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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 298 249
Rank change year-on-year -12 -49 +31
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 349 248 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.85% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 2.49% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 166 264
10th Percentile £204 £356 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £678 £709
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 8
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 - £68.17
90th Percentile £70.00 - £73.88
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 15,242 9,955 13,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 34.02% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,506 6,359 8,516
10th Percentile £306 £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 £660
90th Percentile £739 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 391 912
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £21.11 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.13 £60.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £28.25
% change year-on-year +57.43% +12.42% +28.41%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -17 290 £500 - 232
UK excluding London -9 170 £425 -8.11% 161
London -37 143 £520 -0.95% 95
Work from Home -39 87 £475 -4.52% 107
North of England -45 46 £425 +6.25% 50
South East -36 35 £425 -22.73% 35
South West -6 31 £488 +39.29% 23
North West -28 30 £400 - 26
Midlands -67 20 £497 +7.41% 29
Wales +9 18 £425 +13.33% 6
West Midlands -47 16 £475 +3.26% 19
Scotland -5 15 £550 +37.50% 4
Yorkshire -43 15 £525 +23.53% 22
East of England -25 5 £185 -76.13% 19
East Midlands -36 4 £528 +14.11% 10
North East -20 1 £525 - 2

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 15 (4.30%) Confluence
2 12 (3.44%) Moodle
3 9 (2.58%) CMS
4 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.86%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.86%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (4.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 15 (4.30%) Chatbot
3 13 (3.72%) Sketch
4 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.72%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.57%) InVision
9 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 37 (10.60%) AWS
2 36 (10.32%) Figma
3 29 (8.31%) Azure
4 18 (5.16%) GitHub
4 18 (5.16%) SaaS
5 13 (3.72%) GCP
5 13 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.44%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (3.15%) Firebase
8 10 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.29%) Sauce Labs
10 7 (2.01%) Cloud Run
11 6 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (1.72%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.72%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.43%) Serverless
13 4 (1.15%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (1.72%) 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
3 1 (0.29%) 4G
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.72%) MySQL
1 6 (1.72%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.43%) GIS
3 3 (0.86%) 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 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.29%) MS Access
5 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (6.30%) JIRA
2 18 (5.16%) Android Studio
2 18 (5.16%) Git
3 12 (3.44%) Xcode
4 11 (3.15%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.87%) Appium
6 8 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (2.29%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.01%) Gradle
7 7 (2.01%) XCTest
7 7 (2.01%) XCUITest
8 6 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.72%) Eclipse
8 6 (1.72%) Postman
9 5 (1.43%) fastlane
9 5 (1.43%) GitLab
9 5 (1.43%) JUnit
9 5 (1.43%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.43%) Selenium
10 4 (1.15%) CocoaPods
General
1 83 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.33%) Finance
3 31 (8.88%) Banking
4 30 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.16%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.30%) Marketing
7 15 (4.30%) Retail
8 11 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.58%) Electronics
10 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.72%) Publishing
12 4 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.86%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Legal
14 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (26.65%) Developer
2 50 (14.33%) Senior
3 39 (11.17%) Designer
4 24 (6.88%) Architect
5 20 (5.73%) Mobile Engineer
6 18 (5.16%) Break Fix Engineer
6 18 (5.16%) Junior
7 17 (4.87%) Android Developer
8 16 (4.58%) Lead
8 16 (4.58%) Mobile Developer
9 15 (4.30%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.01%) Analyst
10 14 (4.01%) Backend Developer
11 13 (3.72%) React Developer
12 12 (3.44%) Moodle Developer
12 12 (3.44%) Product Designer
12 12 (3.44%) Tester
12 12 (3.44%) UX Designer
12 12 (3.44%) Visual Designer
13 11 (3.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.17%) React Native
2 31 (8.88%) REST
3 25 (7.16%) OAuth
4 19 (5.44%) GraphQL
4 19 (5.44%) Spring
5 18 (5.16%) React
5 18 (5.16%) Spring Boot
6 17 (4.87%) CSS
6 17 (4.87%) OAuth2
6 17 (4.87%) RESTful
7 14 (4.01%) Android Jetpack
8 13 (3.72%) HTML
8 13 (3.72%) Jetpack Compose
9 10 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.87%) SwiftUI
10 9 (2.58%) Flutter
11 8 (2.29%) .NET
11 8 (2.29%) Node.js
11 8 (2.29%) UIKit
12 7 (2.01%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.30%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
6 6 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.43%) FMCG
8 4 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.86%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.86%) Blog
9 3 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.86%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.86%) Social Media
9 3 (0.86%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 98 (28.08%) Android
2 84 (24.07%) Apple iOS
3 16 (4.58%) Windows
4 7 (2.01%) Linux
4 7 (2.01%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (22.64%) Agile
2 72 (20.63%) User Experience
3 65 (18.62%) CI/CD
4 61 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (16.05%) AI
6 49 (14.04%) Test Automation
7 46 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (11.17%) DevOps
9 36 (10.32%) Analytics
10 33 (9.46%) UX Design
11 29 (8.31%) Software Engineering
12 28 (8.02%) Observability
13 26 (7.45%) Android Development
13 26 (7.45%) Generative AI
13 26 (7.45%) iOS Development
14 25 (7.16%) Design Patterns
14 25 (7.16%) TDD
15 24 (6.88%) Mentoring
15 24 (6.88%) Microservices
16 23 (6.59%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.33%) Java
2 53 (15.19%) Kotlin
3 39 (11.17%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.16%) Swift
5 24 (6.88%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.30%) Python
7 10 (2.87%) C#
8 9 (2.58%) SQL
9 7 (2.01%) Objective-C
10 6 (1.72%) Perl
11 3 (0.86%) C++
11 3 (0.86%) Go
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.29%) ABAP
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.74%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.73%) Degree
4 7 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.86%) CCA
7 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.86%) PMP
8 2 (0.57%) CISSP
8 2 (0.57%) MBA
8 2 (0.57%) SANS
9 1 (0.29%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.29%) GPEN
9 1 (0.29%) GXPN
9 1 (0.29%) OSCP
9 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.61%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.17%) QA
3 15 (4.30%) WCAG
4 8 (2.29%) GDPR
5 5 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.86%) NCSC
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 (0.29%) DICOM
System Software
1 8 (2.29%) Docker
2 7 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (3.44%) Grafana
2 11 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.15%) Istio
5 4 (1.15%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.15%) linkerd
5 4 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.86%) Ansible
7 2 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.60%) Adobe
3 21 (6.02%) Google
4 19 (5.44%) HP
5 15 (4.30%) SAP
6 13 (3.72%) Splunk
7 12 (3.44%) Oracle
8 11 (3.15%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.29%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.29%) Tealium
9 8 (2.29%) Xamarin
10 7 (2.01%) Apple
10 7 (2.01%) Braze
11 6 (1.72%) Cisco
12 5 (1.43%) OneTrust
13 4 (1.15%) ESRI
13 4 (1.15%) Optimizely
14 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.86%) Coverity
14 3 (0.86%) Thales