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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 304 291
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 -76
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 632 454 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.98% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.55% 2.34% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 405 343 784
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £89,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -

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 24,762 19,440 35,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.73% 41.87% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,849 9,402 23,012
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,401
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 30 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 30 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 +23 587 £60,000 +4.35% 193
UK excluding London +53 466 £57,500 +4.55% 155
Work from Home +37 208 £65,125 +8.54% 64
North of England +30 165 £55,000 +15.79% 37
London -54 135 £75,000 +15.38% 77
South East +23 111 £60,000 +9.09% 44
Midlands +12 107 £54,000 +13.68% 23
North West +47 85 £58,750 -2.08% 20
Yorkshire +5 67 £55,000 +107.55% 13
East Midlands +23 56 £54,000 +2.86% 15
West Midlands -23 51 £50,000 +5.26% 8
South West -41 42 £59,750 -2.45% 18
East of England -13 22 £40,000 -27.27% 21
Scotland +3 16 £60,000 -10.45% 8
North East -44 13 £47,000 +7.43% 5
Wales -51 3 £70,000 - 8

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 14 (2.22%) Confluence
2 7 (1.11%) ArcGIS
3 6 (0.95%) IIS
4 5 (0.79%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 101 (15.98%) Azure
2 82 (12.97%) AWS
3 58 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.28%) GitHub
5 41 (6.49%) SaaS
6 32 (5.06%) Figma
6 32 (5.06%) Firebase
7 30 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (4.27%) GCP
9 25 (3.96%) Google Play
9 25 (3.96%) Serverless
10 17 (2.69%) Azure AI
11 15 (2.37%) Stripe
11 15 (2.37%) TestFlight
12 12 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.11%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.18%) Broadband
2 16 (2.53%) Wireless
3 10 (1.58%) Firewall
4 7 (1.11%) VPN
5 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 10 (1.58%) MySQL
3 10 (1.58%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (1.11%) GIS
4 7 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.95%) Power BI
6 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.79%) Redis
7 4 (0.63%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.32%) SQLite
10 1 (0.16%) Big Data
10 1 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.16%) Crashlytics
2 16 (2.53%) fastlane
2 16 (2.53%) Git
2 16 (2.53%) JIRA
3 15 (2.37%) XCTest
4 14 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.90%) Burp Suite
6 11 (1.74%) XCUITest
7 10 (1.58%) Metasploit
7 10 (1.58%) Xcode
8 8 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.27%) Gradle
9 7 (1.11%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.95%) Appium
11 5 (0.79%) Postman
11 5 (0.79%) Storybook
12 4 (0.63%) GitLab
13 3 (0.47%) JMeter
13 3 (0.47%) Selenium
14 2 (0.32%) JUnit
General
1 91 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.70%) Finance
3 44 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (6.49%) Games
5 38 (6.01%) Marketing
6 36 (5.70%) Retail
7 29 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (3.32%) Law
8 21 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.85%) Banking
10 12 (1.90%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.74%) Local Government
12 9 (1.42%) Publishing
13 7 (1.11%) Digital Health
13 7 (1.11%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.95%) Electronics
14 6 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.79%) iGaming
15 5 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 262 (41.46%) Developer
2 163 (25.79%) Senior
3 78 (12.34%) Lead
4 76 (12.03%) Senior Developer
5 58 (9.18%) iOS Developer
6 50 (7.91%) .NET Developer
7 44 (6.96%) Android Developer
8 43 (6.80%) Designer
9 39 (6.17%) Applications Developer
10 34 (5.38%) Mobile Developer
10 34 (5.38%) Senior Designer
11 30 (4.75%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.27%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 25 (3.96%) Product Designer
13 25 (3.96%) Senior iOS Developer
14 24 (3.80%) Analyst
15 23 (3.64%) React Developer
16 22 (3.48%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.48%) Senior Product Designer
17 21 (3.32%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (15.19%) React Native
2 92 (14.56%) React
3 75 (11.87%) .NET
4 59 (9.34%) RESTful
5 46 (7.28%) SwiftUI
6 35 (5.54%) Node.js
7 33 (5.22%) CSS
8 32 (5.06%) ASP.NET
9 30 (4.75%) REST
10 25 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
11 23 (3.64%) HTML
12 22 (3.48%) Vue
13 21 (3.32%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.32%) Next.js
13 21 (3.32%) UIKit
14 20 (3.16%) Blazor
15 19 (3.01%) Android SDK
15 19 (3.01%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.69%) .NET Core
16 17 (2.69%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.60%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 34 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.01%) iPhone
7 17 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.22%) Social Media
9 12 (1.90%) IoT
10 11 (1.74%) EPoS
11 9 (1.42%) PropTech
12 8 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.11%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.95%) Vector Graphics
15 4 (0.63%) PKI
15 4 (0.63%) Smartcard
15 4 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 4 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 177 (28.01%) Android
2 161 (25.47%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.06%) Windows
4 7 (1.11%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.95%) Linux
6 2 (0.32%) Debian
6 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (34.02%) Agile
2 152 (24.05%) CI/CD
3 125 (19.78%) User Experience
4 116 (18.35%) Mentoring
5 99 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (15.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (15.19%) AI
7 96 (15.19%) Test Automation
8 88 (13.92%) Analytics
9 82 (12.97%) DevOps
10 78 (12.34%) Software Engineering
11 75 (11.87%) iOS Development
12 71 (11.23%) Android Development
13 65 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 64 (10.13%) Mobile Development
15 60 (9.49%) UX Design
16 58 (9.18%) Clean Code
16 58 (9.18%) Roadmaps
17 50 (7.91%) Observability
18 49 (7.75%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 71 (11.23%) SQL
2 70 (11.08%) Kotlin
3 69 (10.92%) TypeScript
4 61 (9.65%) C#
5 56 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 56 (8.86%) Swift
6 42 (6.65%) Java
7 37 (5.85%) Python
8 10 (1.58%) Bash
9 9 (1.42%) Ruby
10 8 (1.27%) C++
10 8 (1.27%) PHP
10 8 (1.27%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.11%) Dart
12 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.63%) Go
13 2 (0.32%) Bicep
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (6.33%) Degree
2 25 (3.96%) CREST Certified
2 25 (3.96%) OSCP
3 21 (3.32%) CHECK Team Leader
3 21 (3.32%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.16%) CHECK Team Member
5 16 (2.53%) CCSAM
6 12 (1.90%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.27%) ISEB
10 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.63%) CCSAS
10 4 (0.63%) Cyber Scheme
10 4 (0.63%) Tigerscheme
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) MBA
12 1 (0.16%) OSCE
12 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.87%) Accessibility
2 34 (5.38%) QA
3 16 (2.53%) WCAG
4 8 (1.27%) GDPR
5 6 (0.95%) GRC
6 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (0.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.32%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (2.06%) Terraform
2 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.42%) Nessus
4 7 (1.11%) Ansible
5 6 (0.95%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Nmap
7 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 50 (7.91%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.06%) Google
3 26 (4.11%) Adobe
4 19 (3.01%) Apple
4 19 (3.01%) Xamarin
5 14 (2.22%) Amplitude
5 14 (2.22%) Braze
6 13 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.11%) ESRI
8 6 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.95%) Oracle
9 4 (0.63%) Hotjar
9 4 (0.63%) SAP
10 3 (0.47%) Okta
10 3 (0.47%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.47%) VMware
11 2 (0.32%) Databricks
11 2 (0.32%) IFS
11 2 (0.32%) Samsung