Mobile Development Contracts

Mobile Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mobile Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Development over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 637 699
Rank change year-on-year +105 +62 -218
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 68 79 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 58 116
10th Percentile £351 £343 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £569
90th Percentile £673 £788 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Development.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Development.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Development within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +116 63 £450 -10.00% 61
Work from Home +121 33 £468 +4.00% 25
London +96 33 £500 - 34
UK excluding London +73 27 £450 -2.70% 34
North of England +39 12 £438 -16.67% 10
North West +37 11 £438 - 7
South East +27 6 £500 +17.65% 5
South West - 4 £425 - 5
Midlands +29 3 £400 +39.13% 7
West Midlands +25 3 £400 - 2
Scotland +40 1 £588 -28.79% 6
Yorkshire +18 1 £450 -14.29% 2
Wales - 1 £450 - 1

Mobile Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.94%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Drupal
2 1 (1.47%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) Figma
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.94%) Datadog
6 2 (2.94%) Firebase
6 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.47%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.88%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Android Studio
2 7 (10.29%) Mockito
3 6 (8.82%) Git
3 6 (8.82%) Xcode
4 4 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.41%) Postman
6 2 (2.94%) Gradle
6 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.47%) Appium
7 1 (1.47%) Crashlytics
7 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.47%) JIRA
7 1 (1.47%) JUnit
7 1 (1.47%) Mocha
7 1 (1.47%) Selenium
7 1 (1.47%) Storybook
General
1 4 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
2 2 (2.94%) Banking
2 2 (2.94%) Finance
2 2 (2.94%) Marketing
2 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
2 2 (2.94%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
3 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (75.00%) Developer
2 17 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 15 (22.06%) Mobile Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Flutter Developer
4 8 (11.76%) iOS Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 5 (7.35%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) React Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) iOS Android Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 2 (2.94%) Android Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.47%) .NET Developer
10 1 (1.47%) Account Manager
10 1 (1.47%) Development Manager
10 1 (1.47%) PHP Developer
10 1 (1.47%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) React Native
2 12 (17.65%) HTML
3 11 (16.18%) CSS
3 11 (16.18%) Node.js
4 10 (14.71%) RESTful
4 10 (14.71%) Vue
5 9 (13.24%) .NET
5 9 (13.24%) Flutter
6 8 (11.76%) React
7 7 (10.29%) REST
7 7 (10.29%) Web Services
8 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET
8 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (8.82%) Ionic Framework
9 5 (7.35%) iOS SDK
9 5 (7.35%) Laravel
10 4 (5.88%) Android SDK
10 4 (5.88%) Next.js
10 4 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (5.88%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.82%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (57.35%) Android
2 29 (42.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Android Development
2 16 (23.53%) iOS Development
3 12 (17.65%) Web Development
4 11 (16.18%) MVVM
4 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
5 9 (13.24%) Design Patterns
5 9 (13.24%) User Experience
6 8 (11.76%) Agile
7 7 (10.29%) DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) MVC
7 7 (10.29%) SOLID
8 6 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (8.82%) OO
8 6 (8.82%) OOP
8 6 (8.82%) UX Design
9 5 (7.35%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (5.88%) Fintech
10 4 (5.88%) Front End Development
10 4 (5.88%) Test Automation
11 3 (4.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) Kotlin
2 15 (22.06%) Java
3 14 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.65%) Swift
5 9 (13.24%) C#
6 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.35%) Objective-C
8 3 (4.41%) Dart
8 3 (4.41%) SQL
9 2 (2.94%) C
9 2 (2.94%) PHP
10 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.47%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) Bugsnag
2 1 (1.47%) Grafana
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Xamarin
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe
3 1 (1.47%) Apple
3 1 (1.47%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.47%) Google
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce