Mobile App Contracts in England

Mobile Application
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 244 261
Rank change year-on-year -52 +17 -40
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 193 355 509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.95% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 3.10% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 241 380
10th Percentile £356 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.20% -2.62%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £713 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £64.04 £27.26
25th Percentile - £66.34 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.13% +55.96% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £76.34 £65.00
90th Percentile - £80.04 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.59% +95.19%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in England

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile App in England.

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in England

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in England

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile App in England.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in England

Mobile App
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile App within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -29 126 £525 -4.55% 330
North of England -16 25 £400 -9.86% 96
North West -2 17 £400 -8.57% 56
South East +14 15 £550 +15.79% 92
Midlands +19 11 £463 -11.90% 56
East Midlands +18 10 £463 - 16
South West +42 7 £350 -12.50% 33
Yorkshire -7 6 £425 -6.85% 27
East of England +23 3 £775 +45.95% 43
North East -2 2 - - 15
West Midlands +3 1 £460 -12.38% 36
Mobile App
UK

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) CMS
2 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.04%) OpenEdge
3 2 (1.04%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.07%) Adobe XD
3 4 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.07%) Sketch
4 3 (1.55%) Acrobat
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (1.04%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (1.04%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.52%) Trello
6 1 (0.52%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.21%) AWS
2 33 (17.10%) Figma
3 31 (16.06%) Azure
4 11 (5.70%) Serverless
5 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.66%) GitHub
6 8 (4.15%) GCP
7 6 (3.11%) SaaS
8 5 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.07%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.07%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (2.07%) SonarCloud
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.55%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.59%) HTTP
1 5 (2.59%) Network Security
2 3 (1.55%) Internet
3 2 (1.04%) Calico
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) Intranet
3 2 (1.04%) MQTT
3 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) DHCP
4 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.59%) MySQL
2 4 (2.07%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.04%) Mixpanel
4 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.52%) Big Data
5 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.40%) Git
2 15 (7.77%) JIRA
3 8 (4.15%) Appium
3 8 (4.15%) Postman
4 5 (2.59%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.59%) GitLab
4 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.07%) Xcode
6 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.55%) Mocha
6 3 (1.55%) Selenium
6 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.04%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.04%) JUnit
7 2 (1.04%) Maven
7 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.04%) TestNG
8 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.52%) Subversion
8 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.10%) Finance
3 13 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Banking
4 11 (5.70%) Retail
5 10 (5.18%) Marketing
5 10 (5.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.63%) Legal
7 5 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Automotive
9 2 (1.04%) Back Office
9 2 (1.04%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.04%) French Language
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.04%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (31.09%) Developer
2 37 (19.17%) Senior
3 27 (13.99%) Designer
4 22 (11.40%) Architect
5 20 (10.36%) Android Developer
6 14 (7.25%) Senior Developer
7 13 (6.74%) React Developer
7 13 (6.74%) UX Designer
8 12 (6.22%) Analyst
8 12 (6.22%) Product Manager
9 10 (5.18%) iOS Developer
9 10 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.15%) Android Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.15%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.15%) Senior Designer
11 7 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.63%) Senior Android Developer
11 7 (3.63%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.33%) React Native
2 14 (7.25%) React
3 13 (6.74%) Android Jetpack
3 13 (6.74%) Node.js
4 12 (6.22%) RESTful
5 11 (5.70%) CSS
5 11 (5.70%) Dagger
5 11 (5.70%) HTML
6 10 (5.18%) GraphQL
6 10 (5.18%) Jetpack Compose
6 10 (5.18%) REST
7 9 (4.66%) Next.js
8 7 (3.63%) Android SDK
8 7 (3.63%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.63%) OpenAPI
8 7 (3.63%) Swagger
9 6 (3.11%) .NET
9 6 (3.11%) Flutter
10 5 (2.59%) SwiftUI
11 4 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.66%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.11%) Social Media
3 5 (2.59%) Infotainment
3 5 (2.59%) IoT
3 5 (2.59%) Private Cloud
3 5 (2.59%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.07%) Animation
4 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.55%) PMI
5 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.55%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.04%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.04%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.04%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.04%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 52 (26.94%) Android
2 37 (19.17%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.07%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.86%) Agile
2 57 (29.53%) User Experience
3 37 (19.17%) CI/CD
4 36 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (18.13%) UX Design
6 33 (17.10%) Mobile Application Development
7 29 (15.03%) Android Development
8 25 (12.95%) DevOps
9 22 (11.40%) Scrum
10 20 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (10.36%) Mobile Development
10 20 (10.36%) Prototyping
10 20 (10.36%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.33%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (8.29%) iOS Development
13 14 (7.25%) MVVM
13 14 (7.25%) Roadmaps
14 13 (6.74%) Software Engineering
15 12 (6.22%) E-Commerce
15 12 (6.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.17%) Kotlin
2 18 (9.33%) JavaScript
3 16 (8.29%) Swift
4 13 (6.74%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.22%) Java
6 8 (4.15%) C#
7 6 (3.11%) Objective-C
7 6 (3.11%) Python
8 4 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.07%) SQL
9 3 (1.55%) Dart
10 2 (1.04%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (4.66%) Degree
2 7 (3.63%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.07%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.47%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.74%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) PSD2
4 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.07%) Terraform
3 2 (1.04%) Istio
4 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.74%) Adobe
3 10 (5.18%) Google
4 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.59%) Xamarin
6 4 (2.07%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.55%) IBM
7 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.04%) Apple
8 2 (1.04%) NEC
8 2 (1.04%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) YouTube
9 1 (0.52%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.52%) FNZ
9 1 (0.52%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.52%) Marketo
9 1 (0.52%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.52%) Perforce
9 1 (0.52%) Sitecore