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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 289 241
Rank change year-on-year -56 -48 +42
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 344 285 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.90% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.61% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 177 290
10th Percentile £366 £313 £321
25th Percentile £415 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -4.04% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £600
90th Percentile £681 £617 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +6.74% -1.11% -7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £19.62 - -
25th Percentile £29.51 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +1.15% +14.29%
75th Percentile £37.00 - £70.18
90th Percentile £40.60 - £81.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.36 £40.46 £38.63
% change year-on-year -66.99% +4.75% +136.89%

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 17,004 10,923 13,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.95% 34.62% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,378 6,804 8,348
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 502 918
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.92 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.90 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +42.25% -14.80% +53.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.16 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +46.53% -16.26% +49.93%

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 4 July 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 4 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 15 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 4 July 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 -66 288 £513 +7.89% 283
London -56 154 £526 +5.10% 128
UK excluding London -48 147 £475 +6.74% 196
Work from Home -77 81 £481 -1.28% 120
North of England -75 47 £450 +12.50% 58
South West -9 31 £525 +11.94% 18
Midlands -49 25 £529 +14.35% 30
North West -46 22 £481 +20.31% 37
West Midlands -49 20 £502 +16.73% 14
South East -43 19 £413 -21.43% 47
Scotland -9 17 £550 +23.60% 14
Yorkshire -53 16 £525 +7.14% 15
North East -31 9 £450 -13.25% 7
Wales -10 8 £425 +13.33% 8
East Midlands -23 5 £533 +15.14% 16

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 10 (2.91%) Confluence
2 8 (2.33%) CMS
3 5 (1.45%) Moodle
4 2 (0.58%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (4.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (3.49%) Sketch
3 9 (2.62%) Chatbot
3 9 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.87%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.58%) InVision
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Workfront
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (15.12%) Azure
2 42 (12.21%) AWS
3 32 (9.30%) GitHub
4 31 (9.01%) Figma
5 21 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.94%) SaaS
8 16 (4.65%) Firebase
9 14 (4.07%) Entra ID
10 13 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.20%) GCP
12 9 (2.62%) Google Play
13 7 (2.03%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.03%) Cloud Run
14 6 (1.74%) Adobe Analytics
14 6 (1.74%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.74%) Sauce Labs
15 5 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.16%) Network Security
2 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.58%) DSL
3 2 (0.58%) Firewall
4 1 (0.29%) 4G
4 1 (0.29%) 5G
4 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.29%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.45%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.87%) GIS
2 3 (0.87%) MySQL
2 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.87%) Power BI
2 3 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.58%) Looker
3 2 (0.58%) Tableau
4 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (6.40%) Git
2 18 (5.23%) JIRA
3 16 (4.65%) Xcode
4 15 (4.36%) Jenkins
5 14 (4.07%) Android Studio
5 14 (4.07%) Gradle
6 11 (3.20%) fastlane
7 9 (2.62%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.62%) JUnit
7 9 (2.62%) LoadRunner
7 9 (2.62%) XCUITest
8 8 (2.33%) Appium
8 8 (2.33%) XCTest
9 6 (1.74%) Postman
10 5 (1.45%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.45%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.45%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.45%) Selenium
11 4 (1.16%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.70%) Finance
3 31 (9.01%) Banking
4 27 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.10%) Retail
7 10 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.62%) Marketing
9 4 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.16%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.87%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.87%) Publishing
10 3 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Aviation
12 1 (0.29%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 96 (27.91%) Developer
2 61 (17.73%) Senior
3 41 (11.92%) Designer
4 23 (6.69%) Architect
5 22 (6.40%) iOS Developer
6 20 (5.81%) Android Developer
6 20 (5.81%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.52%) Product Designer
8 18 (5.23%) Mobile Engineer
9 17 (4.94%) Lead
10 15 (4.36%) Android Engineer
11 14 (4.07%) Tester
12 13 (3.78%) Analyst
12 13 (3.78%) Project Manager
13 12 (3.49%) Mobile Developer
14 11 (3.20%) UI Designer
14 11 (3.20%) UX Designer
15 10 (2.91%) Backend Developer
15 10 (2.91%) Product Manager
15 10 (2.91%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.12%) REST
2 41 (11.92%) RESTful
3 35 (10.17%) React Native
4 30 (8.72%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (6.98%) Jetpack Compose
6 23 (6.69%) Android SDK
7 21 (6.10%) OAuth
8 17 (4.94%) SwiftUI
9 15 (4.36%) UIKit
10 14 (4.07%) GraphQL
10 14 (4.07%) Spring
10 14 (4.07%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.07%) Web Services
11 13 (3.78%) OAuth2
12 11 (3.20%) React
13 10 (2.91%) .NET
13 10 (2.91%) CSS
14 9 (2.62%) HTML
14 9 (2.62%) iOS SDK
15 8 (2.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 12 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.33%) Mobile Banking
7 5 (1.45%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.45%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.16%) CMDB
8 4 (1.16%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.16%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.16%) NHS
9 3 (0.87%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (26.74%) Android
2 86 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.78%) Windows
4 5 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.16%) Linux
6 3 (0.87%) Unix
7 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (27.62%) Agile
2 82 (23.84%) User Experience
3 70 (20.35%) AI
3 70 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 54 (15.70%) DevOps
5 50 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (13.66%) UX Design
7 46 (13.37%) Test Automation
8 41 (11.92%) Analytics
9 38 (11.05%) Architectural Patterns
9 38 (11.05%) MVVM
10 36 (10.47%) iOS Development
11 34 (9.88%) Generative AI
12 33 (9.59%) Observability
12 33 (9.59%) Scrum
13 32 (9.30%) Android Development
14 30 (8.72%) Roadmaps
14 30 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (7.85%) TDD
16 25 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 62 (18.02%) Java
2 61 (17.73%) Kotlin
3 36 (10.47%) Swift
4 25 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.94%) Python
6 14 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.20%) C#
8 10 (2.91%) Objective-C
9 7 (2.03%) SQL
10 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.87%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.87%) Go
11 3 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.87%) Perl
12 2 (0.58%) C++
12 2 (0.58%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) ABAP
13 1 (0.29%) Korn
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.52%) Degree
4 10 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.87%) CISSP
7 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.87%) MBA
8 2 (0.58%) CCA
8 2 (0.58%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.58%) OSCP
9 1 (0.29%) CISM
9 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.29%) ECSA
9 1 (0.29%) GPEN
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.24%) Accessibility
2 43 (12.50%) QA
3 18 (5.23%) WCAG
4 6 (1.74%) GDPR
5 4 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.87%) PSD2
7 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.58%) GRC
7 2 (0.58%) HL7
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (2.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.29%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.20%) Grafana
4 7 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.16%) Istio
5 4 (1.16%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.16%) linkerd
5 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.16%) Terraform
6 3 (0.87%) Ansible
7 2 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.43%) Adobe
3 28 (8.14%) Google
4 19 (5.52%) Dynatrace
5 18 (5.23%) Apple
6 15 (4.36%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.78%) Oracle
8 12 (3.49%) Splunk
9 6 (1.74%) SAP
9 6 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.45%) Xamarin
11 4 (1.16%) Braze
11 4 (1.16%) Tealium
12 3 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.58%) Dell
13 2 (0.58%) ESRI
13 2 (0.58%) HP
13 2 (0.58%) Samsung
14 1 (0.29%) OneLogin
14 1 (0.29%) VMware