Mobile App Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Mobile Application
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 57 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.83% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 4.42% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £333 - £388
25th Percentile £363 £143 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £145 £438
Median % change year-on-year +218.97% -66.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £515 £274 £470
90th Percentile £641 £440 £531
West Midlands median daily rate £431 £145 £475
% change year-on-year +197.41% -69.47% -8.65%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Mobile App falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 242 181 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 40.27% 25.31% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 104 161
10th Percentile £211 £186 £270
25th Percentile £363 £380 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +9.21% -6.13%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £600
90th Percentile £600 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 16
10th Percentile - £32.30 £22.25
25th Percentile - £50.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £53.50 £41.77
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% +28.08% +132.06%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.79 £58.90 £68.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £27.50
% change year-on-year -10.55% +21.96% +37.50%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in Birmingham

Mobile App
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Mobile App.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in Birmingham

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Moqups
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Integration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Blazor
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS3
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) API Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) UX Design
2 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Xamarin