Mobile Engineer
UK

The median Mobile Engineer salary in the UK is £24,811 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 822 902 1090
Rank change year-on-year +80 +188 -231
Permanent jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 85 58 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.058% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.064% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 75 41 68
10th Percentile - £58,750 £27,350
25th Percentile £24,240 £70,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,811 £81,928 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -69.72% +28.51% +6.25%
75th Percentile £41,250 £87,500 £91,969
90th Percentile £67,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £24,811 £85,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year -70.81% +183.33% -45.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Mobile Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Mobile Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +102 77 £27,000 -67.04% 103
UK excluding London +40 67 £24,811 -70.81% 95
Midlands +18 19 £24,526 -63.67% 10
London +89 18 £60,000 -26.76% 38
Work from Home +48 18 £55,000 -32.87% 12
East of England +18 18 £24,526 -53.28% 8
North of England +56 16 £27,000 -73.00% 21
North West - 15 £27,000 - 8
East Midlands - 14 £24,526 - 4
Scotland -66 8 £24,240 -65.37% 11
West Midlands +17 5 - - 6
South East -5 5 £80,000 -8.57% 32
Yorkshire +78 1 £33,500 -66.50% 10
South West -14 1 £35,000 -48.15% 15

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Mobile Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Mobile Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (52.94%) Windows
2 44 (51.76%) Microsoft
3 43 (50.59%) Driving Licence
4 37 (43.53%) Wi-Fi
5 33 (38.82%) Asset Management
5 33 (38.82%) SLA
5 33 (38.82%) Dell
5 33 (38.82%) PCI DSS
5 33 (38.82%) Security Cleared
5 33 (38.82%) KVM
5 33 (38.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (38.82%) Proactive Maintenance
6 24 (28.24%) Apple iOS
7 20 (23.53%) Android
8 15 (17.65%) Agile
8 15 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 14 (16.47%) Mobile App
10 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
12 9 (10.59%) Degree
12 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
13 8 (9.41%) IoT
13 8 (9.41%) Client/Server
14 7 (8.24%) iOS Development
14 7 (8.24%) QA
14 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
14 7 (8.24%) User Experience
14 7 (8.24%) React Native
15 6 (7.06%) Mentoring
15 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.53%) AutoCAD
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.71%) AWS
2 2 (2.35%) GCP
2 2 (2.35%) GitHub
3 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.18%) Azure
3 1 (1.18%) Bitrise
3 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
3 1 (1.18%) Figma
3 1 (1.18%) Firebase
3 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.18%) Google Play
3 1 (1.18%) Heroku
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (43.53%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (7.06%) Network Security
3 5 (5.88%) BGP
3 5 (5.88%) LAN
3 5 (5.88%) MPLS
3 5 (5.88%) OSPF
3 5 (5.88%) VLAN
3 5 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.18%) MySQL
1 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Appium
2 3 (3.53%) JUnit
2 3 (3.53%) Mockito
3 2 (2.35%) UI Automator
4 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.18%) fastlane
4 1 (1.18%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.88%) Automotive
2 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.71%) Retail
3 4 (4.71%) Wearables
4 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.18%) Banking
5 1 (1.18%) Electronics
5 1 (1.18%) Finance
5 1 (1.18%) Local Government
5 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) React Native
2 5 (5.88%) .NET
3 3 (3.53%) Android Jetpack
3 3 (3.53%) iOS SDK
3 3 (3.53%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (3.53%) React
4 1 (1.18%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (1.18%) Flutter
4 1 (1.18%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.18%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 43 (50.59%) Driving Licence
2 14 (16.47%) Mobile App
3 8 (9.41%) Client/Server
3 8 (9.41%) IoT
4 4 (4.71%) CCTV
4 4 (4.71%) EPoS
5 3 (3.53%) iPad
5 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.53%) PropTech
5 3 (3.53%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.18%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (52.94%) Windows
2 24 (28.24%) Apple iOS
3 20 (23.53%) Android
4 2 (2.35%) Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) Asset Management
1 33 (38.82%) Proactive Maintenance
2 15 (17.65%) Agile
2 15 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (8.24%) iOS Development
5 7 (8.24%) User Experience
6 6 (7.06%) Mentoring
6 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 5 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation
7 5 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (5.88%) SDLC
8 4 (4.71%) Cross-Platform Development
8 4 (4.71%) Data Management
8 4 (4.71%) DevOps
8 4 (4.71%) Mobile Development
8 4 (4.71%) TDD
8 4 (4.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.71%) Java
1 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
1 4 (4.71%) Kotlin
1 4 (4.71%) Swift
2 3 (3.53%) Python
2 3 (3.53%) Rust
3 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.18%) C
4 1 (1.18%) C#
4 1 (1.18%) C++
4 1 (1.18%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 33 (38.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 33 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) Degree
3 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (38.82%) PCI DSS
1 33 (38.82%) SLA
2 7 (8.24%) QA
System Software
1 33 (38.82%) KVM
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 44 (51.76%) Microsoft
2 33 (38.82%) Dell
3 5 (5.88%) Aruba
3 5 (5.88%) Cisco
3 5 (5.88%) Ericsson
3 5 (5.88%) Juniper
3 5 (5.88%) Nokia
4 2 (2.35%) Google
5 1 (1.18%) Apple
5 1 (1.18%) Canon
5 1 (1.18%) Xamarin