Mobile Development Contracts in England

Mobile Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Mobile Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Development 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 449 479 586
Rank change year-on-year +30 +107 +63
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 36 63 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 57 51
10th Percentile £275 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £656
90th Percentile £598 £685 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +12.18% -6.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £41.05 - -
25th Percentile £50.13 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% - -
75th Percentile £65.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Mobile Development 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in England

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in England

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in England

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in England

Mobile Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mobile Development in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile Development in England

Mobile Development
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 Development 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 25 £525 +5.00% 56
North of England +13 6 - - 23
Yorkshire +11 4 - - 4
South West +44 2 £250 -41.18% 6
North West +8 2 - - 18
Midlands +20 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Mobile Development
UK

Mobile Development
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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Apple Pay
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
2 2 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Xcode
3 1 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Vite
3 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Android Developer
3 5 (13.89%) iOS Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Flutter Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Mobile Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Android Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Xamarin Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Android Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Java Android Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Android Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.78%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (11.11%) Flutter
2 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (5.56%) Android SDK
4 2 (5.56%) Dagger
4 2 (5.56%) Next.js
4 2 (5.56%) React
4 2 (5.56%) React Native
4 2 (5.56%) SwiftUI
4 2 (5.56%) UIKit
5 1 (2.78%) Core Data
5 1 (2.78%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (2.78%) HTML5
5 1 (2.78%) Jest
5 1 (2.78%) Parceljs
5 1 (2.78%) Sass
5 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.78%) Animation
5 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (47.22%) Android
2 13 (36.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) Android Development
3 10 (27.78%) Mobile Application Development
4 9 (25.00%) iOS Development
5 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 7 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (19.44%) Scrum
6 7 (19.44%) User Experience
7 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.67%) UX Design
8 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
8 5 (13.89%) Push Notifications
9 4 (11.11%) B2C
9 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.11%) Kanban
9 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
10 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 3 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
11 2 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Kotlin
2 11 (30.56%) Swift
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) Objective-C
5 4 (11.11%) Dart
6 2 (5.56%) SQL
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Apple
1 2 (5.56%) Xamarin
2 1 (2.78%) Amplitude
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) OutSystems
2 1 (2.78%) Virgin Media