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 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 239 235
Rank change year-on-year -48 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 369 329 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.07% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 3.25% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 231 247
10th Percentile £204 £263 £342
25th Percentile £400 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £645 £700 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 15
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £50.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +65.74%

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 13,413 10,133 13,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.63% 33.03% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,465 6,086 8,839
10th Percentile £271 £265 £258
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.39% -0.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 310 822
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.59 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.05 £34.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +8.66% +41.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.74 £32.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -8.49% -0.76% +49.82%

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 16 February 2026.

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 16 February 2026.

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 16 February 2026. 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 -37 328 £500 +8.11% 321
UK excluding London -22 171 £425 +6.25% 289
London -42 166 £514 +2.75% 75
Work from Home -55 100 £500 +11.11% 122
South East -20 49 £425 -19.05% 75
North of England -68 38 £400 +2.56% 86
North West -32 31 £394 +9.38% 41
Midlands -32 27 £521 +12.58% 41
South West -10 26 £600 +300.00% 32
Wales - 17 £175 - 11
East Midlands -12 14 £550 +8.37% 22
West Midlands -36 13 £475 +18.75% 19
Scotland +6 8 £475 +18.75% 17
Yorkshire -61 7 £515 +4.30% 39
East of England -18 6 £185 -76.13% 27

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 20 (5.42%) Confluence
2 19 (5.15%) CMS
3 12 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.90%) Moodle
6 6 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (1.36%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.36%) Umbraco
8 4 (1.08%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (4.61%) Chatbot
1 17 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 11 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.08%) Adobe Captivate
4 4 (1.08%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.08%) Sketch
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 36 (9.76%) Figma
2 29 (7.86%) AWS
3 27 (7.32%) SaaS
4 21 (5.69%) Azure
5 16 (4.34%) Sauce Labs
6 15 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.79%) GCP
7 14 (3.79%) GitHub
8 12 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.17%) Firebase
9 8 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.17%) Serverless
10 7 (1.90%) Cloud Run
10 7 (1.90%) Contentful
10 7 (1.90%) Kontent
11 6 (1.63%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.63%) Google Play
11 6 (1.63%) PaaS
12 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.36%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.52%) Wireless
2 8 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (2.17%) Skype
3 5 (1.36%) Internet
4 4 (1.08%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) Firewall
5 3 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.54%) RFID
6 2 (0.54%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
7 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.27%) SMS
7 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.61%) MySQL
2 16 (4.34%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.36%) GIS
4 4 (1.08%) SQLite
5 3 (0.81%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.27%) MS Access
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.27%) Power BI
7 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (8.67%) Git
2 29 (7.86%) Xcode
3 28 (7.59%) Android Studio
4 25 (6.78%) JIRA
5 18 (4.88%) Browser DevTools
6 15 (4.07%) Eclipse
7 13 (3.52%) Jenkins
8 12 (3.25%) Appium
8 12 (3.25%) Gradle
9 11 (2.98%) Postman
10 10 (2.71%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.90%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.90%) Charles Proxy
11 7 (1.90%) CocoaPods
11 7 (1.90%) Selenium
12 6 (1.63%) GitLab
12 6 (1.63%) XCUITest
13 5 (1.36%) fastlane
13 5 (1.36%) WebDriver
14 4 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 94 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.26%) Finance
3 35 (9.49%) Banking
4 31 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.88%) Marketing
8 16 (4.34%) Retail
9 12 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.71%) Electronics
11 9 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.90%) Publishing
13 4 (1.08%) Automotive
13 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Legal
14 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.54%) iGaming
15 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.54%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 107 (29.00%) Developer
2 59 (15.99%) Senior
3 39 (10.57%) Designer
4 21 (5.69%) Mobile Developer
4 21 (5.69%) React Developer
5 20 (5.42%) Android Developer
5 20 (5.42%) Mobile Engineer
6 18 (4.88%) Break Fix Engineer
7 17 (4.61%) Architect
7 17 (4.61%) Junior
8 16 (4.34%) iOS Developer
8 16 (4.34%) Support Engineer
8 16 (4.34%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (4.34%) Technical Support
8 16 (4.34%) Technical Support Engineer
8 16 (4.34%) Tester
8 16 (4.34%) UX Engineer
9 15 (4.07%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 14 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.79%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.92%) CSS
2 37 (10.03%) React
2 37 (10.03%) React Native
3 34 (9.21%) RESTful
4 31 (8.40%) AngularJS
5 30 (8.13%) HTML
6 24 (6.50%) GraphQL
7 23 (6.23%) REST
8 19 (5.15%) .NET
9 18 (4.88%) OAuth
10 17 (4.61%) Ajax
11 14 (3.79%) Spring
12 13 (3.52%) Spring Boot
12 13 (3.52%) SwiftUI
13 12 (3.25%) Android Jetpack
13 12 (3.25%) Node.js
14 11 (2.98%) Jetpack Compose
15 10 (2.71%) .NET Framework
15 10 (2.71%) UIKit
16 9 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.71%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.36%) FMCG
6 5 (1.36%) RIA
6 5 (1.36%) W3C
7 3 (0.81%) Blog
7 3 (0.81%) Digital Media
7 3 (0.81%) EMV
7 3 (0.81%) Java Card
7 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.81%) Media Streaming
7 3 (0.81%) Social Media
7 3 (0.81%) Tandem
7 3 (0.81%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 111 (30.08%) Android
2 91 (24.66%) Apple iOS
3 30 (8.13%) Windows
4 18 (4.88%) Unix
5 17 (4.61%) Linux
6 11 (2.98%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.46%) Agile
2 98 (26.56%) User Experience
3 79 (21.41%) CI/CD
4 66 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (12.47%) Test Automation
6 42 (11.38%) DevOps
7 41 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
8 39 (10.57%) AI
9 38 (10.30%) UX Design
10 37 (10.03%) Analytics
11 36 (9.76%) Design Patterns
12 35 (9.49%) Software Engineering
13 33 (8.94%) iOS Development
14 32 (8.67%) Android Development
15 29 (7.86%) Mobile Development
16 27 (7.32%) Full-Stack Development
17 25 (6.78%) Mentoring
17 25 (6.78%) MVVM
18 24 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.97%) JavaScript
2 66 (17.89%) Java
3 49 (13.28%) Kotlin
4 37 (10.03%) Swift
5 35 (9.49%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.78%) SQL
7 23 (6.23%) C#
8 22 (5.96%) Python
9 19 (5.15%) Perl
10 12 (3.25%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.08%) Go
11 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.81%) C++
12 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.54%) R
13 2 (0.54%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (8.67%) Degree
2 22 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.98%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.44%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.17%) PMP
7 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) ACSP
8 2 (0.54%) ACTC
8 2 (0.54%) CISSP
8 2 (0.54%) SANS
9 1 (0.27%) CCA
9 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) GIAC
9 1 (0.27%) ISEB
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (15.45%) Accessibility
2 52 (14.09%) QA
3 15 (4.07%) WCAG
4 8 (2.17%) GDPR
5 6 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.36%) SLA
7 3 (0.81%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.17%) Grafana
2 8 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.54%) rkt
5 2 (0.54%) Terraform
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 65 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.32%) Adobe
2 27 (7.32%) Google
3 26 (7.05%) Splunk
4 25 (6.78%) Oracle
5 19 (5.15%) HP
6 17 (4.61%) SAP
7 16 (4.34%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.25%) Apple
9 10 (2.71%) Xamarin
10 9 (2.44%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.17%) Cisco
12 6 (1.63%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.63%) OneTrust
13 5 (1.36%) Optimizely
13 5 (1.36%) Sitecore
14 4 (1.08%) ESRI
14 4 (1.08%) Tealium
15 3 (0.81%) Hotjar
15 3 (0.81%) Thales