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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 279 246
Rank change year-on-year -94 -33 -121
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 329 748 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.96% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 3.00% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 225 462 745
10th Percentile £35,100 £38,530 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 20,166 24,892 25,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 32.10% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10,074 13,141 18,199
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,080 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.48% -4.55% +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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -88 297 £65,000 +4.00% 586
UK excluding London -153 160 £55,000 -4.35% 508
London +62 143 £87,500 +11.11% 255
Work from Home -55 115 £70,000 +16.67% 195
North of England -42 66 £50,000 -18.37% 105
South East -53 38 £65,000 +18.18% 192
North West -57 36 £58,750 -6.00% 51
Midlands -12 25 £47,500 -5.00% 67
West Midlands +26 24 £47,500 -10.38% 40
Yorkshire +23 23 £26,500 -49.52% 38
South West +9 14 £57,500 -7.09% 35
Scotland +22 8 £41,500 -24.55% 31
North East +6 7 £45,000 -18.18% 18
Wales +8 6 £70,000 +40.00% 21
East of England -55 3 £60,000 -9.77% 48
East Midlands -9 1 £52,500 +5.00% 25

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 14 (4.26%) CMS
2 10 (3.04%) Headless CMS
2 10 (3.04%) IIS
3 9 (2.74%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) Drupal
4 2 (0.61%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.61%) WordPress
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Appian
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (3.65%) Sketch
2 10 (3.04%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.61%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.49%) AWS
2 51 (15.50%) Azure
3 32 (9.73%) Figma
4 30 (9.12%) SaaS
5 28 (8.51%) Serverless
6 25 (7.60%) GitHub
7 24 (7.29%) GCP
8 11 (3.34%) Power Platform
9 10 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.04%) Contentful
10 9 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.43%) Firebase
11 8 (2.43%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.22%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.22%) HTTP
1 4 (1.22%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.61%) RFID
2 2 (0.61%) Wireless
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.30%) Broadband
3 1 (0.30%) Calico
3 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 33 (10.03%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.56%) MySQL
4 12 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.22%) Cloud Spanner
7 4 (1.22%) Power BI
7 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.91%) Big Data
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.61%) Event Store
9 2 (0.61%) GIS
9 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (12.77%) Git
2 22 (6.69%) JIRA
3 13 (3.95%) Selenium
4 11 (3.34%) Storybook
5 9 (2.74%) JMeter
6 8 (2.43%) Appium
6 8 (2.43%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.13%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.13%) Postman
8 6 (1.82%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.52%) JUnit
9 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (1.22%) Jasmine
10 4 (1.22%) NUnit
10 4 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.22%) Xcode
11 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 121 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 65 (19.76%) Finance
3 39 (11.85%) Banking
4 37 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.25%) Law
5 35 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (7.60%) Retail
7 20 (6.08%) Marketing
8 16 (4.86%) Legal
9 13 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.65%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.74%) Health Technology
13 8 (2.43%) Games
14 6 (1.82%) Automotive
14 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.82%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.82%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.52%) Digital Health
15 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (31.61%) Developer
2 49 (14.89%) Senior
3 39 (11.85%) Lead
4 36 (10.94%) Software Engineer
5 28 (8.51%) Architect
5 28 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 27 (8.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (6.38%) Designer
9 20 (6.08%) Mobile Engineer
10 16 (4.86%) UX Designer
11 15 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (4.26%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.26%) Python Software Engineer
13 13 (3.95%) .NET Developer
13 13 (3.95%) Product Manager
13 13 (3.95%) React Developer
14 12 (3.65%) IT Support
14 12 (3.65%) JavaScript Developer
14 12 (3.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (24.32%) React
2 75 (22.80%) React Native
3 46 (13.98%) Node.js
4 45 (13.68%) .NET
5 37 (11.25%) CSS
5 37 (11.25%) HTML
6 31 (9.42%) GraphQL
7 30 (9.12%) RESTful
8 29 (8.81%) REST
9 20 (6.08%) Jest
10 18 (5.47%) AngularJS
10 18 (5.47%) HTML5
10 18 (5.47%) Vue
11 17 (5.17%) CSS3
12 16 (4.86%) Kafka
13 15 (4.56%) .NET Core
13 15 (4.56%) Express.js
14 14 (4.26%) XML
15 13 (3.95%) ASP.NET
15 13 (3.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.21%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (6.99%) Client/Server
4 16 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.13%) NHS
7 6 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.22%) Animation
8 4 (1.22%) IoT
8 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.91%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.91%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.91%) Smart Home
9 3 (0.91%) Video Editing
9 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.91%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 81 (24.62%) Android
2 77 (23.40%) Apple iOS
3 21 (6.38%) Windows
4 8 (2.43%) Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Rocky
6 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (49.85%) Agile
2 90 (27.36%) CI/CD
3 70 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (20.06%) Software Engineering
5 59 (17.93%) User Experience
6 50 (15.20%) Mobile Application Development
7 48 (14.59%) DevOps
7 48 (14.59%) SDLC
8 45 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (13.68%) Test Automation
9 44 (13.37%) Microservices
10 38 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (11.25%) Mentoring
11 37 (11.25%) Mobile Development
12 32 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (9.73%) UX Design
13 30 (9.12%) CRM
14 29 (8.81%) B2B
14 29 (8.81%) Clean Code
15 28 (8.51%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 66 (20.06%) JavaScript
2 65 (19.76%) TypeScript
3 54 (16.41%) SQL
4 46 (13.98%) Java
5 43 (13.07%) C#
6 39 (11.85%) Python
7 25 (7.60%) Go
8 17 (5.17%) Swift
9 16 (4.86%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.65%) C
10 12 (3.65%) Objective-C
11 8 (2.43%) PHP
12 7 (2.13%) C++
13 6 (1.82%) Dart
14 3 (0.91%) Bash
14 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.30%) Perl
16 1 (0.30%) Ruby
16 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (12.16%) Degree
2 19 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.86%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.34%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.43%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.91%) CHECK Team Leader
8 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.61%) CCSAM
9 2 (0.61%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (0.61%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.61%) OSCP
10 1 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.30%) CITP
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.03%) Accessibility
2 27 (8.21%) QA
3 6 (1.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.52%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.52%) WCAG
5 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) PERC
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (3.04%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Firmware
3 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.26%) Terraform
3 8 (2.43%) Mesos
4 7 (2.13%) Grafana
5 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.91%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.61%) Nessus
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 46 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.29%) Google
3 14 (4.26%) Adobe
4 11 (3.34%) Zoho
5 8 (2.43%) Xamarin
6 6 (1.82%) Apple
6 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.52%) Oracle
8 4 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.22%) Cvent
8 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.22%) Rollbar
8 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.91%) Samsung
9 3 (0.91%) SAP
10 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.61%) Lotus
10 2 (0.61%) New Relic
10 2 (0.61%) Twitter