Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Mobile App Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 129 134
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £439 £405 £419
25th Percentile £478 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £653 £575 £650
90th Percentile £696 - £658
England median daily rate £375 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,244 2,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.82% 82.23% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,438 1,709
10th Percentile £235 £256 £250
25th Percentile £361 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 74 96
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.88 £13.08
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.11 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.55 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -21.65% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.69 £41.61 £51.50
90th Percentile £47.00 £55.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in the Midlands

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Application Development in the Midlands

Mobile Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Mobile Application Development
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West Midlands -9 2 £700 +75.00% 2
East Midlands -3 1 £425 -22.73% 2
Mobile Application Development
England

Mobile Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Android Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (33.33%) Xcode
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Services Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) React Native
1 1 (33.33%) Redux
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Code Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cross-Platform Development
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) JSX
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA