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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 279 241
Rank change year-on-year -25 -38 +37
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 348 260 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.88% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 2.61% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 177 257
10th Percentile £191 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £681 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £27.50 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £63.00 - £70.18
90th Percentile £70.00 - £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.63
% change year-on-year - - +10.36%

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 14,935 9,957 13,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.27% 33.81% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,311 6,381 8,490
10th Percentile £303 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 386 900
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £22.33 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.51 £58.54
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.20 £67.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% +25.00% +17.75%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -32 288 £500 - 274
UK excluding London -24 164 £450 -2.70% 209
London -46 146 £525 - 102
Work from Home -48 87 £475 -4.04% 141
North of England -47 43 £425 +6.25% 59
South East -40 36 £448 -23.42% 53
North West -37 30 £400 - 31
South West -10 29 £488 +19.05% 33
Wales +11 20 £425 +13.33% 8
Midlands -57 18 £524 +13.23% 27
Scotland 0 13 £550 +37.50% 12
West Midlands -50 12 £475 +3.26% 19
Yorkshire -58 12 £525 +23.53% 25
East Midlands -36 6 £569 +21.28% 8
East of England -30 5 £185 -69.80% 20
North East -15 1 £525 - 4

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 17 (4.89%) Confluence
2 12 (3.45%) CMS
2 12 (3.45%) Moodle
3 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.44%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.86%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.86%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (4.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 15 (4.31%) Chatbot
2 11 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.16%) Sketch
3 10 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.72%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.57%) InVision
7 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.06%) Figma
2 33 (9.48%) AWS
3 25 (7.18%) Azure
4 18 (5.17%) GitHub
5 17 (4.89%) SaaS
6 14 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (3.74%) GCP
8 12 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (3.16%) Firebase
10 10 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.01%) Cloud Run
11 7 (2.01%) Sauce Labs
12 6 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.72%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.72%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.72%) Serverless
13 5 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.15%) Azure API Management
14 4 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (2.30%) Skype
2 2 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.57%) DSL
2 2 (0.57%) Firewall
2 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.57%) RFID
2 2 (0.57%) VPN
2 2 (0.57%) Wireless
3 1 (0.29%) 4G
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.44%) GIS
1 5 (1.44%) MySQL
1 5 (1.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.86%) Power BI
3 2 (0.57%) Looker
3 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.57%) Tableau
4 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.29%) MS Access
4 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (6.32%) JIRA
2 18 (5.17%) Git
3 16 (4.60%) Android Studio
4 12 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.87%) Appium
5 10 (2.87%) Xcode
6 9 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
7 7 (2.01%) XCTest
7 7 (2.01%) XCUITest
8 6 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.72%) GitLab
8 6 (1.72%) Gradle
8 6 (1.72%) Selenium
9 5 (1.44%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.44%) fastlane
9 5 (1.44%) Postman
10 4 (1.15%) CocoaPods
10 4 (1.15%) ESLint
10 4 (1.15%) REST Assured
General
1 82 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.95%) Finance
3 34 (9.77%) Banking
4 30 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.17%) Marketing
6 18 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.02%) Retail
8 13 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.16%) Electronics
10 9 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.72%) Publishing
12 4 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Automotive
13 3 (0.86%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 92 (26.44%) Developer
2 51 (14.66%) Senior
3 40 (11.49%) Designer
4 24 (6.90%) Architect
5 21 (6.03%) Mobile Engineer
6 18 (5.17%) Break Fix Engineer
6 18 (5.17%) Junior
7 17 (4.89%) Mobile Developer
8 16 (4.60%) Android Developer
8 16 (4.60%) UX Designer
9 15 (4.31%) React Developer
9 15 (4.31%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Analyst
10 14 (4.02%) Lead
11 13 (3.74%) Backend Developer
12 12 (3.45%) Moodle Developer
12 12 (3.45%) Senior Designer
12 12 (3.45%) Tester
12 12 (3.45%) Visual Designer
13 11 (3.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.21%) React Native
2 30 (8.62%) REST
3 25 (7.18%) OAuth
4 21 (6.03%) CSS
5 19 (5.46%) GraphQL
5 19 (5.46%) React
5 19 (5.46%) RESTful
5 19 (5.46%) Spring
6 18 (5.17%) HTML
6 18 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 16 (4.60%) OAuth2
8 13 (3.74%) Android Jetpack
9 12 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.45%) Jetpack Compose
10 11 (3.16%) .NET
11 10 (2.87%) SwiftUI
12 9 (2.59%) Flutter
12 9 (2.59%) Node.js
13 8 (2.30%) UIKit
14 6 (1.72%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.89%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.31%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
6 6 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.44%) FMCG
8 4 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.86%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.86%) Blog
9 3 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.86%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.86%) Media Streaming
9 3 (0.86%) Web3
10 2 (0.57%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 94 (27.01%) Android
2 80 (22.99%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.89%) Windows
4 9 (2.59%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.72%) Linux
6 5 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (21.84%) Agile
2 73 (20.98%) User Experience
3 66 (18.97%) CI/CD
4 61 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (15.23%) AI
6 50 (14.37%) Test Automation
7 47 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (10.63%) DevOps
9 35 (10.06%) Analytics
9 35 (10.06%) UX Design
10 29 (8.33%) Software Engineering
11 26 (7.47%) Observability
11 26 (7.47%) TDD
12 25 (7.18%) Android Development
12 25 (7.18%) Design Patterns
12 25 (7.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (7.18%) iOS Development
13 24 (6.90%) Generative AI
13 24 (6.90%) Mobile Development
14 23 (6.61%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.67%) Java
2 53 (15.23%) Kotlin
3 41 (11.78%) JavaScript
4 26 (7.47%) Swift
5 25 (7.18%) TypeScript
6 14 (4.02%) SQL
7 13 (3.74%) C#
8 12 (3.45%) Python
9 8 (2.30%) Objective-C
10 5 (1.44%) Perl
11 3 (0.86%) C++
11 3 (0.86%) Go
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.61%) Degree
4 9 (2.59%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.44%) PMP
8 3 (0.86%) MBA
9 2 (0.57%) CCA
9 2 (0.57%) CISSP
9 2 (0.57%) SANS
10 1 (0.29%) CCSAM
10 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) GPEN
10 1 (0.29%) GXPN
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.08%) Accessibility
2 35 (10.06%) QA
3 14 (4.02%) WCAG
4 8 (2.30%) GDPR
5 5 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.86%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.57%) HL7
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.57%) PSD2
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
System Software
1 8 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 8 (2.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (3.45%) Grafana
2 10 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.15%) Istio
4 4 (1.15%) Kustomize
4 4 (1.15%) linkerd
4 4 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.86%) Ansible
6 2 (0.57%) Terraform
7 1 (0.29%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 42 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.63%) Adobe
3 20 (5.75%) Google
4 19 (5.46%) HP
5 16 (4.60%) SAP
6 12 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.45%) Splunk
7 10 (2.87%) Oracle
8 8 (2.30%) Cisco
8 8 (2.30%) Tealium
8 8 (2.30%) Xamarin
9 7 (2.01%) Braze
9 7 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.72%) Apple
11 5 (1.44%) OneTrust
12 4 (1.15%) ESRI
12 4 (1.15%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.86%) Sitecore