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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 243 216
Rank change year-on-year -86 -27 +65
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 407 366 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.10% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.07% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 261 282
10th Percentile £363 £313 £265
25th Percentile £406 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £575
90th Percentile £640 £601 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -16.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £15.98 - £64.04
25th Percentile £17.25 - £66.34
Median hourly rate £20.25 £40.46 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year -49.95% -42.35% +57.71%
75th Percentile £51.50 - £75.68
90th Percentile £77.00 - £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 18,907 11,932 11,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 36.02% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,283 7,315 6,943
10th Percentile £325 £299 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,313 623 414
10th Percentile £13.92 £14.69 £15.79
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.51 £22.70
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.30 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £27.21 £54.25
% change year-on-year +26.77% -49.84% +5.50%

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 October 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 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 17 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 October 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 -109 331 £500 +2.56% 734
UK excluding London -54 195 £450 +5.88% 275
London -89 165 £513 -0.29% 498
Work from Home -92 77 £475 -5.00% 282
North of England -75 66 £538 +37.47% 80
Scotland +9 40 £375 -16.67% 24
North West -47 35 £550 +46.67% 54
South West -6 34 £450 -25.00% 24
Midlands -42 31 £537 +16.11% 42
West Midlands -32 25 £563 +30.43% 20
Yorkshire -38 23 £525 +29.23% 19
South East -85 17 £295 -10.27% 73
North East -35 10 £450 -13.25% 7
Wales -9 6 £413 -8.33% 13
East Midlands -26 6 £526 +10.63% 22
East of England -33 3 £556 +39.06% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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 11 (2.70%) Confluence
2 4 (0.98%) CMS
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (4.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 10 (2.46%) Sketch
3 9 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.72%) Shopify
3 6 (1.47%) Maximo
4 4 (0.98%) Workfront
5 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.49%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.49%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.25%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.25%) Magento
6 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.51%) Azure
2 43 (10.57%) GitHub
3 37 (9.09%) AWS
4 35 (8.60%) Figma
5 26 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.67%) Google Play
8 17 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.69%) Firebase
10 14 (3.44%) Entra ID
10 14 (3.44%) SaaS
11 13 (3.19%) GCP
12 9 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (1.97%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.72%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.23%) Azure AI
16 4 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
16 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.98%) Miro
16 4 (0.98%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) Firewall
2 3 (0.74%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.74%) HTTP
2 3 (0.74%) Network Security
2 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
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%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.47%) Power BI
3 5 (1.23%) MySQL
4 4 (0.98%) Tableau
5 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.74%) SQLite
6 2 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.49%) Looker
6 2 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.25%) Db2
7 1 (0.25%) Metadata
7 1 (0.25%) Parquet
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (6.63%) Git
2 23 (5.65%) JIRA
3 21 (5.16%) Gradle
4 17 (4.18%) CircleCI
5 16 (3.93%) Xcode
6 13 (3.19%) Android Studio
6 13 (3.19%) fastlane
7 12 (2.95%) Jenkins
8 10 (2.46%) JUnit
8 10 (2.46%) XCUITest
9 9 (2.21%) LoadRunner
9 9 (2.21%) XCTest
10 7 (1.72%) Appium
10 7 (1.72%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.98%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.98%) CocoaPods
12 4 (0.98%) Crashlytics
13 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
13 3 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.20%) Finance
3 43 (10.57%) Banking
4 31 (7.62%) Retail
5 26 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.16%) Marketing
8 10 (2.46%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.23%) Legal
12 4 (0.98%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.74%) Games
13 3 (0.74%) Local Government
13 3 (0.74%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.49%) Back Office
14 2 (0.49%) Electronics
14 2 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (23.59%) Developer
2 67 (16.46%) Senior
3 46 (11.30%) Designer
4 38 (9.34%) Android Developer
5 31 (7.62%) iOS Developer
6 27 (6.63%) Architect
7 26 (6.39%) Android Engineer
8 25 (6.14%) Lead
9 24 (5.90%) Analyst
10 20 (4.91%) Product Designer
11 19 (4.67%) Project Manager
12 18 (4.42%) Mobile Engineer
12 18 (4.42%) Tester
13 13 (3.19%) Product Manager
13 13 (3.19%) Senior Android Engineer
13 13 (3.19%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.70%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.70%) Consultant
14 11 (2.70%) QA Tester
14 11 (2.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.78%) REST
2 51 (12.53%) RESTful
3 38 (9.34%) React Native
4 37 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
5 29 (7.13%) Jetpack Compose
6 26 (6.39%) Android SDK
7 21 (5.16%) SwiftUI
7 21 (5.16%) UIKit
8 15 (3.69%) Web Services
9 14 (3.44%) Flutter
10 12 (2.95%) React
11 11 (2.70%) iOS SDK
12 10 (2.46%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.21%) CSS
13 9 (2.21%) HTML
13 9 (2.21%) JSON
13 9 (2.21%) Retrofit
14 8 (1.97%) Core Data
14 8 (1.97%) OAuth
15 7 (1.72%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.32%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.69%) Security Posture
3 14 (3.44%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.95%) AI Agents
5 12 (2.95%) Educational Technology
6 11 (2.70%) Credit Risk
7 9 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.72%) IoT
8 7 (1.72%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.47%) iPhone
9 6 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
9 6 (1.47%) NHS
9 6 (1.47%) Social Media
10 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.98%) CMDB
11 4 (0.98%) Digital Wallet
11 4 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.98%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 137 (33.66%) Android
2 112 (27.52%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.91%) Windows
4 10 (2.46%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.98%) Unix
7 3 (0.74%) Linux
8 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (30.96%) Agile
2 98 (24.08%) AI
3 97 (23.83%) User Experience
4 70 (17.20%) CI/CD
5 61 (14.99%) Android Development
5 61 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (13.76%) Test Automation
7 52 (12.78%) DevOps
8 51 (12.53%) iOS Development
8 51 (12.53%) MVVM
9 46 (11.30%) UX Design
10 45 (11.06%) Scrum
11 42 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (9.83%) Architectural Patterns
13 38 (9.34%) Generative AI
14 37 (9.09%) Roadmaps
15 35 (8.60%) Analytics
15 35 (8.60%) Mobile Development
15 35 (8.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.27%) Kotlin
2 48 (11.79%) Java
3 44 (10.81%) Swift
4 31 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.41%) Python
6 16 (3.93%) Objective-C
7 15 (3.69%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.46%) SQL
9 8 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.23%) Perl
11 4 (0.98%) C#
11 4 (0.98%) C++
11 4 (0.98%) Scala
12 3 (0.74%) Go
13 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.49%) Korn
13 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.25%) ABAP
14 1 (0.25%) Dart
14 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (5.41%) Degree
3 22 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.98%) MBA
6 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CCA
8 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.49%) OSCP
8 2 (0.49%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.25%) CEH
9 1 (0.25%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.25%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (14.25%) QA
2 50 (12.29%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.44%) WCAG
4 8 (1.97%) GDPR
5 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.74%) PERC
6 3 (0.74%) PSD2
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) NCSC
7 2 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) P3O
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.70%) Docker
2 7 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.98%) SCCM
6 2 (0.49%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 53 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.11%) Google
3 27 (6.63%) Adobe
4 21 (5.16%) Apple
5 17 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.93%) Dynatrace
7 13 (3.19%) Oracle
8 10 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.47%) Samsung
9 6 (1.47%) Splunk
10 5 (1.23%) IBM
10 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.98%) SAP
12 3 (0.74%) Tealium
13 2 (0.49%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.49%) Dell
13 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
14 1 (0.25%) Sitecore