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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 271 234
Rank change year-on-year -62 -37 +74
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 382 324 408
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.99% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.83% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 212 276
10th Percentile £363 £313 £323
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £539 £610
90th Percentile £668 £600 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £419 £475
% change year-on-year +12.48% -11.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £14.72 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% +1.15% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.75 - £68.84
90th Percentile £32.90 - £74.58
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 17,825 11,449 12,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.43% 34.81% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,861 7,063 7,739
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 549 651
10th Percentile £15.93 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.87 £17.04
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +49.02% -28.48% +14.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -33.33% +1.12%

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 August 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 August 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 1 August 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 -85 311 £510 +10.27% 336
UK excluding London -54 170 £471 +12.48% 201
London -59 164 £525 +5.00% 181
Work from Home -80 77 £475 - 118
North of England -76 53 £504 +27.05% 64
South West -15 34 £475 -9.52% 26
Scotland +8 33 £400 -20.00% 12
North West -51 26 £550 +53.63% 26
Midlands -51 25 £524 +13.23% 30
West Midlands -53 19 £469 +17.23% 12
Yorkshire -49 18 £525 +31.25% 32
South East -65 16 £356 -26.92% 45
North East -35 9 £450 -13.25% 9
Wales -5 8 £425 - 8
East Midlands -23 6 £526 +13.62% 18
East of England -17 2 £500 +21.21% 17

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 11 (2.88%) Confluence
2 6 (1.57%) CMS
3 5 (1.31%) Moodle
4 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (4.19%) Sketch
3 9 (2.36%) Chatbot
4 8 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.05%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.52%) InVision
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.83%) Shopify
2 2 (0.52%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Workfront
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (12.83%) Azure
2 42 (10.99%) Figma
3 41 (10.73%) GitHub
4 31 (8.12%) AWS
5 26 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.45%) Firebase
8 16 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.19%) Google Play
9 15 (3.93%) SaaS
10 14 (3.66%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.62%) GCP
12 7 (1.83%) Cloud Run
12 7 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (1.57%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.57%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.57%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (1.31%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 5 (1.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (0.52%) DSL
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
2 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.26%) HTTP
3 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.05%) Power BI
3 3 (0.79%) GIS
3 3 (0.79%) MySQL
3 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.52%) Looker
4 2 (0.52%) SQLite
4 2 (0.52%) Tableau
5 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.26%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (7.59%) Git
2 20 (5.24%) JIRA
3 19 (4.97%) Gradle
4 18 (4.71%) Android Studio
5 16 (4.19%) Xcode
6 14 (3.66%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.14%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.88%) fastlane
8 11 (2.88%) XCUITest
9 10 (2.62%) JUnit
9 10 (2.62%) XCTest
10 9 (2.36%) LoadRunner
11 7 (1.83%) Appium
12 5 (1.31%) Crashlytics
13 4 (1.05%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (0.79%) Charles Proxy
14 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.52%) JMeter
15 2 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 103 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.28%) Finance
3 41 (10.73%) Banking
4 30 (7.85%) Retail
5 26 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.40%) Marketing
8 10 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.57%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.05%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.05%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.79%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.52%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.52%) Games
13 2 (0.52%) Military
14 1 (0.26%) iGaming
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 97 (25.39%) Developer
2 64 (16.75%) Senior
3 52 (13.61%) Designer
4 30 (7.85%) Android Developer
5 27 (7.07%) iOS Developer
6 24 (6.28%) Android Engineer
7 22 (5.76%) Architect
7 22 (5.76%) Product Designer
8 19 (4.97%) Mobile Engineer
9 18 (4.71%) Analyst
9 18 (4.71%) Lead
10 16 (4.19%) UX Designer
11 15 (3.93%) Product Manager
11 15 (3.93%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.93%) UI Designer
12 14 (3.66%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.40%) Tester
14 11 (2.88%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.88%) UI/UX Designer
15 10 (2.62%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.14%) REST
2 44 (11.52%) RESTful
3 38 (9.95%) Android Jetpack
4 30 (7.85%) Jetpack Compose
4 30 (7.85%) React Native
5 28 (7.33%) Android SDK
6 24 (6.28%) SwiftUI
7 20 (5.24%) UIKit
8 19 (4.97%) OAuth
9 13 (3.40%) GraphQL
9 13 (3.40%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.40%) Spring
9 13 (3.40%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.40%) Web Services
10 10 (2.62%) React
11 9 (2.36%) Core Data
11 9 (2.36%) CSS
11 9 (2.36%) HTML
11 9 (2.36%) iOS SDK
11 9 (2.36%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (3.40%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.40%) Security Posture
4 9 (2.36%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.09%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.83%) Educational Technology
7 6 (1.57%) Credit Risk
7 6 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.57%) Social Media
8 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.31%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.05%) CMDB
9 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.05%) NHS
10 3 (0.79%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 115 (30.10%) Android
2 98 (25.65%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.45%) Windows
4 7 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.05%) Linux
7 3 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.27%) Agile
2 100 (26.18%) User Experience
3 86 (22.51%) AI
4 71 (18.59%) CI/CD
5 53 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (13.87%) UX Design
6 50 (13.09%) Android Development
6 50 (13.09%) DevOps
6 50 (13.09%) MVVM
7 48 (12.57%) iOS Development
8 43 (11.26%) Analytics
9 42 (10.99%) Scrum
9 42 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (10.73%) Test Automation
11 38 (9.95%) Architectural Patterns
11 38 (9.95%) Roadmaps
12 36 (9.42%) Generative AI
13 35 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (8.90%) Observability
15 28 (7.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (17.80%) Kotlin
2 60 (15.71%) Java
3 41 (10.73%) Swift
4 24 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.45%) Python
6 9 (2.36%) Objective-C
6 9 (2.36%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.05%) C++
7 4 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.05%) SQL
8 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.79%) Perl
9 2 (0.52%) C#
9 2 (0.52%) Go
9 2 (0.52%) Korn
9 2 (0.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) ABAP
10 1 (0.26%) Dart
10 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.97%) Degree
4 17 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.79%) MBA
8 2 (0.52%) CCA
8 2 (0.52%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.52%) OSCP
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.26%) ECSA
9 1 (0.26%) GPEN
9 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.26%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.66%) Accessibility
2 44 (11.52%) QA
3 18 (4.71%) WCAG
4 6 (1.57%) GDPR
5 4 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.79%) PSD2
7 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.52%) GRC
7 2 (0.52%) HL7
7 2 (0.52%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) DICOM
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (2.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.26%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.88%) Grafana
4 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.05%) Istio
5 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.05%) linkerd
5 4 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.05%) SCCM
5 4 (1.05%) Terraform
6 3 (0.79%) Ansible
6 3 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.26%) Argo
Vendors
1 44 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.42%) Google
3 33 (8.64%) Adobe
4 19 (4.97%) Apple
4 19 (4.97%) Dynatrace
5 15 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.14%) Oracle
6 12 (3.14%) Splunk
7 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.05%) Braze
9 4 (1.05%) SAP
9 4 (1.05%) Tealium
10 3 (0.79%) Samsung
11 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.52%) Dell
11 2 (0.52%) ESRI
11 2 (0.52%) HP
11 2 (0.52%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.26%) VMware