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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 250 204
Rank change year-on-year -87 -46 +83
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 401 355 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.08% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 3.02% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 245 304
10th Percentile £363 £314 £281
25th Percentile £413 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £405 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £15.56 - £64.04
25th Percentile £17.25 - £66.34
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% -42.35% +57.71%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £75.68
90th Percentile £56.60 - £78.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £67.59
% change year-on-year -56.75% -40.14% +51.89%

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 18,473 11,749 11,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 35.66% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,074 7,189 7,185
10th Percentile £322 £298 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,189 585 474
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.13 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +33.33% -47.69% +18.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -87 317 £505 +6.32% 660
UK excluding London -75 190 £450 +11.11% 305
London -83 161 £518 +3.50% 407
Work from Home -99 71 £475 -2.56% 236
North of England -75 59 £525 +32.41% 85
Scotland +8 44 £390 -22.00% 23
South West -10 33 £450 -21.74% 28
North West -53 30 £550 +46.67% 55
Midlands -45 26 £535 +15.62% 48
West Midlands -34 21 £550 +27.54% 20
Yorkshire -47 21 £525 +29.23% 27
South East -71 18 £315 +51.81% 77
Wales -8 9 £419 -6.94% 9
North East -43 8 £450 -13.25% 3
East Midlands -24 5 £533 +15.14% 28
East of England -29 2 £500 +25.00% 26

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 12 (2.99%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) CMS
3 4 (1.00%) Moodle
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (2.99%) Sketch
3 9 (2.24%) Chatbot
4 8 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.75%) Shopify
2 6 (1.50%) Maximo
3 3 (0.75%) Workfront
4 2 (0.50%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 51 (12.72%) Azure
2 41 (10.22%) GitHub
3 37 (9.23%) Figma
4 28 (6.98%) AWS
5 23 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (3.99%) Firebase
8 16 (3.99%) Google Play
9 15 (3.74%) Entra ID
9 15 (3.74%) SaaS
10 10 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (2.24%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.00%) GCP
13 5 (1.25%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.25%) Lucidchart
14 4 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) WAN
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
4 1 (0.25%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.75%) Power BI
2 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.00%) Tableau
4 3 (0.75%) Looker
4 3 (0.75%) MySQL
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%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (6.48%) Git
2 23 (5.74%) JIRA
3 17 (4.24%) Gradle
4 14 (3.49%) Android Studio
4 14 (3.49%) Xcode
5 13 (3.24%) CircleCI
5 13 (3.24%) fastlane
5 13 (3.24%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.49%) XCUITest
7 9 (2.24%) LoadRunner
8 8 (2.00%) Appium
8 8 (2.00%) XCTest
9 7 (1.75%) JUnit
10 5 (1.25%) Crashlytics
11 4 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (1.00%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.50%) CocoaPods
13 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 115 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.96%) Finance
3 44 (10.97%) Banking
4 28 (6.98%) Retail
5 26 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.99%) Marketing
8 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.49%) Italian Language
10 6 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Games
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) French Language
Job Titles
1 100 (24.94%) Developer
2 64 (15.96%) Senior
3 46 (11.47%) Designer
4 35 (8.73%) Android Developer
5 29 (7.23%) iOS Developer
6 25 (6.23%) Lead
7 23 (5.74%) Android Engineer
8 21 (5.24%) Architect
9 20 (4.99%) Analyst
10 19 (4.74%) Product Designer
10 19 (4.74%) Project Manager
10 19 (4.74%) Tester
11 18 (4.49%) Mobile Engineer
12 15 (3.74%) Product Manager
13 14 (3.49%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.99%) Senior Android Engineer
15 11 (2.74%) QA Tester
16 10 (2.49%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.49%) Consultant
16 10 (2.49%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.72%) REST
1 47 (11.72%) RESTful
2 37 (9.23%) React Native
3 34 (8.48%) Android Jetpack
4 25 (6.23%) Android SDK
4 25 (6.23%) Jetpack Compose
5 20 (4.99%) SwiftUI
6 19 (4.74%) UIKit
7 14 (3.49%) Web Services
8 12 (2.99%) Flutter
9 10 (2.49%) React
10 9 (2.24%) Core Data
10 9 (2.24%) CSS
10 9 (2.24%) HTML
10 9 (2.24%) iOS SDK
10 9 (2.24%) OAuth
10 9 (2.24%) Retrofit
11 8 (2.00%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.75%) JSON
13 6 (1.50%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.99%) Educational Technology
6 11 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.74%) Credit Risk
6 11 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (1.50%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.50%) Social Media
8 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.25%) IoT
9 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.00%) CMDB
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 126 (31.42%) Android
2 105 (26.18%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.49%) Windows
4 8 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.42%) Agile
2 99 (24.69%) AI
3 92 (22.94%) User Experience
4 66 (16.46%) CI/CD
5 60 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (13.72%) Android Development
6 55 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (13.22%) DevOps
8 51 (12.72%) MVVM
9 49 (12.22%) iOS Development
9 49 (12.22%) Test Automation
10 46 (11.47%) Scrum
10 46 (11.47%) UX Design
11 40 (9.98%) Generative AI
12 39 (9.73%) Roadmaps
13 37 (9.23%) Analytics
13 37 (9.23%) Architectural Patterns
14 36 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (7.48%) Performance Optimisation
16 29 (7.23%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.97%) Kotlin
2 43 (10.72%) Java
3 41 (10.22%) Swift
4 28 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.24%) Python
6 14 (3.49%) Objective-C
7 13 (3.24%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.75%) SQL
10 4 (1.00%) C#
10 4 (1.00%) 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 37 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.99%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.24%) Degree
5 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.75%) 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%) GXPN
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.22%) Accessibility
2 52 (12.97%) QA
3 16 (3.99%) WCAG
4 5 (1.25%) GDPR
5 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) GRC
6 3 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (1.75%) Docker
2 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.75%) Firmware
5 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.00%) SCCM
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.48%) Google
3 28 (6.98%) Adobe
4 22 (5.49%) Apple
5 18 (4.49%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.99%) Oracle
8 8 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.25%) IBM
9 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.25%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.00%) Samsung
11 3 (0.75%) SAP
12 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.50%) Braze
12 2 (0.50%) Dell
12 2 (0.50%) Tealium
13 1 (0.25%) Databricks