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 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 250 293
Rank change year-on-year -17 +43 -134
Permanent jobs citing Mobile App 499 640 732
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.26% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 3.37% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 326 387 635
10th Percentile £33,375 £36,250 £31,537
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -2.73%

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 21,236 19,012 26,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.63% 37.50% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,701 8,807 19,748
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +8.85% -13.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -14 453 £60,000 - 339
UK excluding London -32 311 £55,000 - 285
London +9 159 £75,000 +7.14% 119
Work from Home -58 157 £60,000 -4.00% 131
South East -18 89 £60,000 +17.07% 82
North of England -19 89 £57,500 +15.00% 77
Midlands -12 52 £45,000 -34.55% 43
North West +10 43 £65,000 +8.33% 44
South West +4 41 £48,750 -18.75% 27
Yorkshire -12 36 £40,000 -11.11% 26
East Midlands +4 27 £45,000 -10.00% 25
West Midlands -11 25 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Scotland -38 24 £34,000 -38.18% 14
East of England -3 15 £60,000 -20.00% 31
North East -11 10 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales +9 2 £65,000 - 13

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 8 (1.60%) CMS
2 5 (1.00%) Confluence
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.80%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.20%) Appian
4 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.60%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (17.64%) Azure
2 63 (12.63%) SaaS
3 43 (8.62%) AWS
4 41 (8.22%) Figma
5 27 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.41%) GitHub
6 18 (3.61%) GCP
7 14 (2.81%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.61%) Serverless
9 10 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (2.00%) Azure Functions
9 10 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.80%) Firebase
11 7 (1.40%) Google Play
12 6 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.80%) BigCommerce
14 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.41%) Broadband
2 23 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (4.61%) Wireless
3 10 (2.00%) VPN
4 7 (1.40%) DNS
5 6 (1.20%) DHCP
5 6 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.80%) Firewall
6 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.60%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.40%) 4G
8 2 (0.40%) LAN
9 1 (0.20%) HTTP
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.40%) MySQL
2 9 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.20%) GIS
4 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 18 (3.61%) Git
2 14 (2.81%) Burp Suite
2 14 (2.81%) JIRA
2 14 (2.81%) Metasploit
3 12 (2.40%) Xcode
4 9 (1.80%) Storybook
5 7 (1.40%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.00%) Postman
6 5 (1.00%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Appium
7 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.40%) CMake
8 2 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
General
1 99 (19.84%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.42%) Finance
3 48 (9.62%) Retail
4 39 (7.82%) Marketing
5 26 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.41%) Billing
6 22 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.01%) Advertising
7 20 (4.01%) Banking
8 19 (3.81%) Games
9 16 (3.21%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.01%) Legal
11 13 (2.61%) Electronics
12 12 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.00%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.80%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.80%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 192 (38.48%) Developer
2 111 (22.24%) Senior
3 51 (10.22%) Applications Developer
4 49 (9.82%) Lead
5 41 (8.22%) Mobile Developer
6 40 (8.02%) iOS Developer
7 39 (7.82%) Analyst
8 36 (7.21%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.01%) Designer
10 28 (5.61%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 27 (5.41%) .NET Developer
12 25 (5.01%) React Developer
13 21 (4.21%) Product Designer
13 21 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (4.21%) Senior Designer
14 18 (3.61%) Android Developer
15 17 (3.41%) Senior Product Designer
16 16 (3.21%) Consultant
16 16 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (20.24%) React Native
2 76 (15.23%) React
3 65 (13.03%) .NET
4 40 (8.02%) RESTful
5 38 (7.62%) CSS
6 36 (7.21%) HTML
7 34 (6.81%) Node.js
8 24 (4.81%) SwiftUI
9 16 (3.21%) Bootstrap
10 15 (3.01%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.01%) REST
10 15 (3.01%) Vue
11 13 (2.61%) Next.js
12 12 (2.40%) Flutter
13 10 (2.00%) Laravel
13 10 (2.00%) Spring
13 10 (2.00%) Spring Boot
14 9 (1.80%) Express.js
14 9 (1.80%) Jest
14 9 (1.80%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.81%) Onboarding
2 26 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.01%) EPoS
4 19 (3.81%) IoT
5 16 (3.21%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.40%) iPhone
7 11 (2.20%) iPad
8 9 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (1.60%) PropTech
10 7 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.00%) Social Media
13 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 129 (25.85%) Android
2 124 (24.85%) Apple iOS
3 24 (4.81%) Windows
4 6 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.40%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (30.66%) Agile
2 91 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (18.24%) User Experience
3 90 (18.04%) Mentoring
4 79 (15.83%) Mobile Application Development
5 69 (13.83%) CI/CD
6 64 (12.83%) Software Engineering
7 63 (12.63%) Android Development
8 61 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (11.82%) Mobile Development
10 58 (11.62%) UX Design
11 56 (11.22%) DevOps
12 53 (10.62%) iOS Development
13 52 (10.42%) Collaborative Culture
14 49 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (9.62%) AI
16 46 (9.22%) Wireframes
17 44 (8.82%) B2B
18 41 (8.22%) Test Automation
18 41 (8.22%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.42%) JavaScript
1 47 (9.42%) TypeScript
2 40 (8.02%) Kotlin
3 34 (6.81%) Swift
4 33 (6.61%) C#
5 26 (5.21%) SQL
6 23 (4.61%) Python
7 22 (4.41%) Java
8 14 (2.81%) Bash
9 11 (2.20%) PHP
10 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.60%) C++
11 8 (1.60%) VBA
12 5 (1.00%) C
13 4 (0.80%) Perl
13 4 (0.80%) XAML
14 3 (0.60%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.60%) Ruby
15 2 (0.40%) Groovy
16 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (8.02%) Degree
2 24 (4.81%) CREST Certified
2 24 (4.81%) OSCP
3 21 (4.21%) CHECK Team Member
4 20 (4.01%) CHECK Team Leader
5 18 (3.61%) CCSAM
6 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.80%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.40%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.60%) CISSP
10 2 (0.40%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.40%) CEH
10 2 (0.40%) CISA
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.40%) GPEN
10 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) Tigerscheme
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.61%) QA
3 7 (1.40%) GDPR
3 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.20%) SLA
5 5 (1.00%) WCAG
6 4 (0.80%) GRC
7 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) Section 508
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (2.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (4.21%) Terraform
2 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.20%) Nessus
4 9 (1.80%) Ansible
4 9 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.80%) Nmap
6 3 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (5.21%) Adobe
1 26 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.81%) Xamarin
3 20 (4.01%) Apple
4 18 (3.61%) Google
5 8 (1.60%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.60%) Blue Prism
5 8 (1.60%) Pega
6 7 (1.40%) Okta
7 6 (1.20%) ESRI
8 5 (1.00%) SAP
8 5 (1.00%) Zoho
9 4 (0.80%) Samsung
9 4 (0.80%) VMware
10 3 (0.60%) Cvent
10 3 (0.60%) Mapbox
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) WooCommerce
11 2 (0.40%) Facebook
11 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow