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 24 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 292 245
Rank change year-on-year -57 -47 +40
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 316 243 394
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 2.48% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 153 272
10th Percentile £313 £359 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -3.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £593
90th Percentile £681 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £26.21 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £63.00 - £68.17
90th Percentile £70.00 - £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £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 15,565 9,816 12,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.02% 34.07% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,638 6,257 8,318
10th Percentile £313 £294 £270
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.37% -2.23%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 746 384 909
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.67 £20.34 £15.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £32.05 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -0.20% +45.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.63 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £81.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.49 £31.25
% change year-on-year +42.90% +0.77% +44.21%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -57 267 £513 +5.13% 232
UK excluding London -32 150 £475 +2.70% 172
London -49 129 £550 +7.37% 108
Work from Home -62 76 £488 - 96
North of England -60 48 £450 +12.50% 57
South West -4 33 £525 +50.00% 14
North West -31 27 £425 +6.25% 32
South East -44 27 £425 -26.09% 39
Midlands -66 18 £529 +14.35% 26
Yorkshire -51 16 £525 +33.08% 17
Scotland 0 15 £550 +30.18% 11
West Midlands -51 14 £529 +14.97% 15
Wales -4 7 £425 +13.33% 5
North East -26 5 £450 -18.18% 8
East Midlands -35 4 £528 +14.11% 11
East of England -35 2 £255 -40.00% 15

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 (3.48%) Confluence
2 7 (2.22%) CMS
3 6 (1.90%) Moodle
4 3 (0.95%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.63%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (5.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (4.11%) Sketch
3 11 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (2.53%) Chatbot
6 5 (1.58%) Adobe XD
6 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.63%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Workfront
3 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 39 (12.34%) AWS
2 33 (10.44%) Figma
3 32 (10.13%) Azure
4 21 (6.65%) GitHub
5 20 (6.33%) SaaS
6 15 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.43%) Firebase
8 13 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.48%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.48%) GCP
10 9 (2.85%) Sauce Labs
11 7 (2.22%) Cloud Run
11 7 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.90%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.90%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.58%) Serverless
14 4 (1.27%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.27%) Google Play
14 4 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) DSL
1 2 (0.63%) Firewall
1 2 (0.63%) Network Security
1 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.63%) RFID
1 2 (0.63%) VPN
2 1 (0.32%) 4G
2 1 (0.32%) 5G
2 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) Skype
2 1 (0.32%) SSL
2 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.90%) MySQL
3 5 (1.58%) GIS
4 3 (0.95%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.63%) Looker
5 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.63%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.32%) MS Access
6 1 (0.32%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (5.70%) Android Studio
1 18 (5.70%) JIRA
2 17 (5.38%) Git
3 15 (4.75%) Xcode
4 13 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.16%) Gradle
6 9 (2.85%) Appium
6 9 (2.85%) fastlane
7 7 (2.22%) XCTest
7 7 (2.22%) XCUITest
8 6 (1.90%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (1.90%) Eclipse
8 6 (1.90%) Postman
9 5 (1.58%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.58%) JUnit
9 5 (1.58%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.58%) Selenium
10 4 (1.27%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.51%) Finance
3 28 (8.86%) Banking
4 27 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.06%) Retail
6 8 (2.53%) Marketing
7 6 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.95%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Publishing
10 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (27.85%) Developer
2 51 (16.14%) Senior
3 35 (11.08%) Designer
4 24 (7.59%) Architect
5 20 (6.33%) Android Developer
6 18 (5.70%) Mobile Engineer
7 16 (5.06%) iOS Developer
8 15 (4.75%) Lead
9 14 (4.43%) Backend Developer
9 14 (4.43%) Mobile Developer
9 14 (4.43%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.11%) Tester
11 12 (3.80%) Product Manager
11 12 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.48%) Analyst
12 11 (3.48%) Product Designer
12 11 (3.48%) Visual Designer
13 10 (3.16%) React Developer
14 9 (2.85%) Java Developer
14 9 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.76%) React Native
1 34 (10.76%) REST
2 26 (8.23%) OAuth
3 25 (7.91%) RESTful
4 19 (6.01%) GraphQL
4 19 (6.01%) Spring
4 19 (6.01%) Spring Boot
5 18 (5.70%) Android Jetpack
6 17 (5.38%) OAuth2
6 17 (5.38%) React
7 16 (5.06%) CSS
7 16 (5.06%) Jetpack Compose
8 14 (4.43%) SwiftUI
9 12 (3.80%) Android SDK
9 12 (3.80%) UIKit
10 10 (3.16%) HTML
11 9 (2.85%) .NET
11 9 (2.85%) Node.js
12 8 (2.53%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.75%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 10 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.90%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.95%) Digital Media
8 3 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.95%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.95%) FMCG
8 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.95%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (0.95%) Media Streaming
8 3 (0.95%) Social Media
9 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 82 (25.95%) Android
2 74 (23.42%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.48%) Windows
4 7 (2.22%) Linux
5 6 (1.90%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (24.68%) Agile
2 70 (22.15%) User Experience
3 62 (19.62%) CI/CD
4 54 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (15.82%) AI
6 48 (15.19%) Test Automation
7 42 (13.29%) DevOps
8 39 (12.34%) Analytics
9 36 (11.39%) UX Design
10 33 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (9.81%) Observability
12 29 (9.18%) TDD
13 28 (8.86%) iOS Development
14 27 (8.54%) Architectural Patterns
15 26 (8.23%) Android Development
15 26 (8.23%) Generative AI
15 26 (8.23%) Microservices
15 26 (8.23%) MVVM
15 26 (8.23%) Software Engineering
16 25 (7.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (19.30%) Java
2 55 (17.41%) Kotlin
3 31 (9.81%) JavaScript
4 30 (9.49%) Swift
5 16 (5.06%) Python
5 16 (5.06%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.48%) C#
7 8 (2.53%) Objective-C
8 7 (2.22%) SQL
9 6 (1.90%) Perl
10 3 (0.95%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.95%) Go
11 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) ABAP
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.32%) VBA
12 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.38%) Degree
4 9 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.95%) CCA
7 3 (0.95%) MBA
8 2 (0.63%) CISSP
8 2 (0.63%) SANS
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.32%) GPEN
9 1 (0.32%) GXPN
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.32%) OSCE
9 1 (0.32%) OSCP
9 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.56%) Accessibility
2 30 (9.49%) QA
3 15 (4.75%) WCAG
4 4 (1.27%) GDPR
5 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.95%) NCSC
5 3 (0.95%) PSD2
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) HL7
6 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) DICOM
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.85%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 13 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.80%) Grafana
3 8 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.27%) Istio
5 4 (1.27%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.27%) linkerd
5 4 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.27%) Terraform
6 3 (0.95%) Ansible
6 3 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.13%) Adobe
3 18 (5.70%) Google
4 14 (4.43%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.43%) Oracle
4 14 (4.43%) Splunk
5 13 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.16%) Apple
6 10 (3.16%) SAP
7 6 (1.90%) Braze
7 6 (1.90%) HP
8 5 (1.58%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.27%) ESRI
9 4 (1.27%) Tealium
10 3 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.95%) Coverity
10 3 (0.95%) Thales
11 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.63%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.32%) New Relic