Mobile Application Development Contracts in the South East

Mobile App Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Application Development over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 191 212
Rank change year-on-year +35 +21 +55
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 8 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.020% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.024% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile - - £229
25th Percentile £204 £463 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £475 £330
Median % change year-on-year -56.32% +43.94% -37.14%
75th Percentile £381 £488 £400
90th Percentile £570 - -
England median daily rate £402 £513 £431
% change year-on-year -21.66% +18.84% -21.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Mobile Application Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,131 4,111 5,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.02% 82.78% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,956 2,487 3,409
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 328 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.18
Median hourly rate £21.67 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% +14.70% +113.27%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in the South East

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the South East

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the South East over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Application Development in the South East

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the South East

Mobile Application Development
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 Application Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 - 8 £208 - 5
Mobile Application Development
England

Mobile Application Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) SaaS
1 5 (62.50%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Android Studio
1 5 (62.50%) Browser DevTools
1 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
1 5 (62.50%) Xcode
2 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Support
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Support Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) UX Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Android Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Principal Developer
3 1 (12.50%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) iOS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Ajax
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) GraphQL
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Material Design
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Android
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Unix
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (62.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Android Development
3 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) MVVM
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) UX Design
4 1 (12.50%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) Perl
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
3 3 (37.50%) Objective-C
3 3 (37.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) Apple