Mobile First Contracts

Mobile First
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mobile First skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile First over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 691 758
Rank change year-on-year +124 +67 -101
Contract jobs citing Mobile First 19 31 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.052% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.057% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 61
10th Percentile £350 £320 £375
25th Percentile £363 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £520
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +20.19% +30.00%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £675
90th Percentile £640 £760 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £519 £488
% change year-on-year -18.07% +6.41% +32.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile First 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 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Mobile First
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile First over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile First within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +107 16 £438 -30.00% 25
UK excluding London +77 12 £425 -18.07% 19
Work from Home +115 8 £450 +5.88% 17
London +88 6 £450 -30.77% 6
North of England +38 6 £350 +16.67% 2
North West +20 5 £350 +16.67% 2
Scotland - 3 £525 -
South West - 2 £600 - 4
South East +11 1 £400 -35.35% 10
North East - 1 - -

Mobile First
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) InVision
1 1 (5.26%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Apigee
3 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.26%) Figma
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Babel
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Android Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (15.79%) UX Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) UI Designer
4 2 (10.53%) UI Developer
4 2 (10.53%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior UI Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior UI/UX Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) React
2 5 (26.32%) CSS
2 5 (26.32%) HTML
2 5 (26.32%) Next.js
3 3 (15.79%) Jest
3 3 (15.79%) NestJS
3 3 (15.79%) Prisma
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 2 (10.53%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) ADO
5 1 (5.26%) JWT
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) React Native
5 1 (5.26%) Redux
5 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) User Experience
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (26.32%) UX Design
4 4 (21.05%) Android Development
4 4 (21.05%) Chemistry
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (21.05%) SEO
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) B2B
5 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
6 2 (10.53%) Fintech
6 2 (10.53%) SDLC
6 2 (10.53%) User Research
6 2 (10.53%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Nokia
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) Confluent
2 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Teradata