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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 242 300
Rank change year-on-year -19 +58 -103
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 624 545 911
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.30% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 3.29% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 400 418 746
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,100 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

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 25,115 16,543 34,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.63% 39.55% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,888 9,178 22,822
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,800 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -12 583 £60,000 +4.35% 262
UK excluding London -26 433 £60,000 +9.09% 202
Work from Home -5 207 £64,241 +7.07% 125
London -25 167 £72,500 +11.54% 95
North of England -9 132 £57,500 +15.00% 58
South East +7 122 £60,000 +26.32% 44
Midlands -28 89 £50,000 -9.09% 29
Yorkshire -21 68 £40,000 +38.89% 23
North West -5 60 £62,500 +4.17% 32
East Midlands -14 51 £45,000 +20.00% 9
South West -42 46 £47,500 -20.83% 33
West Midlands -59 38 £50,000 -9.09% 20
East of England -38 21 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Scotland -49 21 £56,250 -4.26% 11
North East -47 4 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Wales -30 2 £71,500 +2.14% 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 9 (1.44%) Confluence
2 7 (1.12%) ArcGIS
3 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.64%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.64%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (14.58%) Azure
2 76 (12.18%) AWS
3 64 (10.26%) SaaS
4 48 (7.69%) Figma
5 41 (6.57%) GitHub
6 31 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.69%) GCP
8 21 (3.37%) Serverless
9 20 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (3.04%) Firebase
11 18 (2.88%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (1.76%) Stripe
13 11 (1.76%) TestFlight
14 10 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (1.60%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (0.96%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.62%) Broadband
2 23 (3.69%) Wireless
3 21 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.40%) VPN
5 8 (1.28%) Firewall
6 7 (1.12%) DNS
7 6 (0.96%) DHCP
7 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.96%) WAN
8 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) 4G
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.08%) MySQL
2 11 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.28%) GIS
4 7 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.80%) Power BI
7 4 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.16%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.88%) JIRA
2 15 (2.40%) Git
3 14 (2.24%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.24%) Metasploit
4 13 (2.08%) Crashlytics
5 11 (1.76%) XCTest
5 11 (1.76%) XCUITest
6 10 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.60%) Storybook
7 8 (1.28%) Xcode
8 6 (0.96%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.80%) Postman
10 4 (0.64%) Appium
11 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.48%) fastlane
11 3 (0.48%) Gradle
11 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.48%) Selenium
12 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.32%) Mockito
General
1 93 (14.90%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.26%) Finance
3 46 (7.37%) Games
4 42 (6.73%) Retail
5 40 (6.41%) Marketing
6 35 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.37%) Banking
10 14 (2.24%) Law
11 13 (2.08%) Health Technology
11 13 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.92%) Advertising
12 12 (1.92%) Billing
13 11 (1.76%) Local Government
14 10 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.60%) Legal
14 10 (1.60%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.60%) Tech for Good
15 9 (1.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 254 (40.71%) Developer
2 155 (24.84%) Senior
3 68 (10.90%) Lead
4 63 (10.10%) Applications Developer
5 59 (9.46%) iOS Developer
6 58 (9.29%) Senior Developer
7 46 (7.37%) Mobile Developer
8 45 (7.21%) Designer
9 38 (6.09%) .NET Developer
10 37 (5.93%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 35 (5.61%) Analyst
12 34 (5.45%) Senior Designer
13 30 (4.81%) Android Developer
14 26 (4.17%) Product Designer
15 25 (4.01%) React Developer
16 23 (3.69%) Lead Developer
17 22 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
17 22 (3.53%) Senior Product Designer
17 22 (3.53%) Software Engineer
18 20 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (17.79%) React Native
2 73 (11.70%) .NET
3 71 (11.38%) React
4 46 (7.37%) RESTful
5 42 (6.73%) SwiftUI
6 34 (5.45%) CSS
7 30 (4.81%) Node.js
8 24 (3.85%) HTML
9 21 (3.37%) REST
10 19 (3.04%) Bootstrap
11 18 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 17 (2.72%) Vue
13 15 (2.40%) Android SDK
13 15 (2.40%) Flutter
14 14 (2.24%) ASP.NET
15 13 (2.08%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.92%) Jest
16 12 (1.92%) Spring
16 12 (1.92%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.92%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 44 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (4.01%) EPoS
4 25 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.21%) IoT
6 19 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.72%) Social Media
8 13 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.08%) PropTech
9 12 (1.92%) iPhone
10 11 (1.76%) iPad
11 9 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.80%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
16 4 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 171 (27.40%) Apple iOS
2 170 (27.24%) Android
3 20 (3.21%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.80%) Linux
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) Debian
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (30.61%) Agile
2 124 (19.87%) CI/CD
3 117 (18.75%) User Experience
4 105 (16.83%) Mentoring
5 94 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (13.30%) AI
7 80 (12.82%) Android Development
8 79 (12.66%) iOS Development
9 77 (12.34%) Test Automation
10 75 (12.02%) Mobile Application Development
11 73 (11.70%) Mobile Development
12 70 (11.22%) Software Engineering
13 64 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
14 61 (9.78%) Analytics
15 60 (9.62%) UX Design
16 59 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (9.13%) DevOps
18 53 (8.49%) Collaborative Culture
19 47 (7.53%) User Research
20 45 (7.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.18%) Kotlin
2 59 (9.46%) TypeScript
3 54 (8.65%) Swift
4 45 (7.21%) SQL
5 40 (6.41%) Java
6 39 (6.25%) C#
7 37 (5.93%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.01%) Python
9 14 (2.24%) Bash
10 13 (2.08%) PHP
11 9 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.96%) C++
12 6 (0.96%) VBA
13 5 (0.80%) Dart
14 4 (0.64%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.48%) Go
15 3 (0.48%) Perl
15 3 (0.48%) Ruby
16 2 (0.32%) Bicep
16 2 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 36 (5.77%) Degree
2 28 (4.49%) CREST Certified
2 28 (4.49%) OSCP
3 21 (3.37%) CHECK Team Leader
3 21 (3.37%) CHECK Team Member
4 18 (2.88%) CCSAM
5 11 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.60%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.28%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.64%) CISSP
8 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.48%) ISEB
10 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.32%) CEH
10 2 (0.32%) CISA
10 2 (0.32%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.32%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.74%) Accessibility
2 26 (4.17%) QA
3 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.96%) GDPR
5 5 (0.80%) WCAG
6 4 (0.64%) GRC
6 4 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (2.08%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.04%) Terraform
3 11 (1.76%) Nessus
4 9 (1.44%) Ansible
5 8 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.12%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.64%) Nmap
8 3 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 37 (5.93%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.65%) Adobe
3 26 (4.17%) Apple
3 26 (4.17%) Xamarin
4 19 (3.04%) Google
5 11 (1.76%) Amplitude
6 10 (1.60%) Braze
7 8 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.28%) ESRI
8 7 (1.12%) Okta
9 6 (0.96%) Blue Prism
9 6 (0.96%) Pega
9 6 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.96%) VMware
10 5 (0.80%) Samsung
10 5 (0.80%) Zoho
11 4 (0.64%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.48%) SAP
12 3 (0.48%) WooCommerce