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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 272 248
Rank change year-on-year -60 -24 +49
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 375 315 415
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.96% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.78% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 204 279
10th Percentile £363 £316 £320
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £548 £603
90th Percentile £675 £619 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +7.05% -2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £14.30 - -
25th Percentile £16.20 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% +1.15% +14.29%
75th Percentile £24.06 - £68.17
90th Percentile £35.43 - £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £12.25
% change year-on-year -56.75% +230.29% -50.25%

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 17,556 11,324 12,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.27% 34.65% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,740 6,998 8,033
10th Percentile £318 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £672
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 899 543 732
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.17 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.25 £41.25
% change year-on-year +45.32% -26.67% -9.16%

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 24 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 24 July 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 24 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 -80 305 £509 +8.36% 283
UK excluding London -65 171 £471 +7.05% 179
London -75 158 £525 +5.00% 148
Work from Home -79 77 £475 -2.56% 90
North of England -72 52 £500 +25.00% 56
South West -15 34 £475 -5.00% 23
Scotland +10 33 £400 -20.00% 11
North West -46 26 £500 +33.33% 26
Midlands -51 25 £524 +13.23% 27
West Midlands -51 19 £469 +9.05% 10
South East -59 18 £413 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -54 17 £525 +29.23% 24
North East -31 9 £450 -13.25% 9
Wales -10 8 £425 - 7
East Midlands -20 6 £526 +13.62% 17
East of England -19 2 £500 +21.21% 19

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 (3.20%) Confluence
2 7 (1.87%) CMS
3 5 (1.33%) Moodle
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (4.00%) Sketch
3 9 (2.40%) Chatbot
3 9 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.07%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.53%) InVision
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.87%) Shopify
2 6 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Workfront
4 1 (0.27%) Magento
4 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.60%) Azure
2 39 (10.40%) GitHub
3 38 (10.13%) Figma
4 34 (9.07%) AWS
5 24 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (4.53%) Firebase
6 17 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.27%) SaaS
8 15 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 15 (4.00%) Google Play
9 11 (2.93%) GCP
10 7 (1.87%) Cloud Run
10 7 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.60%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (1.60%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.60%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.60%) Sauce Labs
12 5 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.07%) Network Security
2 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.53%) DSL
3 2 (0.53%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.07%) Power BI
3 3 (0.80%) GIS
3 3 (0.80%) MySQL
3 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.53%) Looker
4 2 (0.53%) SQLite
4 2 (0.53%) Tableau
5 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (7.73%) Git
2 21 (5.60%) JIRA
3 19 (5.07%) Gradle
4 18 (4.80%) Android Studio
5 16 (4.27%) Xcode
6 14 (3.73%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.20%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.93%) fastlane
8 11 (2.93%) XCUITest
9 10 (2.67%) JUnit
9 10 (2.67%) XCTest
10 9 (2.40%) LoadRunner
11 7 (1.87%) Appium
12 5 (1.33%) Crashlytics
13 4 (1.07%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.53%) JMeter
15 2 (0.53%) Postman
15 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 102 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.53%) Finance
3 37 (9.87%) Banking
4 30 (8.00%) Retail
5 24 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.67%) Marketing
7 5 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.07%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.07%) Italian Language
8 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.80%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Games
10 2 (0.53%) Military
10 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Automotive
11 1 (0.27%) Electronics
11 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 101 (26.93%) Developer
2 63 (16.80%) Senior
3 48 (12.80%) Designer
4 31 (8.27%) Android Developer
5 28 (7.47%) iOS Developer
6 22 (5.87%) Architect
7 21 (5.60%) Android Engineer
7 21 (5.60%) Product Designer
8 19 (5.07%) Lead
9 18 (4.80%) Mobile Engineer
10 17 (4.53%) Analyst
10 17 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.27%) Product Manager
12 15 (4.00%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.73%) UX Designer
14 13 (3.47%) UI Designer
15 10 (2.67%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.67%) Mobile Designer
15 10 (2.67%) Mobile Developer
15 10 (2.67%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.67%) REST
2 45 (12.00%) RESTful
3 37 (9.87%) Android Jetpack
4 32 (8.53%) React Native
5 29 (7.73%) Jetpack Compose
6 26 (6.93%) Android SDK
7 23 (6.13%) SwiftUI
8 20 (5.33%) OAuth
8 20 (5.33%) UIKit
9 13 (3.47%) GraphQL
9 13 (3.47%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.47%) Spring
9 13 (3.47%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.47%) Web Services
10 10 (2.67%) React
11 9 (2.40%) Core Data
11 9 (2.40%) CSS
11 9 (2.40%) HTML
11 9 (2.40%) iOS SDK
11 9 (2.40%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.47%) Security Posture
5 10 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (2.40%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.33%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.33%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.33%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.33%) Social Media
9 4 (1.07%) CMDB
9 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.07%) NHS
10 3 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 112 (29.87%) Android
2 99 (26.40%) Apple iOS
3 16 (4.27%) Windows
4 7 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.07%) Linux
7 3 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.80%) Agile
2 94 (25.07%) User Experience
3 85 (22.67%) AI
4 67 (17.87%) CI/CD
5 55 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (13.33%) DevOps
6 50 (13.33%) UX Design
7 49 (13.07%) Android Development
8 48 (12.80%) MVVM
9 47 (12.53%) iOS Development
10 41 (10.93%) Analytics
10 41 (10.93%) Scrum
10 41 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (10.67%) Test Automation
12 37 (9.87%) Roadmaps
13 36 (9.60%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (9.60%) Generative AI
14 34 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (8.80%) Observability
16 27 (7.20%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 67 (17.87%) Kotlin
2 64 (17.07%) Java
3 41 (10.93%) Swift
4 24 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.53%) Python
6 11 (2.93%) Objective-C
7 9 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.60%) SQL
9 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.07%) C++
11 3 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.53%) C#
12 2 (0.53%) Go
12 2 (0.53%) Korn
12 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) ABAP
13 1 (0.27%) Dart
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 46 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.27%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.07%) Degree
4 16 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) MBA
8 2 (0.53%) CCA
8 2 (0.53%) CISSP
8 2 (0.53%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.53%) OSCP
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.27%) ECSA
9 1 (0.27%) GPEN
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.60%) Accessibility
2 42 (11.20%) QA
3 17 (4.53%) WCAG
4 6 (1.60%) GDPR
5 4 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.80%) PSD2
7 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.53%) GRC
7 2 (0.53%) HL7
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.27%) DICOM
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.13%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.27%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.93%) Grafana
4 6 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.07%) Istio
5 4 (1.07%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.07%) linkerd
5 4 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.07%) Terraform
6 3 (0.80%) Ansible
6 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.80%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.33%) Google
3 33 (8.80%) Adobe
4 19 (5.07%) Apple
4 19 (5.07%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.20%) Oracle
6 12 (3.20%) Splunk
7 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.33%) SAP
9 4 (1.07%) Braze
9 4 (1.07%) Tealium
10 3 (0.80%) Samsung
11 2 (0.53%) Dell
11 2 (0.53%) ESRI
11 2 (0.53%) HP
12 1 (0.27%) Databricks
12 1 (0.27%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.27%) VMware