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 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 350 285
Rank change year-on-year -16 -65 -44
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 550 377 806
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.75% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.84% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 370 266 527
10th Percentile £39,875 £31,250 £38,518
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 28,467 20,534 26,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 41.07% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,879 10,414 14,734
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -12 489 £60,000 -4.00% 593
UK excluding London +38 383 £57,500 +4.55% 266
Work from Home +30 184 £65,000 - 226
North of England +12 139 £55,000 +18.92% 63
London -58 135 £75,000 -6.25% 388
North West +28 86 £60,000 +2.13% 34
South East +2 85 £60,000 - 70
Midlands 0 82 £50,000 +5.26% 33
West Midlands -13 43 £50,000 +5.26% 16
East Midlands +13 39 £52,000 -0.95% 17
South West -49 39 £65,000 +10.64% 39
Yorkshire -29 38 £52,500 +98.11% 23
Scotland +7 21 £60,000 +4.35% 19
North East -53 15 £47,000 +4.44% 6
East of England -22 10 £60,000 +6.67% 32
Wales -65 7 £55,000 -21.43% 4

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 11 (2.00%) Confluence
2 5 (0.91%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.73%) CMS
3 4 (0.73%) IIS
4 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.36%) nginx
5 2 (0.36%) WordPress
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Zeplin
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) 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
1 102 (18.55%) Azure
2 79 (14.36%) AWS
3 53 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (8.18%) GitHub
5 38 (6.91%) GCP
6 36 (6.55%) SaaS
7 31 (5.64%) Firebase
8 28 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (4.73%) Google Play
10 24 (4.36%) Serverless
11 17 (3.09%) Azure AI
12 14 (2.55%) TestFlight
13 13 (2.36%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (2.18%) Figma
14 12 (2.18%) Stripe
15 9 (1.64%) BrowserStack
15 9 (1.64%) Cloud Functions
16 8 (1.45%) Power Platform
17 7 (1.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.09%) Broadband
2 5 (0.91%) HTTP
3 4 (0.73%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.55%) Internet
4 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.36%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.18%) Intranet
6 1 (0.18%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (2.91%) NoSQL
3 15 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.18%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.82%) MySQL
6 9 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.45%) Redis
8 6 (1.09%) Power BI
8 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.55%) Big Data
10 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.36%) SQLite
12 1 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 24 (4.36%) Git
2 17 (3.09%) Crashlytics
3 16 (2.91%) fastlane
3 16 (2.91%) JIRA
4 15 (2.73%) XCTest
5 14 (2.55%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.00%) Xcode
7 9 (1.64%) Appium
7 9 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.64%) Postman
7 9 (1.64%) XCUITest
8 8 (1.45%) Android Studio
8 8 (1.45%) Gradle
9 6 (1.09%) Selenium
10 5 (0.91%) Gatling
10 5 (0.91%) JMeter
10 5 (0.91%) JUnit
10 5 (0.91%) Storybook
11 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 100 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.27%) Finance
3 42 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (7.09%) Law
5 38 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.27%) Marketing
7 27 (4.91%) Retail
8 24 (4.36%) Banking
9 21 (3.82%) Publishing
10 19 (3.45%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.09%) Advertising
12 6 (1.09%) Billing
12 6 (1.09%) Digital Health
12 6 (1.09%) Games
13 5 (0.91%) Back Office
13 5 (0.91%) Electronics
13 5 (0.91%) Local Government
13 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 223 (40.55%) Developer
2 143 (26.00%) Senior
3 75 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 56 (10.18%) iOS Developer
5 52 (9.45%) Lead
6 44 (8.00%) .NET Developer
7 41 (7.45%) Android Developer
8 39 (7.09%) Software Engineer
9 38 (6.91%) Mobile Developer
10 29 (5.27%) Applications Developer
10 29 (5.27%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 28 (5.09%) Senior iOS Developer
12 23 (4.18%) Designer
12 23 (4.18%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 22 (4.00%) Junior
14 21 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (3.82%) Senior Android Developer
15 19 (3.45%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
15 19 (3.45%) Test Engineer
15 19 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (17.09%) React
2 89 (16.18%) React Native
3 66 (12.00%) RESTful
4 63 (11.45%) .NET
5 51 (9.27%) SwiftUI
6 44 (8.00%) REST
7 34 (6.18%) Node.js
8 33 (6.00%) CSS
9 30 (5.45%) ASP.NET
10 25 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 25 (4.55%) HTML
11 22 (4.00%) AngularJS
11 22 (4.00%) UIKit
11 22 (4.00%) Vue
12 21 (3.82%) Blazor
13 20 (3.64%) .NET Core
13 20 (3.64%) Flutter
13 20 (3.64%) GraphQL
14 18 (3.27%) Next.js
15 17 (3.09%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.73%) Product Ownership
2 30 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.82%) iPhone
4 15 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.36%) IoT
6 9 (1.64%) Blog
7 8 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.45%) Social Media
7 8 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.27%) PropTech
9 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.09%) Vector Graphics
10 5 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (0.91%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.73%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 160 (29.09%) Android
2 150 (27.27%) Apple iOS
3 15 (2.73%) Windows
4 7 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.36%) Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (29.82%) Agile
2 135 (24.55%) CI/CD
3 115 (20.91%) Test Automation
4 110 (20.00%) User Experience
5 86 (15.64%) AI
6 83 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (14.36%) iOS Development
9 78 (14.18%) Analytics
10 77 (14.00%) DevOps
10 77 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 70 (12.73%) Android Development
12 68 (12.36%) Software Engineering
13 66 (12.00%) Mobile Development
14 59 (10.73%) Mentoring
15 52 (9.45%) Clean Code
15 52 (9.45%) Code Quality
15 52 (9.45%) UX Design
16 43 (7.82%) Architectural Patterns
16 43 (7.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.09%) JavaScript
2 71 (12.91%) SQL
2 71 (12.91%) TypeScript
3 70 (12.73%) Kotlin
4 63 (11.45%) Swift
5 58 (10.55%) C#
6 40 (7.27%) Java
7 33 (6.00%) Python
8 11 (2.00%) C++
8 11 (2.00%) PHP
9 10 (1.82%) Dart
9 10 (1.82%) Ruby
10 7 (1.27%) Go
11 6 (1.09%) C
12 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.55%) Bash
12 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.36%) Bicep
13 2 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (6.91%) Degree
2 26 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.64%) CREST Certified
5 9 (1.64%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.45%) ISEB
6 8 (1.45%) OSCP
7 7 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.09%) CHECK Team Leader
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.73%) CHECK Team Member
9 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.55%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.36%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 49 (8.91%) QA
3 25 (4.55%) WCAG
4 8 (1.45%) GDPR
5 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.55%) GRC
5 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.55%) WAI
5 3 (0.55%) WAI-ARIA
6 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (2.18%) Docker
2 7 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.27%) Firmware
3 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.82%) Grafana
3 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.36%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 44 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.27%) Google
3 23 (4.18%) Apple
4 17 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.18%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.00%) Amplitude
7 11 (2.00%) Braze
8 9 (1.64%) Okta
9 6 (1.09%) SAP
10 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.91%) Oracle
10 5 (0.91%) VMware
11 4 (0.73%) Adobe
11 4 (0.73%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.73%) Ping Identity
12 3 (0.55%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.36%) Databricks
13 2 (0.36%) DevExpress
13 2 (0.36%) IFS