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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 245 215
Rank change year-on-year -90 -30 +62
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 418 370 437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.11% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 3.08% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 266 282
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £406 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +8.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £562 £575
90th Percentile £626 £603 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £16.41 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.46 £81.18
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% -50.16% +82.43%
75th Percentile £55.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 -
% change year-on-year -56.75% - -

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 19,296 11,999 11,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.89% 36.07% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 7,366 6,884
10th Percentile £320 £293 £280
25th Percentile £423 £408 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -2.37% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,388 637 400
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.29 £16.84
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.50 £23.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.33 £47.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.06% -42.31% +5.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.96 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £26.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.26% -49.52% +2.46%

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 October 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 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 17 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 October 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 -112 342 £500 +2.04% 111
UK excluding London -60 199 £450 +5.88% 87
London -83 171 £505 -1.75% 43
Work from Home -100 83 £475 -5.00% 51
North of England -70 62 £550 +40.66% 22
Scotland +1 39 £375 -16.67% 1
South West -12 36 £450 -25.00% 13
North West -42 35 £550 +46.67% 15
Midlands -49 31 £537 +13.05% 12
West Midlands -33 25 £563 +21.62% 7
South East -71 24 £295 -10.27% 31
Yorkshire -46 19 £540 +32.92% 6
North East -31 10 £450 -13.25% 1
Wales -10 6 £413 -8.33% 5
East Midlands -19 6 £526 +10.63% 5
East of England -26 3 £556 +39.06% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 11 (2.63%) Confluence
2 4 (0.96%) CMS
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (4.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 10 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.15%) Sketch
4 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.67%) Shopify
3 6 (1.44%) Maximo
4 4 (0.96%) Workfront
5 3 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.48%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.48%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.24%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.24%) Magento
7 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.40%) Azure
2 48 (11.48%) GitHub
3 37 (8.85%) AWS
4 36 (8.61%) Figma
5 32 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.02%) Google Play
7 20 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.59%) Firebase
10 13 (3.11%) Entra ID
10 13 (3.11%) GCP
10 13 (3.11%) SaaS
11 9 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.91%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.67%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.20%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.96%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.96%) Miro
15 4 (0.96%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.96%) Firewall
2 3 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.72%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) Network Security
2 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) Broadband
4 1 (0.24%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.24%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.24%) Wireless
4 1 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.67%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.44%) Power BI
3 5 (1.20%) MySQL
4 4 (0.96%) Tableau
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.72%) SQLite
6 2 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.48%) Looker
6 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Db2
7 1 (0.24%) Metadata
7 1 (0.24%) Parquet
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (6.46%) Git
2 23 (5.50%) CircleCI
2 23 (5.50%) Gradle
2 23 (5.50%) JIRA
3 16 (3.83%) Xcode
4 13 (3.11%) Android Studio
4 13 (3.11%) fastlane
4 13 (3.11%) XCUITest
5 12 (2.87%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.87%) XCTest
6 11 (2.63%) JUnit
7 9 (2.15%) LoadRunner
8 8 (1.91%) Appium
9 7 (1.67%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (1.20%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.96%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.96%) CocoaPods
11 4 (0.96%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
12 3 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 117 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.18%) Finance
3 46 (11.00%) Banking
4 30 (7.18%) Retail
5 29 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.55%) Marketing
8 10 (2.39%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 5 (1.20%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.72%) Games
12 3 (0.72%) Local Government
12 3 (0.72%) Military
12 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.48%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (22.73%) Developer
2 71 (16.99%) Senior
3 47 (11.24%) Designer
4 38 (9.09%) Android Developer
5 30 (7.18%) iOS Developer
6 28 (6.70%) Android Engineer
6 28 (6.70%) Architect
7 26 (6.22%) Analyst
8 23 (5.50%) Lead
9 20 (4.78%) Mobile Engineer
9 20 (4.78%) Product Designer
10 19 (4.55%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.31%) Tester
12 14 (3.35%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.11%) Senior Android Engineer
14 12 (2.87%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.63%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.63%) QA Tester
15 11 (2.63%) React Developer
15 11 (2.63%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.11%) REST
2 55 (13.16%) RESTful
3 38 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
3 38 (9.09%) React Native
4 30 (7.18%) Jetpack Compose
5 26 (6.22%) Android SDK
6 24 (5.74%) UIKit
7 22 (5.26%) SwiftUI
8 15 (3.59%) Web Services
9 14 (3.35%) Flutter
10 12 (2.87%) React
11 11 (2.63%) iOS SDK
12 10 (2.39%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.15%) JSON
13 9 (2.15%) Retrofit
14 8 (1.91%) Core Data
14 8 (1.91%) CSS
14 8 (1.91%) HTML
14 8 (1.91%) RAML
14 8 (1.91%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.07%) Security Posture
3 15 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.87%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.87%) Educational Technology
7 11 (2.63%) Credit Risk
8 10 (2.39%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (2.15%) Legacy Code
10 8 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.67%) IoT
11 7 (1.67%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.44%) iPhone
12 6 (1.44%) Mobile Banking
12 6 (1.44%) NHS
12 6 (1.44%) Social Media
13 4 (0.96%) CMDB
13 4 (0.96%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 143 (34.21%) Android
2 118 (28.23%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.78%) Windows
4 10 (2.39%) macOS
5 7 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.96%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Linux
8 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (32.30%) Agile
2 101 (24.16%) AI
3 100 (23.92%) User Experience
4 81 (19.38%) CI/CD
5 68 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 62 (14.83%) Android Development
8 59 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (12.92%) MVVM
10 53 (12.68%) DevOps
11 52 (12.44%) iOS Development
12 51 (12.20%) Scrum
13 47 (11.24%) UX Design
14 45 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (9.81%) Architectural Patterns
16 40 (9.57%) Generative AI
17 37 (8.85%) Analytics
17 37 (8.85%) Roadmaps
18 36 (8.61%) Mobile Development
18 36 (8.61%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.11%) Kotlin
2 52 (12.44%) Java
3 49 (11.72%) Swift
4 30 (7.18%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.50%) Python
6 19 (4.55%) Objective-C
7 15 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.87%) SQL
9 8 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.20%) Go
10 5 (1.20%) Perl
11 4 (0.96%) C#
11 4 (0.96%) C++
11 4 (0.96%) Scala
12 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.48%) Korn
12 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Dart
13 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 27 (6.46%) Degree
3 23 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.96%) MBA
8 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.48%) OSCP
9 2 (0.48%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CEH
10 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.24%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.24%) ECSA
10 1 (0.24%) GWAPT
10 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (15.31%) QA
2 54 (12.92%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.11%) WCAG
4 8 (1.91%) GDPR
5 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.72%) GRC
6 3 (0.72%) PERC
6 3 (0.72%) PSD2
7 2 (0.48%) NCSC
7 2 (0.48%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) P3O
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.11%) Docker
2 7 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.96%) SCCM
5 2 (0.48%) Argo
5 2 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 56 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.37%) Google
3 27 (6.46%) Adobe
4 22 (5.26%) Apple
5 17 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.07%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.11%) Oracle
7 10 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.91%) Splunk
9 6 (1.44%) Samsung
10 5 (1.20%) IBM
10 5 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.96%) SAP
12 3 (0.72%) Tealium
13 2 (0.48%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.48%) Dell
13 2 (0.48%) New Relic
13 2 (0.48%) OneLogin