Mobile Application Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mobile App Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 388 449
Rank change year-on-year +67 +61 +16
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 15 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.053% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.062% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £348 £290 £193
25th Percentile £399 £325 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £432 £363
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% +19.17% -30.95%
75th Percentile £506 £475 £460
90th Percentile £529 £488 £556
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £413
% change year-on-year -2.70% +12.12% -23.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mobile Application Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Application Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +20 8 £425 +6.25% 16
South East +47 3 £513 +7.89% 20
Scotland +15 3 £425 +21.43% 2
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 +6.25% 7
North West - 3 £404 - 9
North East - 2 - -
South West - 1 £469 - 1
Mobile Application Development
UK

Mobile Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (13.33%) OpenEdge
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (13.33%) npm
3 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
General
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) iOS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Android Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Flutter Developer
3 2 (13.33%) iOS Android Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (13.33%) React Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Java Android Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Core Data
1 2 (13.33%) React Native
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) UIKit
2 1 (6.67%) Flutter
2 1 (6.67%) Laravel
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Apple iOS
2 5 (33.33%) Android
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) iOS Development
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Android Development
4 3 (20.00%) Mobile Development
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) OWASP
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Attestation
6 1 (6.67%) Design Thinking
6 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Swift
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Objective-C
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Dart
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Istio
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) IBM
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Xamarin
2 1 (6.67%) Optimizely