Mobile App Contract Job Trends

Mobile Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 216 251
Rank change year-on-year -35 +35 -15
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 406 392 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.16% 3.66% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 269 237
10th Percentile £204 £205 £329
25th Percentile £365 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £635 £690 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +3.03% -13.16% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 14
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £18.21 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £29.67 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £59.50 - £67.56
90th Percentile £70.00 - £77.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +137.97%

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile App falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,851 10,709 13,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 32.08% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,056 6,384 8,932
10th Percentile £280 £265 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% -3.86% -
75th Percentile £630 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 328 513
10th Percentile £13.96 £18.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.33 £33.65 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -20.25% +27.85%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £77.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.11
% change year-on-year -16.28% -27.95% +73.48%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile App relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mobile App job vacancy trend in the UK

Mobile App
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile App.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile App.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile App within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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
England -21 366 £500 +3.47% 1,211
UK excluding London +6 202 £425 +3.03% 1,158
London -36 175 £514 +2.80% 203
Work from Home -62 100 £510 +13.33% 807
South East +1 57 £316 -38.29% 283
North of England -49 55 £397 +1.67% 270
Midlands -18 32 £505 +26.25% 220
North West -22 31 £380 +5.56% 136
South West +8 27 £600 +92.00% 112
Yorkshire -42 24 £400 -17.95% 115
Wales +14 18 £300 -38.46% 35
East Midlands -4 17 £550 +5.26% 102
West Midlands -25 15 £400 +175.86% 106
Scotland +4 7 £475 +18.75% 64
East of England -15 6 £185 -76.13% 172

Mobile App
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (5.67%) CMS
2 21 (5.17%) Confluence
3 13 (3.20%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.72%) Moodle
6 6 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (1.23%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.23%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Drupal
10 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.43%) Chatbot
3 14 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.48%) Adobe Captivate
5 6 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.99%) Zeplin
7 3 (0.74%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.74%) Sketch
8 1 (0.25%) Moqups
8 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle iSupplier
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.32%) Figma
2 33 (8.13%) Azure
3 28 (6.90%) SaaS
4 27 (6.65%) AWS
5 20 (4.93%) Sauce Labs
6 17 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (3.69%) GitHub
9 14 (3.45%) Google Play
10 13 (3.20%) Firebase
11 12 (2.96%) Serverless
12 8 (1.97%) Contentful
12 8 (1.97%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.72%) GCP
13 7 (1.72%) Kontent
14 6 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.23%) BrowserStack
15 5 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
15 5 (1.23%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.43%) Wireless
2 8 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (1.97%) Skype
3 5 (1.23%) HTTP
3 5 (1.23%) Internet
4 3 (0.74%) Firewall
5 2 (0.49%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.49%) RFID
5 2 (0.49%) SSL
5 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.67%) MySQL
2 21 (5.17%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.99%) SQLite
5 3 (0.74%) GIS
5 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.49%) Metadata
6 2 (0.49%) Power BI
7 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.25%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (12.56%) Git
2 43 (10.59%) Xcode
3 36 (8.87%) Android Studio
4 26 (6.40%) JIRA
5 23 (5.67%) Browser DevTools
6 20 (4.93%) Eclipse
6 20 (4.93%) Gradle
7 16 (3.94%) Jenkins
8 15 (3.69%) Appium
9 10 (2.46%) Postman
10 8 (1.97%) Charles Proxy
11 7 (1.72%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.72%) CocoaPods
11 7 (1.72%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.72%) Storybook
11 7 (1.72%) XCUITest
12 6 (1.48%) GitLab
13 5 (1.23%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.23%) JMeter
13 5 (1.23%) Katalon Studio
General
1 108 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.73%) Finance
3 54 (13.30%) Banking
4 25 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (4.93%) Marketing
8 15 (3.69%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.96%) Retail
10 10 (2.46%) Electronics
11 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.72%) Automotive
12 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.48%) Legal
14 5 (1.23%) Publishing
15 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.74%) Games
17 2 (0.49%) iGaming
17 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (29.80%) Developer
2 52 (12.81%) Designer
3 48 (11.82%) Senior
4 34 (8.37%) Android Developer
5 25 (6.16%) iOS Developer
6 22 (5.42%) Architect
6 22 (5.42%) Product Designer
7 21 (5.17%) Support Engineer
7 21 (5.17%) Technical Engineer
7 21 (5.17%) Technical Support
7 21 (5.17%) Technical Support Engineer
7 21 (5.17%) UX Engineer
8 20 (4.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 19 (4.68%) Mobile Developer
10 18 (4.43%) React Developer
11 17 (4.19%) Break Fix Engineer
11 17 (4.19%) Junior
12 16 (3.94%) Mobile Engineer
13 15 (3.69%) Applications Developer
14 14 (3.45%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.29%) CSS
1 58 (14.29%) RESTful
2 44 (10.84%) React
3 39 (9.61%) HTML
3 39 (9.61%) React Native
4 38 (9.36%) AngularJS
5 29 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 22 (5.42%) Ajax
7 19 (4.68%) OAuth
8 18 (4.43%) Android Jetpack
9 17 (4.19%) Jetpack Compose
9 17 (4.19%) JSON
9 17 (4.19%) Node.js
10 16 (3.94%) .NET
11 13 (3.20%) Flutter
11 13 (3.20%) SwiftUI
12 12 (2.96%) REST
13 10 (2.46%) .NET Framework
13 10 (2.46%) Next.js
13 10 (2.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 7 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.48%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.23%) FMCG
5 5 (1.23%) RIA
5 5 (1.23%) W3C
6 4 (0.99%) Blockchain
6 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 4 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (0.99%) Social Media
7 3 (0.74%) Blog
7 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.74%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 141 (34.73%) Android
2 107 (26.35%) Apple iOS
3 32 (7.88%) Windows
4 23 (5.67%) Unix
5 22 (5.42%) Linux
6 10 (2.46%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (32.27%) Agile
2 112 (27.59%) User Experience
3 89 (21.92%) CI/CD
4 66 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (15.52%) Mobile Application Development
6 55 (13.55%) DevOps
7 48 (11.82%) Test Automation
8 47 (11.58%) UX Design
9 46 (11.33%) Android Development
10 43 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (10.34%) iOS Development
12 40 (9.85%) AI
12 40 (9.85%) Analytics
13 37 (9.11%) Mobile Development
14 35 (8.62%) Design Patterns
15 32 (7.88%) Scrum
16 30 (7.39%) Application Security
16 30 (7.39%) MVVM
17 29 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
18 27 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.18%) JavaScript
2 69 (17.00%) Java
3 53 (13.05%) Kotlin
4 43 (10.59%) Swift
5 39 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 33 (8.13%) Python
7 24 (5.91%) Perl
7 24 (5.91%) SQL
8 18 (4.43%) C#
8 18 (4.43%) Objective-C
9 5 (1.23%) C++
10 4 (0.99%) C
11 3 (0.74%) Go
11 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.74%) Ruby
11 3 (0.74%) Scala
12 2 (0.49%) Dart
12 2 (0.49%) Rust
12 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (9.11%) Degree
2 17 (4.19%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.96%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.71%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.46%) PMP
6 9 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.72%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.49%) ACSP
10 2 (0.49%) ACTC
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.49%) ISEB
11 1 (0.25%) CCA
11 1 (0.25%) GIAC
11 1 (0.25%) MBA
11 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (16.50%) Accessibility
2 48 (11.82%) QA
3 12 (2.96%) WCAG
4 11 (2.71%) GDPR
5 7 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.99%) SLA
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) PERC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.97%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.49%) rkt
4 2 (0.49%) Terraform
5 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 74 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.39%) Oracle
3 29 (7.14%) Google
4 28 (6.90%) Adobe
5 25 (6.16%) Splunk
6 23 (5.67%) ServiceNow
7 18 (4.43%) HP
8 16 (3.94%) Apple
8 16 (3.94%) SAP
9 8 (1.97%) Cisco
10 7 (1.72%) OneTrust
10 7 (1.72%) Xamarin
11 6 (1.48%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.23%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.99%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.99%) Tealium
14 3 (0.74%) ESRI
14 3 (0.74%) Hotjar