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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 273 238
Rank change year-on-year -25 -35 +25
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 348 269 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.91% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.40% 2.70% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 188 257
10th Percentile £204 £311 £327
25th Percentile £400 £375 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £448 £450
% change year-on-year -5.03% -0.56% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £50.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £12.25
% change year-on-year - - -65.00%

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 14,484 9,973 13,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.09% 33.75% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,115 6,336 8,580
10th Percentile £300 £288 £255
25th Percentile £408 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 678 370 876
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.95 £12.43
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.33 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.20 £67.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.76 £25.39
% change year-on-year +32.05% +25.10% +14.56%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -34 297 £500 - 247
UK excluding London -28 156 £425 -5.03% 201
London -25 149 £509 -4.68% 97
Work from Home -47 96 £488 -2.50% 131
South East -41 42 £425 -26.09% 59
North of England -69 32 £400 - 45
North West -23 29 £400 +1.27% 23
South West -5 28 £525 +50.00% 20
Midlands -44 25 £539 +11.22% 37
Wales +11 18 £425 +13.33% 10
East Midlands -28 13 £550 +11.11% 15
West Midlands -46 12 £475 +3.26% 22
Scotland +3 6 £350 -12.50% 14
East of England -25 5 £185 -69.80% 17
Yorkshire -70 2 £575 +26.03% 17
North East - 1 £525 - 5

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 19 (5.46%) CMS
2 18 (5.17%) Confluence
3 10 (2.87%) Moodle
4 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.44%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.44%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.44%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (4.89%) Chatbot
2 15 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (2.01%) Sketch
6 6 (1.72%) Adobe XD
6 6 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.15%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.29%) InVision
9 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.06%) AWS
2 29 (8.33%) Figma
3 19 (5.46%) Azure
3 19 (5.46%) SaaS
4 14 (4.02%) GitHub
5 13 (3.74%) GCP
6 12 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (3.45%) Sauce Labs
7 11 (3.16%) Firebase
8 10 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.01%) Cloud Run
10 7 (2.01%) Kontent
10 7 (2.01%) Serverless
11 6 (1.72%) Contentful
11 6 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.72%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.44%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.44%) PaaS
13 4 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (2.30%) Skype
2 7 (2.01%) Wireless
3 5 (1.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.57%) DSL
4 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.57%) RFID
4 2 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) 4G
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) SSL
5 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.87%) MySQL
1 10 (2.87%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.72%) GIS
3 4 (1.15%) SQLite
4 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.57%) Power BI
5 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.29%) Looker
6 1 (0.29%) MS Access
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (7.18%) Git
1 25 (7.18%) JIRA
2 24 (6.90%) Android Studio
3 18 (5.17%) Xcode
4 16 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (2.87%) Appium
6 10 (2.87%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.87%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.30%) Gradle
8 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.01%) CocoaPods
8 7 (2.01%) Postman
8 7 (2.01%) XCUITest
9 6 (1.72%) fastlane
9 6 (1.72%) GitLab
9 6 (1.72%) Selenium
9 6 (1.72%) XCTest
10 5 (1.44%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.44%) REST Assured
General
1 90 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.82%) Finance
3 36 (10.34%) Banking
4 30 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.46%) Marketing
6 19 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.02%) Retail
8 13 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.87%) Electronics
10 9 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.01%) Publishing
12 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Automotive
14 3 (0.86%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.57%) iGaming
15 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (28.45%) Developer
2 55 (15.80%) Senior
3 36 (10.34%) Designer
4 23 (6.61%) Architect
5 19 (5.46%) Mobile Developer
6 18 (5.17%) Android Developer
6 18 (5.17%) Break Fix Engineer
6 18 (5.17%) Junior
6 18 (5.17%) Mobile Engineer
7 17 (4.89%) React Developer
8 16 (4.60%) Analyst
8 16 (4.60%) UX Designer
9 15 (4.31%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.74%) Backend Developer
11 13 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.74%) Senior Designer
12 12 (3.45%) Applications Developer
12 12 (3.45%) iOS Developer
12 12 (3.45%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.63%) React Native
2 33 (9.48%) CSS
3 29 (8.33%) React
3 29 (8.33%) REST
4 25 (7.18%) HTML
4 25 (7.18%) RESTful
5 23 (6.61%) AngularJS
5 23 (6.61%) OAuth
6 21 (6.03%) GraphQL
7 19 (5.46%) Spring
8 18 (5.17%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.89%) .NET
10 16 (4.60%) OAuth2
11 15 (4.31%) Jetpack Compose
12 14 (4.02%) Android Jetpack
13 12 (3.45%) SwiftUI
14 11 (3.16%) Ajax
15 9 (2.59%) .NET Framework
15 9 (2.59%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (2.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 11 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.44%) FMCG
7 5 (1.44%) RIA
7 5 (1.44%) W3C
8 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.15%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (0.86%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.86%) Blog
9 3 (0.86%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.86%) Tandem
9 3 (0.86%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 94 (27.01%) Android
2 76 (21.84%) Apple iOS
3 23 (6.61%) Windows
4 10 (2.87%) Linux
4 10 (2.87%) Unix
5 9 (2.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (25.00%) User Experience
2 85 (24.43%) Agile
3 70 (20.11%) CI/CD
4 63 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (14.37%) Test Automation
6 44 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (12.36%) AI
8 39 (11.21%) UX Design
9 38 (10.92%) Software Engineering
10 32 (9.20%) Analytics
11 31 (8.91%) Design Patterns
11 31 (8.91%) DevOps
12 29 (8.33%) Android Development
13 28 (8.05%) iOS Development
14 27 (7.76%) Mobile Application Development
15 26 (7.47%) Mentoring
15 26 (7.47%) Mobile Development
16 24 (6.90%) Microservices
16 24 (6.90%) TDD
17 23 (6.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.25%) Java
2 56 (16.09%) Kotlin
3 54 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 31 (8.91%) Swift
5 26 (7.47%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.32%) SQL
7 19 (5.46%) C#
8 17 (4.89%) Python
9 11 (3.16%) Objective-C
9 11 (3.16%) Perl
10 5 (1.44%) Go
11 3 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.57%) R
12 2 (0.57%) Rust
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.33%) Degree
3 19 (5.46%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.87%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.01%) PMP
7 6 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.86%) MBA
10 2 (0.57%) CISSP
10 2 (0.57%) SANS
11 1 (0.29%) CCA
11 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.29%) GIAC
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.80%) Accessibility
2 47 (13.51%) QA
3 18 (5.17%) WCAG
4 6 (1.72%) GDPR
5 5 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.86%) NCSC
6 3 (0.86%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.57%) HL7
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (2.59%) Active Directory
1 9 (2.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 11 (3.16%) Grafana
2 9 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.86%) Istio
5 3 (0.86%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.86%) linkerd
5 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.86%) Terraform
6 2 (0.57%) rkt
7 1 (0.29%) Ansible
7 1 (0.29%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 53 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.77%) Adobe
3 24 (6.90%) Google
4 19 (5.46%) HP
5 18 (5.17%) Oracle
5 18 (5.17%) Splunk
6 17 (4.89%) SAP
7 12 (3.45%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.30%) Cisco
8 8 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.30%) Xamarin
9 6 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.72%) Tealium
10 5 (1.44%) Apple
10 5 (1.44%) ESRI
10 5 (1.44%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.44%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.15%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.86%) Coverity