Mobile Development Careers in Japan: What 101 Job Postings Ask For

Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.

101
54
76%
58%

What Gets You In

  • 1-2 years of experience

    16

  • 3-4 years of experience

    35

  • 5-9 years of experience

    23

  • 10+ years of experience

    3

14%

5% day-to-day or above

  • Kotlin

    65%

  • Swift

    63%

  • CI/CD

    48%

  • AWS

    33%

  • API Development

    32%

  • Java

    29%

  • Google Cloud

    25%

  • Scrum

    23%

101 postings

Levels by Experience

1–4 years

16%

2% day-to-day or above

51 postings

5+ years

23%

0% day-to-day or above

  • Kotlin 81% (+12)

  • Scrum 35% (+11)

26 postings

Stated Pay

All postings

Median ¥8,000,000 · 59 postings state pay

¥6,400,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥9,300,000

1–4 years

Median ¥7,000,000 · 33 postings state pay

¥6,000,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥9,000,000

Working Conditions

61%
35%
  • Fully remote

    21

  • Hybrid

    29

  • On-site

    7

99 postings

What Comes Next

  • People management

    9

  • Specialist track

    4

  • Senior leadership

    3

  • Project management

    3

Employers naming each step, of 10 that name one

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Mobile Development career ladder?

A level-by-level summary of what live Mobile Development job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.

Where do the numbers come from?

From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.

Why is there no pay figure at some levels?

A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.

What does "candidate for" mean?

Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.

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