Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends in Reading

Mobile App Development
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £513 -
% change year-on-year -17.07% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 624 829 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.89% 92.32% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 455 600
10th Percentile £350 £300 £213
25th Percentile £424 £431 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £622 £648 £615
90th Percentile £664 £682 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 17
10th Percentile £14.60 £27.90 £56.41
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £60.82
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +40.87% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.00
90th Percentile £105.80 £68.78 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year -1.69% -3.28% +10.91%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Mobile Application Development job vacancy trend in Reading

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Mobile Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Android Development
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (100.00%) Coverity
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Thales