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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 247 206
Rank change year-on-year -78 -41 +98
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 406 347 458
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 2.96% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 235 305
10th Percentile £363 £316 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £577
90th Percentile £677 £583 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £405 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.43% -2.63%
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% +43.22%
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% +37.94%

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 18,469 11,725 11,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.89% 35.54% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,102 7,189 7,187
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £745 £763 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 579 500
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.84% +8.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +33.33% -47.69% +25.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -95 320 £505 +8.02% 340
UK excluding London -70 194 £450 +11.11% 194
London -79 161 £514 +2.75% 188
Work from Home -94 76 £475 -2.56% 121
North of England -79 62 £525 +33.59% 50
Scotland -9 44 £390 -22.00% 10
South West -17 34 £463 -19.57% 28
North West -57 32 £550 +46.67% 24
Midlands -52 26 £535 +15.62% 26
West Midlands -33 21 £550 +27.91% 11
Yorkshire -54 21 £525 +31.25% 22
South East -70 17 £325 -1.14% 54
Wales -6 10 £425 +3.03% 7
North East -42 9 £450 -13.25% 4
East Midlands -25 5 £533 +15.14% 15
East of England -28 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 13 (3.20%) Confluence
2 5 (1.23%) CMS
2 5 (1.23%) Moodle
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (2.96%) Sketch
3 10 (2.46%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.72%) Shopify
2 6 (1.48%) Maximo
3 2 (0.49%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.49%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (12.07%) Azure
2 42 (10.34%) GitHub
3 37 (9.11%) Figma
4 31 (7.64%) AWS
5 24 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.43%) Firebase
8 17 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.94%) Google Play
9 16 (3.94%) SaaS
10 15 (3.69%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (1.23%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.23%) GCP
13 5 (1.23%) Lucidchart
13 5 (1.23%) Sauce Labs
14 4 (0.99%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.99%) Firewall
1 4 (0.99%) Network Security
2 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) WAN
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
4 1 (0.25%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.72%) Power BI
2 5 (1.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.99%) Tableau
4 3 (0.74%) Looker
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.49%) SQLite
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (6.65%) Git
2 24 (5.91%) JIRA
3 17 (4.19%) Gradle
4 16 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.45%) Android Studio
5 14 (3.45%) Xcode
6 13 (3.20%) fastlane
7 12 (2.96%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.46%) XCUITest
9 9 (2.22%) Appium
9 9 (2.22%) LoadRunner
10 7 (1.72%) JUnit
10 7 (1.72%) XCTest
11 5 (1.23%) Crashlytics
12 4 (0.99%) Charles Proxy
12 4 (0.99%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.74%) JMeter
13 3 (0.74%) Postman
13 3 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 116 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.98%) Finance
3 48 (11.82%) Banking
4 28 (6.90%) Retail
5 26 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.94%) Marketing
8 11 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.46%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.74%) Games
11 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.74%) Local Government
11 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.49%) Military
13 1 (0.25%) French Language
Job Titles
1 105 (25.86%) Developer
2 65 (16.01%) Senior
3 47 (11.58%) Designer
4 35 (8.62%) Android Developer
5 30 (7.39%) iOS Developer
6 23 (5.67%) Android Engineer
7 22 (5.42%) Architect
7 22 (5.42%) Lead
8 20 (4.93%) Analyst
8 20 (4.93%) Project Manager
9 19 (4.68%) Mobile Engineer
9 19 (4.68%) Product Designer
9 19 (4.68%) Tester
10 15 (3.69%) Product Manager
11 14 (3.45%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.96%) Mobile Developer
12 12 (2.96%) Senior Android Engineer
13 11 (2.71%) QA Tester
13 11 (2.71%) UI Designer
13 11 (2.71%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.07%) REST
2 47 (11.58%) RESTful
3 36 (8.87%) React Native
4 33 (8.13%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (6.16%) Android SDK
5 25 (6.16%) Jetpack Compose
6 22 (5.42%) SwiftUI
7 19 (4.68%) UIKit
8 15 (3.69%) OAuth
9 14 (3.45%) Web Services
10 11 (2.71%) Flutter
11 10 (2.46%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.46%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.22%) Core Data
12 9 (2.22%) CSS
12 9 (2.22%) HTML
12 9 (2.22%) iOS SDK
12 9 (2.22%) React
12 9 (2.22%) Retrofit
13 7 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.69%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.96%) Educational Technology
5 11 (2.71%) Credit Risk
5 11 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.22%) Mobile Banking
8 8 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.48%) Social Media
10 5 (1.23%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.23%) IoT
10 5 (1.23%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.99%) CMDB
11 4 (0.99%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 128 (31.53%) Android
2 108 (26.60%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.43%) Windows
4 8 (1.97%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.99%) Linux
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.05%) Agile
2 97 (23.89%) AI
3 90 (22.17%) User Experience
4 67 (16.50%) CI/CD
5 63 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (13.55%) Android Development
7 54 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 53 (13.05%) DevOps
8 53 (13.05%) Test Automation
9 51 (12.56%) iOS Development
10 50 (12.32%) MVVM
11 48 (11.82%) Scrum
12 45 (11.08%) UX Design
13 39 (9.61%) Analytics
13 39 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (9.61%) Roadmaps
14 37 (9.11%) Architectural Patterns
14 37 (9.11%) Generative AI
15 31 (7.64%) Mobile Development
16 30 (7.39%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.79%) Kotlin
2 50 (12.32%) Java
3 45 (11.08%) Swift
4 28 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.93%) Python
6 14 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.20%) Objective-C
8 8 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.72%) SQL
10 4 (0.99%) C++
11 3 (0.74%) C#
11 3 (0.74%) Perl
11 3 (0.74%) Scala
12 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.49%) Korn
12 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.25%) ABAP
13 1 (0.25%) Dart
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.19%) Degree
4 16 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.74%) MBA
8 2 (0.49%) CCA
8 2 (0.49%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.49%) OSCP
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
9 1 (0.25%) GXPN
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.81%) Accessibility
2 50 (12.32%) QA
3 17 (4.19%) WCAG
4 5 (1.23%) GDPR
5 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.74%) PSD2
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (1.72%) Docker
2 6 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.99%) SCCM
5 3 (0.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.39%) Google
3 29 (7.14%) Adobe
4 22 (5.42%) Apple
5 18 (4.43%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.96%) Oracle
8 8 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.23%) IBM
9 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.23%) Splunk
10 4 (0.99%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.99%) Samsung
11 3 (0.74%) Braze
11 3 (0.74%) SAP
11 3 (0.74%) Tealium
12 2 (0.49%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.49%) Dell
13 1 (0.25%) HP