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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 253 222
Rank change year-on-year -68 -31 +90
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 402 336 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.02% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.91% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 224 286
10th Percentile £363 £316 £307
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -6.35% -
75th Percentile £578 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £588 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £405 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.43% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £14.72 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% +1.15% -14.89%
75th Percentile £17.75 - £68.84
90th Percentile £32.90 - £74.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £12.25
% change year-on-year -56.75% +230.29% -75.00%

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 17,986 11,532 11,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 35.12% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,908 7,096 7,535
10th Percentile £322 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 568 588
10th Percentile £14.85 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £18.33
Median hourly rate £41.00 £29.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.82% -33.89% +10.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -36.84% +13.77%

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 20 August 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 20 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 16 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 20 August 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 -96 318 £505 +8.60% 437
UK excluding London -72 180 £450 +11.11% 231
London -66 168 £518 +3.50% 264
Work from Home -85 79 £475 - 157
North of England -63 56 £516 +32.71% 62
Scotland +14 41 £395 -21.00% 18
South West -15 32 £475 -13.64% 27
North West -39 28 £550 +46.67% 32
Midlands -53 26 £526 +13.62% 29
West Midlands -45 20 £480 +11.51% 16
Yorkshire -48 19 £525 +31.25% 26
South East -60 16 £275 -38.89% 61
North East -34 9 £450 -13.25% 5
Wales -10 8 £425 - 8
East Midlands -24 6 £526 +13.62% 13
East of England -19 2 £500 +21.21% 25

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 13 (3.23%) Confluence
2 6 (1.49%) CMS
3 5 (1.24%) Moodle
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 14 (3.48%) Sketch
3 10 (2.49%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.50%) InVision
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.74%) Shopify
2 3 (0.75%) Maximo
3 2 (0.50%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 51 (12.69%) Azure
2 42 (10.45%) GitHub
3 38 (9.45%) Figma
4 35 (8.71%) AWS
5 26 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.48%) Entra ID
8 17 (4.23%) Firebase
9 16 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.98%) Google Play
9 16 (3.98%) SaaS
10 9 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.74%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.24%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.24%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.24%) Lucidchart
12 5 (1.24%) Sauce Labs
12 5 (1.24%) Serverless
13 4 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.50%) DSL
3 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.74%) Power BI
2 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.00%) Looker
3 4 (1.00%) Tableau
4 3 (0.75%) MySQL
4 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.50%) SQLite
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) GIS
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (6.22%) Git
2 21 (5.22%) JIRA
3 18 (4.48%) Gradle
4 17 (4.23%) Android Studio
5 15 (3.73%) Jenkins
6 14 (3.48%) Xcode
7 12 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.99%) XCUITest
8 11 (2.74%) fastlane
9 9 (2.24%) JUnit
9 9 (2.24%) LoadRunner
10 8 (1.99%) XCTest
11 7 (1.74%) Appium
12 5 (1.24%) Crashlytics
13 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
13 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.75%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.50%) JMeter
14 2 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 110 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.91%) Finance
3 48 (11.94%) Banking
4 27 (6.72%) Retail
5 24 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.73%) Marketing
8 10 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.99%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.75%) Games
12 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 107 (26.62%) Developer
2 64 (15.92%) Senior
3 48 (11.94%) Designer
4 35 (8.71%) Android Developer
5 28 (6.97%) iOS Developer
6 24 (5.97%) Android Engineer
6 24 (5.97%) Architect
7 22 (5.47%) Lead
8 20 (4.98%) Analyst
9 19 (4.73%) Product Designer
10 17 (4.23%) Project Manager
11 16 (3.98%) Mobile Engineer
12 15 (3.73%) Tester
13 14 (3.48%) Product Manager
13 14 (3.48%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.23%) UI Designer
14 13 (3.23%) UX Designer
15 12 (2.99%) Senior Android Engineer
16 11 (2.74%) Business Analyst
17 10 (2.49%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (12.69%) REST
2 47 (11.69%) RESTful
3 37 (9.20%) React Native
4 36 (8.96%) Android Jetpack
5 28 (6.97%) Android SDK
5 28 (6.97%) Jetpack Compose
6 21 (5.22%) SwiftUI
7 19 (4.73%) OAuth
8 17 (4.23%) UIKit
9 13 (3.23%) GraphQL
9 13 (3.23%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.23%) Web Services
10 11 (2.74%) Flutter
11 10 (2.49%) React
12 9 (2.24%) Core Data
12 9 (2.24%) CSS
12 9 (2.24%) HTML
12 9 (2.24%) iOS SDK
12 9 (2.24%) Retrofit
13 8 (1.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.71%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 10 (2.49%) Educational Technology
6 9 (2.24%) Credit Risk
6 9 (2.24%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.49%) Social Media
10 5 (1.24%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.24%) IoT
10 5 (1.24%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.00%) CMDB
11 4 (1.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 123 (30.60%) Android
2 101 (25.12%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.48%) Windows
4 8 (1.99%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (28.61%) Agile
2 98 (24.38%) AI
3 95 (23.63%) User Experience
4 69 (17.16%) CI/CD
5 59 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (13.43%) Android Development
7 52 (12.94%) DevOps
8 51 (12.69%) MVVM
9 50 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (12.19%) iOS Development
10 49 (12.19%) UX Design
11 47 (11.69%) Test Automation
12 45 (11.19%) Scrum
13 39 (9.70%) Analytics
13 39 (9.70%) Roadmaps
14 38 (9.45%) Architectural Patterns
15 37 (9.20%) Generative AI
16 35 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (7.96%) Performance Optimisation
18 26 (6.47%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (15.42%) Kotlin
2 53 (13.18%) Java
3 44 (10.95%) Swift
4 28 (6.97%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.47%) Python
6 16 (3.98%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.74%) Objective-C
8 7 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.49%) SQL
10 4 (1.00%) C++
11 3 (0.75%) C#
11 3 (0.75%) Perl
12 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.50%) Go
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
12 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.25%) ABAP
13 1 (0.25%) Dart
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 46 (11.44%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.96%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.48%) Degree
4 16 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.75%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) CCA
8 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) ECSA
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
9 1 (0.25%) GXPN
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.68%) Accessibility
2 47 (11.69%) QA
3 17 (4.23%) WCAG
4 6 (1.49%) GDPR
5 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.25%) DICOM
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Firmware
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.00%) Grafana
4 4 (1.00%) Istio
4 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.00%) Kustomize
4 4 (1.00%) linkerd
4 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.00%) SCCM
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.96%) Adobe
3 31 (7.71%) Google
4 22 (5.47%) Apple
5 18 (4.48%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.73%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.99%) Oracle
8 8 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.24%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) Braze
10 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.00%) Samsung
10 4 (1.00%) SAP
10 4 (1.00%) Tealium
11 3 (0.75%) Amplitude
11 3 (0.75%) IBM
12 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.50%) Dell
13 1 (0.25%) Sitecore