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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 374 277
Rank change year-on-year +8 -97 -29
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 542 334 737
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.68% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 1.66% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 363 229 442
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 30,634 20,154 24,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.36% 41.18% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,997 10,098 12,697
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,160 £36,925 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 22 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 22 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 +10 488 £60,000 -9.43% 633
UK excluding London +22 366 £57,500 - 349
Work from Home +29 194 £68,125 -2.68% 223
London -61 147 £75,000 -16.67% 356
North of England -4 132 £55,000 - 93
North West +4 80 £65,000 - 57
South East -2 79 £60,000 - 81
Midlands +3 71 £50,000 +5.26% 62
West Midlands -25 46 £50,000 +5.26% 27
South West -49 43 £59,500 +3.48% 31
Yorkshire -29 37 £55,000 +107.55% 31
East Midlands -4 25 £50,000 -4.76% 35
East of England -10 20 £60,000 - 30
Scotland +9 15 £47,000 +13.25% 25
North East -58 15 £47,000 +4.44% 5
Wales -73 7 £55,000 -21.43% 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 (2.21%) Confluence
2 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.92%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.74%) CMS
3 4 (0.74%) IIS
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.55%) WordPress
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.55%) Zeplin
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.55%) Workfront
2 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.37%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.00%) Azure
2 74 (13.65%) AWS
3 47 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (7.01%) SaaS
5 36 (6.64%) GCP
5 36 (6.64%) GitHub
6 25 (4.61%) Google Play
7 22 (4.06%) Firebase
8 18 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (3.14%) Azure AI
9 17 (3.14%) Serverless
10 15 (2.77%) Entra ID
11 13 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (1.66%) BrowserStack
12 9 (1.66%) Cloud Functions
12 9 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.48%) Figma
13 8 (1.48%) TestFlight
14 7 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.29%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.11%) Internet
2 5 (0.92%) HTTP
3 4 (0.74%) Firewall
3 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.37%) 5G
5 2 (0.37%) RFID
6 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.18%) Intranet
6 1 (0.18%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (3.32%) NoSQL
3 17 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 13 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.85%) MySQL
5 10 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.48%) Redis
8 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.74%) Power BI
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.55%) Big Data
10 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.37%) SQLite
12 1 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.18%) GIS
12 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (4.61%) Git
2 18 (3.32%) JIRA
3 13 (2.40%) fastlane
4 12 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.85%) Crashlytics
5 10 (1.85%) Xcode
6 9 (1.66%) Android Studio
6 9 (1.66%) Appium
6 9 (1.66%) Postman
7 8 (1.48%) XCTest
8 7 (1.29%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.29%) Gradle
9 6 (1.11%) JUnit
9 6 (1.11%) Selenium
10 5 (0.92%) Gatling
11 4 (0.74%) JMeter
11 4 (0.74%) XCUITest
12 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.55%) Storybook
13 2 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 111 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.07%) Finance
3 43 (7.93%) Law
4 40 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.64%) Retail
7 28 (5.17%) Marketing
8 26 (4.80%) Banking
9 25 (4.61%) Publishing
10 17 (3.14%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.66%) Billing
12 9 (1.66%) Games
13 7 (1.29%) Legal
14 6 (1.11%) Automotive
14 6 (1.11%) Digital Health
15 5 (0.92%) Advertising
15 5 (0.92%) Back Office
15 5 (0.92%) Electronics
15 5 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (36.90%) Developer
2 133 (24.54%) Senior
3 65 (11.99%) Senior Developer
4 54 (9.96%) Lead
5 48 (8.86%) iOS Developer
6 42 (7.75%) .NET Developer
7 39 (7.20%) Software Engineer
8 35 (6.46%) Android Developer
9 33 (6.09%) Mobile Developer
10 29 (5.35%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 28 (5.17%) Applications Developer
12 24 (4.43%) Senior iOS Developer
13 23 (4.24%) Designer
13 23 (4.24%) Junior
14 21 (3.87%) Mobile Applications Developer
15 20 (3.69%) Analyst
16 19 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (3.51%) Tester
17 18 (3.32%) Senior Android Developer
17 18 (3.32%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (16.61%) React
2 79 (14.58%) React Native
3 63 (11.62%) .NET
4 58 (10.70%) RESTful
5 47 (8.67%) REST
6 38 (7.01%) SwiftUI
7 30 (5.54%) CSS
8 27 (4.98%) ASP.NET
8 27 (4.98%) Node.js
9 25 (4.61%) HTML
10 22 (4.06%) AngularJS
10 22 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
10 22 (4.06%) Vue
11 21 (3.87%) Blazor
12 20 (3.69%) .NET Core
12 20 (3.69%) Flutter
12 20 (3.69%) Next.js
13 17 (3.14%) ML.NET
13 17 (3.14%) NestJS
14 15 (2.77%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.07%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.43%) IoT
4 22 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (3.87%) iPhone
6 14 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.66%) Blog
11 8 (1.48%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 7 (1.29%) PropTech
13 6 (1.11%) CCTV
13 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.11%) Smart Home
13 6 (1.11%) Social Media
13 6 (1.11%) Vector Graphics
13 6 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 157 (28.97%) Android
2 136 (25.09%) Apple iOS
3 21 (3.87%) Windows
4 7 (1.29%) Linux
4 7 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (27.12%) Agile
2 114 (21.03%) CI/CD
3 102 (18.82%) Test Automation
4 99 (18.27%) User Experience
5 94 (17.34%) AI
6 90 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (13.65%) Analytics
8 74 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 69 (12.73%) Software Engineering
10 68 (12.55%) DevOps
11 67 (12.36%) iOS Development
12 64 (11.81%) Android Development
13 62 (11.44%) Mobile Development
14 59 (10.89%) Mentoring
15 51 (9.41%) Roadmaps
15 51 (9.41%) UX Design
16 48 (8.86%) Code Quality
17 44 (8.12%) Clean Code
18 40 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.28%) JavaScript
2 69 (12.73%) SQL
3 62 (11.44%) TypeScript
4 59 (10.89%) C#
5 55 (10.15%) Kotlin
6 51 (9.41%) Swift
7 34 (6.27%) Java
8 33 (6.09%) Python
9 15 (2.77%) C++
10 12 (2.21%) PHP
11 10 (1.85%) Ruby
12 8 (1.48%) Dart
13 7 (1.29%) Go
14 6 (1.11%) C
14 6 (1.11%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.55%) Bash
15 3 (0.55%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.55%) Rust
16 2 (0.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 45 (8.30%) Degree
2 28 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 16 (2.95%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.03%) CREST Certified
6 10 (1.85%) OSCP
7 8 (1.48%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.29%) ISEB
9 6 (1.11%) CHECK Team Leader
9 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.92%) CHECK Team Member
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.55%) CISSP
12 3 (0.55%) MBA
13 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.59%) Accessibility
2 50 (9.23%) QA
3 22 (4.06%) WCAG
4 8 (1.48%) GDPR
5 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.55%) GRC
6 3 (0.55%) WAI
6 3 (0.55%) WAI-ARIA
7 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (2.03%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.29%) Firmware
4 4 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.03%) Grafana
3 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.74%) SCCM
6 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.37%) Bosun
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 49 (9.04%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.01%) Google
3 21 (3.87%) Apple
4 19 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.03%) Xamarin
7 9 (1.66%) Okta
8 7 (1.29%) Oracle
9 6 (1.11%) SAP
10 5 (0.92%) Adobe
10 5 (0.92%) Amplitude
10 5 (0.92%) Braze
10 5 (0.92%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.92%) VMware
11 4 (0.74%) Ping Identity
12 3 (0.55%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.37%) Databricks
13 2 (0.37%) IFS