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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 136 161
Rank change year-on-year -75 +25 +25
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 17 29 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.26% 0.84% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 2.62% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 15
10th Percentile £204 - £143
25th Percentile £205 £204 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £374 £560 £650
90th Percentile £482 £645 £689
England median daily rate £513 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.89% - -5.00%
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 £17.50 £40.46 £70.18
% change year-on-year -56.75% -42.35% +57.71%

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 1,956 1,106 1,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.53% 32.02% 29.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 704 765
10th Percentile £297 £204 £241
25th Percentile £413 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -1.80% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £673 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 91 102
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.13 £13.45
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.95 £28.63
Median hourly rate £38.72 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.16% -42.37% +4.27%
75th Percentile £71.00 £58.38 £70.14
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.16 £75.16
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.78 £57.35
% change year-on-year +18.02% -44.59% +25.00%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
West Sussex -19 6 £250 -51.69% 11
Surrey -31 4 £208 - 3
Hampshire -33 3 £471 +1.29% 9
East Sussex - 3 £325 - 6
Berkshire -31 1 - - 13
Thames Valley -57 1 - - 22
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 (17.65%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) SaaS
1 3 (17.65%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Android Studio
1 3 (17.65%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
1 3 (17.65%) Xcode
2 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) XCTest
3 1 (5.88%) XCUITest
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Aviation
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Android Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Support
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) UX Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) iOS Android Developer
3 2 (11.76%) iOS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Android Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Network Support
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) GraphQL
1 5 (29.41%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) Ajax
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 3 (17.65%) React
3 2 (11.76%) JWT
3 2 (11.76%) UIKit
4 1 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.88%) Android SDK
4 1 (5.88%) Matplotlib
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.88%) OpenID
4 1 (5.88%) Pandas
4 1 (5.88%) Plotly
4 1 (5.88%) SciPy
4 1 (5.88%) Streamlit
4 1 (5.88%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Digital Signage
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Android
2 7 (41.18%) Apple iOS
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 3 (17.65%) Unix
5 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Mobile Application Development
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) AI
5 3 (17.65%) Android Development
5 3 (17.65%) iOS Development
5 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) MVVM
5 3 (17.65%) OO
5 3 (17.65%) OOP
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Java
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) Objective-C
3 2 (11.76%) Swift
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Apple
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Kony
2 1 (5.88%) Meraki
2 1 (5.88%) VMware