Mobile App Contracts in Scotland

Mobile Application
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 115 152
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 -22
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 16 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 1.91% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 6
10th Percentile £385 £323 £359
25th Percentile - £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £575
90th Percentile £538 £555 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.59% +95.19%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in Scotland

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile App in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in Scotland

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in Scotland

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile App in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in Scotland

Mobile App
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +5 10 £450 +2.86% 13
Glasgow +6 6 £400 -12.62% 6
Mobile App
UK

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (18.75%) IaaS
1 3 (18.75%) PaaS
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
1 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
1 3 (18.75%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Asana
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (18.75%) Cypress.io
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) Postman
3 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 3 (18.75%) Subversion
3 3 (18.75%) TeamCity
3 3 (18.75%) WebDriver
3 3 (18.75%) Xcode
4 1 (6.25%) Appium
4 1 (6.25%) Storybook
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) iOS Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Android Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Android Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) UIKit
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) React Native
2 3 (18.75%) SwiftUI
3 2 (12.50%) Core Data
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Client/Server
1 3 (18.75%) Credit Risk
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (18.75%) iPad
1 3 (18.75%) iPhone
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 4 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
3 6 (37.50%) BDD
3 6 (37.50%) iOS Development
3 6 (37.50%) TDD
4 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) Mobile Development
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) User Experience
5 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) Kanban
6 3 (18.75%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (18.75%) SOA
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) UX Design
6 3 (18.75%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Swift
2 5 (31.25%) Objective-C
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) VBA
4 3 (18.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) ISEB
1 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
1 3 (18.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) NCSC
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) WCAG