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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 251 207
Rank change year-on-year -81 -44 +87
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 399 354 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.07% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 3.02% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 244 302
10th Percentile £363 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £405 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £15.56 - £64.04
25th Percentile £17.25 - £66.34
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% -42.35% +50.12%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £75.68
90th Percentile £56.60 - £78.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £67.59
% change year-on-year -56.75% -40.14% +51.89%

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 18,410 11,706 11,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.92% 35.54% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,035 7,155 7,137
10th Percentile £322 £299 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £756 £802
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,169 586 477
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.13 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £30.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.84% -47.60% +17.04%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -119 313 £500 +6.38% 806
UK excluding London -61 191 £450 +11.11% 341
London -98 157 £509 +1.75% 528
Work from Home -88 72 £475 -1.30% 283
North of England -86 59 £525 +32.41% 82
Scotland +8 44 £390 -22.00% 29
South West -21 33 £450 -21.74% 34
North West -48 30 £550 +46.67% 52
Midlands -43 26 £535 +15.62% 53
West Midlands -42 21 £550 +19.57% 26
Yorkshire -54 21 £525 +29.23% 26
South East -75 18 £315 +51.81% 86
Wales -6 10 £425 +3.03% 8
North East -36 8 £450 -13.25% 4
East Midlands -19 5 £533 +15.14% 27
East of England -22 2 £500 +25.00% 36

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 (3.01%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) CMS
2 5 (1.25%) Moodle
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (3.01%) Sketch
3 10 (2.51%) Chatbot
4 7 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Shopify
2 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.50%) Maximo
3 2 (0.50%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (11.78%) Azure
2 41 (10.28%) GitHub
3 37 (9.27%) Figma
4 25 (6.27%) AWS
5 23 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.01%) Firebase
8 16 (4.01%) Google Play
9 15 (3.76%) Entra ID
9 15 (3.76%) SaaS
10 10 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (2.26%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.25%) Azure AI
13 4 (1.00%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.00%) GCP
13 4 (1.00%) Lucidchart
13 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) NFC
4 1 (0.25%) WAN
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
4 1 (0.25%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.75%) Power BI
2 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.00%) Tableau
4 3 (0.75%) Looker
4 3 (0.75%) MySQL
4 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.50%) SQLite
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (6.52%) Git
2 23 (5.76%) JIRA
3 17 (4.26%) Gradle
4 14 (3.51%) Android Studio
4 14 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.51%) Xcode
5 13 (3.26%) CircleCI
5 13 (3.26%) fastlane
6 10 (2.51%) XCUITest
7 9 (2.26%) LoadRunner
8 8 (2.01%) Appium
8 8 (2.01%) XCTest
9 7 (1.75%) JUnit
10 5 (1.25%) Crashlytics
11 4 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (1.00%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.50%) JMeter
13 2 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 112 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.29%) Finance
3 46 (11.53%) Banking
4 28 (7.02%) Retail
5 26 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.76%) Marketing
8 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.51%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Games
11 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Local Government
11 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Legal
12 2 (0.50%) Military
13 1 (0.25%) French Language
Job Titles
1 102 (25.56%) Developer
2 64 (16.04%) Senior
3 46 (11.53%) Designer
4 35 (8.77%) Android Developer
5 29 (7.27%) iOS Developer
6 23 (5.76%) Android Engineer
6 23 (5.76%) Lead
7 20 (5.01%) Analyst
7 20 (5.01%) Architect
8 19 (4.76%) Product Designer
8 19 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 19 (4.76%) Tester
9 18 (4.51%) Mobile Engineer
10 15 (3.76%) Product Manager
11 14 (3.51%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.01%) Senior Android Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) QA Tester
14 10 (2.51%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.51%) Consultant
14 10 (2.51%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.78%) REST
1 47 (11.78%) RESTful
2 36 (9.02%) React Native
3 34 (8.52%) Android Jetpack
4 25 (6.27%) Android SDK
4 25 (6.27%) Jetpack Compose
5 20 (5.01%) SwiftUI
6 19 (4.76%) UIKit
7 14 (3.51%) Web Services
8 10 (2.51%) Flutter
9 9 (2.26%) Core Data
9 9 (2.26%) CSS
9 9 (2.26%) GraphQL
9 9 (2.26%) HTML
9 9 (2.26%) iOS SDK
9 9 (2.26%) OAuth
9 9 (2.26%) React
9 9 (2.26%) Retrofit
10 7 (1.75%) JSON
11 6 (1.50%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.28%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.51%) Security Posture
4 12 (3.01%) Educational Technology
5 11 (2.76%) Credit Risk
5 11 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.01%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (1.50%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.50%) Social Media
8 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.25%) IoT
9 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.00%) CMDB
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.00%) iPhone
10 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 125 (31.33%) Android
2 105 (26.32%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.51%) Windows
4 8 (2.01%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (30.08%) Agile
2 96 (24.06%) AI
3 90 (22.56%) User Experience
4 64 (16.04%) CI/CD
5 60 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (13.53%) Android Development
7 53 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (13.03%) DevOps
9 51 (12.78%) MVVM
10 49 (12.28%) iOS Development
10 49 (12.28%) Test Automation
11 46 (11.53%) Scrum
12 44 (11.03%) UX Design
13 37 (9.27%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (9.27%) Roadmaps
14 36 (9.02%) Analytics
15 35 (8.77%) Generative AI
16 34 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (7.52%) Mobile Development
17 30 (7.52%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.53%) Kotlin
2 43 (10.78%) Java
3 42 (10.53%) Swift
4 28 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.01%) Python
6 14 (3.51%) Objective-C
6 14 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.75%) SQL
9 4 (1.00%) C++
10 3 (0.75%) C#
10 3 (0.75%) Perl
11 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
11 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) Dart
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.26%) Degree
4 16 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) CCA
8 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.25%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) ECSA
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
9 1 (0.25%) GXPN
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.03%) QA
2 50 (12.53%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.01%) WCAG
4 5 (1.25%) GDPR
5 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) GRC
6 3 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (1.50%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.75%) Firmware
4 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.00%) SCCM
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.52%) Google
3 27 (6.77%) Adobe
4 22 (5.51%) Apple
5 18 (4.51%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.76%) Oracle
8 8 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.25%) IBM
9 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.25%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.00%) Samsung
11 3 (0.75%) SAP
12 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.50%) Braze
12 2 (0.50%) Dell
12 2 (0.50%) Tealium
13 1 (0.25%) Databricks