The first table below looks at the demand for the Mobile Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 263 325 367
Rank change year-on-year
+62 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Developer 118 77 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.544% 0.287% 0.218%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.590% 0.310% 0.236%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 54 41
Average daily rate £350 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £309
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
Average hourly rate £45.00 £34.00 £75.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.35% -54.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 - £27.50
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Mobile Developer
England

Mobile Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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 London region.

London Mobile Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Mobile Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +47 37 £325 +4.41%
Chiswick - 2 £375 -
Docklands, London - 1 £463 -
Mobile Developer
England

Mobile Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 130 (64.04%) Android
2 128 (63.05%) Apple iOS
3 102 (50.25%) Mobile App
4 96 (47.29%) HTML5
5 90 (44.33%) JavaScript
6 77 (37.93%) Java
7 74 (36.45%) CSS
8 50 (24.63%) CSS3
9 48 (23.65%) jQuery
10 44 (21.67%) JSON
11 42 (20.69%) Objective-C
12 41 (20.20%) Windows
13 39 (19.21%) HTML
14 37 (18.23%) iPhone
15 36 (17.73%) PhoneGap
15 36 (17.73%) OO
16 35 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
17 31 (15.27%) Scrum
18 28 (13.79%) XML
19 27 (13.30%) Blackberry
20 25 (12.32%) Web Services
20 25 (12.32%) REST
20 25 (12.32%) Mobile Application Development
21 24 (11.82%) Windows Mobile
22 22 (10.84%) Appcelerator Titanium
23 21 (10.34%) C++
24 20 (9.852%) MVC
25 19 (9.360%) iOS SDK
26 18 (8.867%) Handset
26 18 (8.867%) TDD

Mobile Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 96 (47.29%) HTML5
2 74 (36.45%) CSS
3 50 (24.63%) CSS3
4 48 (23.65%) jQuery
5 44 (21.67%) JSON
6 39 (19.21%) HTML
7 28 (13.79%) XML
8 25 (12.32%) Web Services
8 25 (12.32%) REST
9 19 (9.360%) iOS SDK
10 18 (8.867%) Spring
11 17 (8.374%) Ajax
12 13 (6.404%) J2ME
12 13 (6.404%) .NET
12 13 (6.404%) SOAP
12 13 (6.404%) Sass
13 12 (5.911%) Java EE
13 12 (5.911%) Cocoa
14 11 (5.419%) SAML
14 11 (5.419%) OAuth
Application Platforms
1 6 (2.956%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (2.956%) Amazon S3
1 6 (2.956%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (2.956%) Route 53
2 3 (1.478%) Apache
3 2 (0.985%) WebLogic Portal
3 2 (0.985%) CMS
3 2 (0.985%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.493%) GlassFish
4 1 (0.493%) Windows Azure
4 1 (0.493%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.493%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.493%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.970%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.493%) MS Office
2 1 (0.493%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.493%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.956%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.493%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.389%) Internet
2 14 (6.897%) HTTP
3 3 (1.478%) SSL
4 2 (0.985%) NFC
4 2 (0.985%) SMS
5 1 (0.493%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.433%) MySQL
2 7 (3.448%) SQLite
3 6 (2.956%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.956%) Redis
3 6 (2.956%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 36 (17.73%) PhoneGap
2 22 (10.84%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 16 (7.882%) Xcode
3 16 (7.882%) Subversion
4 11 (5.419%) Git (software)
4 11 (5.419%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.448%) Selenium
5 7 (3.448%) Maven
6 6 (2.956%) Ant
7 4 (1.970%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.478%) JUnit
8 3 (1.478%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.478%) Hudson
9 2 (0.985%) GitHub
9 2 (0.985%) WebLogic Workshop
9 2 (0.985%) Capistrano
10 1 (0.493%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.493%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.493%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.493%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (7.882%) Finance
2 15 (7.389%) Games
3 12 (5.911%) Banking
4 11 (5.419%) Music
5 5 (2.463%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (2.463%) Marketing
6 3 (1.478%) Publishing
7 2 (0.985%) Billing
7 2 (0.985%) Electronics
7 2 (0.985%) Legal
8 1 (0.493%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.493%) Advertising
8 1 (0.493%) Retail
8 1 (0.493%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.493%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.493%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 102 (50.25%) Mobile App
2 37 (18.23%) iPhone
3 27 (13.30%) Blackberry
4 18 (8.867%) Handset
5 14 (6.897%) iPad
6 8 (3.941%) Smartphone
7 7 (3.448%) Social Network
8 6 (2.956%) PKI
9 5 (2.463%) Computer Science
9 5 (2.463%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.970%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.970%) Online Games
11 3 (1.478%) Open Source
11 3 (1.478%) Inversion of Control
11 3 (1.478%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.985%) Animation
12 2 (0.985%) Streaming Music
12 2 (0.985%) Mobile Games
12 2 (0.985%) Social Media
12 2 (0.985%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 130 (64.04%) Android
2 128 (63.05%) Apple iOS
3 41 (20.20%) Windows
4 24 (11.82%) Windows Mobile
5 10 (4.926%) Windows 8
5 10 (4.926%) Windows Phone
6 5 (2.463%) Linux
7 3 (1.478%) UNIX
7 3 (1.478%) Windows Phone 8
7 3 (1.478%) Windows Phone 7
8 2 (0.985%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.985%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (17.73%) OO
2 35 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (15.27%) Scrum
4 25 (12.32%) Mobile Application Development
5 20 (9.852%) MVC
6 18 (8.867%) TDD
7 17 (8.374%) Web Development
8 15 (7.389%) E-Commerce
9 14 (6.897%) OOP
10 12 (5.911%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (4.926%) Automated Testing
11 10 (4.926%) BDD
12 9 (4.433%) Progressive Enhancement
12 9 (4.433%) Software Engineering
13 7 (3.448%) Security Testing
14 6 (2.956%) Multithreading
14 6 (2.956%) SOA
15 5 (2.463%) Unit Testing
15 5 (2.463%) Pair Programming
16 4 (1.970%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (44.33%) JavaScript
2 77 (37.93%) Java
3 42 (20.69%) Objective-C
4 21 (10.34%) C++
5 15 (7.389%) C
6 10 (4.926%) C#
7 5 (2.463%) PHP
7 5 (2.463%) SQL
8 2 (0.985%) XPath
9 1 (0.493%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.493%) Ruby
9 1 (0.493%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.493%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (5.911%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.463%) QA
2 1 (0.493%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 1 (0.493%) ISO/IEC 7816
2 1 (0.493%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (0.493%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.493%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 13 (6.404%) Oracle
2 12 (5.911%) Sencha
3 10 (4.926%) Apple
4 7 (3.448%) Facebook
5 6 (2.956%) Percona
5 6 (2.956%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.463%) Twitter
7 4 (1.970%) Adobe
7 4 (1.970%) Google
8 1 (0.493%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.493%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.493%) VMware
8 1 (0.493%) IBM
8 1 (0.493%) Appcelerator
London
My client, a HUGE household name brand, is on the lookout for a contract mobile developer (iOS and Android) to join their team for an initial 3 month...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 24 April 2013
London
Exclusive HTML5/ web developer contract : Consultancy: Start ASAP : Central London : 3 Months initially : Javascript, PhoneGap, HTML5, Jquery mobile, mobile website/ optimisation, JSON, iOS - iphone/ ipad, Android... OO Javascript...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West London
Skills required - Object Oriented Programming with .NET, PHP or Java. - CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript experience. - iOS / Android mobile experience. - Experience working with OS X, Cocoa framework or Objective-C.
Wallace HCL
Posted: 2 May 2013
London
My client is looking for a talented HTML5 / Mobile Developer for an immediate start. They are a fully integrated digital agency, part of an international group and they...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £160 to £200 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
South West London
Mobile Frontend Developer - HTML5, CSS3, UI/UX WireframeMy client based in South West London, is currently looking to recruit a Mobile Frontend Developer to work an initial 6...
Levy Associates Limited
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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
London
Minimum 4 years of solid experience in iOS and /or Android native applications (development, test and release management) Design, build, test and maintain high quality software within in...
Asset Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £375 - £420 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
SOAP, XML, JSON etc... - Strong experience with object-oriented programming - software development experience in Objective-C C/C++, Java, HTML/CSS - Knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 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, 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
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
South West London
Mobile Java Developer - Java (J2SE/J2EE), Spring, HibernateMy client based in South West London, is currently looking to recruit a Mobile Java Developer to work an initial 6...
Levy Associates Limited
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 18 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