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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 275 239
Rank change year-on-year -28 -36 +7
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 355 266 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.91% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 2.70% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 188 250
10th Percentile £204 £311 £348
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £691 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £448 £450
% change year-on-year -5.03% -0.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £50.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £12.25
% change year-on-year - - -65.00%

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 14,428 9,863 13,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.17% 33.71% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,080 6,264 8,612
10th Percentile £300 £287 £255
25th Percentile £408 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 675 368 862
10th Percentile £15.54 £16.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.26 £15.45
Median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year +34.94% +19.54% +16.80%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -25 305 £503 +0.50% 248
UK excluding London -18 157 £425 -5.03% 201
London -28 155 £513 -3.98% 96
Work from Home -45 98 £500 - 128
South East -39 44 £425 -26.09% 61
North of England -75 32 £400 - 46
North West -30 29 £400 +1.27% 25
South West -9 28 £525 +50.00% 20
Midlands -45 25 £539 +11.22% 37
Wales +7 17 £425 +13.33% 9
East Midlands -29 13 £550 +11.11% 13
West Midlands -52 12 £475 +3.26% 24
Scotland +3 6 £350 -12.50% 13
East of England -19 5 £185 -69.80% 17
Yorkshire -66 2 £575 +26.03% 16
North East - 1 £525 - 5

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 (5.63%) CMS
2 19 (5.35%) Confluence
3 10 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.54%) Moodle
5 6 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.41%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.41%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (4.79%) Chatbot
2 15 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (1.97%) Sketch
6 6 (1.69%) Adobe XD
6 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.13%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.28%) InVision
9 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.14%) AWS
2 29 (8.17%) Figma
3 19 (5.35%) Azure
3 19 (5.35%) SaaS
4 14 (3.94%) GitHub
5 13 (3.66%) GCP
6 12 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (3.38%) Sauce Labs
7 11 (3.10%) Firebase
8 10 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.25%) Serverless
10 7 (1.97%) Cloud Run
10 7 (1.97%) Kontent
11 6 (1.69%) Contentful
11 6 (1.69%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.69%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.69%) Google Play
12 5 (1.41%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.25%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (2.25%) Skype
2 7 (1.97%) Wireless
3 5 (1.41%) Internet
4 2 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.56%) DSL
4 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.56%) RFID
4 2 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.82%) MySQL
1 10 (2.82%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.69%) GIS
3 4 (1.13%) SQLite
4 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.56%) Power BI
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.28%) Looker
6 1 (0.28%) MS Access
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (7.32%) Android Studio
2 25 (7.04%) Git
2 25 (7.04%) JIRA
3 20 (5.63%) Xcode
4 16 (4.51%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.38%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (2.82%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.82%) Eclipse
6 10 (2.82%) Gradle
7 9 (2.54%) Appium
8 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.97%) CocoaPods
8 7 (1.97%) Postman
8 7 (1.97%) XCUITest
9 6 (1.69%) fastlane
9 6 (1.69%) GitLab
9 6 (1.69%) Selenium
9 6 (1.69%) XCTest
10 5 (1.41%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 91 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.46%) Finance
3 35 (9.86%) Banking
4 30 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.35%) Marketing
6 19 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.23%) Retail
8 13 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.82%) Electronics
10 9 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.97%) Publishing
12 6 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.13%) Automotive
13 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.85%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.56%) iGaming
15 2 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 104 (29.30%) Developer
2 56 (15.77%) Senior
3 36 (10.14%) Designer
4 24 (6.76%) Architect
5 22 (6.20%) Mobile Developer
6 20 (5.63%) Android Developer
7 18 (5.07%) Break Fix Engineer
7 18 (5.07%) Junior
7 18 (5.07%) Mobile Engineer
8 17 (4.79%) React Developer
9 16 (4.51%) UX Designer
10 15 (4.23%) Analyst
10 15 (4.23%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.94%) iOS Developer
11 14 (3.94%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.66%) Backend Developer
12 13 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.66%) Senior Designer
13 12 (3.38%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.38%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.42%) React Native
2 33 (9.30%) CSS
3 30 (8.45%) React
4 29 (8.17%) REST
4 29 (8.17%) RESTful
5 25 (7.04%) HTML
6 24 (6.76%) AngularJS
7 23 (6.48%) OAuth
8 22 (6.20%) GraphQL
9 19 (5.35%) Spring
10 18 (5.07%) Spring Boot
11 17 (4.79%) .NET
11 17 (4.79%) Jetpack Compose
12 16 (4.51%) Android Jetpack
12 16 (4.51%) OAuth2
13 14 (3.94%) SwiftUI
14 11 (3.10%) Ajax
14 11 (3.10%) Node.js
15 9 (2.54%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (2.54%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.38%) Virtual Team
4 11 (3.10%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.97%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.41%) FMCG
7 5 (1.41%) RIA
7 5 (1.41%) W3C
8 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.85%) Blog
9 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.85%) Java Card
9 3 (0.85%) Media Streaming
9 3 (0.85%) Tandem
9 3 (0.85%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 97 (27.32%) Android
2 79 (22.25%) Apple iOS
3 23 (6.48%) Windows
4 10 (2.82%) Linux
4 10 (2.82%) Unix
5 9 (2.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (25.63%) User Experience
2 89 (25.07%) Agile
3 75 (21.13%) CI/CD
4 64 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (14.08%) Test Automation
6 44 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (12.11%) AI
7 43 (12.11%) UX Design
8 38 (10.70%) Software Engineering
9 36 (10.14%) Analytics
9 36 (10.14%) DevOps
10 35 (9.86%) Design Patterns
11 33 (9.30%) Android Development
12 32 (9.01%) iOS Development
13 30 (8.45%) Mobile Development
14 28 (7.89%) Mobile Application Development
15 26 (7.32%) Mentoring
16 25 (7.04%) Microservices
17 24 (6.76%) MVVM
17 24 (6.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (19.15%) Java
2 58 (16.34%) Kotlin
3 56 (15.77%) JavaScript
4 33 (9.30%) Swift
5 28 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.20%) SQL
7 19 (5.35%) C#
8 17 (4.79%) Python
9 11 (3.10%) Objective-C
9 11 (3.10%) Perl
10 5 (1.41%) Go
11 3 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.56%) R
12 2 (0.56%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.73%) Degree
3 19 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.54%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.25%) PMP
7 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.85%) MBA
9 2 (0.56%) CISSP
9 2 (0.56%) SANS
10 1 (0.28%) CCA
10 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) GIAC
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.49%) Accessibility
2 48 (13.52%) QA
3 18 (5.07%) WCAG
4 6 (1.69%) GDPR
5 5 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
6 3 (0.85%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.56%) HL7
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) DICOM
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (2.82%) Docker
2 9 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 11 (3.10%) Grafana
2 10 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.85%) Istio
5 3 (0.85%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.85%) linkerd
5 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.85%) Terraform
6 2 (0.56%) rkt
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 53 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.58%) Adobe
3 26 (7.32%) Google
4 19 (5.35%) HP
5 18 (5.07%) Oracle
5 18 (5.07%) Splunk
6 17 (4.79%) SAP
7 12 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.25%) Cisco
8 8 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.25%) Xamarin
9 7 (1.97%) Apple
10 6 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.69%) Tealium
11 5 (1.41%) ESRI
11 5 (1.41%) OneTrust
11 5 (1.41%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.13%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.85%) Coverity