Mobile First Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mobile First skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile First over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 369 425
Rank change year-on-year +7 +56 +97
Contract jobs citing Mobile First 2 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.065% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.079% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £366 £493 £425
25th Percentile £391 £558 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £700 £510
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +37.25% +27.50%
75th Percentile £491 - £550
90th Percentile £519 - £580
UK median daily rate £625 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +38.89% -18.18% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Mobile First 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 13,320 16,491 20,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.20% 82.94% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,043 9,857 13,802
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £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 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 1,851 1,240
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.00 £40.00 £40.80
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -1.95% +89.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.03 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +60.38%

Mobile First
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile First in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile First in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile First in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile First in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile First in the UK excluding London

Mobile First
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 First within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 2 £438 -37.50% 18
North West - 2 £438 - 2
Mobile First
UK

Mobile First
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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gerrit
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) React Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SAPUI5 Developer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) lodash
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) React Native
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (50.00%) SAPUI5
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP