The first table below looks at the demand for the Mobile Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mobile Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mobile Developer
Rank 164 211 229
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Developer 37 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.586% 0.115% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.634% 0.126% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 4
Average daily rate £325 £311 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.41% -15.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £290 £336
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £376 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £309
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 - £27.50
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5840 7150 8882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.42% 91.56% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4286 5125 6488
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 179 185
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £42.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Mobile Developer
London

Mobile Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mobile Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Mobile Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Mobile Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Mobile Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Mobile Developer Daily Rate Trend

Mobile Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mobile Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Mobile Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Mobile Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mobile Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Mobile Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Mobile Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Mobile Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Mobile Developer in their job title.

1 40 (56.34%) Android
1 40 (56.34%) Apple iOS
2 32 (45.07%) JavaScript
3 29 (40.85%) CSS
3 29 (40.85%) HTML5
4 27 (38.03%) Mobile App
5 21 (29.58%) jQuery
6 20 (28.17%) JSON
6 20 (28.17%) Java
7 16 (22.54%) HTML
7 16 (22.54%) Scrum
8 15 (21.13%) Agile Software Development
8 15 (21.13%) CSS3
8 15 (21.13%) PhoneGap
9 14 (19.72%) Windows
10 12 (16.90%) Internet
10 12 (16.90%) iPhone
11 11 (15.49%) REST
11 11 (15.49%) Blackberry
11 11 (15.49%) OO
11 11 (15.49%) Web Services
12 10 (14.08%) MVC
12 10 (14.08%) Handset
12 10 (14.08%) Objective-C
12 10 (14.08%) iOS SDK
13 9 (12.68%) Windows Mobile
14 8 (11.27%) Ajax
14 8 (11.27%) BDD
14 8 (11.27%) Git (software)
14 8 (11.27%) TDD

Mobile Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Mobile Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Mobile Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (40.85%) CSS
1 29 (40.85%) HTML5
2 21 (29.58%) jQuery
3 20 (28.17%) JSON
4 16 (22.54%) HTML
5 15 (21.13%) CSS3
6 11 (15.49%) REST
6 11 (15.49%) Web Services
7 10 (14.08%) iOS SDK
8 8 (11.27%) XML
8 8 (11.27%) Ajax
9 6 (8.451%) .NET
10 5 (7.042%) J2ME
10 5 (7.042%) Spring
10 5 (7.042%) Spring MVC
11 4 (5.634%) Cocoa
12 3 (4.225%) ASP.NET
12 3 (4.225%) SOAP
12 3 (4.225%) ASP.NET MVC 2
12 3 (4.225%) Sencha Touch
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.451%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (8.451%) Amazon S3
1 6 (8.451%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (8.451%) Route 53
2 2 (2.817%) Apache
2 2 (2.817%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.225%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (8.451%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) Internet
2 3 (4.225%) HTTP
3 1 (1.408%) SMS
3 1 (1.408%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.451%) MySQL
1 6 (8.451%) MongoDB
1 6 (8.451%) Redis
1 6 (8.451%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.817%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) PhoneGap
2 8 (11.27%) Git (software)
2 8 (11.27%) Subversion
3 7 (9.859%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 6 (8.451%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.451%) Selenium
5 5 (7.042%) Xcode
6 4 (5.634%) Ant
7 3 (4.225%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.817%) JUnit
8 2 (2.817%) Maven
8 2 (2.817%) GitHub
9 1 (1.408%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.408%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (11.27%) Finance
2 5 (7.042%) Banking
3 3 (4.225%) Games
4 2 (2.817%) Publishing
4 2 (2.817%) Music
4 2 (2.817%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.408%) Marketing
5 1 (1.408%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 27 (38.03%) Mobile App
2 12 (16.90%) iPhone
3 11 (15.49%) Blackberry
4 10 (14.08%) Handset
5 4 (5.634%) Social Network
6 3 (4.225%) Graphic Design
6 3 (4.225%) iPad
7 2 (2.817%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (2.817%) PKI
7 2 (2.817%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.408%) EMV
8 1 (1.408%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.408%) Mobile Games
8 1 (1.408%) CESG
8 1 (1.408%) Animation
8 1 (1.408%) Computer Science
8 1 (1.408%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (1.408%) Social Media
8 1 (1.408%) Flash Lite
8 1 (1.408%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 40 (56.34%) Android
1 40 (56.34%) Apple iOS
2 14 (19.72%) Windows
3 9 (12.68%) Windows Mobile
4 4 (5.634%) Windows 8
5 2 (2.817%) Windows Phone 8
5 2 (2.817%) Windows Phone
5 2 (2.817%) Windows Phone 7
6 1 (1.408%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.54%) Scrum
2 15 (21.13%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (15.49%) OO
4 10 (14.08%) MVC
5 8 (11.27%) TDD
5 8 (11.27%) BDD
5 8 (11.27%) Mobile Application Development
6 7 (9.859%) OOP
7 6 (8.451%) Automated Testing
7 6 (8.451%) Security Testing
8 4 (5.634%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.634%) Content Management
8 4 (5.634%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.817%) OOD
9 2 (2.817%) Mobile Commerce
9 2 (2.817%) Risk Management
9 2 (2.817%) Web Development
9 2 (2.817%) Web Design
9 2 (2.817%) Multithreading
9 2 (2.817%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) JavaScript
2 20 (28.17%) Java
3 10 (14.08%) Objective-C
4 7 (9.859%) C++
5 3 (4.225%) C
5 3 (4.225%) C#
6 2 (2.817%) PHP
7 1 (1.408%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (4.225%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.634%) QA
2 1 (1.408%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 1 (1.408%) ISO/IEC 7816
Systems Management
1 1 (1.408%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 7 (9.859%) Apple
2 6 (8.451%) Oracle
2 6 (8.451%) Percona
3 3 (4.225%) Sencha
3 3 (4.225%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.408%) Google
4 1 (1.408%) Facebook
City of London
Skills/Experience required: - Evidence of four/five mobile application's built (Hands on experience) - Cross Mobile platform expertise - Working on a .NET framework -SQL Server 2012 -Familiar with...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
I am currently looking for a Web Developer with mobile experience to work on a contract basis for an excellent blue chip client of ours based in West...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £301 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
The role has come about due to project-driven expansion and an increasing requirement for mobile application development.The successful developer will have proven experience developing web based...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 9 May 2013
City of London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg
Rate: Competitive benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg LP
Rate: Competitive benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
City Of London
2 Front End Web/Mobile developers - London Opus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking 2 Front end web/Mobile developers for an initial 6 month contract, for a global...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP275 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013