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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 283 244
Rank change year-on-year -53 -39 +43
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 341 283 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.90% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 2.61% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 176 289
10th Percentile £365 £313 £321
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £472 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -3.67% -5.08%
75th Percentile £581 £548 £600
90th Percentile £681 £617 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% -7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £19.62 - -
25th Percentile £29.51 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +1.15% +14.29%
75th Percentile £37.00 - £70.18
90th Percentile £40.60 - £81.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.36 £40.46 £38.63
% change year-on-year -66.99% +4.75% +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 16,974 10,834 13,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.95% 34.64% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,364 6,746 8,352
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 499 919
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.55 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +40.32% -14.00% +60.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.55 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.16 £78.71 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +46.53% -15.85% +58.44%

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 3 July 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 3 July 2026.

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 3 July 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 -70 286 £513 +8.58% 283
London -65 152 £526 +5.20% 128
UK excluding London -57 145 £475 +9.20% 196
Work from Home -71 80 £488 - 120
North of England -71 47 £450 +12.50% 58
South West -2 31 £525 +28.21% 18
Midlands -56 24 £529 +14.35% 30
North West -47 22 £481 +20.31% 37
South East -47 19 £413 -21.43% 47
West Midlands -49 19 £502 +16.73% 14
Scotland -4 17 £550 +23.60% 14
Yorkshire -51 16 £525 +7.14% 15
North East -33 9 £450 -13.25% 7
Wales -13 7 £425 +13.33% 8
East Midlands -22 5 £533 +15.14% 16

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 10 (2.93%) Confluence
2 8 (2.35%) CMS
3 5 (1.47%) Moodle
4 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (4.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (3.52%) Sketch
3 9 (2.64%) Chatbot
3 9 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.88%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.59%) InVision
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Workfront
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (15.25%) Azure
2 42 (12.32%) AWS
3 31 (9.09%) Figma
4 30 (8.80%) GitHub
5 20 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.99%) SaaS
8 15 (4.40%) Firebase
9 13 (3.81%) Entra ID
10 11 (3.23%) GCP
10 11 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.05%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.05%) Cloud Run
11 7 (2.05%) Google Play
12 6 (1.76%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.76%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (1.47%) Serverless
14 4 (1.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) Network Security
2 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.59%) DSL
3 2 (0.59%) Firewall
4 1 (0.29%) 4G
4 1 (0.29%) 5G
4 1 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.88%) GIS
2 3 (0.88%) MySQL
2 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.88%) Power BI
2 3 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.59%) Looker
3 2 (0.59%) Tableau
4 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (6.16%) Git
2 18 (5.28%) JIRA
3 16 (4.69%) Xcode
4 14 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.81%) Android Studio
5 13 (3.81%) Gradle
6 11 (3.23%) fastlane
7 9 (2.64%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.64%) LoadRunner
7 9 (2.64%) XCUITest
8 8 (2.35%) Appium
8 8 (2.35%) JUnit
8 8 (2.35%) XCTest
9 6 (1.76%) Postman
10 5 (1.47%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.47%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.47%) Selenium
11 4 (1.17%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.17%) Zephyr
General
1 85 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.54%) Finance
3 31 (9.09%) Banking
4 27 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.16%) Retail
7 10 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.64%) Marketing
9 4 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.17%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.88%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.88%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Military
11 2 (0.59%) Publishing
11 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 95 (27.86%) Developer
2 60 (17.60%) Senior
3 41 (12.02%) Designer
4 24 (7.04%) Architect
5 22 (6.45%) iOS Developer
6 20 (5.87%) Android Developer
6 20 (5.87%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.57%) Product Designer
8 18 (5.28%) Mobile Engineer
9 16 (4.69%) Lead
10 14 (4.11%) Android Engineer
10 14 (4.11%) Tester
11 13 (3.81%) Analyst
12 12 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.23%) Mobile Developer
13 11 (3.23%) UI Designer
13 11 (3.23%) UX Designer
14 10 (2.93%) Backend Developer
14 10 (2.93%) Product Manager
14 10 (2.93%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.66%) REST
2 39 (11.44%) RESTful
3 35 (10.26%) React Native
4 28 (8.21%) Android Jetpack
5 23 (6.74%) Jetpack Compose
6 21 (6.16%) Android SDK
6 21 (6.16%) OAuth
7 17 (4.99%) SwiftUI
8 15 (4.40%) UIKit
9 14 (4.11%) GraphQL
9 14 (4.11%) Spring
9 14 (4.11%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.11%) Web Services
10 13 (3.81%) OAuth2
11 11 (3.23%) React
12 10 (2.93%) .NET
12 10 (2.93%) CSS
13 9 (2.64%) HTML
13 9 (2.64%) iOS SDK
14 8 (2.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.16%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.52%) Security Posture
4 12 (3.52%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.35%) Mobile Banking
7 5 (1.47%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.17%) CMDB
8 4 (1.17%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.17%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.17%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.17%) NHS
9 3 (0.88%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 91 (26.69%) Android
2 87 (25.51%) Apple iOS
3 12 (3.52%) Windows
4 4 (1.17%) Linux
4 4 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.88%) Unix
6 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (27.57%) Agile
2 81 (23.75%) User Experience
3 69 (20.23%) CI/CD
4 68 (19.94%) AI
5 54 (15.84%) DevOps
6 48 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.49%) UX Design
8 45 (13.20%) Test Automation
9 40 (11.73%) Analytics
10 38 (11.14%) Architectural Patterns
11 36 (10.56%) iOS Development
11 36 (10.56%) MVVM
12 33 (9.68%) Generative AI
12 33 (9.68%) Observability
13 32 (9.38%) Scrum
14 30 (8.80%) Android Development
14 30 (8.80%) Roadmaps
14 30 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (7.92%) TDD
16 25 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.60%) Java
1 60 (17.60%) Kotlin
2 37 (10.85%) Swift
3 25 (7.33%) JavaScript
4 17 (4.99%) Python
5 14 (4.11%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.23%) C#
7 10 (2.93%) Objective-C
8 7 (2.05%) SQL
9 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.88%) Go
10 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.88%) Perl
11 2 (0.59%) C++
11 2 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) ABAP
12 1 (0.29%) Korn
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.92%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.28%) Degree
4 9 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.88%) CISSP
7 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) MBA
8 2 (0.59%) CCA
8 2 (0.59%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.59%) OSCP
9 1 (0.29%) CISM
9 1 (0.29%) GPEN
9 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.29%) OSCE
9 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PMP
9 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.37%) Accessibility
2 42 (12.32%) QA
3 18 (5.28%) WCAG
4 6 (1.76%) GDPR
5 4 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.88%) PSD2
7 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.59%) GRC
7 2 (0.59%) HL7
7 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (2.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.29%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.23%) Grafana
2 11 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.17%) Istio
4 4 (1.17%) Kustomize
4 4 (1.17%) linkerd
4 4 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.17%) Terraform
5 3 (0.88%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.29%) Argo
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 34 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.50%) Adobe
3 26 (7.62%) Google
4 19 (5.57%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.99%) Apple
6 15 (4.40%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.81%) Oracle
8 12 (3.52%) Splunk
9 6 (1.76%) SAP
10 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.47%) Xamarin
11 4 (1.17%) Braze
11 4 (1.17%) Tealium
12 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.59%) Dell
13 2 (0.59%) ESRI
13 2 (0.59%) HP
14 1 (0.29%) OneLogin
14 1 (0.29%) Samsung
14 1 (0.29%) VMware