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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 223 255
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 -41
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 425 411 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.13% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% 3.62% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 270 275
10th Percentile £204 £205 £343
25th Percentile £358 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £570 £592 £595
90th Percentile £625 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £476
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.97% -8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 15
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £16.90 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £35.06 - £71.25
90th Percentile £40.46 - £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.46 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +137.97%

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 12,765 11,364 14,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 31.34% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,924 6,702 9,750
10th Percentile £275 £285 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 376 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.80 £16.87
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -20.16% +25.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -16.92% -29.62% +59.79%

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 30 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 -10 386 £478 +0.53% 360
UK excluding London +15 199 £425 +6.25% 367
London -4 198 £500 - 103
Work from Home -50 109 £500 +11.11% 112
North of England -47 63 £388 -3.13% 87
South East +16 54 £425 -10.53% 126
North West -31 33 £370 -3.27% 48
Midlands -19 31 £510 +27.50% 57
Yorkshire -21 30 £426 -12.56% 27
South West +13 23 £600 +71.43% 33
Wales +15 18 £175 -61.64% 15
East Midlands -11 17 £550 +8.11% 25
West Midlands -17 14 £419 +188.79% 32
Scotland -7 5 £475 +18.75% 20
East of England -10 5 £168 -66.50% 26

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 25 (5.88%) Confluence
2 24 (5.65%) CMS
3 13 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.41%) Moodle
6 5 (1.18%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.18%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.71%) Apache
7 3 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.00%) Chatbot
3 9 (2.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.41%) Adobe Captivate
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.18%) Zeplin
6 3 (0.71%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.71%) Sketch
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) Moqups
7 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Maximo
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 47 (11.06%) Figma
2 41 (9.65%) Azure
3 27 (6.35%) AWS
4 26 (6.12%) SaaS
5 21 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.24%) Sauce Labs
8 17 (4.00%) Google Play
9 13 (3.06%) GitHub
9 13 (3.06%) Serverless
10 12 (2.82%) Firebase
11 8 (1.88%) BrowserStack
11 8 (1.88%) Contentful
11 8 (1.88%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.65%) GCP
12 7 (1.65%) Kontent
13 6 (1.41%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.41%) Miro
14 5 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.47%) Wireless
2 8 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (1.88%) Skype
3 6 (1.41%) Internet
4 5 (1.18%) HTTP
5 4 (0.94%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.71%) Firewall
6 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.24%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) MQTT
8 1 (0.24%) SMS
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.94%) MySQL
2 19 (4.47%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.88%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.18%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.94%) Power BI
6 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.71%) SQLite
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.47%) Metadata
8 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.24%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.24%) GIS
8 1 (0.24%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 61 (14.35%) Git
2 42 (9.88%) Xcode
3 35 (8.24%) Android Studio
4 33 (7.76%) JIRA
5 21 (4.94%) Browser DevTools
6 19 (4.47%) Jenkins
7 18 (4.24%) Appium
7 18 (4.24%) Eclipse
7 18 (4.24%) Gradle
8 11 (2.59%) Postman
9 9 (2.12%) Selenium
10 8 (1.88%) Charles Proxy
10 8 (1.88%) GitLab
11 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.65%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.65%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.65%) Storybook
11 7 (1.65%) XCUITest
12 6 (1.41%) CocoaPods
13 5 (1.18%) Katalon Studio
General
1 121 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 86 (20.24%) Finance
3 56 (13.18%) Banking
4 29 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.88%) Marketing
6 21 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.47%) Retail
9 16 (3.76%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.35%) Automotive
10 10 (2.35%) Electronics
11 8 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.65%) Legal
13 6 (1.41%) Publishing
14 4 (0.94%) Law
14 4 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.47%) iGaming
16 2 (0.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 131 (30.82%) Developer
2 52 (12.24%) Designer
3 45 (10.59%) Senior
4 35 (8.24%) Android Developer
5 26 (6.12%) iOS Developer
6 23 (5.41%) Product Designer
7 21 (4.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 20 (4.71%) React Developer
8 20 (4.71%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.47%) Lead
9 19 (4.47%) Mobile Engineer
9 19 (4.47%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (4.47%) Technical Support
9 19 (4.47%) Technical Support Engineer
9 19 (4.47%) UX Engineer
10 18 (4.24%) Mobile Developer
11 17 (4.00%) Break Fix Engineer
11 17 (4.00%) Junior
12 16 (3.76%) Architect
12 16 (3.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.82%) CSS
2 60 (14.12%) RESTful
3 46 (10.82%) HTML
4 44 (10.35%) React Native
5 43 (10.12%) React
6 36 (8.47%) AngularJS
7 31 (7.29%) GraphQL
8 27 (6.35%) .NET
9 24 (5.65%) Node.js
10 23 (5.41%) REST
11 21 (4.94%) Android Jetpack
12 20 (4.71%) JSON
13 19 (4.47%) Ajax
13 19 (4.47%) Jetpack Compose
14 15 (3.53%) Flutter
14 15 (3.53%) OAuth
14 15 (3.53%) SwiftUI
14 15 (3.53%) Web Services
15 14 (3.29%) .NET Framework
16 13 (3.06%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.35%) Onboarding
3 8 (1.88%) Virtual Team
4 7 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.18%) iPhone
6 5 (1.18%) RIA
6 5 (1.18%) W3C
7 4 (0.94%) Blockchain
7 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 4 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (0.94%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (0.71%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.71%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 151 (35.53%) Android
2 117 (27.53%) Apple iOS
3 32 (7.53%) Windows
4 21 (4.94%) Unix
5 20 (4.71%) Linux
6 11 (2.59%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (33.65%) Agile
2 123 (28.94%) User Experience
3 100 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 67 (15.76%) Mobile Application Development
4 67 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (14.82%) DevOps
6 54 (12.71%) UX Design
7 53 (12.47%) Test Automation
8 46 (10.82%) Android Development
9 44 (10.35%) iOS Development
10 41 (9.65%) Analytics
11 40 (9.41%) Scrum
12 39 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (8.71%) Mobile Development
14 36 (8.47%) AI
15 33 (7.76%) MVVM
16 32 (7.53%) Design Patterns
17 31 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (6.82%) Computer Science
19 28 (6.59%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.88%) JavaScript
2 80 (18.82%) Java
3 57 (13.41%) Kotlin
4 44 (10.35%) Swift
5 41 (9.65%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.94%) Python
7 26 (6.12%) SQL
8 24 (5.65%) C#
9 22 (5.18%) Perl
10 19 (4.47%) Objective-C
11 9 (2.12%) Ruby
12 7 (1.65%) PHP
13 5 (1.18%) C++
14 4 (0.94%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.71%) C
15 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.71%) Scala
16 2 (0.47%) Go
16 2 (0.47%) R
16 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (9.65%) Degree
2 12 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.59%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.35%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.35%) PMP
5 8 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.41%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.71%) ACSP
7 3 (0.71%) ACTC
7 3 (0.71%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.47%) ISEB
9 1 (0.24%) GIAC
9 1 (0.24%) MBA
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 49 (11.53%) QA
3 12 (2.82%) GDPR
4 9 (2.12%) WCAG
5 7 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.47%) PERC
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.65%) Kubernetes
1 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.47%) rkt
4 2 (0.47%) Terraform
5 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.76%) Google
3 29 (6.82%) Oracle
4 25 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.41%) Adobe
5 23 (5.41%) Splunk
6 18 (4.24%) Apple
6 18 (4.24%) HP
7 13 (3.06%) SAP
8 8 (1.88%) Cisco
9 7 (1.65%) OneTrust
9 7 (1.65%) Xamarin
10 6 (1.41%) Optimizely
11 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.18%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.94%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.94%) Tealium
12 4 (0.94%) YouTube
13 3 (0.71%) Hotjar