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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 134 114
Rank change year-on-year -38 -20 +63
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 36 21 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.63% 0.70% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 2.08% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 12
10th Percentile £187 £375 £305
25th Percentile £204 £469 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +17.00% -
75th Percentile £641 £620 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
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 £35.00 £71.34
% change year-on-year - -50.94% +103.83%

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 1,695 1,010 1,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.88% 33.86% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 630 940
10th Percentile £250 £206 £205
25th Percentile £400 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £608
90th Percentile £700 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 62 157
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.95 £11.76
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.67 £18.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.34% -5.52% -10.53%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.37 £61.30
90th Percentile - £84.79 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.47% +30.71% +22.22%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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
Thames Valley -40 18 £600 +1.27% 18
Berkshire -32 15 £613 +3.38% 11
Surrey - 8 £208 - 3
West Sussex - 5 £400 - 2
Hampshire -25 3 £148 -1.67% 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £150 - 1
Kent - 1 £550 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £625 - 6
East Sussex - 1 £600 - 3
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 9 (25.00%) Confluence
2 6 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (13.89%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) SaaS
1 6 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
2 3 (8.33%) GitHub
2 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.56%) Firebase
4 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.78%) Google Play
4 1 (2.78%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) MySQL
1 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Android Studio
2 7 (19.44%) Xcode
3 6 (16.67%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 6 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 3 (8.33%) Gradle
6 3 (8.33%) Subversion
7 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
7 2 (5.56%) fastlane
8 1 (2.78%) Appium
8 1 (2.78%) Crashlytics
8 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.78%) JUnit
8 1 (2.78%) Maven
8 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Automotive
3 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Aviation
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Android Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 6 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) UX Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Break Fix Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Junior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (8.33%) iOS Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) GraphQL
2 7 (19.44%) React
3 6 (16.67%) Ajax
3 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 6 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (8.33%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (8.33%) React Native
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) UIKit
5 2 (5.56%) Android SDK
5 2 (5.56%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (5.56%) SwiftUI
6 1 (2.78%) Core Data
6 1 (2.78%) Dagger
6 1 (2.78%) RAML
6 1 (2.78%) Retrofit
6 1 (2.78%) RxJava
6 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Android
2 8 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 6 (16.67%) Linux
3 6 (16.67%) Unix
3 6 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) User Experience
2 11 (30.56%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) Mobile Application Development
4 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) Secure Coding
6 6 (16.67%) Android Development
6 6 (16.67%) CRM
6 6 (16.67%) OO
6 6 (16.67%) Project Management
6 6 (16.67%) Time Management
7 5 (13.89%) Break/Fix
7 5 (13.89%) iOS Development
7 5 (13.89%) PRINCE2
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.89%) TDD
8 4 (11.11%) API Integration
8 4 (11.11%) Backlog Management
8 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.67%) Perl
3 6 (16.67%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) Kotlin
5 4 (11.11%) Swift
6 2 (5.56%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) PMI Certification
1 5 (13.89%) PMP
2 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) WCAG
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) HP
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) Splunk
3 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.33%) Coverity
3 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.33%) Thales
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) ESRI
5 1 (2.78%) Google