11 5 (1.09%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.87%) git-flow
12 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.22%) Finance
3 56 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.09%) Banking
5 46 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (8.91%) Law
7 37 (8.04%) Games
7 37 (8.04%) Marketing
8 24 (5.22%) Retail
9 18 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.04%) Automotive
11 12 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.39%) Legal
13 10 (2.17%) Aviation
13 10 (2.17%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.96%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.30%) Digital Health
15 6 (1.30%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.09%) Police
16 5 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (37.17%) Developer
2 85 (18.48%) Senior
3 64 (13.91%) Lead
4 58 (12.61%) Software Engineer
5 50 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (5.00%) Analyst
8 22 (4.78%) Mobile Engineer
9 21 (4.57%) Android Engineer
10 18 (3.91%) IT Engineer
10 18 (3.91%) IT Support
10 18 (3.91%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (3.91%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.70%) Designer
12 16 (3.48%) iOS Developer
12 16 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (3.48%) Python Engineer
12 16 (3.48%) Python Software Engineer
12 16 (3.48%) Software Support Engineer
13 15 (3.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (21.52%) React
2 76 (16.52%) CSS
3 75 (16.30%) HTML
4 70 (15.22%) React Native
5 69 (15.00%) .NET
6 55 (11.96%) RESTful
7 37 (8.04%) .NET Core
8 35 (7.61%) GraphQL
9 34 (7.39%) REST
10 31 (6.74%) JSON
11 29 (6.30%) Node.js
12 28 (6.09%) Laravel
13 27 (5.87%) .NET Framework
14 24 (5.22%) ASP.NET
15 23 (5.00%) Flutter
16 22 (4.78%) HTML5
17 21 (4.57%) AngularJS
17 21 (4.57%) CSS3
17 21 (4.57%) Vue
18 20 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (4.35%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.83%) Online Banking
7 11 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.30%) EPoS
10 5 (1.09%) IoT
10 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.87%) Animation
11 4 (0.87%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.87%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.87%) Mobile Games
12 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.65%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.65%) Video Editing
13 2 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (26.09%) Android
2 110 (23.91%) Apple iOS
3 35 (7.61%) Windows
4 18 (3.91%) Linux
5 10 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.09%) Rocky
7 2 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (43.04%) Agile
2 111 (24.13%) CI/CD
3 108 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (22.83%) Software Engineering
5 100 (21.74%) User Experience
6 70 (15.22%) Mobile Application Development
7 65 (14.13%) Test Automation
8 60 (13.04%) SDLC
9 59 (12.83%) DevOps
10 58 (12.61%) E-Commerce
10 58 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
11 51 (11.09%) Microservices
12 48 (10.43%) Mobile Development
13 44 (9.57%) Software Testing
14 41 (8.91%) OOP
15 40 (8.70%) MVC
15 40 (8.70%) UX Design
16 39 (8.48%) CRM
16 39 (8.48%) Mentoring
17 38 (8.26%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 135 (29.35%) JavaScript
2 82 (17.83%) TypeScript
3 72 (15.65%) SQL
4 54 (11.74%) C#
5 53 (11.52%) Python
6 49 (10.65%) Java
7 39 (8.48%) Swift
8 38 (8.26%) Kotlin
9 32 (6.96%) PHP
10 24 (5.22%) Go
11 16 (3.48%) Objective-C
12 13 (2.83%) Dart
13 9 (1.96%) C
14 7 (1.52%) C++
15 3 (0.65%) Ruby
16 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.43%) Rust
17 1 (0.22%) Bash
17 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (9.35%) Degree
2 22 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.39%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.96%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) CHECK Team Leader
9 3 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.22%) CITP
10 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) MCT
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.00%) QA
2 24 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.65%) WCAG
4 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.22%) PERC
5 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (6.09%) Docker
2 12 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.87%) Firmware
4 3 (0.65%) LXC
5 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.43%) Terraform
3 9 (1.96%) AirWatch
4 8 (1.74%) Grafana
4 8 (1.74%) Mesos
5 7 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) Istio
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.09%) Google
3 18 (3.91%) Zoho
4 14 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.83%) Apple
6 9 (1.96%) Adobe
6 9 (1.96%) Samsung
7 7 (1.52%) New Relic
7 7 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.30%) Oracle
8 6 (1.30%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.09%) Twitter
10 4 (0.87%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.87%) Rollbar
11 3 (0.65%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.43%) Optimizely
13 1 (0.22%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
13 1 (0.22%) PayPal