Mobile Jobs Hiring Report — July 2026

Key facts

• As of July 2026 there are 945 open mobile roles across 393 companies in the direct-apply dataset.
• Hiring contracted over the last 28 days: 346 roles opened, 765 closed — a net loss of 419.
• 79 companies posted their first mobile role in the last 28 days, so churn, not exit, explains most of the drop.
• Only 14% of postings disclose pay (n=21); the disclosed median band sits at $150,000–$200,000/yr.
• 27% of roles are remote, and 99% of everything is engineering — 938 of 945 openings.

The number that jumps out this month isn't the 945 open roles — it's the minus 419 behind them. Companies closed 765 mobile postings in the last 28 days and opened only 346. That's more than two roles coming down for every one going up, and it's the sharpest net contraction I've recorded in this niche in a while.

Before anyone reads that as the mobile market falling off a cliff, hold on. The same 28 days brought 79 companies posting their first-ever mobile role into the dataset. A shrinking headline count with a fat pipeline of new employers underneath it is a churn story, not a collapse. Postings expire, get filled, or get pulled when a req is frozen — and a lot of them did all at once. But the doors haven't stopped opening.

How many mobile jobs are open right now?

There are 945 open mobile roles across 393 companies as of this July 2026 snapshot. That works out to roughly 2.4 openings per company, which tells you the shape of this market immediately: it's broad and shallow. Most employers are hiring one or two mobile engineers, not building out squads. You can browse the live set on /mobile-jobs.

The breadth is the good news for job seekers. With 393 distinct companies live, you're not dependent on a handful of big names having an opening in the right city. The trade-off is that landing multiple roles at the same employer — the kind of thing that lets you negotiate or pick a team — is rare here. When one company shows up with double-digit reqs, it's worth paying attention, and this month one did (more on Inter below).

Is mobile hiring growing or cooling?

Cooling on the surface, churning underneath. The net figure of -419 over 28 days is unambiguous in direction, and I won't dress it up: more mobile roles left the board than joined it this cycle. If you only looked at the headline you'd conclude the market is contracting.

But the 79 first-time employers complicate that read. Nearly one in five companies currently hiring for mobile weren't in the dataset a month ago for this function. New entrants don't behave like a market in retreat — they behave like demand redistributing. My best interpretation is that a wave of older reqs aged out or got filled while a fresh cohort of smaller and mid-size shops started posting. The total shrank; the participation widened. Track the week-to-week movement yourself on /movers/mobile if you want to see whether August reverses this or confirms it.

One honest caveat: a single large employer pruning a batch of stale listings can swing a 28-day net number hard when the base is under a thousand roles. I'd weight the direction more than the exact magnitude. Minus 419 says "contraction," not "the sky is falling."

Which companies are hiring fastest?

Nord Security leads net new mobile hiring with +7 over 28 days and 7 active roles — meaning every one of its open reqs is fresh this cycle. That's a company that went from a standing start to a genuine mobile push inside a month. You can see its footprint at /companies/nord-security.

Right behind it, OpenEye added +6 (7 active, at /companies/alarmcom), and then a cluster of four-role movers: Current (/companies/current81), Unify (/companies/unify), Xoxo AI, Ruby Labs, and Spotify all netted +4 in the window. Each of those except Inter and Spotify has exactly as many active roles as it added — so like Nord, these are recent movers, not long-standing pipelines slowly ticking up.

Inter is the outlier worth circling: +4 net but 11 active roles, the deepest single-company bench in the fastest-hiring group. If you want a shop actually running multiple mobile reqs at once rather than filling a lone seat, that's your first stop. Spotify's five active roles put it second on that measure among the fast movers.

Onhires and Salmon Group round out the top ten at +3 each. Nothing in that list is a mega-cap doing a hundred-req blitz — it's a spread of security, fintech and product companies each adding a small, deliberate batch. That's consistent with the broad-and-shallow pattern in the totals.

What kinds of mobile roles are these — engineering, product, or something else?

Almost entirely engineering. Of 945 roles, 938 are engineering — 99%. There are 5 tagged "other," a single product role, and one junk posting that slipped my filters. If you're a mobile product manager or designer hoping this dataset surfaces openings for you, it won't; this is an engineering hiring market almost to the exclusion of everything else.

That's not a data artifact. Companies hiring mobile talent through their own Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards are overwhelmingly posting for iOS, Android and cross-platform engineers. Product and design for mobile tends to get folded into general PM and design reqs that don't carry a "mobile" tag, so they don't land here. Fair to say: if you build the apps, this report is for you. If you shape or design them, treat it as background.

What seniority levels are companies hiring for?

The largest bucket is "unspecified" at 511 roles — more than half the board doesn't state a level in a way I can classify. Read those as mostly mid-level, since that's what unlabeled engineering reqs usually turn out to be. Among roles that do declare a level, senior dominates hard: 334 senior, then 87 principal.

Now look at the bottom of the ladder: just 9 junior roles, 3 director, and 1 executive across the entire dataset. Nine. Out of 945. If you're early-career and trying to break into mobile engineering through direct-apply company boards, that is a brutal number, and I'd rather you hear it straight than discover it after fifty applications. The demand is concentrated at senior and principal, with a large mid-level middle and almost nothing designed for people without shipped-app experience.

For senior and principal engineers, the flip side holds: 421 roles explicitly want your level, plus a big chunk of the unspecified pile that's realistically aimed at you too. This is a market that pays for experience and doesn't much want to train.

What do mobile jobs pay?

The disclosed median band is $150,000–$200,000/yr — but I have to flag how thin that number is. Only 14% of postings reveal pay at all, so the median rests on just 21 salaried listings. Treat it as directional, not gospel. You can see the full breakdown on /mobile-jobs/salaries.

What I'd take from it: a $150k–$200k midpoint lines up cleanly with a market weighted toward senior and principal engineers. This isn't a band you hit at your first job; it's what shipped, experienced mobile engineers command. Given the seniority skew, if anything I'd expect the true typical package for the roles here to sit inside or above that range once you account for the 86% who don't post numbers.

The bigger honest point is the disclosure rate. When six in seven employers keep pay off the posting, any single salary figure is a small sample wearing a confident face. Use the band to sanity-check an offer, not to anchor a negotiation. If you're comparing two roles and one discloses and one doesn't, the disclosure itself is a mild signal — companies that publish bands have usually done the internal work to defend them.

Where are the remote mobile jobs?

27% of mobile roles are remote — so roughly one in four, and three in four expect you on-site or hybrid in a specific location. That's a meaningful remote slice but not a remote-first market. If location flexibility is non-negotiable for you, plan on the available pool being about a quarter of the headline 945, which puts you in the low-to-mid 200s of live roles at any given time.

I don't have a clean geographic breakdown to hand this edition, so I won't guess at which cities concentrate the on-site roles. What I can say is that the two-thirds-plus non-remote share means the "where" of a role still matters a lot in mobile, more than the fully-distributed reputation of app engineering might suggest.

Is this a good time to look for a mobile job?

It depends entirely on where you sit on the seniority ladder. For senior and principal mobile engineers, yes — the demand is aimed squarely at you, 79 new employers just entered the picture, and the disclosed pay band is healthy. The net-negative headline is real but doesn't erase 346 fresh openings in four weeks plus a widening set of companies willing to hire.

For juniors, this is a hard month, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Nine junior-tagged roles across 393 companies means direct-apply boards are not your efficient channel right now; referrals, internships and internal transfers will do more for you than volume applications here.

For everyone in between — the huge unspecified middle — the read is neutral-to-positive. There's a lot of unlabeled mid-level work, the fastest-growing companies are small enough to actually read your application, and a shrinking total board with rising new-employer counts usually means the churn favors people who move quickly on fresh reqs before they age out.

The takeaway for job seekers

Move on the new stuff fast. Nord Security, OpenEye and Inter each opened their mobile reqs inside the last 28 days, and given how quickly this niche closes postings — 765 gone in a month — a fresh req is more likely to still be genuinely open and reviewing. Prioritize the fastest-hiring companies, especially Inter with 11 active roles if you want somewhere running more than a single seat. If you're senior, lead your applications with shipped-app experience because that's what 421 explicitly-leveled roles are paying $150k–$200k to find. And check /movers/mobile next week rather than trusting July's snapshot — in a market churning this hard, the roles that matter are the ones posted since you last looked.