Mobile Development Contracts in London

Mobile Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 328 357 442
Rank change year-on-year +29 +85 +59
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 25 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 29 38
10th Percentile £395 £355 £335
25th Percentile £463 £375 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £675
90th Percentile £635 £710 £804
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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 Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in London

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in London

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in London

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in London

Mobile 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 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 +9 6 £425 -26.09% 3
Mobile Development
England

Mobile 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 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Apple Pay
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Xcode
3 1 (4.00%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Vite
3 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Android Developer
3 5 (20.00%) iOS Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Mobile Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Android Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Development Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Android Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Mobile Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Android Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (16.00%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) Android SDK
4 2 (8.00%) Dagger
4 2 (8.00%) React
4 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) SwiftUI
4 2 (8.00%) UIKit
5 1 (4.00%) Core Animation
5 1 (4.00%) Core Data
5 1 (4.00%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (4.00%) HTML5
5 1 (4.00%) Jest
5 1 (4.00%) Next.js
5 1 (4.00%) Parceljs
5 1 (4.00%) React Native
5 1 (4.00%) Sass
5 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (16.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.00%) Animation
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Android
2 12 (48.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 13 (52.00%) Android Development
3 8 (32.00%) iOS Development
3 8 (32.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 7 (28.00%) Scrum
4 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 5 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (20.00%) Push Notifications
7 4 (16.00%) B2C
7 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Kanban
7 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (12.00%) User Experience
9 2 (8.00%) DevOps
9 2 (8.00%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (8.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Kotlin
2 11 (44.00%) Swift
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Apple
2 1 (4.00%) Amplitude
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media