Mobile Application Development Contracts in London

Mobile App Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Application 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 333 365 451
Rank change year-on-year +32 +86 +99
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 20 26 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 38
10th Percentile £331 £436 £257
25th Percentile £359 £450 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -22.73%
75th Percentile £425 £576 £613
90th Percentile - £605 £656
England median daily rate £418 £463 £400
% change year-on-year -9.73% +15.63% -24.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Mobile Application 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in London

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Application Development in London

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Application Development in London

Mobile Application Development
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Application Development within the London 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
Central London +7 5 - - 13
West London - 2 £400 - 1
Mobile Application Development
England

Mobile Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Apple Pay
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Xcode
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Android Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Android Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Architect
5 3 (15.00%) iOS Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Mobile Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Product Manager
6 2 (10.00%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Product Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Digital Product Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Android Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Android SDK
1 4 (20.00%) Dagger
1 4 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (15.00%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (5.00%) Google Maps API
4 1 (5.00%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (5.00%) PhoneGap
4 1 (5.00%) React Native
4 1 (5.00%) Redux
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) SwiftUI
4 1 (5.00%) UIKit
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Android
2 8 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Android Development
3 8 (40.00%) Mobile Development
3 8 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (35.00%) User Experience
5 6 (30.00%) Scrum
6 5 (25.00%) B2C
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) Kanban
6 5 (25.00%) MVVM
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Push Notifications
7 4 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
7 4 (20.00%) iOS Development
7 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Product Management
8 3 (15.00%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (15.00%) Product Strategy
8 3 (15.00%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 5 (25.00%) Swift
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (5.00%) Google