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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 244 214
Rank change year-on-year -85 -30 +72
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 412 373 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.13% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 3.14% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 258 284
10th Percentile £363 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £380 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £674 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% -10.53%
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 18,873 11,876 11,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.37% 35.92% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,278 7,270 6,942
10th Percentile £322 £294 £281
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £672
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,272 602 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.80 £15.29
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £75.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.27 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.12% -48.96% +13.09%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -103 331 £513 +7.89% 759
UK excluding London -62 199 £450 +9.09% 369
London -89 164 £523 +2.25% 467
Work from Home -104 72 £475 -2.81% 283
North of England -77 67 £538 +35.56% 102
Scotland +9 44 £390 -22.00% 28
South West -10 35 £463 -22.92% 35
North West -49 33 £550 +46.67% 65
Midlands -47 30 £537 +16.11% 60
Yorkshire -46 26 £544 +33.85% 32
West Midlands -25 24 £563 +30.43% 28
South East -74 16 £278 +33.73% 75
North East -32 10 £450 -13.25% 5
Wales -12 6 £413 -8.33% 25
East Midlands -26 6 £526 +13.62% 32
East of England -25 3 £556 +39.06% 32
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 11

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 13 (3.16%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) CMS
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Moodle
5 1 (0.24%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 20 (4.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (2.91%) Sketch
3 11 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.46%) Chatbot
6 5 (1.21%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) InVision
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.70%) Shopify
3 6 (1.46%) Maximo
4 4 (0.97%) Workfront
5 2 (0.49%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Magento
6 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (13.11%) Azure
2 42 (10.19%) GitHub
3 40 (9.71%) Figma
4 35 (8.50%) AWS
5 23 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (4.37%) Google Play
7 16 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 15 (3.64%) Firebase
8 15 (3.64%) SaaS
9 11 (2.67%) GCP
10 10 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.70%) Lucidchart
13 5 (1.21%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.97%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Firewall
1 4 (0.97%) Network Security
2 3 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) Broadband
4 1 (0.24%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.24%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.24%) Wireless
4 1 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.46%) Power BI
1 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.97%) MySQL
2 4 (0.97%) Tableau
3 3 (0.73%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.49%) Looker
4 2 (0.49%) SQLite
5 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.24%) Db2
5 1 (0.24%) Metadata
5 1 (0.24%) Parquet
5 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (6.31%) Git
2 24 (5.83%) JIRA
3 17 (4.13%) Gradle
4 14 (3.40%) CircleCI
4 14 (3.40%) Xcode
5 13 (3.16%) Android Studio
6 12 (2.91%) fastlane
6 12 (2.91%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.43%) XCUITest
8 9 (2.18%) LoadRunner
9 8 (1.94%) JUnit
9 8 (1.94%) XCTest
10 7 (1.70%) Appium
11 4 (0.97%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (0.97%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.73%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.73%) CocoaPods
12 3 (0.73%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.99%) Finance
3 47 (11.41%) Banking
4 31 (7.52%) Retail
5 25 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.37%) Marketing
8 10 (2.43%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.73%) Games
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.49%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.49%) Back Office
13 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Legal
13 2 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 98 (23.79%) Developer
2 68 (16.50%) Senior
3 49 (11.89%) Designer
4 37 (8.98%) Android Developer
5 31 (7.52%) iOS Developer
6 27 (6.55%) Architect
7 24 (5.83%) Lead
8 23 (5.58%) Android Engineer
9 21 (5.10%) Mobile Engineer
10 20 (4.85%) Analyst
10 20 (4.85%) Product Designer
11 19 (4.61%) Project Manager
11 19 (4.61%) Tester
12 14 (3.40%) Product Manager
13 13 (3.16%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.91%) Senior Android Engineer
15 11 (2.67%) QA Tester
15 11 (2.67%) React Developer
16 10 (2.43%) Finance Project Manager
16 10 (2.43%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.89%) REST
1 49 (11.89%) RESTful
2 40 (9.71%) React Native
3 35 (8.50%) Android Jetpack
4 27 (6.55%) Jetpack Compose
5 24 (5.83%) Android SDK
6 20 (4.85%) SwiftUI
7 19 (4.61%) UIKit
8 15 (3.64%) Web Services
9 14 (3.40%) Flutter
10 12 (2.91%) React
11 9 (2.18%) CSS
11 9 (2.18%) HTML
11 9 (2.18%) JSON
11 9 (2.18%) OAuth
11 9 (2.18%) Retrofit
12 8 (1.94%) Core Data
12 8 (1.94%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.94%) iOS SDK
13 6 (1.46%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.37%) Data Protection Act
2 18 (4.37%) Security Posture
3 13 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.91%) AI Agents
4 12 (2.91%) Educational Technology
4 12 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.67%) Credit Risk
6 7 (1.70%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (1.46%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (1.46%) Social Media
8 5 (1.21%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.21%) IoT
8 5 (1.21%) iPhone
8 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.97%) CMDB
9 4 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 136 (33.01%) Android
2 112 (27.18%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.85%) Windows
4 9 (2.18%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.70%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.97%) Linux
6 4 (0.97%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (30.34%) Agile
2 105 (25.49%) AI
3 96 (23.30%) User Experience
4 66 (16.02%) CI/CD
5 62 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (13.83%) Android Development
7 56 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 53 (12.86%) DevOps
8 53 (12.86%) Test Automation
9 50 (12.14%) iOS Development
10 49 (11.89%) MVVM
11 46 (11.17%) UX Design
12 45 (10.92%) Scrum
13 43 (10.44%) Generative AI
14 38 (9.22%) Roadmaps
15 37 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (8.74%) Analytics
17 35 (8.50%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (8.50%) Mobile Development
18 30 (7.28%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.14%) Kotlin
2 43 (10.44%) Java
3 42 (10.19%) Swift
4 30 (7.28%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.85%) Python
6 15 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.40%) Objective-C
8 9 (2.18%) SQL
9 8 (1.94%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.97%) C#
10 4 (0.97%) C++
10 4 (0.97%) Perl
11 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.49%) Go
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
11 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.24%) ABAP
12 1 (0.24%) Dart
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (8.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
2 23 (5.58%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.85%) Degree
4 12 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.97%) MBA
8 2 (0.49%) CCA
8 2 (0.49%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.49%) OSCP
8 2 (0.49%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.24%) ECSA
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.11%) Accessibility
1 54 (13.11%) QA
2 14 (3.40%) WCAG
3 5 (1.21%) GDPR
4 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) GRC
5 3 (0.73%) PSD2
6 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.49%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.18%) Docker
2 6 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.73%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.97%) SCCM
6 3 (0.73%) Ansible
7 2 (0.49%) Argo
8 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.24%) Grafana
8 1 (0.24%) Istio
8 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.24%) linkerd
8 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.77%) Google
3 30 (7.28%) Adobe
4 23 (5.58%) Apple
5 16 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 16 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.16%) Oracle
7 9 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.21%) IBM
8 5 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.21%) Samsung
8 5 (1.21%) Splunk
9 4 (0.97%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.97%) SAP
10 2 (0.49%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.49%) Dell
10 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.24%) Braze
11 1 (0.24%) Databricks