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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 268 237
Rank change year-on-year -65 -31 +66
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 377 321 412
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.97% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.81% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 211 276
10th Percentile £363 £313 £323
25th Percentile £414 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £549 £600
90th Percentile £675 £619 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £433 £450
% change year-on-year +9.36% -3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £14.72 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% +1.15% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.75 - £68.17
90th Percentile £32.90 - £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £12.25
% change year-on-year -56.75% +230.29% -50.25%

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 17,557 11,417 12,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 34.64% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,752 7,047 7,911
10th Percentile £318 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £643 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 906 550 691
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.13 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.67 £18.87 £16.68
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -27.71% -9.43%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -78 307 £513 +9.04% 283
UK excluding London -53 172 £473 +9.36% 189
London -57 159 £525 +5.00% 134
Work from Home -75 77 £475 -1.30% 89
North of England -81 52 £500 +25.00% 61
South West -14 35 £475 -9.52% 21
Scotland +16 33 £400 -20.00% 11
North West -50 26 £550 +46.67% 31
Midlands -51 25 £524 +13.23% 32
West Midlands -42 19 £469 +17.23% 14
South East -68 18 £413 -8.33% 43
Yorkshire -56 17 £525 +29.23% 23
North East -36 9 £450 -13.25% 10
Wales -8 8 £425 - 7
East Midlands -20 6 £526 +13.62% 18
East of England -19 2 £500 +21.21% 22

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 12 (3.18%) Confluence
2 7 (1.86%) CMS
3 5 (1.33%) Moodle
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (5.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (4.24%) Sketch
3 9 (2.39%) Chatbot
3 9 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.06%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.53%) InVision
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.86%) Shopify
2 6 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Workfront
4 1 (0.27%) Magento
4 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.26%) Azure
2 41 (10.88%) GitHub
3 39 (10.34%) Figma
4 32 (8.49%) AWS
5 26 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.51%) Firebase
8 16 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.24%) Google Play
9 15 (3.98%) SaaS
10 14 (3.71%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.65%) GCP
12 7 (1.86%) Cloud Run
12 7 (1.86%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (1.59%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.59%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (1.33%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 5 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) Network Security
2 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.53%) DSL
3 2 (0.53%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.06%) Power BI
3 3 (0.80%) GIS
3 3 (0.80%) MySQL
3 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.53%) Looker
4 2 (0.53%) SQLite
4 2 (0.53%) Tableau
5 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (7.69%) Git
2 21 (5.57%) JIRA
3 19 (5.04%) Gradle
4 18 (4.77%) Android Studio
5 16 (4.24%) Xcode
6 14 (3.71%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.18%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.92%) fastlane
8 11 (2.92%) XCUITest
9 10 (2.65%) JUnit
9 10 (2.65%) XCTest
10 9 (2.39%) LoadRunner
11 7 (1.86%) Appium
12 5 (1.33%) Crashlytics
13 4 (1.06%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (0.80%) Charles Proxy
14 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.53%) JMeter
15 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (28.12%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.98%) Finance
3 39 (10.34%) Banking
4 30 (7.96%) Retail
5 25 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.92%) Marketing
8 10 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.06%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.06%) Italian Language
10 4 (1.06%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.80%) Digital Health
11 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Games
12 2 (0.53%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Automotive
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 99 (26.26%) Developer
2 61 (16.18%) Senior
3 49 (13.00%) Designer
4 31 (8.22%) Android Developer
5 28 (7.43%) iOS Developer
6 22 (5.84%) Android Engineer
6 22 (5.84%) Architect
7 21 (5.57%) Product Designer
8 20 (5.31%) Mobile Engineer
9 19 (5.04%) Lead
10 17 (4.51%) Analyst
11 16 (4.24%) Product Manager
11 16 (4.24%) Project Manager
11 16 (4.24%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.98%) UX Designer
13 14 (3.71%) UI Designer
14 11 (2.92%) UI/UX Designer
15 10 (2.65%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.65%) Mobile Designer
15 10 (2.65%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.59%) REST
2 45 (11.94%) RESTful
3 38 (10.08%) Android Jetpack
4 32 (8.49%) React Native
5 30 (7.96%) Jetpack Compose
6 26 (6.90%) Android SDK
7 24 (6.37%) SwiftUI
8 20 (5.31%) UIKit
9 19 (5.04%) OAuth
10 13 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 13 (3.45%) OAuth2
10 13 (3.45%) Spring
10 13 (3.45%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.45%) Web Services
11 10 (2.65%) React
12 9 (2.39%) Core Data
12 9 (2.39%) CSS
12 9 (2.39%) HTML
12 9 (2.39%) iOS SDK
12 9 (2.39%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.75%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.39%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.39%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.12%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.59%) Credit Risk
7 6 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.59%) Social Media
8 5 (1.33%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.33%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.06%) CMDB
9 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.06%) NHS
10 3 (0.80%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 113 (29.97%) Android
2 99 (26.26%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.51%) Windows
4 7 (1.86%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.06%) Linux
7 3 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.65%) Agile
2 95 (25.20%) User Experience
3 85 (22.55%) AI
4 69 (18.30%) CI/CD
5 55 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (13.53%) UX Design
7 50 (13.26%) Android Development
8 49 (13.00%) DevOps
9 48 (12.73%) iOS Development
9 48 (12.73%) MVVM
10 43 (11.41%) Analytics
11 42 (11.14%) Scrum
11 42 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (10.61%) Test Automation
13 37 (9.81%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (9.81%) Roadmaps
14 36 (9.55%) Generative AI
15 35 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (8.75%) Observability
17 27 (7.16%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 67 (17.77%) Kotlin
2 62 (16.45%) Java
3 41 (10.88%) Swift
4 24 (6.37%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.51%) Python
6 10 (2.65%) Objective-C
7 9 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.33%) SQL
9 4 (1.06%) C++
10 3 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.80%) Perl
11 2 (0.53%) C#
11 2 (0.53%) Go
11 2 (0.53%) Korn
11 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) Dart
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 48 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.75%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.04%) Degree
4 17 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) MBA
8 2 (0.53%) CCA
8 2 (0.53%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.53%) OSCP
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
9 1 (0.27%) GPEN
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) OSCE
9 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.06%) Accessibility
2 42 (11.14%) QA
3 17 (4.51%) WCAG
4 6 (1.59%) GDPR
5 4 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.80%) PSD2
7 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.53%) GRC
7 2 (0.53%) HL7
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) DICOM
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.27%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.92%) Grafana
2 11 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.06%) Istio
4 4 (1.06%) Kustomize
4 4 (1.06%) linkerd
4 4 (1.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.06%) SCCM
4 4 (1.06%) Terraform
5 3 (0.80%) Ansible
5 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.27%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.55%) Google
3 34 (9.02%) Adobe
4 19 (5.04%) Apple
4 19 (5.04%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.71%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.18%) Oracle
6 12 (3.18%) Splunk
7 7 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.33%) SAP
9 4 (1.06%) Braze
9 4 (1.06%) Tealium
10 3 (0.80%) Samsung
11 2 (0.53%) Dell
11 2 (0.53%) ESRI
11 2 (0.53%) HP
12 1 (0.27%) Databricks
12 1 (0.27%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.27%) VMware