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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 470 581
Rank change year-on-year +28 +111 +80
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 38 68 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 59 52
10th Percentile £281 £345 £353
25th Percentile £375 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £647
90th Percentile £588 £655 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £468 £488
% change year-on-year +6.84% -4.00% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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
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 23 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 +43 26 £525 - 87
North of England +9 7 £375 -14.29% 168
Yorkshire +17 4 - - 64
North West 0 3 £375 -14.29% 87
South West +36 2 £250 -41.18% 72
Midlands +16 1 - - 117
East Midlands - 1 - - 43
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 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) Apple Pay
3 2 (5.26%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.26%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) Xcode
4 3 (7.89%) Gradle
5 2 (5.26%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (5.26%) Vite
5 2 (5.26%) webpack
6 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Android Developer
3 7 (18.42%) iOS Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Flutter Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (5.26%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Mobile Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Web Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Xamarin Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Android Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Java Android Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Lead Android Developer
7 1 (2.63%) React Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) CSS
1 5 (13.16%) HTML
2 4 (10.53%) Dagger
2 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
2 4 (10.53%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (7.89%) Android Jetpack
3 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.89%) Next.js
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) React Native
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) Flutter
4 2 (5.26%) GatsbyJS
4 2 (5.26%) HTML5
4 2 (5.26%) Jest
4 2 (5.26%) Parceljs
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Sass
4 2 (5.26%) SwiftUI
4 2 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (63.16%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (10.53%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (52.63%) Android
2 14 (36.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) Android Development
3 11 (28.95%) iOS Development
4 10 (26.32%) Scrum
5 9 (23.68%) Mobile Application Development
5 9 (23.68%) User Experience
6 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 8 (21.05%) UX Design
7 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
7 7 (18.42%) Code Quality
7 7 (18.42%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (18.42%) Unit Testing
8 5 (13.16%) Push Notifications
9 4 (10.53%) B2C
9 4 (10.53%) Design Patterns
9 4 (10.53%) Kanban
9 4 (10.53%) MVVM
10 3 (7.89%) Roadmaps
10 3 (7.89%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Kotlin
2 12 (31.58%) Swift
3 9 (23.68%) Java
4 7 (18.42%) Objective-C
5 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.89%) C
6 3 (7.89%) C++
6 3 (7.89%) Python
6 3 (7.89%) Ruby
6 3 (7.89%) Scala
6 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (5.26%) Dart
7 2 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Amplitude
1 2 (5.26%) Apple
1 2 (5.26%) Google
1 2 (5.26%) Xamarin
2 1 (2.63%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) OutSystems
2 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media