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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 242 201
Rank change year-on-year -83 -41 +83
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 402 368 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.11% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.10% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 257 287
10th Percentile £363 £313 £271
25th Percentile £413 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £670 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £419 £400
% change year-on-year +7.46% +4.69% -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 18,736 11,873 11,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.45% 35.97% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,178 7,277 6,954
10th Percentile £320 £299 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £527
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.28% -4.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £670
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 1,289 615 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £15.51
25th Percentile £17.72 £18.82 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.13 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -43.47% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £29.27 £57.35
% change year-on-year +22.69% -48.96% +13.09%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -112 324 £513 +5.13% 856
UK excluding London -68 195 £450 +7.46% 528
London -97 160 £523 +1.65% 436
Work from Home -107 73 £475 -5.00% 481
North of England -70 66 £550 +40.66% 131
Scotland +14 43 £390 -22.00% 56
North West -41 35 £550 +46.67% 72
South West -15 33 £450 -25.00% 52
Midlands -40 30 £537 +16.11% 93
West Midlands -35 24 £563 +30.43% 45
Yorkshire -43 23 £563 +38.46% 48
South East -73 16 £278 -15.59% 106
North East -31 10 £450 -13.25% 11
Wales -11 6 £413 -8.33% 33
East Midlands -21 6 £526 +13.62% 48
East of England -22 3 £556 +39.06% 50
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 4 (1.00%) CMS
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Moodle
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 20 (4.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 11 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (2.74%) Sketch
3 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.49%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.74%) Shopify
3 6 (1.49%) Maximo
4 4 (1.00%) Workfront
5 2 (0.50%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Magento
6 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.68%) Azure
2 38 (9.45%) Figma
2 38 (9.45%) GitHub
3 36 (8.96%) AWS
4 22 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.48%) Google Play
6 16 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.73%) Firebase
8 14 (3.48%) SaaS
9 12 (2.99%) GCP
10 9 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.74%) Lucidchart
13 5 (1.24%) Azure AI
14 4 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.00%) Miro
14 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%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.49%) Power BI
3 5 (1.24%) MySQL
4 4 (1.00%) Tableau
5 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.50%) Looker
6 2 (0.50%) RDBMS
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%) 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 25 (6.22%) Git
2 22 (5.47%) JIRA
3 17 (4.23%) 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 9 (2.24%) LoadRunner
8 8 (1.99%) JUnit
8 8 (1.99%) XCUITest
9 7 (1.74%) Appium
9 7 (1.74%) XCTest
10 4 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
10 4 (1.00%) CocoaPods
10 4 (1.00%) Crashlytics
11 3 (0.75%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 64 (15.92%) Finance
3 43 (10.70%) Banking
4 31 (7.71%) Retail
5 25 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.48%) Marketing
8 10 (2.49%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Games
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) Back Office
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 98 (24.38%) Developer
2 67 (16.67%) Senior
3 48 (11.94%) Designer
4 37 (9.20%) Android Developer
5 30 (7.46%) iOS Developer
6 26 (6.47%) Architect
7 23 (5.72%) Lead
8 22 (5.47%) Android Engineer
9 20 (4.98%) Analyst
9 20 (4.98%) Product Designer
10 19 (4.73%) Mobile Engineer
10 19 (4.73%) Project Manager
10 19 (4.73%) Tester
11 13 (3.23%) Product Manager
11 13 (3.23%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.99%) Senior Android Engineer
13 11 (2.74%) QA Tester
13 11 (2.74%) React Developer
14 10 (2.49%) Senior Designer
14 10 (2.49%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.19%) RESTful
2 48 (11.94%) REST
3 38 (9.45%) React Native
4 34 (8.46%) Android Jetpack
5 27 (6.72%) Jetpack Compose
6 25 (6.22%) Android SDK
7 21 (5.22%) SwiftUI
8 20 (4.98%) UIKit
9 15 (3.73%) Web Services
10 14 (3.48%) Flutter
11 12 (2.99%) React
12 9 (2.24%) CSS
12 9 (2.24%) HTML
12 9 (2.24%) JSON
12 9 (2.24%) Retrofit
13 8 (1.99%) Core Data
13 8 (1.99%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.99%) iOS SDK
13 8 (1.99%) OAuth
14 6 (1.49%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.98%) Security Posture
3 14 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
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 6 (1.49%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (1.49%) Social Media
8 5 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.24%) IoT
8 5 (1.24%) iPhone
9 4 (1.00%) CMDB
9 4 (1.00%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.00%) NHS
9 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (32.84%) Android
2 108 (26.87%) 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
1 125 (31.09%) Agile
2 102 (25.37%) AI
3 94 (23.38%) User Experience
4 63 (15.67%) CI/CD
5 61 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (14.18%) Android Development
7 55 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (12.94%) DevOps
9 51 (12.69%) Test Automation
10 49 (12.19%) iOS Development
11 48 (11.94%) MVVM
12 45 (11.19%) Scrum
13 44 (10.95%) UX Design
14 41 (10.20%) Generative AI
15 38 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (8.96%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (8.71%) Roadmaps
18 33 (8.21%) Mobile Development
19 32 (7.96%) Analytics
20 30 (7.46%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.19%) Kotlin
2 44 (10.95%) Java
3 42 (10.45%) Swift
4 30 (7.46%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.98%) Python
6 15 (3.73%) Objective-C
6 15 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.24%) SQL
8 8 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.24%) Perl
10 4 (1.00%) C#
10 4 (1.00%) C++
11 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
11 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) Dart
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (8.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.98%) Degree
5 12 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.00%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) CCA
8 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.50%) OSCP
8 2 (0.50%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.94%) Accessibility
1 52 (12.94%) 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
6 2 (0.50%) 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 17 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.00%) SCCM
6 2 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.25%) linkerd
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.96%) Google
3 29 (7.21%) Adobe
4 22 (5.47%) Apple
5 16 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.73%) Dynatrace
7 13 (3.23%) 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%) Dell
11 2 (0.50%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.25%) Databricks
12 1 (0.25%) Sitecore