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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 915 1099
Rank change year-on-year +104 +184 -221
Permanent jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 85 60 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.060% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.065% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 75 42 70
10th Percentile - £59,000 £27,450
25th Percentile £24,240 £69,063 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,811 £81,928 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -69.72% +36.55% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £87,500 £89,048
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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Top 13 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 14 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 +107 77 £27,000 -67.04% 107
UK excluding London +27 67 £24,811 -70.81% 103
East of England +22 19 £24,811 -52.74% 7
Midlands +22 19 £24,526 -63.67% 10
London +116 18 £60,000 -26.76% 36
Work from Home +58 18 £55,000 -32.87% 14
North of England +44 15 £27,000 -73.00% 22
North West - 15 £27,000 - 10
East Midlands - 14 £24,526 - 4
Scotland -49 8 £24,240 -65.37% 16
West Midlands +9 5 - - 6
South East +6 5 £80,000 -8.57% 29
South West -31 1 £35,000 -46.15% 19

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 25 (29.41%) Apple iOS
7 21 (24.71%) Android
8 15 (17.65%) Agile
8 15 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 15 (17.65%) Mobile App
9 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
11 9 (10.59%) Degree
12 8 (9.41%) IoT
12 8 (9.41%) Client/Server
12 8 (9.41%) CI/CD
13 7 (8.24%) React Native
13 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
13 7 (8.24%) User Experience
13 7 (8.24%) iOS Development
14 6 (7.06%) Mentoring
14 6 (7.06%) QA
14 6 (7.06%) Network Security

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 3 (3.53%) Appium
1 3 (3.53%) JUnit
1 3 (3.53%) Mockito
2 2 (2.35%) UI Automator
3 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.18%) fastlane
3 1 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.18%) JIRA
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
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
5 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) React Native
2 4 (4.71%) .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 15 (17.65%) 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 25 (29.41%) Apple iOS
3 21 (24.71%) 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 8 (9.41%) 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
9 3 (3.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) Java
1 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 5 (5.88%) Swift
2 4 (4.71%) Kotlin
3 3 (3.53%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) Rust
4 2 (2.35%) C++
4 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.18%) C
5 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 6 (7.06%) 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