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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 248 202
Rank change year-on-year -75 -46 +93
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 405 366 451
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.12% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 3.11% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 253 291
10th Percentile £363 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £380 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.15% -7.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +11.64% -2.94% -10.53%
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% +57.71%
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 18,572 11,753 11,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 35.82% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,116 7,198 7,033
10th Percentile £320 £293 £285
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £672
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,231 599 437
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.30 £57.35
% change year-on-year +30.55% -48.91% +14.70%

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 28 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 28 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 17 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 28 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 -101 325 £513 +7.89% 514
UK excluding London -64 192 £461 +11.64% 239
London -87 165 £525 +2.94% 327
Work from Home -94 69 £475 -2.56% 187
North of England -76 63 £538 +35.56% 68
Scotland +4 44 £390 -22.00% 22
South West -14 33 £463 -22.92% 16
North West -56 33 £550 +46.67% 46
Midlands -38 30 £537 +16.11% 43
West Midlands -32 24 £563 +30.43% 18
Yorkshire -50 22 £544 +33.85% 19
South East -74 15 £250 -23.95% 44
North East -33 10 £450 -13.25% 3
Wales -12 6 £413 -8.33% 15
East Midlands -23 6 £526 +13.62% 25
East of England -20 3 £556 +39.06% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 11

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 13 (3.21%) Confluence
2 4 (0.99%) CMS
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Moodle
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 20 (4.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (2.96%) Sketch
3 9 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Shopify
2 6 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.48%) Maximo
3 2 (0.49%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.49%) 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 54 (13.33%) Azure
2 41 (10.12%) GitHub
3 39 (9.63%) Figma
4 34 (8.40%) AWS
5 23 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (4.20%) Google Play
7 16 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 15 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.70%) Firebase
8 15 (3.70%) SaaS
9 11 (2.72%) GCP
10 10 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.23%) Azure AI
13 4 (0.99%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.99%) Lucidchart
13 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.99%) Miro
13 4 (0.99%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.99%) Firewall
1 4 (0.99%) Network Security
2 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.49%) 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 (1.73%) Power BI
2 6 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.23%) Tableau
4 4 (0.99%) MySQL
5 3 (0.74%) Looker
5 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.49%) SQLite
7 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Db2
7 1 (0.25%) Metadata
7 1 (0.25%) Parquet
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (6.42%) Git
2 23 (5.68%) JIRA
3 17 (4.20%) Gradle
4 14 (3.46%) CircleCI
4 14 (3.46%) Xcode
5 13 (3.21%) Android Studio
6 12 (2.96%) fastlane
6 12 (2.96%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.47%) XCUITest
8 9 (2.22%) LoadRunner
9 8 (1.98%) JUnit
9 8 (1.98%) XCTest
10 7 (1.73%) Appium
11 4 (0.99%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (0.99%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.74%) CocoaPods
12 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.74%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.49%) JMeter
General
1 114 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.04%) Finance
3 45 (11.11%) Banking
4 30 (7.41%) Retail
5 26 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.95%) Marketing
8 10 (2.47%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.99%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Games
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.49%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Legal
13 2 (0.49%) Military
13 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (23.95%) Developer
2 67 (16.54%) Senior
3 48 (11.85%) Designer
4 35 (8.64%) Android Developer
5 29 (7.16%) iOS Developer
6 24 (5.93%) Lead
7 23 (5.68%) Android Engineer
7 23 (5.68%) Architect
8 19 (4.69%) Analyst
8 19 (4.69%) Product Designer
8 19 (4.69%) Project Manager
8 19 (4.69%) Tester
9 18 (4.44%) Mobile Engineer
10 14 (3.46%) Product Manager
11 13 (3.21%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.96%) Senior Android Engineer
13 11 (2.72%) QA Tester
13 11 (2.72%) React Developer
14 10 (2.47%) Finance Project Manager
14 10 (2.47%) Mobile Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.85%) RESTful
2 47 (11.60%) REST
3 38 (9.38%) React Native
4 35 (8.64%) Android Jetpack
5 27 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (5.93%) Android SDK
7 20 (4.94%) SwiftUI
8 19 (4.69%) UIKit
9 14 (3.46%) Web Services
10 12 (2.96%) Flutter
10 12 (2.96%) React
11 9 (2.22%) CSS
11 9 (2.22%) HTML
11 9 (2.22%) OAuth
11 9 (2.22%) Retrofit
12 8 (1.98%) Core Data
12 8 (1.98%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.98%) iOS SDK
12 8 (1.98%) JSON
13 6 (1.48%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.37%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.96%) AI Agents
4 12 (2.96%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.96%) Educational Technology
4 12 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.72%) Credit Risk
6 7 (1.73%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (1.48%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.48%) Social Media
8 5 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.23%) IoT
8 5 (1.23%) iPhone
8 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.99%) CMDB
9 4 (0.99%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 131 (32.35%) Android
2 107 (26.42%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.94%) Windows
4 9 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.99%) Linux
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (30.37%) Agile
2 100 (24.69%) AI
3 94 (23.21%) User Experience
4 65 (16.05%) CI/CD
5 62 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (13.58%) Android Development
6 55 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (13.09%) DevOps
8 50 (12.35%) Test Automation
9 49 (12.10%) MVVM
10 48 (11.85%) iOS Development
11 45 (11.11%) Scrum
11 45 (11.11%) UX Design
12 41 (10.12%) Generative AI
13 37 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (8.89%) Roadmaps
15 35 (8.64%) Analytics
15 35 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (7.90%) Mobile Development
17 30 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.10%) Kotlin
2 42 (10.37%) Java
3 41 (10.12%) Swift
4 31 (7.65%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.19%) Python
6 16 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.46%) Objective-C
8 9 (2.22%) SQL
9 8 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.99%) C#
10 4 (0.99%) C++
10 4 (0.99%) Perl
11 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.49%) Go
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
11 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) Dart
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 36 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.93%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (3.95%) Degree
5 8 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CCA
8 2 (0.49%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) MBA
8 2 (0.49%) OSCP
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) ECSA
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 53 (13.09%) QA
3 14 (3.46%) WCAG
4 5 (1.23%) GDPR
5 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.74%) PSD2
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.22%) Docker
2 6 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.99%) SCCM
6 3 (0.74%) Ansible
7 2 (0.49%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.25%) linkerd
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.65%) Google
3 28 (6.91%) Adobe
4 22 (5.43%) Apple
5 16 (3.95%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.46%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.72%) Oracle
8 9 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.23%) IBM
9 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.23%) Samsung
9 5 (1.23%) Splunk
10 4 (0.99%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.99%) SAP
11 2 (0.49%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.49%) Dell
11 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.25%) Braze
12 1 (0.25%) Databricks