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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 111 114
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing MVC 3 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.42% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.45% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £484 £444 £421
25th Percentile £489 £477 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £556 £672
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -17.26% +28.05%
75th Percentile £527 £614 £771
90th Percentile £533 £630 £796
Central London median daily rate £506 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +12.50% -24.94% +14.19%

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 2,069 1,774 1,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.86% 94.06% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 1,148 1,290
10th Percentile £367 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.53
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

MVC
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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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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Magento
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (33.33%) CocoaPods
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
1 1 (33.33%) PHPUnit
1 1 (33.33%) XCTest
1 1 (33.33%) XCUITest
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Magento Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
2 1 (33.33%) SwiftUI
2 1 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) iOS Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Apple