Mobile App Contracts

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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 242 287
Rank change year-on-year -35 +45 -69
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 279 428 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.99% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 3.27% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 287 372
10th Percentile £313 £323 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -3.15% -2.59%
75th Percentile £542 £600 £638
90th Percentile £613 £700 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £450 £486
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.46% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - - £12.61
25th Percentile - £12.25 £20.49
Median hourly rate £40.46 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +14.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £70.18 £43.25
90th Percentile - £81.44 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.46 £38.63 £16.31
% change year-on-year +4.75% +136.89% -12.81%

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 10,751 13,103 18,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 30.19% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,673 8,321 12,606
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £676
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 926 580
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.81 £35.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +58.44% -16.60%
75th Percentile £57.55 £62.00 £60.64
90th Percentile £78.71 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.49% +57.78% +4.65%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 16 Contract 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 2 July 2025. 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 -41 231 £468 -6.35% 2,237
London -22 144 £500 -9.09% 1,177
Work from Home -10 103 £488 +5.41% 1,068
UK excluding London -22 98 £435 -3.33% 1,252
North of England -19 47 £400 -11.11% 318
North West -8 27 £400 -8.57% 169
Midlands +7 19 £463 -2.63% 168
Scotland -1 15 £445 +4.71% 114
Yorkshire -15 15 £490 +3.16% 116
East Midlands +7 13 £463 +32.14% 58
South West +31 7 £410 +9.20% 114
South East +39 6 £525 +31.25% 325
West Midlands +7 6 £430 -32.55% 110
North East +1 5 £519 -13.54% 35
East of England +11 2 £413 -21.91% 154
Wales +1 2 £375 -16.67% 48

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.23%) Apache
1 9 (3.23%) Confluence
2 7 (2.51%) CMS
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.08%) nginx
3 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.08%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.72%) MS Project Server
4 2 (0.72%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Drupal
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.79%) Sketch
3 4 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.43%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) Acrobat
4 3 (1.08%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.72%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.72%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.72%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.72%) Zeplin
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.36%) Maximo
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (18.64%) AWS
2 44 (15.77%) Azure
3 35 (12.54%) Figma
4 17 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (5.73%) Serverless
6 12 (4.30%) GitHub
7 10 (3.58%) GCP
8 9 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.23%) SaaS
9 7 (2.51%) Firebase
9 7 (2.51%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.15%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.15%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.79%) BrowserStack
11 5 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.79%) Google Play
12 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.43%) Miro
12 4 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.79%) Internet
2 3 (1.08%) Bluetooth
2 3 (1.08%) HTTP
3 2 (0.72%) Calico
3 2 (0.72%) Intranet
4 1 (0.36%) Broadband
4 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) SSL
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
4 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.23%) DynamoDB
1 9 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.15%) MySQL
4 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.08%) Big Data
5 3 (1.08%) Flink
5 3 (1.08%) Mixpanel
5 3 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.72%) Power BI
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.36%) Metadata
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (16.85%) Git
2 23 (8.24%) JIRA
3 17 (6.09%) Xcode
4 15 (5.38%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.66%) Appium
6 12 (4.30%) Postman
6 12 (4.30%) Selenium
7 8 (2.87%) Android Studio
7 8 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.15%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.15%) GitLab
8 6 (2.15%) Gradle
8 6 (2.15%) Subversion
9 5 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.79%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.08%) Gerrit
10 3 (1.08%) JUnit
10 3 (1.08%) Mocha
10 3 (1.08%) NUnit
10 3 (1.08%) TestRail
General
1 73 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.35%) Finance
3 27 (9.68%) Banking
4 23 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.45%) Marketing
5 18 (6.45%) Retail
6 13 (4.66%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.58%) Legal
8 6 (2.15%) Law
9 4 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Automotive
10 3 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (37.99%) Developer
2 38 (13.62%) Senior
3 35 (12.54%) Designer
4 29 (10.39%) Android Developer
5 18 (6.45%) Lead
5 18 (6.45%) React Developer
6 17 (6.09%) iOS Developer
7 14 (5.02%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.02%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.02%) UX Designer
8 12 (4.30%) Architect
8 12 (4.30%) Product Manager
9 10 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (3.23%) Analyst
10 9 (3.23%) Mobile Developer
10 9 (3.23%) Mobile Engineer
10 9 (3.23%) Product Designer
11 8 (2.87%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.51%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.51%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.39%) React Native
2 28 (10.04%) RESTful
3 27 (9.68%) CSS
3 27 (9.68%) HTML
4 26 (9.32%) Node.js
5 25 (8.96%) .NET
5 25 (8.96%) React
6 24 (8.60%) REST
7 20 (7.17%) GraphQL
8 16 (5.73%) Android Jetpack
9 15 (5.38%) Jetpack Compose
10 14 (5.02%) Android SDK
11 13 (4.66%) SwiftUI
12 11 (3.94%) Redux
13 10 (3.58%) Dagger
13 10 (3.58%) Next.js
13 10 (3.58%) UIKit
14 9 (3.23%) Flutter
14 9 (3.23%) Jest
15 8 (2.87%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 7 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.51%) iPhone
3 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.51%) Social Media
4 6 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.15%) Credit Risk
4 6 (2.15%) iPad
4 6 (2.15%) Mobile Banking
5 5 (1.79%) IoT
5 5 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.43%) Animation
6 4 (1.43%) PMI
7 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.08%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 89 (31.90%) Android
2 70 (25.09%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.15%) Windows
4 3 (1.08%) Linux
5 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (44.80%) Agile
2 98 (35.13%) User Experience
3 74 (26.52%) CI/CD
4 66 (23.66%) UX Design
5 48 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.13%) DevOps
6 45 (16.13%) Mobile Application Development
7 44 (15.77%) Test Automation
8 43 (15.41%) Mobile Development
9 39 (13.98%) Scrum
10 37 (13.26%) Prototyping
11 32 (11.47%) Android Development
12 29 (10.39%) MVVM
13 28 (10.04%) iOS Development
13 28 (10.04%) Mentoring
14 27 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (8.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (8.96%) Unit Testing
16 22 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (7.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.92%) Kotlin
2 44 (15.77%) JavaScript
3 39 (13.98%) Java
4 29 (10.39%) Swift
5 21 (7.53%) Python
6 20 (7.17%) Objective-C
7 17 (6.09%) C#
7 17 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.58%) Ruby
8 10 (3.58%) SQL
9 7 (2.51%) C++
10 6 (2.15%) PHP
10 6 (2.15%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.79%) Dart
11 5 (1.79%) Scala
12 4 (1.43%) C
12 4 (1.43%) Go
13 3 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.72%) JSX
14 2 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (7.89%) Degree
2 9 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.51%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.15%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.08%) ISEB
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.72%) PMP
8 1 (0.36%) ACSP
8 1 (0.36%) ACTC
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) MCSA
8 1 (0.36%) MCSE
8 1 (0.36%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.13%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.81%) QA
3 5 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.08%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.72%) NCSC
5 2 (0.72%) PSD2
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) PERC
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (2.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.51%) Terraform
3 3 (1.08%) Grafana
3 3 (1.08%) Kibana
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.72%) Istio
4 2 (0.72%) SCCM
4 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.45%) Google
3 14 (5.02%) Adobe
4 9 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.15%) YouTube
6 5 (1.79%) Optimizely
7 4 (1.43%) SAP
8 3 (1.08%) Apple
8 3 (1.08%) IBM
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.72%) NEC
9 2 (0.72%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.36%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.36%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.36%) Citrix
10 1 (0.36%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.36%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.36%) Wyse