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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 346 283
Rank change year-on-year -5 -63 -46
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 566 392 797
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.78% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.90% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 374 281 555
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,900
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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 28,074 20,604 27,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.13% 41.24% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17,587 10,376 15,907
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,381
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 18 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 18 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 +4 507 £60,000 - 427
UK excluding London +46 410 £57,500 +9.52% 228
Work from Home +28 188 £65,000 - 151
North of England +31 151 £55,000 +22.22% 60
London -65 124 £76,250 +1.67% 257
South East +26 93 £60,000 -2.04% 58
North West +45 86 £60,000 +2.13% 31
Midlands +9 85 £50,000 +5.26% 29
Yorkshire -11 50 £55,000 +107.55% 24
West Midlands -17 44 £50,000 +5.26% 15
South West -38 42 £60,000 +9.09% 27
East Midlands +12 41 £52,000 -0.95% 14
Scotland +6 20 £60,000 +11.63% 18
North East -53 15 £47,000 +4.44% 6
East of England -32 12 £55,000 - 26
Wales -61 7 £55,000 -21.43% 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 13 (2.30%) Confluence
2 5 (0.88%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.71%) IIS
4 3 (0.53%) CMS
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.35%) nginx
5 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Zeplin
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) 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
1 104 (18.37%) Azure
2 82 (14.49%) AWS
3 54 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (8.30%) GitHub
5 37 (6.54%) SaaS
6 36 (6.36%) GCP
7 32 (5.65%) Firebase
8 29 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (4.59%) Google Play
9 26 (4.59%) Serverless
10 17 (3.00%) Azure AI
11 15 (2.65%) TestFlight
12 13 (2.30%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (2.30%) Stripe
13 11 (1.94%) Figma
14 9 (1.59%) Cloud Functions
14 9 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.41%) BrowserStack
15 8 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.71%) Broadband
2 6 (1.06%) Firewall
3 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.53%) HTTP
4 3 (0.53%) Internet
4 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.35%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.18%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (2.83%) MongoDB
3 14 (2.47%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.12%) MySQL
4 12 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.41%) Redis
7 6 (1.06%) Power BI
7 6 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.53%) Big Data
9 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.35%) SQLite
11 1 (0.18%) GIS
11 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.42%) Git
2 18 (3.18%) Crashlytics
2 18 (3.18%) JIRA
3 16 (2.83%) fastlane
3 16 (2.83%) XCTest
4 14 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.94%) Xcode
6 10 (1.77%) XCUITest
7 9 (1.59%) Appium
8 8 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.41%) Gradle
8 8 (1.41%) Postman
9 6 (1.06%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.88%) JMeter
10 5 (0.88%) Storybook
11 4 (0.71%) Gatling
11 4 (0.71%) Selenium
12 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.53%) JUnit
13 2 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 97 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 50 (8.83%) Finance
3 45 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.54%) Law
6 26 (4.59%) Marketing
7 25 (4.42%) Retail
8 22 (3.89%) Banking
9 21 (3.71%) Games
10 19 (3.36%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.36%) Publishing
11 11 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.06%) Advertising
12 6 (1.06%) Digital Health
13 5 (0.88%) Back Office
13 5 (0.88%) Billing
13 5 (0.88%) Electronics
13 5 (0.88%) Local Government
13 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 232 (40.99%) Developer
2 142 (25.09%) Senior
3 74 (13.07%) Senior Developer
4 57 (10.07%) iOS Developer
5 56 (9.89%) Lead
6 47 (8.30%) .NET Developer
7 43 (7.60%) Android Developer
8 37 (6.54%) Mobile Developer
8 37 (6.54%) Software Engineer
9 31 (5.48%) Applications Developer
10 26 (4.59%) Senior iOS Developer
10 26 (4.59%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 25 (4.42%) Designer
12 23 (4.06%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Mobile Engineer
13 22 (3.89%) UX Designer
14 20 (3.53%) Senior Android Developer
15 19 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.36%) Senior Applications Developer
15 19 (3.36%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (16.25%) React
2 88 (15.55%) React Native
3 67 (11.84%) .NET
3 67 (11.84%) RESTful
4 50 (8.83%) SwiftUI
5 42 (7.42%) REST
6 36 (6.36%) Node.js
7 33 (5.83%) CSS
8 32 (5.65%) ASP.NET
9 26 (4.59%) GraphQL
10 25 (4.42%) AngularJS
10 25 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
11 24 (4.24%) HTML
12 23 (4.06%) UIKit
12 23 (4.06%) Vue
13 21 (3.71%) Blazor
13 21 (3.71%) Flutter
14 20 (3.53%) .NET Core
15 19 (3.36%) Next.js
16 18 (3.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
3 28 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 21 (3.71%) iPhone
5 19 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.65%) IoT
8 12 (2.12%) Social Media
9 9 (1.59%) Blog
10 8 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.24%) PropTech
12 6 (1.06%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.06%) Vector Graphics
13 5 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.88%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.71%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 167 (29.51%) Android
2 155 (27.39%) Apple iOS
3 15 (2.65%) Windows
4 7 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.53%) Linux
6 2 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (30.74%) Agile
2 150 (26.50%) CI/CD
3 110 (19.43%) Test Automation
3 110 (19.43%) User Experience
4 99 (17.49%) AI
5 83 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (14.31%) iOS Development
7 80 (14.13%) Analytics
8 77 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (13.60%) DevOps
9 75 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 73 (12.90%) Android Development
11 71 (12.54%) Mobile Development
12 65 (11.48%) Mentoring
13 64 (11.31%) Software Engineering
14 54 (9.54%) Clean Code
15 52 (9.19%) Code Quality
16 51 (9.01%) Roadmaps
17 49 (8.66%) UX Design
18 43 (7.60%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 75 (13.25%) Kotlin
2 72 (12.72%) SQL
3 70 (12.37%) TypeScript
4 68 (12.01%) JavaScript
5 63 (11.13%) Swift
6 59 (10.42%) C#
7 39 (6.89%) Java
8 31 (5.48%) Python
9 10 (1.77%) C++
9 10 (1.77%) Dart
9 10 (1.77%) PHP
10 9 (1.59%) Ruby
11 5 (0.88%) C
11 5 (0.88%) Go
12 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.35%) Bash
14 2 (0.35%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (6.71%) Degree
2 23 (4.06%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.77%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.59%) ISEB
7 8 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.06%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.06%) OSCP
9 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.71%) CHECK Team Leader
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.53%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.35%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.35%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.72%) Accessibility
2 45 (7.95%) QA
3 24 (4.24%) WCAG
4 8 (1.41%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.53%) GRC
5 3 (0.53%) WAI
5 3 (0.53%) WAI-ARIA
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (2.30%) Docker
2 7 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.24%) Firmware
3 4 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.77%) Kubernetes
1 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (1.77%) Terraform
2 9 (1.59%) Grafana
3 3 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.35%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 45 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.89%) Google
3 23 (4.06%) Apple
4 18 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.12%) Amplitude
6 12 (2.12%) Braze
6 12 (2.12%) Xamarin
7 7 (1.24%) Okta
7 7 (1.24%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.06%) Oracle
8 6 (1.06%) SAP
9 5 (0.88%) VMware
10 4 (0.71%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.71%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.53%) Adobe
11 3 (0.53%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.35%) Databricks
12 2 (0.35%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.35%) Sage