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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 243 278
Rank change year-on-year -37 +35 -58
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 226 363 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 0.98% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.54% 3.20% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 259 332
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% -4.90%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £638
90th Percentile £638 £703 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -7.00% -3.15% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £64.80 £23.39
25th Percentile - £68.26 -
Median hourly rate £40.46 £75.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.12% +114.54% -8.50%
75th Percentile - £81.51 £68.75
90th Percentile - £82.10 £78.50
UK median hourly rate £40.46 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% +14.29% +55.56%

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 8,900 11,350 15,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 30.57% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,691 7,308 10,971
10th Percentile £305 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 840 524
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.23 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.32% +58.44% -16.64%

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 July 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 July 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 -15 140 £500 -9.09% 1,245
North of England -15 47 £400 -11.11% 317
North West -6 27 £400 -8.57% 171
Midlands +16 19 £463 -11.90% 168
Yorkshire -12 15 £490 +3.16% 116
East Midlands +9 13 £463 +39.62% 58
South West +29 7 £410 +9.20% 115
West Midlands +4 6 £430 -32.55% 110
South East +39 5 £525 +23.53% 358
North East +4 5 £519 -13.54% 32
East of England +13 2 £413 -21.91% 154
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 (3.10%) Apache
1 7 (3.10%) Confluence
2 4 (1.77%) CMS
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.33%) nginx
3 3 (1.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.88%) MS Project Server
4 2 (0.88%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.21%) Sketch
3 4 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.77%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.33%) Acrobat
4 3 (1.33%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.88%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.88%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.44%) Trello
6 1 (0.44%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.88%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.44%) Maximo
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (19.03%) AWS
2 33 (14.60%) Azure
3 31 (13.72%) Figma
4 15 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.87%) GitHub
6 10 (4.42%) Serverless
7 8 (3.54%) GCP
7 8 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.10%) SaaS
9 5 (2.21%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.77%) BrowserStack
10 4 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.77%) Firebase
10 4 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.77%) Google Play
10 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.77%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.77%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.21%) Internet
2 3 (1.33%) Bluetooth
2 3 (1.33%) HTTP
3 2 (0.88%) Calico
3 2 (0.88%) Intranet
4 1 (0.44%) Broadband
4 1 (0.44%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.21%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.77%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.77%) MySQL
4 3 (1.33%) Big Data
4 3 (1.33%) Flink
4 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.88%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.88%) Power BI
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (15.49%) Git
2 17 (7.52%) JIRA
3 12 (5.31%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.87%) Xcode
5 10 (4.42%) Postman
6 8 (3.54%) Android Studio
6 8 (3.54%) Appium
6 8 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.54%) Selenium
7 6 (2.65%) GitLab
7 6 (2.65%) Gradle
8 4 (1.77%) Subversion
8 4 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.33%) Gerrit
9 3 (1.33%) JUnit
9 3 (1.33%) Mocha
10 2 (0.88%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.88%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.14%) Finance
3 26 (11.50%) Banking
4 18 (7.96%) Retail
5 16 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.08%) Marketing
6 10 (4.42%) Legal
7 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.77%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Automotive
9 3 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Back Office
10 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.88%) French Language
10 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Publishing
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (37.17%) Developer
2 36 (15.93%) Senior
3 32 (14.16%) Designer
4 26 (11.50%) Android Developer
5 16 (7.08%) Lead
6 14 (6.19%) React Developer
6 14 (6.19%) UX Designer
7 13 (5.75%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.31%) iOS Developer
8 12 (5.31%) Product Manager
9 11 (4.87%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.54%) Architect
11 7 (3.10%) Android Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Mobile Developer
11 7 (3.10%) Senior Designer
11 7 (3.10%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.65%) Analyst
12 6 (2.65%) Content Designer
12 6 (2.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.50%) CSS
1 26 (11.50%) HTML
2 25 (11.06%) React Native
3 22 (9.73%) REST
4 21 (9.29%) Node.js
4 21 (9.29%) React
5 20 (8.85%) .NET
5 20 (8.85%) RESTful
6 19 (8.41%) GraphQL
7 15 (6.64%) Android Jetpack
8 14 (6.19%) Jetpack Compose
9 13 (5.75%) Android SDK
10 10 (4.42%) Dagger
10 10 (4.42%) Redux
11 8 (3.54%) HTML5
11 8 (3.54%) Jest
12 7 (3.10%) Next.js
12 7 (3.10%) OAuth
12 7 (3.10%) Web Services
13 6 (2.65%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.65%) Mobile Banking
2 6 (2.65%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.65%) Social Media
3 5 (2.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (1.77%) Animation
4 4 (1.77%) IoT
4 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.33%) PMI
5 3 (1.33%) Vector Graphics
5 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.88%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.88%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.88%) Infotainment
6 2 (0.88%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 71 (31.42%) Android
2 49 (21.68%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.65%) Windows
4 3 (1.33%) Linux
5 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (44.25%) Agile
2 78 (34.51%) User Experience
3 57 (25.22%) CI/CD
4 52 (23.01%) UX Design
5 39 (17.26%) DevOps
6 36 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.49%) Mobile Application Development
8 29 (12.83%) Scrum
9 28 (12.39%) Android Development
9 28 (12.39%) Test Automation
10 27 (11.95%) Mentoring
11 26 (11.50%) Mobile Development
11 26 (11.50%) Prototyping
12 24 (10.62%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (8.41%) MVVM
13 19 (8.41%) Roadmaps
13 19 (8.41%) Unit Testing
14 16 (7.08%) iOS Development
15 15 (6.64%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.35%) Kotlin
2 39 (17.26%) JavaScript
3 33 (14.60%) Java
4 18 (7.96%) Python
5 17 (7.52%) Swift
6 16 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.31%) C#
8 11 (4.87%) Objective-C
9 10 (4.42%) Ruby
10 7 (3.10%) SQL
11 6 (2.65%) PHP
12 5 (2.21%) C++
12 5 (2.21%) Scala
13 4 (1.77%) C
13 4 (1.77%) Go
13 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.88%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.88%) Dart
14 2 (0.88%) JSX
15 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (8.41%) Degree
2 8 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (3.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.77%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) ACSP
7 1 (0.44%) ACTC
7 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.44%) MCSA
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) MOS
7 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.14%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.75%) QA
3 4 (1.77%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) PSD2
4 2 (0.88%) WCAG
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.44%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) Grafana
3 3 (1.33%) Kibana
3 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.88%) Istio
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.44%) SCCM
5 1 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 23 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.19%) Adobe
2 14 (6.19%) Google
3 7 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.65%) YouTube
5 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.77%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.33%) Apple
7 3 (1.33%) Oracle
8 2 (0.88%) IBM
8 2 (0.88%) NEC
8 2 (0.88%) SAP
8 2 (0.88%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.44%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.44%) FNZ
9 1 (0.44%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.44%) Polycom
9 1 (0.44%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.44%) Splunk