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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 93 138
Rank change year-on-year -12 +45 +7
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 13 22 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 1.19% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 3.51% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 11
10th Percentile £420 £319 -
25th Percentile £450 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £447 £559
90th Percentile - £481 £588
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -7.58%

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 702 626 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.39% 33.75% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 382 645
10th Percentile £200 £200 £209
25th Percentile £360 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -8.94% +3.65%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £589 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 15
10th Percentile - £12.30 £12.64
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +2.31% -56.25%
75th Percentile £24.66 £19.55 £27.56
90th Percentile £57.50 £24.18 £51.34
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.44% +12.50% +50.94%

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
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 15 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
Edinburgh 0 7 £500 +17.65% 9
Glasgow -16 6 - - 18
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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (15.38%) IaaS
1 2 (15.38%) PaaS
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
1 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Xcode
2 4 (30.77%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.69%) Appium
4 1 (7.69%) Storybook
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) iOS Developer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) UIKit
2 6 (46.15%) SwiftUI
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) Core Data
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
4 1 (7.69%) React Native
4 1 (7.69%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Credit Risk
1 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (46.15%) iPad
1 6 (46.15%) iPhone
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Team
2 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Apple iOS
2 6 (46.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) BDD
2 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (61.54%) iOS Development
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
3 7 (53.85%) Decision-Making
3 7 (53.85%) Mobile Development
3 7 (53.85%) User Experience
4 6 (46.15%) Biometrics
4 6 (46.15%) Customer Experience
4 6 (46.15%) Design Patterns
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Prototyping
4 6 (46.15%) Push Notifications
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Objective-C
1 8 (61.54%) Swift
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) VBA
3 2 (15.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ISEB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG