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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 267 234
Rank change year-on-year -29 -33 +17
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 360 283 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.95% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 2.84% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 198 252
10th Percentile £197 £225 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £587 £620 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 16
10th Percentile £16.24 - £41.13
25th Percentile £18.87 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £50.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £80.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +65.74%

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 13,937 9,968 13,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.41% 33.38% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,783 6,129 8,678
10th Percentile £285 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 331 843
10th Percentile £15.40 £18.13 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.85 £22.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +7.76% +34.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £31.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year +5.48% +2.04% +41.48%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -26 316 £500 +0.50% 321
London -23 163 £513 -2.38% 122
UK excluding London -27 160 £425 +6.25% 256
Work from Home -64 94 £500 +8.11% 130
South East -17 46 £425 -19.05% 69
North of England -67 31 £400 - 66
South West -2 27 £563 +200.00% 32
Midlands -36 26 £529 +9.04% 42
North West -41 26 £400 +2.56% 36
Wales - 16 £173 - 9
East Midlands -23 13 £550 +11.11% 25
West Midlands -39 13 £475 +18.75% 17
Scotland +11 8 £475 +18.75% 17
East of England -22 6 £185 -76.13% 22
Yorkshire -64 5 £513 +5.13% 24

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 20 (5.56%) CMS
1 20 (5.56%) Confluence
2 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.94%) Moodle
4 6 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.39%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.39%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 16 (4.44%) Chatbot
2 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.67%) Adobe XD
5 6 (1.67%) Sketch
6 4 (1.11%) Adobe Captivate
6 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 33 (9.17%) AWS
1 33 (9.17%) Figma
2 24 (6.67%) SaaS
3 17 (4.72%) Azure
4 14 (3.89%) GCP
4 14 (3.89%) Sauce Labs
5 12 (3.33%) GitHub
6 11 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.22%) Firebase
8 8 (2.22%) Serverless
9 7 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.94%) Cloud Run
9 7 (1.94%) Kontent
10 6 (1.67%) Contentful
10 6 (1.67%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.67%) PaaS
11 5 (1.39%) Google Play
12 4 (1.11%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) Wireless
2 8 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (2.22%) Skype
3 5 (1.39%) Internet
4 3 (0.83%) HTTP
5 2 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.56%) Firewall
5 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.56%) RFID
5 2 (0.56%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
6 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.28%) DSL
6 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.28%) SMS
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.89%) MySQL
2 13 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.39%) GIS
4 4 (1.11%) SQLite
5 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.56%) Power BI
7 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) MS Access
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (8.61%) Git
2 29 (8.06%) Android Studio
3 26 (7.22%) JIRA
4 24 (6.67%) Xcode
5 15 (4.17%) Browser DevTools
6 13 (3.61%) Eclipse
7 12 (3.33%) Jenkins
8 11 (3.06%) Appium
9 10 (2.78%) Cypress.io
9 10 (2.78%) Postman
10 9 (2.50%) Gradle
11 7 (1.94%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.94%) CocoaPods
11 7 (1.94%) XCUITest
12 6 (1.67%) Charles Proxy
12 6 (1.67%) GitLab
12 6 (1.67%) Selenium
12 6 (1.67%) XCTest
13 5 (1.39%) WebDriver
14 4 (1.11%) Crashlytics
General
1 94 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.39%) Finance
3 37 (10.28%) Banking
4 30 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.72%) Marketing
8 15 (4.17%) Retail
9 13 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.78%) Electronics
11 9 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.94%) Publishing
13 4 (1.11%) Automotive
13 4 (1.11%) Digital Health
13 4 (1.11%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Legal
14 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 105 (29.17%) Developer
2 58 (16.11%) Senior
3 39 (10.83%) Designer
4 22 (6.11%) Android Developer
5 21 (5.83%) Mobile Developer
6 18 (5.00%) Architect
6 18 (5.00%) Break Fix Engineer
6 18 (5.00%) Junior
6 18 (5.00%) Mobile Engineer
7 17 (4.72%) React Developer
8 15 (4.17%) iOS Developer
8 15 (4.17%) UX Designer
9 14 (3.89%) Analyst
9 14 (3.89%) Applications Developer
9 14 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (3.89%) Software Engineer
9 14 (3.89%) Tester
10 13 (3.61%) Support Engineer
10 13 (3.61%) Technical Support
10 13 (3.61%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.56%) CSS
2 35 (9.72%) React
2 35 (9.72%) React Native
3 32 (8.89%) RESTful
4 27 (7.50%) AngularJS
4 27 (7.50%) HTML
5 26 (7.22%) REST
6 23 (6.39%) GraphQL
7 19 (5.28%) .NET
8 15 (4.17%) OAuth
8 15 (4.17%) Spring
9 14 (3.89%) Ajax
9 14 (3.89%) Android Jetpack
9 14 (3.89%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.61%) Jetpack Compose
10 13 (3.61%) Node.js
10 13 (3.61%) SwiftUI
11 10 (2.78%) .NET Framework
11 10 (2.78%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.06%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.06%) Onboarding
2 11 (3.06%) Virtual Team
3 9 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 8 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.39%) FMCG
6 5 (1.39%) RIA
6 5 (1.39%) W3C
7 3 (0.83%) Animation
7 3 (0.83%) Blockchain
7 3 (0.83%) Blog
7 3 (0.83%) Digital Media
7 3 (0.83%) EMV
7 3 (0.83%) Java Card
7 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.83%) Media Streaming
7 3 (0.83%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 103 (28.61%) Android
2 81 (22.50%) Apple iOS
3 27 (7.50%) Windows
4 14 (3.89%) Linux
5 13 (3.61%) Unix
6 9 (2.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (27.22%) Agile
2 94 (26.11%) User Experience
3 78 (21.67%) CI/CD
4 66 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (13.06%) Test Automation
6 42 (11.67%) AI
6 42 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (10.83%) UX Design
8 37 (10.28%) Design Patterns
9 36 (10.00%) Analytics
9 36 (10.00%) DevOps
9 36 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 34 (9.44%) Android Development
11 32 (8.89%) Mobile Application Development
12 30 (8.33%) iOS Development
13 27 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (7.50%) Mobile Development
14 24 (6.67%) Mentoring
14 24 (6.67%) MVVM
15 23 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.33%) Java
2 64 (17.78%) JavaScript
3 53 (14.72%) Kotlin
4 34 (9.44%) Swift
5 32 (8.89%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.39%) SQL
7 22 (6.11%) C#
8 21 (5.83%) Python
9 15 (4.17%) Perl
10 12 (3.33%) Objective-C
11 5 (1.39%) Go
12 3 (0.83%) C++
12 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.56%) R
13 2 (0.56%) Rust
14 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.28%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (8.89%) Degree
2 27 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.22%) PMP
7 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) CISSP
8 2 (0.56%) SANS
9 1 (0.28%) CCA
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) GIAC
9 1 (0.28%) ISEB
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.44%) Accessibility
2 50 (13.89%) QA
3 15 (4.17%) WCAG
4 8 (2.22%) GDPR
5 5 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.83%) NCSC
6 3 (0.83%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.56%) HL7
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) DICOM
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 10 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.28%) Firmware
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.50%) Grafana
3 8 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.56%) rkt
6 2 (0.56%) Terraform
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.28%) Istio
7 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.28%) linkerd
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.33%) Adobe
3 26 (7.22%) Google
4 23 (6.39%) Splunk
5 20 (5.56%) Oracle
6 19 (5.28%) HP
7 16 (4.44%) SAP
8 11 (3.06%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.78%) Xamarin
10 9 (2.50%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.22%) Cisco
12 7 (1.94%) Apple
13 6 (1.67%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.39%) OneTrust
14 5 (1.39%) Sitecore
15 4 (1.11%) ESRI
15 4 (1.11%) Optimizely
15 4 (1.11%) Tealium
16 3 (0.83%) Coverity
16 3 (0.83%) Thales