Mobile App Contracts

Mobile Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile App over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 269 228
Rank change year-on-year +23 -41 -54
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 419 589 1,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.98% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.15% 2.94% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 434 822
10th Percentile £325 £341 £371
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £704 £750 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 27
10th Percentile - £12.93 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.25 £30.16 £15.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +95.19% -28.76%
75th Percentile £70.18 £45.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £75.50 £81.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.63 £35.00 £16.85
% change year-on-year +10.36% +107.72% +22.55%

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile App is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,286 20,043 29,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.45% 33.31% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,527 13,774 20,521
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 664 729
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £11.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -16.67% +3.85%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.33 £22.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year +19.25% +10.40% -16.67%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile App within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +18 361 £525 +1.20% 287
Work from Home +73 194 £463 -5.61% 152
London +10 189 £550 -4.35% 109
UK excluding London +39 184 £450 -5.26% 197
South East +30 66 £475 -2.56% 33
North of England +26 61 £444 -8.51% 67
North West +1 36 £438 -7.89% 42
Yorkshire +24 21 £456 -10.98% 18
Midlands +14 15 £450 +5.88% 31
Scotland +32 13 £450 -10.00% 13
West Midlands +31 13 £450 -5.26% 18
South West +19 11 £400 -15.79% 30
East of England +9 10 £531 -17.35% 22
Wales +13 4 £450 +20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +8 4 £190 -52.50%
North East - 4 £539 - 8
East Midlands -9 2 - - 13

Mobile App
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 12 (2.86%) Confluence
2 6 (1.43%) CMS
3 3 (0.72%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.72%) Drupal
4 2 (0.48%) NetWeaver
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Mendix
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) Strapi
Applications
1 10 (2.39%) Sketch
2 9 (2.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.95%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.95%) InVision
3 4 (0.95%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Oracle 11i
1 9 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (2.15%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.72%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.48%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 66 (15.75%) SaaS
2 63 (15.04%) IaaS
2 63 (15.04%) PaaS
3 44 (10.50%) Azure
4 31 (7.40%) AWS
5 27 (6.44%) GitHub
6 24 (5.73%) Figma
7 21 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (3.82%) Serverless
9 15 (3.58%) GCP
10 14 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.39%) Firebase
12 8 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.67%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.43%) BrowserStack
15 5 (1.19%) Apigee
15 5 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.19%) Flurry Analytics
15 5 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (1.19%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.22%) 5G
1 47 (11.22%) Broadband
2 13 (3.10%) Wireless
3 11 (2.63%) SSL
4 7 (1.67%) Firewall
5 5 (1.19%) HTTP
5 5 (1.19%) VPN
6 4 (0.95%) DNS
7 3 (0.72%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) RNC
9 1 (0.24%) SGSN
9 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.43%) Mixpanel
3 4 (0.95%) GIS
3 4 (0.95%) MySQL
3 4 (0.95%) Spatial Data
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.72%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.48%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.48%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.24%) Big Data
6 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.24%) Power BI
6 1 (0.24%) SQLite
6 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (8.83%) Git
2 26 (6.21%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.01%) JIRA
4 17 (4.06%) Selenium
5 16 (3.82%) Postman
6 15 (3.58%) Appium
7 14 (3.34%) Xcode
8 12 (2.86%) Android Studio
9 11 (2.63%) SoapUI
9 11 (2.63%) XCUITest
10 10 (2.39%) Mockito
11 7 (1.67%) Axure RP
11 7 (1.67%) Subversion
12 6 (1.43%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.43%) GitLab
12 6 (1.43%) Gradle
12 6 (1.43%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.19%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
General
1 83 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.93%) Law
3 49 (11.69%) Organisational Skills
4 42 (10.02%) Finance
5 26 (6.21%) Banking
6 21 (5.01%) Retail
7 18 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.34%) Marketing
9 13 (3.10%) Legal
10 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.43%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.19%) Publishing
12 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.72%) Automotive
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Games
14 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (24.34%) Developer
2 67 (15.99%) Tester
3 58 (13.84%) Penetration Tester
4 54 (12.89%) Senior
5 50 (11.93%) Architect
6 47 (11.22%) Security Penetration Tester
6 47 (11.22%) Security Specialist
6 47 (11.22%) Security Tester
6 47 (11.22%) Testing Specialist
7 45 (10.74%) Designer
8 31 (7.40%) Analyst
9 27 (6.44%) UX Designer
10 23 (5.49%) Android Developer
11 21 (5.01%) Business Analyst
11 21 (5.01%) React Developer
12 19 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (4.30%) Lead
13 18 (4.30%) Project Manager
14 17 (4.06%) Senior Designer
14 17 (4.06%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.32%) Web Services
2 39 (9.31%) React Native
3 27 (6.44%) React
4 26 (6.21%) Node.js
4 26 (6.21%) RESTful
5 25 (5.97%) CSS
6 24 (5.73%) HTML
7 22 (5.25%) .NET
7 22 (5.25%) REST
8 12 (2.86%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.39%) SOAP
10 9 (2.15%) XML
11 8 (1.91%) Flutter
11 8 (1.91%) HTML5
12 7 (1.67%) Android Jetpack
12 7 (1.67%) Jetpack Compose
12 7 (1.67%) UIKit
13 6 (1.43%) Ajax
13 6 (1.43%) CSS3
13 6 (1.43%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.21%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.77%) IoT
3 10 (2.39%) Public Cloud
4 8 (1.91%) Cloud Native
4 8 (1.91%) Digital Media
4 8 (1.91%) Operational Technology
4 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.67%) Smartphone
6 6 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.19%) Graphic Design
8 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.95%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.72%) iPhone
9 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.72%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 104 (24.82%) Android
2 78 (18.62%) Apple iOS
3 28 (6.68%) Windows
4 19 (4.53%) Linux
5 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) tvOS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (30.55%) Agile
2 80 (19.09%) User Experience
3 73 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 72 (17.18%) Application Security
5 68 (16.23%) Cybersecurity
6 67 (15.99%) Penetration Testing
7 63 (15.04%) Security Testing
8 59 (14.08%) OWASP
9 56 (13.37%) DevOps
10 53 (12.65%) CI/CD
10 53 (12.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 45 (10.74%) Android Development
12 44 (10.50%) UX Design
13 43 (10.26%) Mobile Application Development
14 40 (9.55%) E-Commerce
15 37 (8.83%) SDLC
16 34 (8.11%) Microservices
17 33 (7.88%) Scrum
18 31 (7.40%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (6.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (12.41%) JavaScript
2 50 (11.93%) Kotlin
3 39 (9.31%) Java
4 31 (7.40%) Python
5 27 (6.44%) C#
5 27 (6.44%) Swift
6 18 (4.30%) SQL
7 17 (4.06%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.86%) Objective-C
9 11 (2.63%) Go
10 10 (2.39%) C++
10 10 (2.39%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.43%) Lua
12 5 (1.19%) Bicep
12 5 (1.19%) Dart
13 4 (0.95%) Bash
14 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.48%) PHP
15 2 (0.48%) VBA
15 2 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.51%) CREST Certified
3 62 (14.80%) OSCP
4 61 (14.56%) GIAC
5 56 (13.37%) GPEN
6 50 (11.93%) SANS
7 35 (8.35%) Degree
8 20 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (4.53%) SC Cleared
10 10 (2.39%) CEH
11 7 (1.67%) CHECK Team Leader
11 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.95%) CISM
12 4 (0.95%) CISSP
12 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.48%) CSSLP
14 2 (0.48%) ISEB
14 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.69%) GDPR
1 49 (11.69%) PCI DSS
2 47 (11.22%) NCSC
3 32 (7.64%) QA
4 29 (6.92%) NIST
5 26 (6.21%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.48%) COBIT
6 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.91%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.82%) Terraform
2 12 (2.86%) Ansible
3 7 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.95%) Nessus
5 3 (0.72%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.72%) Puppet
6 2 (0.48%) Graylog
6 2 (0.48%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.48%) Istio
6 2 (0.48%) Nagios
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.24%) AppManager
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.24%) linkerd
7 1 (0.24%) SELinux
Vendors
1 47 (11.22%) Virgin Media
2 19 (4.53%) Adobe
3 15 (3.58%) Google
4 14 (3.34%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.86%) Apple
6 10 (2.39%) Oracle
7 6 (1.43%) Splunk
8 5 (1.19%) Checkmarx
8 5 (1.19%) Nokia
8 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.19%) SAP
8 5 (1.19%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.72%) Aareon
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.72%) ESRI
9 3 (0.72%) HP
9 3 (0.72%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.72%) Veracode
10 2 (0.48%) Teradata
10 2 (0.48%) TSYS