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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 363 425
Rank change year-on-year +17 +62 +60
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 18 24 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 11
10th Percentile £204 £316 £248
25th Percentile £234 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £434 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +8.50% -25.58%
75th Percentile £474 £609 £638
90th Percentile £494 £703 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -13.64%

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 13,264 16,919 20,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.28% 82.94% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,028 10,059 13,903
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 1,971 1,253
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.74 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.74 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -4.70% +86.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.47 £73.75 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -2 10 £438 +1.27% 15
North West -2 4 £404 -39.02% 4
South East +34 3 £208 -56.32% 22
Scotland +2 3 £425 +21.43% 4
Yorkshire -11 3 £425 +6.25% 11
North East - 3 £488 -
Midlands - 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £469 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
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 (11.11%) OpenEdge
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (11.11%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (11.11%) npm
4 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Wireless
2 2 (11.11%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
1 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Android Studio
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) Xcode
2 3 (16.67%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (5.56%) Gradle
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Private Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) iOS Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (16.67%) React Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) UX Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Android Developer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) iOS Android Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Java Android Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) React
2 3 (16.67%) Ajax
2 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (16.67%) CSS
2 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 3 (16.67%) React Native
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) Core Data
3 2 (11.11%) UIKit
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) Redux
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Android
2 9 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Unix
4 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) User Experience
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) iOS Development
2 5 (27.78%) Mobile Development
3 3 (16.67%) Android Development
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) OO
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) UX Design
4 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) OWASP
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Perl
3 3 (16.67%) Swift
4 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.56%) JSX
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Istio
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Optimizely
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce