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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 271 258
Rank change year-on-year -91 -13 -136
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 329 708 736
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.00% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 3.09% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 223 406 650
10th Percentile £35,050 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £88,125 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 19,951 22,881 22,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.56% 32.24% 39.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,181 11,356 16,658
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £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 £83,750 £82,820
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £53,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.73% -2.91% +2.14%

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 15 October 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 October 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 -92 287 £65,000 +4.00% 445
UK excluding London -129 161 £55,000 -8.33% 399
London +43 138 £100,000 +42.86% 147
Work from Home -91 110 £74,000 +18.40% 185
North of England -46 64 £55,000 -12.00% 99
South East -72 35 £60,000 - 113
North West -59 34 £65,000 +4.00% 53
South West +6 20 £50,000 -14.89% 24
Yorkshire +20 19 £36,250 -32.56% 29
Midlands -20 18 £47,500 -7.77% 59
West Midlands +11 16 £47,500 -5.00% 43
Scotland -28 16 £34,000 -38.18% 21
North East +7 11 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Wales +10 5 £62,500 +35.14% 23
East of England -43 4 £58,750 -21.67% 49
East Midlands -9 2 £76,250 +38.64% 16

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 (3.65%) CMS
2 7 (2.13%) IIS
3 6 (1.82%) Confluence
4 5 (1.52%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.61%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (3.34%) Sketch
2 9 (2.74%) Adobe XD
3 6 (1.82%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.61%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.02%) AWS
2 47 (14.29%) Azure
3 32 (9.73%) SaaS
4 26 (7.90%) Figma
4 26 (7.90%) GitHub
5 20 (6.08%) Serverless
6 17 (5.17%) GCP
7 11 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.43%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.13%) Firebase
9 7 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (1.82%) Azure Functions
10 6 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.52%) Contentful
11 5 (1.52%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.22%) Cloudflare
12 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) RFID
1 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (0.61%) Wireless
2 1 (0.30%) 4G
2 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) Calico
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.90%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.65%) MySQL
4 11 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.22%) GIS
8 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.91%) Power BI
9 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.61%) Big Data
10 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.30%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 42 (12.77%) Git
2 21 (6.38%) JIRA
3 11 (3.34%) Selenium
4 9 (2.74%) Storybook
5 8 (2.43%) Xcode
6 7 (2.13%) Appium
6 7 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.82%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.82%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.82%) Postman
8 5 (1.52%) JMeter
8 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.22%) Jasmine
9 4 (1.22%) JUnit
9 4 (1.22%) NUnit
9 4 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.61%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.61%) git-flow
General
1 116 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.45%) Finance
3 38 (11.55%) Banking
4 36 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (9.73%) Law
6 30 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (6.38%) Retail
8 18 (5.47%) Legal
8 18 (5.47%) Marketing
9 12 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.74%) Advertising
12 8 (2.43%) Billing
12 8 (2.43%) Games
13 7 (2.13%) Health Technology
13 7 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.82%) Electronics
14 6 (1.82%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 103 (31.31%) Developer
2 38 (11.55%) Senior
3 35 (10.64%) Software Engineer
4 33 (10.03%) Lead
5 27 (8.21%) Architect
6 25 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (6.99%) Senior Developer
8 19 (5.78%) Mobile Developer
9 18 (5.47%) Designer
10 16 (4.86%) Mobile Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) Python Software Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) UX Designer
12 13 (3.95%) Analyst
12 13 (3.95%) Applications Developer
12 13 (3.95%) Digital Architect
12 13 (3.95%) Digital Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.95%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.80%) React
2 74 (22.49%) React Native
3 43 (13.07%) Node.js
4 42 (12.77%) .NET
5 40 (12.16%) RESTful
6 36 (10.94%) CSS
7 35 (10.64%) HTML
8 24 (7.29%) GraphQL
9 22 (6.69%) Jest
9 22 (6.69%) REST
10 17 (5.17%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.17%) Vue
11 16 (4.86%) Flutter
11 16 (4.86%) Kafka
11 16 (4.86%) Next.js
12 15 (4.56%) CSS3
12 15 (4.56%) HTML5
13 10 (3.04%) .NET Core
13 10 (3.04%) SwiftUI
14 9 (2.74%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.60%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (6.99%) Client/Server
4 20 (6.08%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.82%) IoT
7 6 (1.82%) NHS
8 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.22%) Animation
9 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.91%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (0.91%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.91%) Smart Home
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.91%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 85 (25.84%) Android
2 83 (25.23%) Apple iOS
3 18 (5.47%) Windows
4 5 (1.52%) Linux
5 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Nucleus RTOS
7 1 (0.30%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (47.72%) Agile
2 91 (27.66%) CI/CD
3 68 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (17.93%) Software Engineering
5 56 (17.02%) User Experience
6 51 (15.50%) Mobile Application Development
7 45 (13.68%) Test Automation
8 44 (13.37%) DevOps
9 43 (13.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (12.77%) Mobile Development
11 40 (12.16%) SDLC
12 38 (11.55%) B2B
13 37 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (10.94%) Microservices
15 35 (10.64%) Mentoring
16 34 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (9.73%) UX Design
18 30 (9.12%) CRM
19 28 (8.51%) B2C
19 28 (8.51%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 61 (18.54%) TypeScript
2 60 (18.24%) JavaScript
3 39 (11.85%) C#
3 39 (11.85%) Python
4 38 (11.55%) Java
4 38 (11.55%) SQL
5 24 (7.29%) Go
6 21 (6.38%) Swift
7 18 (5.47%) Kotlin
8 11 (3.34%) C
9 10 (3.04%) Objective-C
10 6 (1.82%) Dart
10 6 (1.82%) PHP
11 5 (1.52%) C++
12 4 (1.22%) Bash
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Groovy
14 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.61%) XAML
15 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (10.03%) Degree
2 16 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.34%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.82%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.91%) CHECK Team Leader
7 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.61%) CCSAM
8 2 (0.61%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.61%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.61%) OSCP
9 1 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.30%) CITP
9 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.12%) Accessibility
2 29 (8.81%) QA
3 6 (1.82%) GDPR
3 6 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.52%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.52%) WCAG
5 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.61%) Section 508
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) PERC
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (1.82%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.17%) Terraform
3 8 (2.43%) Mesos
4 7 (2.13%) Grafana
5 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.61%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.61%) Ansible
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.61%) Nessus
6 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) Istio
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 37 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.17%) Google
3 13 (3.95%) Xamarin
4 11 (3.34%) Adobe
5 8 (2.43%) Apple
6 7 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.13%) Zoho
7 5 (1.52%) Oracle
8 4 (1.22%) Rollbar
9 3 (0.91%) Cvent
9 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.91%) ESRI
9 3 (0.91%) Samsung
9 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.61%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.61%) Lotus
10 2 (0.61%) SAP
10 2 (0.61%) Twitter