Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Mobile App Development
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 101 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.21% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £479 -
25th Percentile £413 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% - -
75th Percentile £438 £534 -
90th Percentile - £536 -
South East median daily rate £208 £563 -
% change year-on-year -63.11% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Mobile Application Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,258 1,249 1,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.64% 91.50% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 684 946
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £517
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.40% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 35 71
10th Percentile £15.10 £26.85 £24.34
25th Percentile £19.41 £41.88 £46.81
Median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -3.28% +10.91%
75th Percentile £84.00 £64.73 £67.38
90th Percentile £99.00 £71.72 £76.10
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +24.29%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile Application Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Mobile Application Development job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mobile Application Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mobile Application Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Application Development within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Reading - 3 £425 - 1
Mobile Application Development
South East

Mobile Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Android Development
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (100.00%) Coverity
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Thales