Mobile App Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 255 276
Rank change year-on-year -40 +21 -51
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 247 413 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.95% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 3.12% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 261 419
10th Percentile £356 £325 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 12
10th Percentile - - £12.93
25th Percentile - £12.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.59% +95.19%
75th Percentile - £70.18 £45.00
90th Percentile - £75.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £38.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +10.36% +107.72%

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 -59 192 £500 - 503
London -28 125 £525 -4.55% 271
Work from Home -25 94 £500 +7.82% 294
UK excluding London -26 79 £463 +2.78% 265
North of England -7 25 £400 -9.86% 85
North West -8 17 £400 -8.57% 48
Scotland +12 16 £400 -11.11% 21
South East +7 14 £575 +21.05% 40
Midlands +22 12 £463 -11.90% 50
East Midlands +19 11 £463 - 16
South West +41 7 £350 -12.50% 26
Yorkshire 0 6 £425 -6.85% 24
East of England +26 3 £775 +45.95% 33
North East -2 2 - - 14
West Midlands +5 1 £460 -12.38% 34
Wales +3 1 £375 -16.67% 15
Northern Ireland -11 1 - - 3

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (3.64%) Confluence
2 4 (1.62%) CMS
3 3 (1.21%) Apache
3 3 (1.21%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Appian
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.62%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.62%) Sketch
4 3 (1.21%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.81%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.81%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.81%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.40%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.43%) AWS
2 42 (17.00%) Azure
3 32 (12.96%) Figma
4 16 (6.48%) Serverless
5 13 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.05%) GCP
7 9 (3.64%) GitHub
7 9 (3.64%) SaaS
8 7 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.43%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.43%) BrowserStack
9 6 (2.43%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.02%) PaaS
10 5 (2.02%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.02%) Sauce Labs
11 4 (1.62%) Firebase
11 4 (1.62%) SonarCloud
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.21%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) HTTP
1 5 (2.02%) Network Security
2 3 (1.21%) Internet
3 2 (0.81%) Calico
3 2 (0.81%) DNS
3 2 (0.81%) Intranet
3 2 (0.81%) MQTT
3 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.64%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.24%) MySQL
3 6 (2.43%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.40%) Big Data
6 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (14.98%) Git
2 20 (8.10%) JIRA
3 12 (4.86%) Appium
4 11 (4.45%) Xcode
5 10 (4.05%) Postman
6 8 (3.24%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.83%) Selenium
8 5 (2.02%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.02%) GitLab
9 4 (1.62%) Subversion
9 4 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (1.62%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.21%) JUnit
10 3 (1.21%) Mocha
10 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.21%) TestNG
11 2 (0.81%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 63 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.60%) Finance
3 19 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.48%) Banking
6 13 (5.26%) Retail
7 9 (3.64%) Marketing
8 7 (2.83%) Legal
9 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Automotive
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Back Office
11 2 (0.81%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Aviation
12 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (34.41%) Developer
2 43 (17.41%) Senior
3 27 (10.93%) Designer
4 25 (10.12%) Architect
5 24 (9.72%) Android Developer
6 22 (8.91%) React Developer
7 17 (6.88%) iOS Developer
8 15 (6.07%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.26%) UX Designer
10 12 (4.86%) Analyst
10 12 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.86%) Product Manager
11 10 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.64%) Android Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.64%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.24%) Lead
13 8 (3.24%) Senior Android Developer
13 8 (3.24%) Software Engineer
14 7 (2.83%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.53%) React Native
2 21 (8.50%) RESTful
3 19 (7.69%) Node.js
4 18 (7.29%) React
5 15 (6.07%) Android Jetpack
6 14 (5.67%) HTML
7 13 (5.26%) CSS
7 13 (5.26%) UIKit
8 12 (4.86%) Jetpack Compose
9 11 (4.45%) .NET
9 11 (4.45%) Dagger
9 11 (4.45%) Next.js
9 11 (4.45%) REST
10 10 (4.05%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.64%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.64%) Flutter
11 9 (3.64%) Redux
11 9 (3.64%) SwiftUI
12 8 (3.24%) Android SDK
12 8 (3.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.45%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.43%) Animation
2 6 (2.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.43%) Social Media
2 6 (2.43%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.02%) Infotainment
3 5 (2.02%) IoT
3 5 (2.02%) Private Cloud
3 5 (2.02%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.62%) iPhone
4 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.62%) PMI
4 4 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.21%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.21%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.21%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.21%) iPad
5 3 (1.21%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 66 (26.72%) Android
2 56 (22.67%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.43%) Windows
4 2 (0.81%) Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.27%) Agile
2 69 (27.94%) User Experience
3 53 (21.46%) CI/CD
4 46 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (17.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 39 (15.79%) UX Design
7 35 (14.17%) Mobile Development
8 34 (13.77%) Android Development
9 32 (12.96%) Test Automation
10 31 (12.55%) iOS Development
11 29 (11.74%) DevOps
12 28 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (10.93%) Scrum
14 22 (8.91%) Prototyping
15 20 (8.10%) MVVM
16 19 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
17 18 (7.29%) Software Engineering
18 15 (6.07%) E-Commerce
18 15 (6.07%) Roadmaps
18 15 (6.07%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (16.60%) Kotlin
2 29 (11.74%) Swift
3 25 (10.12%) JavaScript
4 18 (7.29%) Objective-C
5 17 (6.88%) Java
6 14 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.26%) C#
8 10 (4.05%) SQL
9 9 (3.64%) Python
10 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.43%) Dart
12 4 (1.62%) C++
13 3 (1.21%) VBA
13 3 (1.21%) VBScript
14 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (5.26%) Degree
2 9 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.62%) ISEB
6 4 (1.62%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.93%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.29%) QA
3 2 (0.81%) NCSC
3 2 (0.81%) PSD2
3 2 (0.81%) WCAG
4 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.02%) Terraform
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.81%) Istio
5 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.40%) SCCM
5 1 (0.40%) SCOM
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.26%) Adobe
2 13 (5.26%) Google
3 7 (2.83%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.02%) Apple
4 5 (2.02%) Xamarin
5 4 (1.62%) IBM
5 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.81%) NEC
6 2 (0.81%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.81%) SAP
6 2 (0.81%) YouTube
7 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.40%) FNZ
7 1 (0.40%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.40%) Marketo
7 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.40%) Perforce