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 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 138 180
Rank change year-on-year -48 +42 +4
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 23 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.39% 0.41% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 1.24% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 13
10th Percentile £204 £450 £305
25th Percentile £204 £497 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +23.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £633 £538
90th Percentile £643 £650 £640
England median daily rate £519 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +8.02% -4.00% -
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 £35.00 - £75.09
% change year-on-year - - +114.54%

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 1,740 968 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.29% 32.89% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 615 950
10th Percentile £268 £200 £205
25th Percentile £400 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £614
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £520 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -2.35% -3.18% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 70 159
10th Percentile £18.55 £15.13 £11.77
25th Percentile £28.00 £17.71 £18.35
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.81 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.20% -4.39% -4.76%
75th Percentile £85.50 £63.37 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.66 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.60 £34.34 £35.65
% change year-on-year +26.97% -3.67% +58.55%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 - 8 £208 - 7
Thames Valley -53 7 £550 -8.33% 8
Berkshire -29 6 £488 -18.75% 2
West Sussex -14 4 £300 -33.33% 2
Hampshire -28 2 £471 - 1
Kent -5 1 £550 +4.76% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £625 - 4
East Sussex - 1 £600 - 1
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 (13.04%) CMS
1 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) SaaS
1 5 (21.74%) Sauce Labs
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.70%) Firebase
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) Google Play
5 1 (4.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Android Studio
2 6 (26.09%) Xcode
3 5 (21.74%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (21.74%) Eclipse
4 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
5 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
5 3 (13.04%) Gradle
6 2 (8.70%) CircleCI
6 2 (8.70%) fastlane
6 2 (8.70%) Subversion
6 2 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.35%) Crashlytics
7 1 (4.35%) JIRA
7 1 (4.35%) JUnit
7 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Aviation
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Android Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Support
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) UX Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) iOS Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Android Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) iOS Android Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Android Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Mobile Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) GraphQL
2 6 (26.09%) React
3 5 (21.74%) Ajax
3 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
3 5 (21.74%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (13.04%) REST
4 3 (13.04%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) UIKit
5 2 (8.70%) Android SDK
5 2 (8.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (8.70%) React Native
5 2 (8.70%) SwiftUI
6 1 (4.35%) iOS SDK
6 1 (4.35%) Node.js
6 1 (4.35%) OAuth
6 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.35%) OpenID
6 1 (4.35%) RxJava
6 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Android
2 7 (30.43%) Apple iOS
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Unix
3 5 (21.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) User Experience
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Mobile Application Development
3 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
4 6 (26.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Secure Coding
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) OO
5 5 (21.74%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) Android Development
6 4 (17.39%) API Integration
6 4 (17.39%) iOS Development
6 4 (17.39%) MVVM
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Backlog Management
7 3 (13.04%) Microservices
7 3 (13.04%) Observability
7 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) Perl
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
5 3 (13.04%) Swift
6 2 (8.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.70%) QA
1 2 (8.70%) WCAG
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Splunk
3 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
4 2 (8.70%) Coverity
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) Thales
5 1 (4.35%) Apple
5 1 (4.35%) ESRI
5 1 (4.35%) Google