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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 351 279
Rank change year-on-year -11 -72 -48
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 558 384 810
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.77% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.87% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 372 273 550
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £38,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £79,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 28,222 20,566 27,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.94% 41.19% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,686 10,385 15,582
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.10% -8.99%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +1 498 £60,000 - 309
UK excluding London +37 395 £57,500 +4.55% 122
Work from Home +16 188 £65,000 - 134
North of England +13 144 £55,000 +22.22% 28
London -63 130 £76,250 -1.61% 218
South East +10 91 £60,000 - 21
North West +30 85 £60,000 +2.13% 14
Midlands +11 83 £50,000 +5.26% 14
West Midlands -27 44 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Yorkshire -30 44 £52,500 +98.11% 12
South West -42 40 £65,000 +10.64% 25
East Midlands +9 39 £52,000 -0.95% 4
Scotland +11 20 £60,000 +11.63% 9
North East -47 15 £47,000 +4.44% 3
East of England -26 10 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Wales -65 7 £55,000 -21.43% 6

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 (2.15%) Confluence
2 5 (0.90%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.72%) CMS
3 4 (0.72%) IIS
4 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.54%) Zeplin
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 102 (18.28%) Azure
2 80 (14.34%) AWS
3 54 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (8.24%) GitHub
5 37 (6.63%) GCP
6 36 (6.45%) SaaS
7 31 (5.56%) Firebase
8 28 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (4.66%) Google Play
10 24 (4.30%) Serverless
11 17 (3.05%) Azure AI
12 14 (2.51%) TestFlight
13 13 (2.33%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (2.15%) Stripe
15 11 (1.97%) Figma
16 9 (1.61%) BrowserStack
16 9 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
17 8 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.51%) Broadband
2 5 (0.90%) Firewall
3 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.54%) HTTP
4 3 (0.54%) Internet
4 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.18%) Intranet
5 1 (0.18%) NFC
5 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (2.87%) MongoDB
3 15 (2.69%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.97%) MySQL
6 9 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.43%) Redis
8 6 (1.08%) Power BI
8 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.54%) Big Data
10 3 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.36%) SQLite
12 1 (0.18%) GIS
12 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.30%) Git
2 17 (3.05%) Crashlytics
2 17 (3.05%) JIRA
3 16 (2.87%) fastlane
4 15 (2.69%) XCTest
5 14 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.97%) Xcode
7 9 (1.61%) Appium
7 9 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.61%) Postman
7 9 (1.61%) XCUITest
8 8 (1.43%) Gradle
9 7 (1.25%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.08%) Selenium
11 5 (0.90%) Gatling
11 5 (0.90%) JMeter
11 5 (0.90%) Storybook
12 4 (0.72%) JUnit
13 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
14 2 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 99 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 50 (8.96%) Finance
3 40 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.63%) Law
6 28 (5.02%) Marketing
7 26 (4.66%) Retail
8 23 (4.12%) Banking
9 20 (3.58%) Publishing
10 19 (3.41%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.51%) Games
12 11 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.25%) Advertising
14 6 (1.08%) Billing
14 6 (1.08%) Digital Health
15 5 (0.90%) Back Office
15 5 (0.90%) Electronics
15 5 (0.90%) Local Government
15 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.90%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 225 (40.32%) Developer
2 142 (25.45%) Senior
3 74 (13.26%) Senior Developer
4 57 (10.22%) iOS Developer
4 57 (10.22%) Lead
5 45 (8.06%) .NET Developer
6 41 (7.35%) Android Developer
7 38 (6.81%) Mobile Developer
7 38 (6.81%) Software Engineer
8 29 (5.20%) Applications Developer
9 28 (5.02%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 27 (4.84%) Senior iOS Developer
11 24 (4.30%) Designer
12 23 (4.12%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 21 (3.76%) Mobile Engineer
13 21 (3.76%) Senior Android Developer
14 20 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (3.58%) Junior
14 20 (3.58%) Test Engineer
14 20 (3.58%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (16.67%) React
2 89 (15.95%) React Native
3 67 (12.01%) RESTful
4 65 (11.65%) .NET
5 50 (8.96%) SwiftUI
6 43 (7.71%) REST
7 34 (6.09%) Node.js
8 33 (5.91%) CSS
9 31 (5.56%) ASP.NET
10 25 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
10 25 (4.48%) HTML
11 24 (4.30%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.94%) UIKit
12 22 (3.94%) Vue
13 21 (3.76%) Blazor
14 20 (3.58%) .NET Core
14 20 (3.58%) Flutter
14 20 (3.58%) GraphQL
15 18 (3.23%) NestJS
15 18 (3.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 31 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 29 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 21 (3.76%) iPhone
5 16 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.51%) IoT
8 9 (1.61%) Blog
9 8 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.25%) PropTech
10 7 (1.25%) Social Media
11 6 (1.08%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.08%) Vector Graphics
12 5 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.90%) Hackathon
13 4 (0.72%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 164 (29.39%) Android
2 155 (27.78%) Apple iOS
3 15 (2.69%) Windows
4 7 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.54%) Linux
6 2 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (30.29%) Agile
2 143 (25.63%) CI/CD
3 114 (20.43%) Test Automation
4 110 (19.71%) User Experience
5 93 (16.67%) AI
6 80 (14.34%) iOS Development
6 80 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (13.98%) Analytics
8 78 (13.98%) DevOps
9 76 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (12.54%) Android Development
10 70 (12.54%) Mobile Development
11 66 (11.83%) Mentoring
11 66 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 53 (9.50%) Clean Code
13 51 (9.14%) Code Quality
13 51 (9.14%) Roadmaps
13 51 (9.14%) UX Design
14 43 (7.71%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.90%) SQL
2 70 (12.54%) TypeScript
3 69 (12.37%) JavaScript
3 69 (12.37%) Kotlin
4 63 (11.29%) Swift
5 59 (10.57%) C#
6 36 (6.45%) Java
7 31 (5.56%) Python
8 11 (1.97%) C++
9 10 (1.79%) Dart
9 10 (1.79%) PHP
9 10 (1.79%) Ruby
10 6 (1.08%) C
10 6 (1.08%) Go
11 4 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.36%) Bash
13 2 (0.36%) Perl
13 2 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (6.81%) Degree
2 24 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.51%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.79%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.61%) ISEB
7 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.25%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.25%) OSCP
9 5 (0.90%) CHECK Team Leader
10 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.72%) CHECK Team Member
10 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.54%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) CCSAS
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Scheme
12 2 (0.36%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.37%) Accessibility
2 48 (8.60%) QA
3 25 (4.48%) WCAG
4 8 (1.43%) GDPR
5 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.54%) GRC
5 3 (0.54%) WAI
5 3 (0.54%) WAI-ARIA
6 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (2.33%) Docker
2 7 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.25%) Firmware
3 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.79%) Grafana
3 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.36%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 44 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.17%) Google
3 23 (4.12%) Apple
4 18 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.15%) Xamarin
7 11 (1.97%) Amplitude
7 11 (1.97%) Braze
8 8 (1.43%) Okta
9 6 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.08%) Oracle
9 6 (1.08%) SAP
10 5 (0.90%) VMware
11 4 (0.72%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.72%) Ping Identity
12 3 (0.54%) Adobe
12 3 (0.54%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.36%) DevExpress
13 2 (0.36%) IFS
13 2 (0.36%) Sage