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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 253 205
Rank change year-on-year -82 -48 +90
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 402 366 462
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.11% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.11% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 254 301
10th Percentile £363 £314 £275
25th Percentile £413 £380 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £575
90th Percentile £670 £600 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £409 £425
% change year-on-year +10.09% -3.82% -10.53%
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% +57.71%
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% +51.89%

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 18,712 11,779 11,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.10% 35.70% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,201 7,209 7,105
10th Percentile £320 £300 £288
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.35% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,223 603 450
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.13 £15.17
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £22.42
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.27 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.12% -41.46% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.60 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.34 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.53 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.42% -47.69% +14.70%

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 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 25 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 25 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 -117 321 £513 +7.89% 680
UK excluding London -71 191 £450 +10.09% 355
London -111 162 £520 +1.96% 399
Work from Home -97 69 £475 -2.56% 235
North of England -68 60 £525 +32.41% 102
Scotland +3 44 £390 -22.00% 28
South West -12 34 £463 -19.57% 29
North West -55 32 £550 +46.67% 64
Midlands -42 28 £533 +15.14% 62
West Midlands -28 22 £550 +27.54% 27
Yorkshire -48 20 £525 +29.23% 33
South East -84 16 £278 -15.59% 78
North East -40 8 £450 -13.25% 5
Wales -10 7 £413 -8.33% 16
East Midlands -19 6 £526 +13.62% 35
East of England -32 3 £556 +39.06% 27

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 12 (2.99%) Confluence
2 4 (1.00%) CMS
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) Moodle
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (4.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (2.99%) Sketch
3 8 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.49%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) InVision
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Shopify
2 6 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.49%) Maximo
3 2 (0.50%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.50%) 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 51 (12.69%) Azure
2 41 (10.20%) GitHub
3 38 (9.45%) Figma
4 32 (7.96%) AWS
5 23 (5.72%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.98%) Entra ID
6 16 (3.98%) Firebase
6 16 (3.98%) Google Play
7 15 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.73%) SaaS
8 10 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (2.24%) GCP
9 9 (2.24%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.24%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.00%) Lucidchart
11 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.50%) 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 (1.74%) Power BI
2 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.24%) Tableau
4 4 (1.00%) MySQL
5 3 (0.75%) Looker
5 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.50%) SQLite
7 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Db2
7 1 (0.25%) Metadata
7 1 (0.25%) Parquet
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (6.72%) Git
2 23 (5.72%) JIRA
3 16 (3.98%) Gradle
4 14 (3.48%) CircleCI
5 13 (3.23%) Android Studio
5 13 (3.23%) Xcode
6 12 (2.99%) fastlane
6 12 (2.99%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.49%) XCUITest
8 9 (2.24%) LoadRunner
9 8 (1.99%) JUnit
9 8 (1.99%) XCTest
10 7 (1.74%) Appium
11 4 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (1.00%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.75%) CocoaPods
12 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.75%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.41%) Finance
3 45 (11.19%) Banking
4 30 (7.46%) Retail
5 27 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.98%) Marketing
8 10 (2.49%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Games
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (24.63%) Developer
2 65 (16.17%) Senior
3 47 (11.69%) Designer
4 36 (8.96%) Android Developer
5 29 (7.21%) iOS Developer
6 25 (6.22%) Lead
7 23 (5.72%) Android Engineer
8 21 (5.22%) Architect
9 19 (4.73%) Analyst
9 19 (4.73%) Product Designer
9 19 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 19 (4.73%) Tester
10 18 (4.48%) Mobile Engineer
11 14 (3.48%) Product Manager
12 13 (3.23%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.99%) Senior Android Engineer
14 11 (2.74%) QA Tester
15 10 (2.49%) Finance Project Manager
15 10 (2.49%) UI Designer
15 10 (2.49%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.69%) REST
1 47 (11.69%) RESTful
2 37 (9.20%) React Native
3 35 (8.71%) Android Jetpack
4 26 (6.47%) Jetpack Compose
5 25 (6.22%) Android SDK
6 19 (4.73%) SwiftUI
7 18 (4.48%) UIKit
8 14 (3.48%) Web Services
9 12 (2.99%) Flutter
10 11 (2.74%) React
11 9 (2.24%) CSS
11 9 (2.24%) GraphQL
11 9 (2.24%) HTML
11 9 (2.24%) OAuth
11 9 (2.24%) Retrofit
12 8 (1.99%) Core Data
12 8 (1.99%) iOS SDK
12 8 (1.99%) JSON
13 6 (1.49%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.48%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.99%) AI Agents
5 12 (2.99%) Educational Technology
5 12 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.74%) Credit Risk
7 7 (1.74%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (1.49%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.49%) Social Media
8 6 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.24%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.24%) IoT
9 5 (1.24%) iPhone
9 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.00%) CMDB
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 128 (31.84%) Android
2 104 (25.87%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.98%) Windows
4 9 (2.24%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.35%) Agile
2 100 (24.88%) AI
3 93 (23.13%) User Experience
4 66 (16.42%) CI/CD
5 62 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (13.93%) Android Development
7 55 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (12.69%) DevOps
9 49 (12.19%) MVVM
10 48 (11.94%) iOS Development
10 48 (11.94%) Test Automation
11 45 (11.19%) Scrum
12 44 (10.95%) UX Design
13 41 (10.20%) Generative AI
14 37 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (9.20%) Roadmaps
15 36 (8.96%) Analytics
16 35 (8.71%) Architectural Patterns
17 31 (7.71%) Mobile Development
18 30 (7.46%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.19%) Kotlin
2 43 (10.70%) Java
3 40 (9.95%) Swift
4 29 (7.21%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.47%) Python
6 14 (3.48%) Objective-C
6 14 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.24%) SQL
8 8 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.00%) C#
9 4 (1.00%) C++
9 4 (1.00%) Perl
10 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.50%) Go
10 2 (0.50%) Korn
10 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.50%) Scala
11 1 (0.25%) ABAP
11 1 (0.25%) Dart
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.97%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.23%) Degree
5 9 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) CCA
8 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.18%) Accessibility
1 53 (13.18%) QA
2 14 (3.48%) WCAG
3 5 (1.24%) GDPR
4 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) GRC
5 3 (0.75%) PSD2
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.24%) Docker
2 6 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.75%) Firmware
5 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.00%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) Ansible
7 2 (0.50%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.25%) linkerd
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.46%) Google
3 28 (6.97%) Adobe
4 22 (5.47%) Apple
5 16 (3.98%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.48%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.74%) Oracle
8 9 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.24%) IBM
9 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.24%) Samsung
9 5 (1.24%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.00%) SAP
11 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.50%) Braze
11 2 (0.50%) Dell
11 2 (0.50%) Tealium
12 1 (0.25%) VMware