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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 286 233
Rank change year-on-year -4 -53 +25
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 354 265 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.90% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 2.69% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 188 250
10th Percentile £204 £313 £348
25th Percentile £400 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £691 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 10
10th Percentile £16.24 - £12.25
25th Percentile £18.87 - £19.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year - -17.16% +20.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 - £67.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +27.14%

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 14,355 9,854 13,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.18% 33.61% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,016 6,248 8,623
10th Percentile £297 £287 £256
25th Percentile £406 £410 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 671 363 868
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.32 £32.50 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% +17.12% +23.33%
75th Percentile £68.38 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year +34.94% +19.54% +16.80%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -30 307 £513 +2.50% 282
London -18 158 £518 -3.72% 103
UK excluding London -25 154 £425 -4.49% 240
Work from Home -42 100 £500 - 125
South East -32 43 £500 -13.04% 70
North of England -65 32 £400 - 58
North West -33 29 £400 +1.27% 30
South West -6 28 £525 +50.00% 22
Midlands -40 25 £539 +8.97% 44
Wales +8 15 £170 -54.67% 10
East Midlands -31 13 £550 +11.11% 19
West Midlands - 12 £475 - 25
Scotland +5 6 £350 -12.50% 17
East of England -21 5 £185 -69.80% 22
Yorkshire -66 2 £575 +26.03% 22
North East - 1 £525 - 7

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 20 (5.65%) CMS
2 19 (5.37%) Confluence
3 10 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.98%) Moodle
6 6 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (1.41%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.41%) Umbraco
8 4 (1.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 16 (4.52%) Chatbot
2 15 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (1.98%) Sketch
6 6 (1.69%) Adobe XD
7 5 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (1.13%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.28%) InVision
10 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.73%) AWS
2 30 (8.47%) Figma
3 20 (5.65%) SaaS
4 18 (5.08%) Azure
5 14 (3.95%) GCP
6 13 (3.67%) GitHub
7 12 (3.39%) Sauce Labs
8 11 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.54%) Firebase
10 9 (2.54%) Serverless
11 7 (1.98%) Cloud Run
11 7 (1.98%) Kontent
12 6 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.69%) Contentful
12 6 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.69%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.69%) PaaS
13 5 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.41%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.26%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (2.26%) Skype
2 7 (1.98%) Wireless
3 5 (1.41%) Internet
4 2 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.56%) DSL
4 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.56%) RFID
4 2 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.82%) MySQL
1 10 (2.82%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.69%) GIS
3 4 (1.13%) SQLite
4 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.56%) Power BI
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.28%) Looker
6 1 (0.28%) MS Access
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (7.34%) Git
2 25 (7.06%) Android Studio
2 25 (7.06%) JIRA
3 19 (5.37%) Xcode
4 14 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.39%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (2.82%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.82%) Eclipse
7 9 (2.54%) Appium
7 9 (2.54%) Gradle
8 7 (1.98%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.98%) CocoaPods
8 7 (1.98%) GitLab
8 7 (1.98%) Postman
8 7 (1.98%) XCUITest
9 6 (1.69%) Selenium
9 6 (1.69%) XCTest
10 5 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.13%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (1.13%) Crashlytics
General
1 93 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.80%) Finance
3 35 (9.89%) Banking
4 28 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.08%) Marketing
7 14 (3.95%) Retail
8 13 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.82%) Electronics
10 9 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.98%) Publishing
12 4 (1.13%) Automotive
12 4 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.85%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.56%) iGaming
14 2 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 101 (28.53%) Developer
2 55 (15.54%) Senior
3 37 (10.45%) Designer
4 24 (6.78%) Architect
5 22 (6.21%) Mobile Developer
6 19 (5.37%) Android Developer
7 18 (5.08%) Break Fix Engineer
7 18 (5.08%) Junior
7 18 (5.08%) Mobile Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) React Developer
9 16 (4.52%) UX Designer
10 15 (4.24%) Analyst
10 15 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) iOS Developer
12 13 (3.67%) Applications Developer
12 13 (3.67%) Backend Developer
12 13 (3.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.67%) Senior Designer
13 12 (3.39%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.17%) React Native
2 34 (9.60%) CSS
3 31 (8.76%) React
4 29 (8.19%) REST
5 28 (7.91%) RESTful
6 26 (7.34%) HTML
7 24 (6.78%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.50%) GraphQL
8 23 (6.50%) OAuth
9 18 (5.08%) Spring
10 17 (4.80%) .NET
10 17 (4.80%) Spring Boot
11 16 (4.52%) Jetpack Compose
11 16 (4.52%) OAuth2
12 15 (4.24%) Android Jetpack
13 14 (3.95%) SwiftUI
14 12 (3.39%) Node.js
15 11 (3.11%) Ajax
16 9 (2.54%) .NET Framework
16 9 (2.54%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 11 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.41%) FMCG
7 5 (1.41%) RIA
7 5 (1.41%) W3C
8 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.85%) Blog
9 3 (0.85%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.85%) Java Card
9 3 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.85%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (0.85%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 96 (27.12%) Android
2 79 (22.32%) Apple iOS
3 23 (6.50%) Windows
4 10 (2.82%) Linux
4 10 (2.82%) Unix
5 9 (2.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (25.14%) User Experience
2 87 (24.58%) Agile
3 76 (21.47%) CI/CD
4 66 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (13.56%) Test Automation
6 44 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (11.58%) UX Design
8 40 (11.30%) AI
9 37 (10.45%) Software Engineering
10 36 (10.17%) Design Patterns
10 36 (10.17%) DevOps
11 35 (9.89%) Analytics
12 32 (9.04%) Android Development
12 32 (9.04%) iOS Development
13 30 (8.47%) Mobile Development
14 28 (7.91%) Mobile Application Development
15 27 (7.63%) Microservices
16 26 (7.34%) Mentoring
17 25 (7.06%) Full-Stack Development
18 23 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.64%) Java
2 58 (16.38%) JavaScript
3 56 (15.82%) Kotlin
4 33 (9.32%) Swift
5 29 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.21%) SQL
7 19 (5.37%) C#
8 17 (4.80%) Python
9 11 (3.11%) Objective-C
9 11 (3.11%) Perl
10 5 (1.41%) Go
11 3 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.56%) R
12 2 (0.56%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (9.04%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.19%) Degree
3 19 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.54%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.54%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.26%) PMP
6 7 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) CISSP
8 2 (0.56%) MBA
8 2 (0.56%) SANS
9 1 (0.28%) CCA
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) GIAC
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.97%) Accessibility
2 48 (13.56%) QA
3 16 (4.52%) WCAG
4 7 (1.98%) GDPR
5 5 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
6 3 (0.85%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.56%) HL7
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) DICOM
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.39%) Docker
2 9 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.11%) Grafana
3 8 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.85%) Istio
5 3 (0.85%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.85%) linkerd
5 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.85%) Terraform
6 2 (0.56%) rkt
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 52 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.32%) Adobe
3 25 (7.06%) Google
4 19 (5.37%) HP
5 18 (5.08%) Oracle
5 18 (5.08%) Splunk
6 17 (4.80%) SAP
7 11 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.26%) Cisco
8 8 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.26%) Xamarin
9 6 (1.69%) Apple
9 6 (1.69%) Tealium
10 5 (1.41%) ESRI
10 5 (1.41%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.41%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.13%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.85%) OpenAI