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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 216 274
Rank change year-on-year -28 +58 -62
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 371 432 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.17% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 3.79% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 276 313
10th Percentile £313 £263 £326
25th Percentile £383 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £606 £653 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +10.00% -17.95% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 14
10th Percentile £17.03 - -
25th Percentile £18.21 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £29.67 £81.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.46% +82.43% +30.88%
75th Percentile £40.46 - £63.81
90th Percentile - - £77.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.46 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +97.78%

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 11,950 11,387 15,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.01% 30.72% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,330 6,760 10,522
10th Percentile £289 £281 £300
25th Percentile £407 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 643 385 481
10th Percentile £14.11 £16.94 £16.92
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.30 £21.05
Median hourly rate £26.78 £46.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.01% +3.78% +71.15%
75th Percentile £50.88 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.30 £75.16 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £50.00 £47.59
% change year-on-year -49.85% +5.06% +111.51%

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 October 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 20 October 2025.

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 October 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 -32 338 £495 +7.03% 484
London -34 173 £514 +5.98% 160
UK excluding London -7 165 £440 +10.00% 440
Work from Home -42 102 £500 +11.11% 195
North of England -32 65 £389 -14.74% 106
South East +23 38 £450 +16.13% 134
Midlands -10 33 £475 +35.71% 61
Yorkshire -25 32 £406 -16.67% 29
North West -27 30 £373 -6.88% 61
East Midlands -4 20 £475 -2.06% 16
South West +9 14 £600 +84.62% 31
West Midlands -13 13 £463 +218.97% 45
Scotland -5 9 £500 +42.86% 26
Wales -1 4 £450 -1.37% 25
North East -1 3 £519 - 18
East of England -3 2 £400 -20.00% 49

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 18 (4.85%) CMS
1 18 (4.85%) Confluence
2 8 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.35%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.81%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.54%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.96%) Chatbot
3 8 (2.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.62%) Adobe Captivate
6 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.35%) Zeplin
7 4 (1.08%) Sketch
8 3 (0.81%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.27%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.21%) Azure
2 45 (12.13%) Figma
3 34 (9.16%) AWS
4 25 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.47%) SaaS
6 16 (4.31%) GitHub
6 16 (4.31%) Google Play
6 16 (4.31%) Sauce Labs
7 13 (3.50%) Serverless
8 12 (3.23%) Firebase
8 12 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.43%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.62%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.62%) GCP
10 6 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.62%) Miro
11 5 (1.35%) Sentry
12 4 (1.08%) Contentful
12 4 (1.08%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.31%) Wireless
2 9 (2.43%) Internet
3 5 (1.35%) HTTP
4 4 (1.08%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.81%) Firewall
5 3 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.27%) Broadband
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) Intranet
6 1 (0.27%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.27%) LAN
6 1 (0.27%) MQTT
6 1 (0.27%) SMS
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.85%) MySQL
2 16 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.16%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.81%) Flink
6 3 (0.81%) Metadata
6 3 (0.81%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.81%) Power BI
6 3 (0.81%) SQLite
7 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.54%) Big Data
7 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.27%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.27%) GIS
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (17.25%) Git
2 47 (12.67%) Xcode
3 30 (8.09%) Android Studio
4 26 (7.01%) JIRA
5 24 (6.47%) Gradle
6 20 (5.39%) Jenkins
7 17 (4.58%) Appium
8 16 (4.31%) Browser DevTools
9 15 (4.04%) Eclipse
10 13 (3.50%) Postman
11 9 (2.43%) Selenium
12 8 (2.16%) Storybook
13 7 (1.89%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.89%) XCUITest
14 6 (1.62%) CocoaPods
15 5 (1.35%) Charles Proxy
15 5 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
16 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
16 4 (1.08%) NUnit
16 4 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 102 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.14%) Finance
3 55 (14.82%) Banking
4 21 (5.66%) Retail
5 19 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.04%) Marketing
7 12 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.16%) Automotive
9 7 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.89%) Law
9 7 (1.89%) Legal
10 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Games
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (35.58%) Developer
2 46 (12.40%) Senior
3 45 (12.13%) Designer
4 38 (10.24%) Android Developer
5 31 (8.36%) iOS Developer
6 22 (5.93%) Lead
6 22 (5.93%) Product Designer
7 18 (4.85%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 18 (4.85%) React Developer
8 17 (4.58%) Support Engineer
9 16 (4.31%) Mobile Developer
9 16 (4.31%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (4.31%) Technical Support
9 16 (4.31%) Technical Support Engineer
9 16 (4.31%) UX Engineer
10 14 (3.77%) Mobile Engineer
10 14 (3.77%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.50%) Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Applications Developer
12 12 (3.23%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.25%) RESTful
2 55 (14.82%) CSS
3 40 (10.78%) HTML
4 39 (10.51%) React
4 39 (10.51%) React Native
5 32 (8.63%) GraphQL
6 28 (7.55%) AngularJS
7 27 (7.28%) .NET
8 26 (7.01%) REST
9 23 (6.20%) Node.js
10 21 (5.66%) Android Jetpack
11 20 (5.39%) JSON
12 19 (5.12%) Jetpack Compose
13 18 (4.85%) SwiftUI
14 16 (4.31%) Ajax
15 15 (4.04%) Web Services
16 14 (3.77%) OAuth
17 13 (3.50%) Redux
18 12 (3.23%) Flutter
19 11 (2.96%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.96%) Virtual Team
3 10 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.43%) Mobile Banking
5 7 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.89%) iPhone
6 6 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.62%) RIA
6 6 (1.62%) W3C
7 5 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.08%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.08%) IoT
8 4 (1.08%) iPad
8 4 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (0.81%) NHS
9 3 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 141 (38.01%) Android
2 113 (30.46%) Apple iOS
3 22 (5.93%) Windows
4 18 (4.85%) Unix
5 17 (4.58%) Linux
6 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.54%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (39.35%) Agile
2 132 (35.58%) User Experience
3 99 (26.68%) CI/CD
4 74 (19.95%) DevOps
5 70 (18.87%) UX Design
6 62 (16.71%) Mobile Application Development
7 48 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (12.67%) Mobile Development
9 46 (12.40%) iOS Development
9 46 (12.40%) MVVM
9 46 (12.40%) Test Automation
10 45 (12.13%) Scrum
11 44 (11.86%) Android Development
12 43 (11.59%) Analytics
13 38 (10.24%) Design Patterns
14 34 (9.16%) Performance Optimisation
15 33 (8.89%) Mentoring
16 31 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
16 31 (8.36%) Prototyping
17 30 (8.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (21.02%) JavaScript
2 73 (19.68%) Java
3 68 (18.33%) Kotlin
4 54 (14.56%) Swift
5 41 (11.05%) Python
6 35 (9.43%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.55%) Objective-C
8 22 (5.93%) C#
9 19 (5.12%) Perl
10 18 (4.85%) SQL
11 13 (3.50%) Ruby
12 7 (1.89%) C
12 7 (1.89%) C++
12 7 (1.89%) PHP
12 7 (1.89%) Scala
13 6 (1.62%) Go
14 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.81%) Dart
16 2 (0.54%) JSX
16 2 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (8.63%) Degree
2 10 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.16%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.62%) ISTQB
5 6 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.62%) PMP
6 3 (0.81%) ACSP
6 3 (0.81%) ACTC
7 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.54%) ISEB
7 2 (0.54%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.27%) MCSE
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) MOS
8 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (18.60%) Accessibility
2 43 (11.59%) QA
3 9 (2.43%) GDPR
4 7 (1.89%) WCAG
5 4 (1.08%) SLA
6 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.54%) PERC
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (2.70%) Docker
2 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.81%) Grafana
4 3 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.81%) Kibana
4 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.81%) Terraform
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
5 2 (0.54%) rkt
5 2 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.82%) Google
3 25 (6.74%) Oracle
4 21 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.39%) Splunk
6 18 (4.85%) Apple
7 14 (3.77%) Adobe
8 5 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.35%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.08%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.08%) SAP
9 4 (1.08%) YouTube
10 3 (0.81%) Hotjar
10 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.54%) Mercator
11 2 (0.54%) OneTrust
11 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.54%) Sitecore