Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Mobile App Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 75 96
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 +37
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 3 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.74% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.82% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £382 £380 -
25th Percentile £384 £531 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £675 £515
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% +31.07% -1.90%
75th Percentile £394 £714 £548
90th Percentile £394 £808 -
North West median daily rate £390 £663 £515
% change year-on-year -41.09% +28.64% -1.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,050 972 1,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.82% 89.67% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 585 969
10th Percentile £306 £294 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £583 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 48
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.52 £22.75 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +31.31% -33.65%
75th Percentile £53.94 £44.38 £57.19
90th Percentile £64.13 £65.00 £76.10
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year -0.03% -9.83% +37.54%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile Application Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Mobile Application Development job vacancy trend in Manchester

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Mobile Application Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Mobile Application Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) Storybook
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) D3.js
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) React Native
1 2 (66.67%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2C
1 2 (66.67%) Biometrics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft