Mobile App Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Mobile Application
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 7 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.11% 1.36% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 3.74% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £420 £405 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -20.75%
75th Percentile - £475 £444
90th Percentile - £513 £505
Scotland median daily rate £500 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -6.80%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 240 294 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.22% 36.25% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 148 233
10th Percentile £175 £209 £175
25th Percentile £322 £345 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £515 £553 £538
90th Percentile £605 £650 £592
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £499
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.22% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 4
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.09 £13.47
25th Percentile - £17.31 £16.20
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% -40.44%
75th Percentile £18.69 £23.89 £26.73
90th Percentile £33.00 £24.18 £42.94
Scotland median hourly rate £21.86 £18.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +18.97% -4.20% -51.44%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in Edinburgh

Mobile App
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 1 (14.29%) Appium
3 1 (14.29%) Storybook
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) Core Data
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) UIKit
2 1 (14.29%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) API Development
2 2 (28.57%) ATDD
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Development
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (28.57%) OWASP
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) V-Model
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Objective-C
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) Swift
2 2 (28.57%) VBA
2 2 (28.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG