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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 155 157
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 38 25 57
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.05% 0.59% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.36% 1.94% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 29
10th Percentile - £143 £224
25th Percentile £204 £294 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -18.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £585 £631 £525
90th Percentile £650 £657 £550
England median daily rate £490 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -9.09%

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 1,132 1,289 1,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.33% 30.18% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 738 1,187
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £358 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 74 109
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.44 £24.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £56.25 £54.37
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% +3.46% +129.46%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £69.85 £75.16 £77.60
England median hourly rate £29.27 £54.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -45.80% +17.31% +78.69%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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
Surrey - 19 £208 - 8
Thames Valley +2 13 £638 +75.86% 42
Berkshire +12 11 £625 +61.29% 32
Hampshire -1 2 £465 +20.00% 9
Kent -2 2 £313 -47.92% 7
West Sussex - 2 £518 - 6
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £650 +85.71% 5
Oxfordshire -9 1 - - 5
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 7 (18.42%) Confluence
1 7 (18.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (15.79%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) SaaS
2 15 (39.47%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (2.63%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) Firebase
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (39.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) MySQL
1 16 (42.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Browser DevTools
2 15 (39.47%) Android Studio
2 15 (39.47%) Eclipse
2 15 (39.47%) Xcode
3 8 (21.05%) JIRA
4 3 (7.89%) Git
5 1 (2.63%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Retail
3 4 (10.53%) Automotive
4 3 (7.89%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) French Language
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Support Engineer
1 16 (42.11%) Technical Engineer
1 16 (42.11%) Technical Support
1 16 (42.11%) Technical Support Engineer
1 16 (42.11%) UX Engineer
2 15 (39.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 6 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce Manager
4 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Android Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Applications Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Digital Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Ajax
1 16 (42.11%) AngularJS
1 16 (42.11%) CSS
1 16 (42.11%) GraphQL
1 16 (42.11%) React
2 3 (7.89%) Material Design
2 3 (7.89%) RESTful
3 2 (5.26%) .NET
3 2 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
4 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.63%) EMV
2 1 (2.63%) Java Card
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (55.26%) Android
2 16 (42.11%) Linux
2 16 (42.11%) Unix
2 16 (42.11%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) User Experience
2 19 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 16 (42.11%) Agile
4 15 (39.47%) OO
5 8 (21.05%) CRM
5 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.42%) Project Management
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) PRINCE2
8 5 (13.16%) User Stories
9 4 (10.53%) Android Development
9 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
9 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
10 3 (7.89%) Asynchronous Programming
10 3 (7.89%) Business Analysis
10 3 (7.89%) Content Management
10 3 (7.89%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Java
2 16 (42.11%) JavaScript
2 16 (42.11%) Perl
2 16 (42.11%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) Kotlin
3 3 (7.89%) Objective-C
3 3 (7.89%) Swift
4 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
1 6 (15.79%) PMI Certification
2 5 (13.16%) PMP
3 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 16 (42.11%) Oracle
2 16 (42.11%) ServiceNow
3 15 (39.47%) Splunk
4 4 (10.53%) Apple
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Telerik
5 1 (2.63%) Xamarin