Frontend and mobile engineers in the services world
Two related roles across the services world, every Company Tier together, Accenture left out. Accenture posts more frontend and mobile work than the rest of the services world put together, and that work is described with the rest of its hiring on its own.
The short answer
Frontend engineers build what a user sees in a browser, and mobile engineers build the apps on a phone. In the services world both are small roles, below their weight at product companies, because a services firm usually hires full-stack engineers who do the screen as part of a larger job, and the clients of giants like IBM, Infosys and Wipro want back-office systems more than consumer apps. Both roles are concentrated at the giants, mobile especially, and both collapsed through 2026. Frontend openings in July to September 2026 were a small fraction of their level in the winter of 2025, and mobile fell nearly as far, as IBM, Infosys and Wipro stopped posting them. By July to September 2026 the mid-sized firms, at Happiest Minds above all, were posting more of both than the giants. Frontend work is React first, with Angular strong at the foreign majors, like CGI and NTT DATA. Mobile work is cross-platform React Native and Android in Kotlin, with iOS a small part. Both doors are mostly mid-level, and both kinds of job were posted again and again at the giants before they stopped.
Where the work sits
Frontend engineers. The giants hold the largest share of frontend openings, at about their services weight, mostly at IBM and Infosys, with TCS and LTIMindtree behind. The mid-sized firms, the small shops, like Zemoso Technologies and GammaStack, and the BPO and KPO firms, like FinacPlus and Concentrix, hire frontend engineers well above their services weight, Happiest Minds and Virtusa among the mid-sized firms above all. The engineering-services firms, like Quest Global and NeST Digital, hire them a little above their weight, for the screens of devices and tools. The quiet foreign majors, the build firms, like InRhythm and Grid Dynamics, and the infrastructure firms, like Unisys, hire them below their weight, the build firms because they hire full-stack engineers instead.
Mobile engineers. The giants hold most of the mobile openings, above their services weight. Wipro posted the largest part, then IBM, Infosys and Capgemini. The small shops hire mobile engineers at twice their services weight, GeekyAnts above all, where mobile is a large part of what the firm posts. GlobalLogic among the build firms and Sasken among the specialist firms hire them for device software. The consulting arms, like Deloitte and PwC, and the BPO firms hardly hire mobile engineers at all.
What the work is
Frontend. Most frontend openings are React work, the rest split between Angular and teams that use several frameworks. The giants, the mid-sized firms, the build firms and the specialist firms lean to React. The quiet foreign majors and the engineering-services firms lean to Angular, and the consulting arms mostly ask for several frameworks at once. The postings require React or Angular with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Redux for managing what the screen shows, Webpack, and Jest, Cypress or Playwright for testing. Many also require Node.js, and a notable share require accessibility, responsive design and speed, measured with Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Next.js appears at the small shops and the specialist firms.
Mobile. Most mobile openings are cross-platform, one app for Android and iPhone, in React Native with GraphQL and Redux, much of it at Wipro. The rest are Android in Kotlin and Java, with Jetpack Compose, Room and Material Design, and a small number are iOS in Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit. Flutter appears less often than React Native. At the build firms and the specialist firms, Android work is often device software rather than consumer apps.
Neither frontend nor mobile postings ask for experience with language models.
Both roles are concentrated in Bengaluru even more than services hiring as a whole, mobile almost entirely so.
What is changing
These readings follow the record quarter by quarter, from October to December 2025, the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26, to July to September 2026, the second quarter of 2026-27. A longer record will show whether they last.
Both roles fell far faster than services hiringFrontend openings fell in every quarter, and by July to September 2026 they were a small fraction of their level in October to December 2025. Mobile held up into January to March 2026 and then fell almost as steeply. Product companies cut both too, but far less, so in services both are now well below their weight at product companies.
The giants stoppedIBM and Infosys posted almost no frontend jobs after March 2026. Wipro, which posted a wave of React Native jobs in January to March 2026, posted almost none after it, and IBM and Infosys stopped posting mobile jobs too.
The mid-sized firms became the largest employer of bothHappiest Minds grew its frontend and mobile hiring in 2026, and by July to September 2026 the mid-sized firms were posting more frontend and mobile openings than any other tier.
Mobile moved back to native AndroidWith Wipro's React Native hiring gone, Android in Kotlin became the larger part of mobile openings by July to September 2026.
Persistently open roles
Frontend jobs are persistently open about as often as services jobs overall, and mobile jobs more often. When either is posted again, its first and last postings are typically two to three weeks apart, and rarely more than seven weeks.
The giants kept both open again and again. Most of IBM's and Infosys's frontend jobs, and most of Wipro's and Infosys's mobile jobs, were posted more than once before they stopped. The mid-sized firms and the small shops rarely post either twice.
Speed and modern app tools are the hardest skills to find. The skills found most often in persistently open frontend jobs are those of making a site fast, Lighthouse, WebPageTest and Chrome DevTools, with React Native and micro frontends. In mobile they are JUnit, Redux, React Native, GraphQL and Jetpack Compose.
The door
Both doors are mostly mid-level, with senior and staff openings rarer than across services.
Frontend is one of the wider doors. Entry and junior openings are more common than the services rate, and the largest part of them were at IBM. With IBM gone from frontend hiring after March 2026, few junior frontend openings remain.
Mobile is about the services width. Junior openings are close to the services rate, at Capgemini and Endava above all, and the build firms and the engineering-services firms take juniors more readily in proportion, in small numbers.
The consulting arms and the specialist firms are the most firmly mid-level for frontend, and the specialist firms for mobile.
In one line
Frontend and mobile are small roles in the services world and shrank fast in 2026 as the giants stopped hiring for them; if you build React or Angular screens or Android and React Native apps, the mid-sized firms, the small shops and the device firms, like Sasken and GlobalLogic, are where the remaining work is.
Terms used on this page
Frontend The part of an application a user sees and works with in a browser.
React, Angular and Vue.js The three main frameworks for building web screens.
Redux A tool for keeping track of what a screen shows as the user works.
Micro frontends Splitting a large website into parts that separate teams build and release on their own.
Lighthouse and WebPageTest Tools that measure how fast a website loads and how well it works.
Accessibility Building screens that people with disabilities can use, for example with screen readers.
Cross-platform, React Native and Flutter Building one app that runs on both Android and iPhone, and the two main tools for doing it.
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Room Android's main language, its toolkit for building screens, and its on-phone database.
Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit Apple's language and its two toolkits for building iPhone screens.
GraphQL A way for an app to ask a server for exactly the data it needs.