Mobile App Contract Job Trends in the South East

Mobile Application
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 140 164
Rank change year-on-year -78 +24 +16
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 16 22 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 2.01% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 12
10th Percentile £204 - £213
25th Percentile £205 £204 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £329 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -35.85% +20.59%
75th Percentile £419 £547 £650
90th Percentile £482 £615 £709
England median daily rate £505 £465 £479
% change year-on-year +8.60% -2.92% -4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £63.27
25th Percentile - - £64.42
Median hourly rate - - £67.59
75th Percentile - - £69.51
90th Percentile - - £69.91
England median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £70.18
% change year-on-year -56.75% -42.35% +43.22%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,932 1,097 1,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.26% 31.63% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 692 780
10th Percentile £279 £204 £223
25th Percentile £413 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £617 £600 £624
90th Percentile £700 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 95 120
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.28 £15.14
25th Percentile £16.72 £16.95 £36.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +18.05% -40.92% +4.27%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.40 £75.16
England median hourly rate £38.25 £33.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.91% -42.46% +25.00%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile App relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Mobile App job vacancy trend in the South East

Mobile App
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Mobile App.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the South East

Mobile App
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Mobile App.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Surrey -25 6 £208 - 4
West Sussex -21 3 £230 -48.89% 13
Hampshire -31 3 £471 +4.67% 7
East Sussex - 3 £325 - 5
Berkshire -29 1 - - 7
Thames Valley -52 1 - - 15
Mobile App
England

Mobile App
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (18.75%) CMS
2 2 (12.50%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) SaaS
2 3 (18.75%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (12.50%) Firebase
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Android Studio
1 4 (25.00%) Xcode
2 3 (18.75%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (18.75%) Eclipse
3 2 (12.50%) fastlane
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (6.25%) Crashlytics
4 1 (6.25%) Gradle
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aviation
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 3 (18.75%) iOS Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Support
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) UX Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) iOS Android Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Android Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Mac Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) GraphQL
2 3 (18.75%) Ajax
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) CSS
2 3 (18.75%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (12.50%) Android SDK
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) SwiftUI
3 2 (12.50%) UIKit
4 1 (6.25%) Core Data
4 1 (6.25%) iOS SDK
4 1 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (6.25%) JWT
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) React Native
4 1 (6.25%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Digital Signage
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Android
2 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Unix
5 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
1 6 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
1 6 (37.50%) User Experience
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 4 (25.00%) Android Development
3 4 (25.00%) iOS Development
3 4 (25.00%) MVVM
3 4 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) API Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (18.75%) OO
4 3 (18.75%) OOP
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 2 (12.50%) Swift
4 1 (6.25%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) WCAG
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) AirWatch
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Apple
2 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Meraki
3 1 (6.25%) VMware