Mobile Development Contracts in the North West

Mobile Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 116 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 +33
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 6 13 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.28% 0.52% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.61% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 0
10th Percentile £335 £367 -
25th Percentile £350 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile - £444 -
90th Percentile - £449 -
England median daily rate £513 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +5.13% +8.33% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,912 2,129 2,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.87% 84.62% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 1,309 1,878
10th Percentile £275 £300 £304
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £570 £588 £592
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 208 158
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.98 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.75 £27.75 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -5.29% +19.59%
75th Percentile £57.57 £49.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.10 £56.02
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the North West

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in the North West

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in the North West

Mobile Development
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 Development within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Cheshire -18 4 £375 -3.85% 1
Manchester +4 1 - - 12
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 14
Mobile Development
England

Mobile Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Fastly
1 1 (16.67%) Heroku
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Gradle
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) Xcode
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) React Native
2 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (66.67%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Android
1 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 4 (66.67%) iOS Development
3 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) UX Design
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Cross-Platform Development
4 1 (16.67%) Domain Models
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) Kotlin
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) C
2 4 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 4 (66.67%) Ruby
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
2 4 (66.67%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On