MVC Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring MVC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 116 125
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing MVC 5 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £379 £558 £456
25th Percentile £457 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £601 £483
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% +24.61% -12.27%
75th Percentile £550 £662 £656
90th Percentile £573 £681 £680
Central London median daily rate £500 £601 £483
% change year-on-year -16.84% +24.61% -12.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

MVC 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,677 1,713 2,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.97% 91.80% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,043 1,557
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MVC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

MVC job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MVC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MVC

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MVC in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MVC in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MVC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MVC

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (40.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) CocoaPods
2 2 (40.00%) Crashlytics
2 2 (40.00%) fastlane
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Xcode
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AVFoundation
1 2 (40.00%) Core Animation
1 2 (40.00%) Core Data
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) RxSwift
1 2 (40.00%) UIKit
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) DOM
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Symfony
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) WinForms
2 1 (20.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Animation
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) OOP
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) iOS Development
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle