Mobile Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mobile Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Development over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 567 392
Rank change year-on-year -149 -175 -69
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Development 181 455 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.46% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.48% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 161 327 719
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £44,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,823 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.08% +1.96% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,283 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mobile Development.

Salary trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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 -148 163 £55,000 -21.43% 60
UK excluding London -138 143 £50,000 -16.67% 32
Work from Home -131 71 £50,000 -27.35% 31
North of England +46 38 £52,500 +23.53% 10
South East -91 37 £55,000 -18.52% 3
Midlands -5 28 £45,000 -2.70% 9
London -28 28 £71,250 -13.03% 31
South West -19 24 £47,500 -2.56% 6
West Midlands +23 21 £45,000 -2.70% 5
Yorkshire +86 18 £75,000 +76.47% 1
North West +11 18 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Scotland -60 10 £75,000 +33.33% 4
East Midlands -22 7 £45,000 - 4
East of England -13 4 £48,750 -27.78% 1
North East -2 2 £58,750 +38.24% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

Mobile Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.63%) NServiceBus
2 10 (5.52%) Confluence
3 6 (3.31%) CMS
4 5 (2.76%) Apache
4 5 (2.76%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.66%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.86%) Azure
2 25 (13.81%) AWS
2 25 (13.81%) SaaS
3 10 (5.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (4.42%) GCP
4 8 (4.42%) Slack
5 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.21%) IaaS
6 4 (2.21%) PaaS
7 2 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.55%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.55%) Firebase
8 1 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.55%) Google Play
8 1 (0.55%) Serverless
8 1 (0.55%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.76%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) Internet
3 1 (0.55%) Multicast
3 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.42%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.21%) MySQL
5 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (24.31%) Git
2 20 (11.05%) JIRA
3 13 (7.18%) CircleCI
3 13 (7.18%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.18%) JUnit
4 9 (4.97%) Visual Studio
5 8 (4.42%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.42%) GitLab
5 8 (4.42%) Selenium
6 5 (2.76%) fastlane
6 5 (2.76%) Maven
7 4 (2.21%) Xcode
8 3 (1.66%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.26%) Finance
3 16 (8.84%) Banking
4 9 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.97%) Tech for Good
5 8 (4.42%) Law
6 7 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.87%) Legal
6 7 (3.87%) Marketing
7 5 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.66%) Back Office
9 3 (1.66%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Automotive
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (66.30%) Developer
2 65 (35.91%) Mobile Developer
3 29 (16.02%) Lead
4 23 (12.71%) Software Engineer
5 16 (8.84%) Senior
6 14 (7.73%) Android Developer
6 14 (7.73%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.18%) Senior Mobile Developer
8 12 (6.63%) Lead Developer
8 12 (6.63%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 10 (5.52%) iOS Developer
10 9 (4.97%) Flutter Developer
11 7 (3.87%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.87%) Senior Android Developer
11 7 (3.87%) UI Developer
11 7 (3.87%) UI/UX Developer
11 7 (3.87%) UX Developer
12 6 (3.31%) React Developer
12 6 (3.31%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.76%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.76%) RESTful
2 38 (20.99%) .NET
3 31 (17.13%) React Native
4 30 (16.57%) AngularJS
4 30 (16.57%) HTML
5 28 (15.47%) CSS
6 24 (13.26%) Flutter
7 23 (12.71%) React
8 14 (7.73%) Vue
9 13 (7.18%) .NET Framework
9 13 (7.18%) REST
10 12 (6.63%) Apache Cordova
10 12 (6.63%) JSON
11 10 (5.52%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.52%) Blazor
11 10 (5.52%) Entity Framework
12 9 (4.97%) Android Jetpack
12 9 (4.97%) ASP.NET
13 8 (4.42%) jQuery
13 8 (4.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (34.25%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.76%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.66%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (1.66%) BBC
5 3 (1.66%) Photography
5 3 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.10%) Animation
6 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.10%) Femtech
6 2 (1.10%) IoT
7 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.55%) PropTech
7 1 (0.55%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 73 (40.33%) Android
2 63 (34.81%) Apple iOS
3 11 (6.08%) Linux
4 6 (3.31%) Windows
5 4 (2.21%) DC/OS
6 1 (0.55%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.23%) Agile
2 39 (21.55%) Software Engineering
3 34 (18.78%) Android Development
4 33 (18.23%) DevOps
5 32 (17.68%) CI/CD
6 31 (17.13%) Test Automation
7 30 (16.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 30 (16.57%) User Experience
8 29 (16.02%) Mentoring
8 29 (16.02%) Mobile Application Development
9 28 (15.47%) iOS Development
9 28 (15.47%) UX Design
10 26 (14.36%) Design Patterns
11 25 (13.81%) Project Management
12 24 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (12.71%) Coaching
14 22 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (11.05%) TDD
16 19 (10.50%) Computer Science
17 17 (9.39%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.36%) C#
2 46 (25.41%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.57%) Kotlin
3 30 (16.57%) SQL
4 24 (13.26%) Swift
5 17 (9.39%) Java
6 11 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.97%) Dart
8 7 (3.87%) PHP
9 6 (3.31%) Python
10 5 (2.76%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.76%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.21%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.10%) Ruby
13 1 (0.55%) Ada
13 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.55%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (20.99%) Degree
2 13 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.76%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.21%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.13%) QA
2 12 (6.63%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.97%) GDPR
4 8 (4.42%) PSD2
5 4 (2.21%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 17 (9.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (23.76%) Xamarin
2 25 (13.81%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.84%) Google
4 8 (4.42%) Duck Creek
5 5 (2.76%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle
6 1 (0.55%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.55%) SAP