Mobile Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Mobile Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 359 438 472
Rank change year-on-year
+79 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Developer 179 137 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.385% 0.235% 0.193%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.417% 0.254% 0.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 88 61
Average daily rate £335 £343 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.18% +5.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £250 £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 5 3 8
Average hourly rate £45.00 £34.00 £60.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.35% -43.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 - £27.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Mobile Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Mobile Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Mobile Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mobile Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Mobile Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Mobile Developer
Top 30 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 UK 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
England +100 176 £330 -5.71%
London +62 118 £350 -
City of London +47 37 £325 +4.41%
South East +21 16 £296 -8.84%
North West +22 10 £275 -31.25%
South West +28 9 £338 -
East of England +14 8 £475 +35.71%
West Midlands +2 8 £300 -
Yorkshire - 8 £213 -
Birmingham +13 7 £300 -6.25%
West Yorkshire - 7 £213 -
Leeds - 6 £213 -
Manchester - 6 £260 -
Berkshire +15 5 £318 +15.45%
Hertfordshire +7 5 £475 +35.71%
Wiltshire - 5 £350 -
Surrey - 5 £350 -
Reading +11 3 - -
Cheshire +10 3 £275 -
Scotland -10 3 £350 -
Swindon - 3 £325 -
Hampshire -8 2 - -
Suffolk - 2 - -
Warrington - 2 £275 -
Ipswich - 2 - -
Chiswick - 2 £375 -
Cambridgeshire +12 1 - -
Cambridge +9 1 - -
Glasgow -21 1 - -
Guildford - 1 £450 -

Mobile Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 220 (63.58%) Android
2 212 (61.27%) Apple iOS
3 199 (57.51%) Mobile App
4 152 (43.93%) HTML5
5 144 (41.62%) JavaScript
6 126 (36.42%) CSS
7 116 (33.53%) Java
8 83 (23.99%) Objective-C
9 82 (23.70%) CSS3
10 79 (22.83%) jQuery
11 78 (22.54%) Windows
12 74 (21.39%) JSON
13 67 (19.36%) iPhone
14 59 (17.05%) Web Services
14 59 (17.05%) HTML
15 51 (14.74%) OO
16 50 (14.45%) Agile Software Development
17 47 (13.58%) XML
17 47 (13.58%) PhoneGap
18 44 (12.72%) iOS SDK
18 44 (12.72%) Blackberry
19 43 (12.43%) Windows Mobile
20 41 (11.85%) Ajax
21 40 (11.56%) Scrum
22 37 (10.69%) .NET
23 35 (10.12%) REST
23 35 (10.12%) Mobile Application Development
24 32 (9.249%) Appcelerator Titanium
24 32 (9.249%) E-Commerce
25 31 (8.960%) C++

Mobile Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 152 (43.93%) HTML5
2 126 (36.42%) CSS
3 82 (23.70%) CSS3
4 79 (22.83%) jQuery
5 74 (21.39%) JSON
6 59 (17.05%) HTML
6 59 (17.05%) Web Services
7 47 (13.58%) XML
8 44 (12.72%) iOS SDK
9 41 (11.85%) Ajax
10 37 (10.69%) .NET
11 35 (10.12%) REST
12 24 (6.936%) Cocoa
13 21 (6.069%) Spring
14 20 (5.780%) Sencha Touch
15 18 (5.202%) SOAP
16 15 (4.335%) J2ME
17 13 (3.757%) Java EE
17 13 (3.757%) Sass
18 12 (3.468%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 11 (3.179%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (3.179%) Amazon S3
1 11 (3.179%) Amazon AWS
1 11 (3.179%) Route 53
2 8 (2.312%) CMS
3 4 (1.156%) Apache
4 3 (0.867%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.578%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.289%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.289%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.289%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.289%) GlassFish
6 1 (0.289%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.289%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 4 (1.156%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.289%) MS Office
2 1 (0.289%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.289%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.179%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.289%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.358%) Internet
2 19 (5.491%) HTTP
3 5 (1.445%) NFC
4 3 (0.867%) SSL
5 2 (0.578%) 3G
5 2 (0.578%) SMS
6 1 (0.289%) 4G
6 1 (0.289%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.225%) MySQL
2 11 (3.179%) SQLite
2 11 (3.179%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.179%) Redis
2 11 (3.179%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 47 (13.58%) PhoneGap
2 32 (9.249%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 25 (7.225%) Subversion
4 20 (5.780%) Git (software)
5 18 (5.202%) Xcode
6 16 (4.624%) Jenkins
7 14 (4.046%) Eclipse
8 12 (3.468%) Selenium
9 7 (2.023%) Maven
9 7 (2.023%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.734%) Ant
11 4 (1.156%) GitHub
12 3 (0.867%) JUnit
12 3 (0.867%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.867%) Hudson
13 2 (0.578%) Capistrano
13 2 (0.578%) WebLogic Workshop
14 1 (0.289%) Dreamweaver
14 1 (0.289%) VisualAge
14 1 (0.289%) Mercurial
General
1 20 (5.780%) Games
2 19 (5.491%) Finance
3 12 (3.468%) Banking
4 11 (3.179%) Music
5 8 (2.312%) Publishing
6 7 (2.023%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.734%) Marketing
8 5 (1.445%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (1.445%) Retail
9 2 (0.578%) Legal
9 2 (0.578%) Electronics
9 2 (0.578%) Billing
10 1 (0.289%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.289%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.289%) Advertising
10 1 (0.289%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 199 (57.51%) Mobile App
2 67 (19.36%) iPhone
3 44 (12.72%) Blackberry
4 28 (8.092%) iPad
5 18 (5.202%) Handset
6 11 (3.179%) Smartphone
7 9 (2.601%) Computer Science
8 8 (2.312%) Digital Media
9 7 (2.023%) Social Network
10 6 (1.734%) PKI
11 5 (1.445%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.445%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.445%) Open Source
12 4 (1.156%) Online Games
12 4 (1.156%) Mobile Games
13 3 (0.867%) Streaming Video
13 3 (0.867%) Graphic Design
13 3 (0.867%) Inversion of Control
13 3 (0.867%) Social Media
13 3 (0.867%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 220 (63.58%) Android
2 212 (61.27%) Apple iOS
3 78 (22.54%) Windows
4 43 (12.43%) Windows Mobile
5 18 (5.202%) Windows Phone
6 15 (4.335%) Windows 8
7 10 (2.890%) Linux
8 5 (1.445%) Windows Phone 8
9 4 (1.156%) Windows CE
9 4 (1.156%) Windows Phone 7
10 3 (0.867%) UNIX
11 2 (0.578%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.578%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.289%) bada
12 1 (0.289%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (14.74%) OO
2 50 (14.45%) Agile Software Development
3 40 (11.56%) Scrum
4 35 (10.12%) Mobile Application Development
5 32 (9.249%) E-Commerce
6 28 (8.092%) MVC
7 26 (7.514%) TDD
7 26 (7.514%) Web Development
8 25 (7.225%) OOP
9 16 (4.624%) Automated Testing
10 15 (4.335%) BDD
11 13 (3.757%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (3.757%) Multithreading
12 12 (3.468%) Security Testing
13 9 (2.601%) Progressive Enhancement
13 9 (2.601%) Software Engineering
14 8 (2.312%) Content Management
14 8 (2.312%) Memory Management
15 7 (2.023%) Unit Testing
15 7 (2.023%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (41.62%) JavaScript
2 116 (33.53%) Java
3 83 (23.99%) Objective-C
4 31 (8.960%) C++
5 28 (8.092%) C#
6 19 (5.491%) PHP
6 19 (5.491%) SQL
7 16 (4.624%) C
8 3 (0.867%) VC++
9 2 (0.578%) XAML
9 2 (0.578%) Ruby
9 2 (0.578%) XPath
9 2 (0.578%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.289%) VB
10 1 (0.289%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.289%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.289%) Python
10 1 (0.289%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 15 (4.335%) Degree
2 6 (1.734%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.156%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.734%) QA
2 1 (0.289%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 1 (0.289%) ISO/IEC 7816
2 1 (0.289%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (0.289%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.289%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 25 (7.225%) Oracle
2 23 (6.647%) Sencha
3 19 (5.491%) Apple
4 11 (3.179%) Percona
5 7 (2.023%) Facebook
5 7 (2.023%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.734%) Adobe
6 6 (1.734%) Appcelerator
7 5 (1.445%) Google
7 5 (1.445%) Twitter
8 2 (0.578%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.578%) Zend
8 2 (0.578%) Symantec
8 2 (0.578%) JBoss
8 2 (0.578%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.289%) Symbian
9 1 (0.289%) IBM
9 1 (0.289%) VMware
9 1 (0.289%) Nokia
9 1 (0.289%) Atlassian
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