Xamarin Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Xamarin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Xamarin products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xamarin over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Xamarin.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 360 422
Rank change year-on-year -13 +62 +60
Contract jobs citing Xamarin 5 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.063% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.066% 0.14% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £390 £362 £313
25th Percentile £403 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -2.14%
75th Percentile £495 £488 £500
90th Percentile £507 £492 £590
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £375
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Xamarin falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,544 7,773 10,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.08% 44.33% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,663 4,459 6,426
10th Percentile £220 £220 £209
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 516 525
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.46 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.96 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.35 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% -29.41% +111.81%
75th Percentile £38.81 £63.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.42% +79.84%

Xamarin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Xamarin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Xamarin job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Xamarin
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Xamarin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Xamarin

Xamarin
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xamarin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Xamarin in the UK excluding London

Xamarin
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Xamarin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Xamarin

Xamarin
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 Xamarin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Midlands -15 2 £449 -7.47% 2
South West +17 1 - - 2
East Midlands -10 1 £388 -20.10%
North of England -24 1 £450 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £510 - 2
North West - 1 £450 - 3
South East - 1 - - 8
Xamarin
UK

Xamarin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Compact Framework
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) MVVM
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) OWASP
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations