Mobile Development Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Mobile Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Mobile Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 161 181
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 +55
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 16 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile £330 £364 £426
25th Percentile £375 £384 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £400 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -9.86% -40.83%
75th Percentile £392 £469 £450
90th Percentile £434 £525 -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £445
% change year-on-year -9.52% +17.98% -19.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.75
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -54.84% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 3,381 4,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.69% 84.74% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 1,847 2,885
10th Percentile £215 £288 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £663 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 181 201
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.69 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.13 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +14.84% +34.76%
75th Percentile £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.13 £70.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Mobile Development job vacancy trend in the North of England

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mobile Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mobile Development

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in the North of England

Mobile Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mobile Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Mobile Development

Mobile Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
North West -16 10 £375 -3.85% 19
Yorkshire -29 5 £389 -20.21% 3
North East -10 1 £488 -7.14% 3
Mobile Development
England

Mobile Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.25%) Fastly
1 1 (6.25%) Heroku
1 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
1 8 (50.00%) Gradle
2 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) Xcode
3 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 8 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) iOS Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Android Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Application Security Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) CSS
1 7 (43.75%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) React Native
3 3 (18.75%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) Retrofit
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (6.25%) Visualforce
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Mobile App
2 7 (43.75%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Android
2 8 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) User Experience
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) UX Design
4 7 (43.75%) BDD
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (43.75%) Front End Development
4 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
4 7 (43.75%) Scrum
4 7 (43.75%) TDD
4 7 (43.75%) Technology Roadmap
4 7 (43.75%) Unit Testing
5 6 (37.50%) iOS Development
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Android Development
7 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
7 3 (18.75%) Coaching
8 2 (12.50%) Application Security
8 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Kotlin
2 10 (62.50%) Objective-C
2 10 (62.50%) Swift
3 8 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (50.00%) Python
4 7 (43.75%) C
4 7 (43.75%) C++
4 7 (43.75%) Ruby
4 7 (43.75%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce