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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 286 246
Rank change year-on-year -53 -40 +36
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 330 268 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.90% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.62% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 174 278
10th Percentile £370 £313 £324
25th Percentile £423 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -5.13% -4.41%
75th Percentile £588 £548 £598
90th Percentile £681 £634 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +8.94% -0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £24.02 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £41.00 - £70.18
90th Percentile £49.50 - £81.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.36 - £38.63
% change year-on-year - - +136.89%

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 16,333 10,217 13,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 34.42% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,008 6,407 8,268
10th Percentile £314 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 448 941
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.33 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.40 £33.03 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.39% -6.97% +57.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.08 £81.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -8.43% +59.09%

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 17 June 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 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 15 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 17 June 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 -60 280 £516 +11.46% 491
UK excluding London -50 146 £488 +8.94% 509
London -52 143 £544 +11.83% 127
Work from Home -78 74 £500 +5.26% 447
North of England -62 49 £450 +12.50% 109
South West 0 34 £525 +50.00% 45
North West -41 24 £481 +20.31% 49
Midlands -52 22 £531 +14.74% 50
South East -46 20 £425 -26.09% 114
West Midlands -41 17 £529 +32.21% 23
Scotland -9 16 £550 +23.60% 65
Yorkshire -53 16 £525 +23.53% 45
North East -28 9 £450 -13.25% 15
Wales -7 5 £425 +13.33% 34
East Midlands -28 5 £533 +15.14% 27

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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 7 (2.12%) CMS
3 5 (1.52%) Moodle
4 3 (0.91%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (5.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (3.64%) Sketch
3 11 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (2.42%) Chatbot
6 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.91%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.61%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Workfront
3 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.55%) Azure
2 39 (11.82%) AWS
3 33 (10.00%) Figma
4 29 (8.79%) GitHub
5 22 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.15%) SaaS
8 16 (4.85%) Firebase
9 12 (3.64%) Entra ID
10 11 (3.33%) GCP
11 8 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.12%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.12%) Cloud Run
13 6 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.82%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.82%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (1.52%) Google Play
14 5 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 5 (1.52%) Serverless
15 4 (1.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.21%) Network Security
2 2 (0.61%) DSL
2 2 (0.61%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.61%) RFID
2 2 (0.61%) VPN
2 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) 5G
3 1 (0.30%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.30%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) GIS
2 4 (1.21%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.91%) MySQL
3 3 (0.91%) Power BI
3 3 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.61%) Looker
4 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.61%) Tableau
5 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.30%) MS Access
5 1 (0.30%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (5.15%) Git
1 17 (5.15%) JIRA
2 16 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.85%) Xcode
3 15 (4.55%) Android Studio
4 13 (3.94%) Gradle
5 12 (3.64%) fastlane
6 10 (3.03%) XCUITest
7 9 (2.73%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.73%) LoadRunner
7 9 (2.73%) XCTest
8 8 (2.42%) Appium
8 8 (2.42%) JUnit
9 6 (1.82%) Crashlytics
9 6 (1.82%) Postman
10 5 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.52%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.52%) Selenium
11 4 (1.21%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.21%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.55%) Finance
3 33 (10.00%) Banking
4 29 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.76%) Retail
7 10 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.12%) Marketing
9 4 (1.21%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.61%) Military
11 2 (0.61%) Publishing
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 94 (28.48%) Developer
2 56 (16.97%) Senior
3 38 (11.52%) Designer
4 24 (7.27%) Architect
5 22 (6.67%) iOS Developer
6 20 (6.06%) Android Developer
6 20 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 18 (5.45%) Mobile Engineer
8 15 (4.55%) Lead
9 14 (4.24%) Product Designer
9 14 (4.24%) Tester
10 12 (3.64%) Analyst
10 12 (3.64%) Visual Designer
11 11 (3.33%) Mobile Developer
11 11 (3.33%) Product Manager
12 10 (3.03%) Android Engineer
12 10 (3.03%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.03%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.03%) React Developer
12 10 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.03%) REST
2 34 (10.30%) RESTful
3 31 (9.39%) React Native
4 24 (7.27%) Android Jetpack
5 22 (6.67%) OAuth
6 21 (6.36%) Jetpack Compose
7 17 (5.15%) Android SDK
7 17 (5.15%) SwiftUI
8 14 (4.24%) GraphQL
8 14 (4.24%) Spring
8 14 (4.24%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.24%) UIKit
8 14 (4.24%) Web Services
9 13 (3.94%) OAuth2
10 11 (3.33%) CSS
10 11 (3.33%) React
11 10 (3.03%) HTML
12 9 (2.73%) .NET
13 8 (2.42%) iOS SDK
13 8 (2.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.12%) Mobile Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.21%) CMDB
8 4 (1.21%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.21%) Social Media
9 3 (0.91%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.91%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.91%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.91%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 84 (25.45%) Android
2 82 (24.85%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.73%) Windows
4 4 (1.21%) Linux
5 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.58%) Agile
2 72 (21.82%) User Experience
3 69 (20.91%) CI/CD
4 59 (17.88%) AI
5 54 (16.36%) DevOps
6 46 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (13.94%) Test Automation
7 42 (12.73%) Analytics
8 39 (11.82%) UX Design
9 36 (10.91%) Architectural Patterns
10 35 (10.61%) iOS Development
11 33 (10.00%) MVVM
12 32 (9.70%) Generative AI
13 31 (9.39%) Observability
14 29 (8.79%) Roadmaps
14 29 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (8.48%) Android Development
16 27 (8.18%) Scrum
16 27 (8.18%) TDD
17 25 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.27%) Java
2 55 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 37 (11.21%) Swift
4 27 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.55%) Python
6 14 (4.24%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.33%) C#
8 10 (3.03%) Objective-C
9 7 (2.12%) SQL
10 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.91%) Go
11 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.91%) Perl
12 2 (0.61%) Scala
13 1 (0.30%) ABAP
13 1 (0.30%) C++
13 1 (0.30%) Korn
13 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.85%) Degree
4 9 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) CCA
7 3 (0.91%) CISSP
7 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.91%) MBA
8 2 (0.61%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.61%) OSCP
8 2 (0.61%) SANS
9 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.30%) ECSA
9 1 (0.30%) GPEN
9 1 (0.30%) GXPN
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 37 (11.21%) QA
3 18 (5.45%) WCAG
4 4 (1.21%) GDPR
5 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.91%) NCSC
5 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.91%) PSD2
6 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.61%) GRC
6 2 (0.61%) HL7
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) DICOM
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.30%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 13 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.33%) Grafana
3 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.52%) Terraform
6 4 (1.21%) Istio
6 4 (1.21%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.21%) linkerd
6 4 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.91%) Ansible
8 2 (0.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.39%) Adobe
3 23 (6.97%) Google
4 18 (5.45%) Dynatrace
5 15 (4.55%) Apple
6 14 (4.24%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.94%) Oracle
8 11 (3.33%) Splunk
9 8 (2.42%) SAP
10 5 (1.52%) Xamarin
11 4 (1.21%) Braze
11 4 (1.21%) ESRI
11 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.21%) Tealium
12 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.61%) Coverity
12 2 (0.61%) Dell
12 2 (0.61%) HP
12 2 (0.61%) Thales
13 1 (0.30%) Sitecore