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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 147 154
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 34 14 50
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.58% 0.47% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.39% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 11
10th Percentile £166 £439 £300
25th Percentile £204 £469 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +21.05% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £531
90th Percentile £646 £650 £538
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.20%
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 £44.50 £35.00 £71.34
% change year-on-year +27.14% -50.94% +58.53%

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 1,715 1,005 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.43% 33.51% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 631 930
10th Percentile £263 £210 £205
25th Percentile £400 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £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 127 63 152
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.95 £11.72
25th Percentile £27.69 £23.50 £18.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.81 £47.19
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% +1.31% -7.93%
75th Percentile £87.00 £64.13 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +33.33%

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 30 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 30 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 -44 14 £550 -4.35% 8
Berkshire -35 11 £550 -4.35% 3
Surrey - 8 £208 - 4
Hampshire -21 5 £311 - 1
West Sussex - 5 £400 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £150 - 2
Kent - 1 £550 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 £625 - 3
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 6 (17.65%) Confluence
2 5 (14.71%) CMS
3 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) SaaS
1 5 (14.71%) Sauce Labs
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.88%) Firebase
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.94%) AWS
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) Google Play
5 1 (2.94%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
1 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Android Studio
2 6 (17.65%) Xcode
3 5 (14.71%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (14.71%) Eclipse
3 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 3 (8.82%) Gradle
5 3 (8.82%) JIRA
5 3 (8.82%) Subversion
6 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.88%) fastlane
6 2 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.94%) Crashlytics
7 1 (2.94%) JUnit
7 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Aviation
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Android Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Break Fix Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Junior
3 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Technical Support
3 5 (14.71%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) UX Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Applications Developer
5 3 (8.82%) iOS Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Mobile Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Applications Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Applications Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) GraphQL
2 6 (17.65%) React
3 5 (14.71%) Ajax
3 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
3 5 (14.71%) CSS
4 4 (11.76%) React Native
5 3 (8.82%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (8.82%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) UIKit
6 2 (5.88%) Android SDK
6 2 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (5.88%) SwiftUI
7 1 (2.94%) Core Data
7 1 (2.94%) Dagger
7 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.94%) RAML
7 1 (2.94%) Retrofit
7 1 (2.94%) RxJava
7 1 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Android
2 9 (26.47%) Apple iOS
3 5 (14.71%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 5 (14.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
1 11 (32.35%) User Experience
2 10 (29.41%) Mobile Application Development
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Secure Coding
5 6 (17.65%) Android Development
5 6 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Time Management
6 5 (14.71%) Break/Fix
6 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.71%) iOS Development
6 5 (14.71%) OO
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) TDD
7 4 (11.76%) API Integration
7 4 (11.76%) Backlog Management
7 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) Kotlin
3 5 (14.71%) Perl
3 5 (14.71%) Python
4 4 (11.76%) Swift
5 2 (5.88%) Objective-C
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.71%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
4 3 (8.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) WCAG
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) HP
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 5 (14.71%) Splunk
4 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.82%) Coverity
4 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (8.82%) Thales
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.88%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) Apple
6 1 (2.94%) ESRI
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow