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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 164 181
Rank change year-on-year +29 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 24 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 1.56% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 23
10th Percentile - £160 £222
25th Percentile £204 £334 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £541 £650 £500
90th Percentile £605 £696 £524
England median daily rate £468 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.59 -
England median hourly rate £40.46 £70.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year -42.35% +43.22% +67.52%

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 1,085 1,342 1,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.56% 29.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 774 1,229
10th Percentile £204 £229 £205
25th Percentile £350 £380 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £615
90th Percentile £664 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 113 102
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.64 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £35.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £53.94
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +6.33% +124.73%
75th Percentile £58.38 £70.00 £67.42
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.40
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 - 14 £208 - 10
Thames Valley +8 6 £605 +66.90% 53
Berkshire +9 5 £605 +42.35% 34
Kent 0 2 £313 -47.92% 12
Hampshire +10 1 £450 -14.29% 19
Oxfordshire -8 1 - - 8
West Sussex - 1 £450 - 6
Mobile App
England

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) CMS
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) SaaS
2 10 (41.67%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (4.17%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) MySQL
1 11 (45.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Browser DevTools
2 10 (41.67%) Android Studio
2 10 (41.67%) Eclipse
2 10 (41.67%) Xcode
3 3 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Postman
4 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Automotive
3 3 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) French Language
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Support Engineer
1 11 (45.83%) Technical Engineer
1 11 (45.83%) Technical Support
1 11 (45.83%) Technical Support Engineer
1 11 (45.83%) UX Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Android Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce Manager
5 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Project Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Applications Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) Ajax
1 11 (45.83%) AngularJS
1 11 (45.83%) CSS
1 11 (45.83%) GraphQL
1 11 (45.83%) React
2 3 (12.50%) Material Design
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Android
2 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 11 (45.83%) Unix
2 11 (45.83%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) User Experience
2 14 (58.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 10 (41.67%) OO
4 9 (37.50%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) CRM
7 3 (12.50%) Android Development
7 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (12.50%) Asynchronous Programming
7 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
7 3 (12.50%) MVVM
7 3 (12.50%) Project Management
7 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.50%) User Stories
7 3 (12.50%) UX Design
8 2 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 11 (45.83%) Perl
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 3 (12.50%) Objective-C
3 3 (12.50%) Swift
4 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
1 11 (45.83%) ServiceNow
2 10 (41.67%) Splunk
3 4 (16.67%) Apple
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Telerik
4 1 (4.17%) Xamarin