Mobile Development Contracts in Scotland

Mobile Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 111 128 161
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.045% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.051% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £369 £569 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £588 £825
Median % change year-on-year -27.66% -28.79% +83.33%
75th Percentile £469 £606 £838
90th Percentile £488 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +12.18% -6.40% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in Scotland

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in Scotland

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in Scotland

Mobile Development
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 Development 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
Glasgow - 3 - - 2
Edinburgh +6 2 £425 -27.66% 3
Mobile Development
UK

Mobile Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Storybook
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Mobile Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) SwiftUI
1 3 (60.00%) UIKit
2 2 (40.00%) React Native
3 1 (20.00%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (60.00%) Credit Risk
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) iPad
2 3 (60.00%) iPhone
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Android
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) iOS Development
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) Build Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (60.00%) Push Notifications
2 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Swift
2 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG