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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 206 305
Rank change year-on-year -42 +99 -92
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 349 460 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.21% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 3.99% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 301 306
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £675 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile - £64.04 -
25th Percentile - £66.34 £42.25
Median hourly rate £40.46 £70.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.35% +43.22% +67.52%
75th Percentile - £75.68 £68.75
90th Percentile - £78.98 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.46 £67.59 £46.75
% change year-on-year -40.14% +44.58% +150.00%

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 11,568 11,537 16,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 30.33% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,064 7,065 11,117
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £759 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 478 451
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +67.92%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.22
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £49.00
% change year-on-year -47.69% +17.04% +123.85%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App 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 16 September 2025.

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
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 16 September 2025. 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 -44 305 £469 -1.32% 593
London -50 169 £500 +2.04% 255
UK excluding London -7 147 £405 -10.00% 504
Work from Home -24 107 £488 +8.33% 185
North of England -17 69 £397 -18.67% 107
North West -16 34 £375 -18.92% 59
Yorkshire -15 30 £406 -17.72% 35
Midlands -8 26 £463 +32.14% 70
South East +22 24 £208 -49.70% 195
East Midlands -2 14 £463 -2.63% 27
Scotland -9 13 £500 +17.65% 23
West Midlands -10 12 £460 +217.24% 41
South West +14 8 £575 +64.29% 35
Wales +6 5 £413 -9.59% 20
North East -2 5 £519 -17.00% 15
East of England +5 2 £400 -20.00% 45

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.44%) Confluence
2 9 (2.58%) CMS
3 6 (1.72%) Apache
3 6 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.43%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.01%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.43%) Zeplin
4 4 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.15%) Sketch
5 3 (0.86%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.57%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (16.62%) Azure
2 44 (12.61%) Figma
3 43 (12.32%) AWS
4 30 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.73%) SaaS
6 18 (5.16%) GitHub
6 18 (5.16%) Serverless
7 13 (3.72%) Google Play
7 13 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (3.15%) Sauce Labs
9 9 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.58%) BrowserStack
9 9 (2.58%) Firebase
10 8 (2.29%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.01%) GCP
11 7 (2.01%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.72%) Miro
12 6 (1.72%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.87%) Wireless
2 7 (2.01%) HTTP
3 4 (1.15%) Internet
4 3 (0.86%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.57%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) Broadband
6 1 (0.29%) Intranet
6 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.29%) LAN
6 1 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.29%) SMS
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.01%) MySQL
2 13 (3.72%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.15%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.29%) DynamoDB
4 8 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.86%) Flink
6 3 (0.86%) Metadata
6 3 (0.86%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.86%) Power BI
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.57%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.29%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.29%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (18.62%) Git
2 39 (11.17%) Xcode
3 22 (6.30%) JIRA
4 21 (6.02%) Android Studio
5 20 (5.73%) Appium
5 20 (5.73%) Gradle
6 18 (5.16%) Jenkins
6 18 (5.16%) Postman
7 14 (4.01%) Selenium
8 11 (3.15%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (3.15%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.29%) Storybook
10 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.01%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.01%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.72%) XCUITest
12 5 (1.43%) NUnit
12 5 (1.43%) Subversion
12 5 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 88 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.48%) Finance
3 46 (13.18%) Banking
4 22 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.16%) Retail
6 16 (4.58%) Marketing
7 12 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.01%) Automotive
8 7 (2.01%) Law
8 7 (2.01%) Legal
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.57%) French Language
13 2 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 123 (35.24%) Developer
2 44 (12.61%) Designer
3 43 (12.32%) Senior
4 35 (10.03%) Android Developer
5 25 (7.16%) iOS Developer
6 24 (6.88%) Lead
7 23 (6.59%) Product Designer
8 19 (5.44%) React Developer
9 14 (4.01%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 14 (4.01%) Mobile Engineer
9 14 (4.01%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.72%) Architect
11 12 (3.44%) Applications Developer
11 12 (3.44%) Support Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) Mobile Developer
12 11 (3.15%) Product Manager
12 11 (3.15%) Technical Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) Technical Support
12 11 (3.15%) Technical Support Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.33%) RESTful
2 45 (12.89%) CSS
3 40 (11.46%) React Native
4 35 (10.03%) HTML
5 33 (9.46%) React
6 28 (8.02%) GraphQL
7 26 (7.45%) REST
8 25 (7.16%) .NET
8 25 (7.16%) Node.js
9 18 (5.16%) Android Jetpack
9 18 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.16%) JSON
10 17 (4.87%) Jetpack Compose
11 16 (4.58%) Next.js
12 15 (4.30%) SwiftUI
13 14 (4.01%) Flutter
13 14 (4.01%) OAuth
13 14 (4.01%) Web Services
14 13 (3.72%) Redux
15 12 (3.44%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.30%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.58%) iPhone
2 9 (2.58%) Virtual Team
3 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.29%) Mobile Banking
3 8 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.72%) Credit Risk
5 6 (1.72%) iPad
6 5 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.86%) IoT
8 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.86%) Smartphone
8 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (0.86%) Vector Graphics
9 2 (0.57%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 137 (39.26%) Android
2 110 (31.52%) Apple iOS
3 16 (4.58%) Windows
4 13 (3.72%) Unix
5 11 (3.15%) Linux
6 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (42.69%) Agile
2 120 (34.38%) User Experience
3 96 (27.51%) CI/CD
4 72 (20.63%) DevOps
5 68 (19.48%) UX Design
6 63 (18.05%) Mobile Application Development
7 54 (15.47%) Test Automation
8 49 (14.04%) Scrum
9 48 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (12.61%) Mobile Development
11 41 (11.75%) iOS Development
12 40 (11.46%) Android Development
13 38 (10.89%) MVVM
14 36 (10.32%) Performance Optimisation
15 34 (9.74%) Prototyping
16 33 (9.46%) Mentoring
17 30 (8.60%) Analytics
17 30 (8.60%) Unit Testing
18 29 (8.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 29 (8.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.62%) Java
2 64 (18.34%) JavaScript
2 64 (18.34%) Kotlin
3 48 (13.75%) Swift
4 34 (9.74%) Python
5 31 (8.88%) TypeScript
6 29 (8.31%) Objective-C
7 21 (6.02%) C#
8 16 (4.58%) SQL
9 13 (3.72%) Perl
9 13 (3.72%) Ruby
10 9 (2.58%) C++
11 8 (2.29%) Scala
12 7 (2.01%) C
12 7 (2.01%) PHP
13 6 (1.72%) Dart
13 6 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.15%) Go
15 3 (0.86%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 24 (6.88%) Degree
2 9 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (2.58%) ISTQB
3 8 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.15%) ISEB
5 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.86%) ACSP
6 3 (0.86%) ACTC
6 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.86%) PMP
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.57%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.29%) MOS
8 1 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (16.62%) Accessibility
2 33 (9.46%) QA
3 8 (2.29%) GDPR
4 3 (0.86%) SLA
4 3 (0.86%) WCAG
5 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.57%) NCSC
5 2 (0.57%) PERC
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) PSD2
6 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.43%) Docker
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.86%) Grafana
3 3 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.86%) Kibana
3 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.57%) Terraform
5 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.16%) Google
3 16 (4.58%) Oracle
3 16 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.01%) Splunk
5 12 (3.44%) Apple
6 10 (2.87%) Adobe
7 6 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.43%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.15%) SAP
9 4 (1.15%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.15%) YouTube
10 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.57%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.57%) Mercator
11 2 (0.57%) NEC
11 2 (0.57%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.29%) Brio
12 1 (0.29%) Telerik
12 1 (0.29%) Wyse