Mobile App Contracts in the North West

Mobile Application
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 -16
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 25 40 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.14% 1.68% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.55% 6.35% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 28
10th Percentile £304 £321 £363
25th Percentile £336 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £400 £688 £550
90th Percentile £480 £850 £586
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.46 £70.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.35% +100.51% +12.45%

All Generic Skills
North West

Mobile App falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 705 630 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.03% 26.39% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 392 601
10th Percentile £298 £313 £263
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 43
10th Percentile £21.77 £11.43 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.62 £17.05
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -23.24% +82.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £48.09
90th Percentile £79.20 £89.95 £66.80
England median hourly rate £30.25 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -36.32% +18.75% +53.85%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the North West

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile App in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in the North West

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App in the North West over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the North West

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile App in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in the North West

Mobile App
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile App within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Manchester -12 11 £393 -39.54% 43
Cheshire -25 11 £358 -10.50% 9
Merseyside - 2 £500 - 8
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 31
Mobile App
England

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Confluence
1 3 (12.00%) nginx
1 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Figma
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) npm
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Firebase
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) Gradle
3 5 (20.00%) Xcode
4 4 (16.00%) GitLab
5 3 (12.00%) Gerrit
5 3 (12.00%) JIRA
5 3 (12.00%) Selenium
5 3 (12.00%) Subversion
6 2 (8.00%) Android Studio
6 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (8.00%) JUnit
6 2 (8.00%) Maven
7 1 (4.00%) Storybook
7 1 (4.00%) XCTest
7 1 (4.00%) XCUITest
General
1 10 (40.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Test Leader
3 3 (12.00%) UI Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Android Developer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) React Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) iOS Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) CSS
1 8 (32.00%) HTML
2 6 (24.00%) React Native
3 4 (16.00%) JSON
3 4 (16.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) jQuery
4 3 (12.00%) lodash
5 2 (8.00%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (8.00%) Android SDK
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) D3.js
5 2 (8.00%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (8.00%) Next.js
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.00%) Gradio
6 1 (4.00%) Streamlit
6 1 (4.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Android
1 11 (44.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) User Experience
3 9 (36.00%) UX Design
4 8 (32.00%) Scrum
5 6 (24.00%) iOS Development
5 6 (24.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) DevOps
6 5 (20.00%) Mobile Development
6 5 (20.00%) TDD
7 4 (16.00%) BDD
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
7 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.00%) Android Development
8 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) Kotlin
3 7 (28.00%) Python
4 5 (20.00%) Swift
5 4 (16.00%) C
5 4 (16.00%) C++
5 4 (16.00%) Objective-C
5 4 (16.00%) Ruby
5 4 (16.00%) Scala
6 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Istio
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Netlify
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Optimizely