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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 291 246
Rank change year-on-year -15 -45 +24
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 352 256 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.87% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 2.55% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 170 258
10th Percentile £204 £354 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.68%
75th Percentile £578 £587 £600
90th Percentile £677 £681 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -12.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £70.18
90th Percentile £70.00 - £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.63
% change year-on-year - - +10.36%

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 15,078 10,028 13,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.34% 33.97% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,422 6,402 8,547
10th Percentile £305 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 396 906
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.28 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% +14.25% +25.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £82.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.42 £26.66
% change year-on-year +51.30% +17.85% +20.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -29 291 £500 -1.23% 218
UK excluding London -8 168 £425 -8.11% 185
London -49 146 £525 - 66
Work from Home -32 87 £475 -5.00% 141
North of England -49 45 £425 +6.25% 56
South East -47 35 £425 -26.72% 38
North West -26 30 £400 - 32
South West -21 28 £475 +16.00% 29
Midlands -49 21 £524 +13.23% 30
Wales +11 20 £425 +13.33% 7
West Midlands -43 15 £475 +3.26% 20
Scotland +6 14 £550 +37.50% 9
Yorkshire -51 14 £525 +23.53% 21
East Midlands -38 6 £569 +22.92% 10
East of England -38 5 £185 -69.80% 19
North East -19 1 £525 - 3

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 16 (4.55%) Confluence
2 12 (3.41%) Moodle
3 11 (3.13%) CMS
4 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.42%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.85%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (4.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (4.26%) Chatbot
3 13 (3.69%) Sketch
4 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.70%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.57%) InVision
9 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 37 (10.51%) Figma
2 33 (9.38%) AWS
3 27 (7.67%) Azure
4 19 (5.40%) GitHub
4 19 (5.40%) SaaS
5 14 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.69%) GCP
6 13 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.13%) Firebase
9 10 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.27%) Sauce Labs
11 7 (1.99%) Cloud Run
12 6 (1.70%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.70%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.70%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.70%) Serverless
13 5 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.14%) Azure Event Grid
14 4 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (2.27%) Skype
2 2 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.57%) DSL
2 2 (0.57%) Firewall
2 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.57%) RFID
2 2 (0.57%) VPN
2 2 (0.57%) Wireless
3 1 (0.28%) 4G
3 1 (0.28%) 5G
3 1 (0.28%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.70%) MySQL
1 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.42%) GIS
3 3 (0.85%) Power BI
4 2 (0.57%) Looker
4 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.57%) Tableau
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.28%) MS Access
5 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (5.97%) JIRA
2 18 (5.11%) Git
3 17 (4.83%) Android Studio
4 11 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.13%) Xcode
5 10 (2.84%) Appium
6 9 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.99%) Gradle
8 7 (1.99%) XCTest
8 7 (1.99%) XCUITest
9 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.70%) Eclipse
9 6 (1.70%) Selenium
10 5 (1.42%) fastlane
10 5 (1.42%) GitLab
10 5 (1.42%) JUnit
10 5 (1.42%) Postman
11 4 (1.14%) ESLint
11 4 (1.14%) REST Assured
General
1 85 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.76%) Finance
3 33 (9.38%) Banking
4 29 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.40%) Marketing
7 18 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.98%) Retail
9 13 (3.69%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.13%) Electronics
11 9 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.70%) Publishing
13 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.85%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.57%) Automotive
15 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 95 (26.99%) Developer
2 51 (14.49%) Senior
3 42 (11.93%) Designer
4 23 (6.53%) Architect
5 19 (5.40%) Mobile Engineer
6 18 (5.11%) Break Fix Engineer
6 18 (5.11%) Junior
7 17 (4.83%) Android Developer
7 17 (4.83%) Mobile Developer
8 16 (4.55%) Lead
9 15 (4.26%) React Developer
9 15 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.26%) UX Designer
10 14 (3.98%) Analyst
11 13 (3.69%) Backend Developer
12 12 (3.41%) Moodle Developer
12 12 (3.41%) Product Designer
12 12 (3.41%) Senior Designer
12 12 (3.41%) Tester
12 12 (3.41%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.08%) React Native
2 31 (8.81%) REST
3 25 (7.10%) OAuth
4 21 (5.97%) CSS
5 20 (5.68%) GraphQL
5 20 (5.68%) React
6 19 (5.40%) RESTful
6 19 (5.40%) Spring
7 18 (5.11%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.83%) HTML
9 16 (4.55%) OAuth2
10 14 (3.98%) Android Jetpack
11 13 (3.69%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.69%) Jetpack Compose
12 11 (3.13%) .NET
13 10 (2.84%) SwiftUI
14 9 (2.56%) Flutter
14 9 (2.56%) Node.js
15 8 (2.27%) UIKit
16 7 (1.99%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.98%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.70%) Mobile Banking
6 6 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.42%) FMCG
8 4 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.85%) Blog
9 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.85%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.85%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.85%) Media Streaming
9 3 (0.85%) Social Media
9 3 (0.85%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 96 (27.27%) Android
2 81 (23.01%) Apple iOS
3 18 (5.11%) Windows
4 9 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.99%) Linux
6 6 (1.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (21.59%) Agile
2 75 (21.31%) User Experience
3 66 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 60 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (15.63%) AI
6 49 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 38 (10.80%) DevOps
9 36 (10.23%) Analytics
10 35 (9.94%) UX Design
11 29 (8.24%) Software Engineering
12 27 (7.67%) Observability
13 26 (7.39%) Android Development
13 26 (7.39%) Generative AI
13 26 (7.39%) iOS Development
13 26 (7.39%) TDD
14 25 (7.10%) Design Patterns
14 25 (7.10%) Full-Stack Development
15 24 (6.82%) Mentoring
15 24 (6.82%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.19%) Java
2 53 (15.06%) Kotlin
3 41 (11.65%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.10%) Swift
4 25 (7.10%) TypeScript
5 13 (3.69%) C#
5 13 (3.69%) SQL
6 12 (3.41%) Python
7 7 (1.99%) Objective-C
8 6 (1.70%) Perl
9 3 (0.85%) C++
9 3 (0.85%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) VBA
11 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.53%) Degree
4 8 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.57%) CCA
9 2 (0.57%) CISSP
9 2 (0.57%) MBA
9 2 (0.57%) SANS
10 1 (0.28%) CCSAM
10 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) GPEN
10 1 (0.28%) GXPN
10 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.92%) Accessibility
2 33 (9.38%) QA
3 14 (3.98%) WCAG
4 8 (2.27%) GDPR
5 5 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.57%) HL7
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.57%) PSD2
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) DICOM
System Software
1 8 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 8 (2.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (3.41%) Grafana
2 10 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.14%) Istio
4 4 (1.14%) Kustomize
4 4 (1.14%) linkerd
4 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.57%) Terraform
7 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 42 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.08%) Adobe
3 20 (5.68%) Google
4 19 (5.40%) HP
5 16 (4.55%) SAP
6 13 (3.69%) Oracle
6 13 (3.69%) Splunk
7 11 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.27%) Cisco
8 8 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.27%) Tealium
8 8 (2.27%) Xamarin
9 7 (1.99%) Braze
10 6 (1.70%) Apple
11 5 (1.42%) OneTrust
12 4 (1.14%) ESRI
12 4 (1.14%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.85%) Sitecore