Mobile Engineer Contracts

Mobile Engineer
UK

The median Mobile Engineer daily rate in the UK is £230 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 649 743
Rank change year-on-year +80 +94 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 29 70 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 40 69
10th Percentile £139 £195 £150
25th Percentile £160 £293 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +33.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £400 £613 £556
90th Percentile £503 £714 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £195 £388 £195
% change year-on-year -49.68% +98.72% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £24.28 £31.31 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £51.45 £14.61
Median hourly rate £24.75 £85.00 £14.81
Median % change year-on-year -70.88% +474.13% -1.30%
75th Percentile £25.31 - £15.19
90th Percentile £25.43 - £15.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.75 £18.78 £14.81
% change year-on-year +31.79% +26.85% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Mobile Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Mobile Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +89 25 £273 -45.50% 95
UK excluding London +52 18 £195 -49.68% 84
London +76 9 £400 -30.43% 26
North of England +31 8 £195 -61.00% 15
Work from Home +106 7 £450 -14.29% 8
Yorkshire +19 6 £160 -54.29% 4
Scotland +34 3 £143 -82.73% 11
South East +19 3 £372 +6.14% 18
West Midlands +30 2 £450 +130.77% 11
Midlands +23 2 £450 +130.77% 13
North East - 2 £195 - 2
South West +22 1 £143 -66.47% 19
East of England +12 1 £143 - 8

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Mobile Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Mobile Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (34.48%) Break/Fix
2 8 (27.59%) DBS Check
2 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Mobile App
5 5 (17.24%) Apple iOS
5 5 (17.24%) Android
5 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (17.24%) Appium
5 5 (17.24%) QA
5 5 (17.24%) Cisco
5 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
6 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
6 4 (13.79%) Juniper
6 4 (13.79%) Java
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (13.79%) Windows
6 4 (13.79%) WAN
6 4 (13.79%) Selenium
6 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
6 4 (13.79%) Test Scripting
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Meraki
7 3 (10.34%) Aruba
7 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
7 3 (10.34%) Brocade
7 3 (10.34%) Swift
7 3 (10.34%) Patch Management

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) WAN
2 3 (10.34%) LAN
2 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.90%) 3G
3 2 (6.90%) 4G
3 2 (6.90%) 5G
3 2 (6.90%) GSM
3 2 (6.90%) VoLTE
3 2 (6.90%) VoWiFi
3 2 (6.90%) Wireless
4 1 (3.45%) ATM
4 1 (3.45%) BGP
4 1 (3.45%) DSL
4 1 (3.45%) EIGRP
4 1 (3.45%) GPRS
4 1 (3.45%) ICMP
4 1 (3.45%) Internet
4 1 (3.45%) MPLS
4 1 (3.45%) OSPF
4 1 (3.45%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Appium
2 4 (13.79%) Selenium
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) UI Automator
3 2 (6.90%) XCUITest
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Postman
4 1 (3.45%) PyCharm
4 1 (3.45%) PyUnit
4 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) Xcode
General
1 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) React Native
2 1 (3.45%) Django
2 1 (3.45%) Jest
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) pytest
2 1 (3.45%) React
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) BYOD
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Android
1 5 (17.24%) Apple iOS
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Break/Fix
2 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) Test Scripting
5 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
5 3 (10.34%) Service Management
6 2 (6.90%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (6.90%) Agile
6 2 (6.90%) Customer Experience
6 2 (6.90%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (6.90%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.90%) Fintech
6 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.90%) User Experience
7 1 (3.45%) Coaching
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (3.45%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
2 3 (10.34%) Swift
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) DBS Check
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.45%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Cisco
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Juniper
3 3 (10.34%) 3Com
3 3 (10.34%) Aruba
3 3 (10.34%) Brocade
3 3 (10.34%) Citrix
3 3 (10.34%) Meraki
4 2 (6.90%) Apple
4 2 (6.90%) Nokia
5 1 (3.45%) ADVA
5 1 (3.45%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Nokia Networks
5 1 (3.45%) Tellabs