Mobile Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mobile Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mobile Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Development over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 363 418
Rank change year-on-year +48 +55 +82
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 20 34 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.17% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 33 9
10th Percentile £253 £330 £303
25th Percentile £325 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £389 £500 £563
90th Percentile £420 £520 £638
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Mobile 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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK excluding London

Mobile 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 Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +1 10 £389 -11.09% 221
Yorkshire +14 7 £389 -13.56% 86
Scotland +14 6 £425 -9.33% 45
North West -7 3 £375 -14.29% 111
South West +41 2 £250 -41.18% 111
Midlands +11 2 - - 175
West Midlands +13 1 - - 97
East Midlands - 1 - - 67
Mobile Development
UK

Mobile 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Xcode
2 4 (20.00%) Gradle
3 3 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (5.00%) Appium
4 1 (5.00%) Storybook
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) iOS Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) React Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Flutter Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Android Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) GCP Developer
4 1 (5.00%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Android Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) React Native
2 4 (20.00%) SwiftUI
2 4 (20.00%) UIKit
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) Flutter
4 2 (10.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.00%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (5.00%) Next.js
5 1 (5.00%) Playwright
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) Redux
5 1 (5.00%) REST
5 1 (5.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (20.00%) iPad
2 4 (20.00%) iPhone
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Android
1 10 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) User Experience
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 11 (55.00%) UX Design
4 9 (45.00%) iOS Development
5 7 (35.00%) BDD
5 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 7 (35.00%) TDD
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
8 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (20.00%) MVC
8 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
8 4 (20.00%) Push Notifications
8 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Swift
2 10 (50.00%) Objective-C
3 6 (30.00%) Kotlin
4 4 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) C++
5 3 (15.00%) Python
5 3 (15.00%) Ruby
5 3 (15.00%) Scala
6 2 (10.00%) Dart
6 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.00%) JSX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Xamarin