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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 286 253
Rank change year-on-year -66 -33 +36
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 321 253 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.87% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.56% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 163 275
10th Percentile £363 £330 £325
25th Percentile £415 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -1.72%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £600
90th Percentile £681 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £26.21 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £63.00 - £70.18
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.63
% change year-on-year - - +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 15,882 9,890 12,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.34% 34.18% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,783 6,246 8,276
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 786 413 924
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.39 £19.97 £15.21
Median hourly rate £42.12 £33.05 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.44% -6.24% +60.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.75 £82.45 £71.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -8.43% +59.09%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -48 275 £513 +9.28% 300
UK excluding London -54 147 £488 +8.33% 176
London -47 137 £525 +5.00% 161
Work from Home -60 76 £481 -1.28% 199
North of England -70 46 £463 +15.63% 60
South West -1 35 £525 +50.00% 19
North West -34 24 £475 +18.75% 35
Midlands -45 23 £531 +14.74% 25
South East -53 23 £425 -26.72% 41
West Midlands -41 18 £529 +32.21% 12
Yorkshire -46 16 £525 +31.25% 19
Scotland -5 15 £550 +30.18% 10
North East -27 6 £450 -13.25% 6
Wales -14 5 £425 +13.33% 6
East Midlands -32 5 £533 +15.14% 13

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 11 (3.43%) Confluence
2 7 (2.18%) CMS
3 5 (1.56%) Moodle
4 3 (0.93%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.62%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (5.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 14 (4.36%) Sketch
3 11 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (2.18%) Chatbot
6 5 (1.56%) Adobe XD
7 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.62%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Workfront
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 44 (13.71%) Azure
2 37 (11.53%) AWS
3 33 (10.28%) Figma
4 28 (8.72%) GitHub
5 21 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (5.92%) SaaS
7 16 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.67%) Firebase
9 12 (3.74%) Entra ID
10 11 (3.43%) GCP
11 8 (2.49%) Sauce Labs
12 7 (2.18%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.18%) Cloud Run
12 7 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.87%) Adobe Analytics
14 5 (1.56%) Google Play
14 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.56%) Serverless
15 4 (1.25%) Azure Functions
15 4 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) Network Security
2 2 (0.62%) DSL
2 2 (0.62%) Firewall
2 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.62%) RFID
2 2 (0.62%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) 4G
3 1 (0.31%) 5G
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) SSL
3 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.87%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.56%) GIS
2 5 (1.56%) MySQL
3 3 (0.93%) Power BI
3 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.62%) Looker
4 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.62%) Tableau
5 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.31%) MS Access
5 1 (0.31%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.31%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (5.92%) Git
2 17 (5.30%) Android Studio
2 17 (5.30%) JIRA
3 16 (4.98%) Xcode
4 14 (4.36%) Gradle
5 13 (4.05%) Jenkins
6 10 (3.12%) fastlane
6 10 (3.12%) XCUITest
7 9 (2.80%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.80%) LoadRunner
7 9 (2.80%) XCTest
8 8 (2.49%) Appium
8 8 (2.49%) JUnit
9 6 (1.87%) Crashlytics
9 6 (1.87%) Postman
10 5 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.56%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 79 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.71%) Finance
3 30 (9.35%) Banking
4 26 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.30%) Retail
7 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.18%) Marketing
8 4 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.25%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.93%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.62%) Publishing
10 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Automotive
11 1 (0.31%) Electronics
11 1 (0.31%) Games
11 1 (0.31%) Military
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (28.04%) Developer
2 55 (17.13%) Senior
3 37 (11.53%) Designer
4 22 (6.85%) Android Developer
5 21 (6.54%) Architect
6 20 (6.23%) iOS Developer
7 19 (5.92%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.61%) Mobile Engineer
9 17 (5.30%) Lead
10 13 (4.05%) Product Designer
10 13 (4.05%) Tester
11 12 (3.74%) Analyst
12 11 (3.43%) Mobile Developer
12 11 (3.43%) Product Manager
12 11 (3.43%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Visual Designer
13 10 (3.12%) Android Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.12%) React Developer
14 9 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.15%) REST
2 34 (10.59%) RESTful
3 31 (9.66%) React Native
4 24 (7.48%) Android Jetpack
5 21 (6.54%) Jetpack Compose
5 21 (6.54%) OAuth
6 16 (4.98%) Android SDK
6 16 (4.98%) GraphQL
6 16 (4.98%) SwiftUI
7 15 (4.67%) CSS
7 15 (4.67%) React
8 14 (4.36%) Spring
8 14 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 13 (4.05%) UIKit
10 12 (3.74%) OAuth2
10 12 (3.74%) Web Services
11 11 (3.43%) HTML
12 9 (2.80%) .NET
13 7 (2.18%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.18%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.54%) Cloud Native
1 21 (6.54%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.36%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.74%) Security Posture
3 12 (3.74%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.18%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.25%) Social Media
6 3 (0.93%) Blackberry
6 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.93%) Digital Media
6 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.93%) Driving Licence
6 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.93%) Legacy Code
6 3 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (0.93%) Media Streaming
7 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 86 (26.79%) Android
2 80 (24.92%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.12%) Windows
4 6 (1.87%) Linux
5 5 (1.56%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (26.48%) Agile
2 73 (22.74%) User Experience
3 67 (20.87%) CI/CD
4 54 (16.82%) AI
5 49 (15.26%) DevOps
6 47 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (14.02%) Test Automation
8 40 (12.46%) Analytics
9 38 (11.84%) UX Design
10 33 (10.28%) Architectural Patterns
10 33 (10.28%) iOS Development
11 31 (9.66%) MVVM
11 31 (9.66%) Observability
12 30 (9.35%) Android Development
13 29 (9.03%) Generative AI
14 28 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (8.72%) Roadmaps
15 26 (8.10%) TDD
16 24 (7.48%) Software Engineering
16 24 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.38%) Java
2 56 (17.45%) Kotlin
3 36 (11.21%) Swift
4 28 (8.72%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.30%) Python
6 14 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.43%) C#
7 11 (3.43%) Objective-C
8 7 (2.18%) SQL
9 5 (1.56%) Perl
9 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.93%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.93%) Go
10 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.62%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) ABAP
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.30%) Degree
4 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.93%) CCA
7 3 (0.93%) CISSP
7 3 (0.93%) MBA
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.62%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.62%) OSCP
8 2 (0.62%) SANS
9 1 (0.31%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.31%) ECSA
9 1 (0.31%) GPEN
9 1 (0.31%) OSCE
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.64%) Accessibility
2 36 (11.21%) QA
3 16 (4.98%) WCAG
4 4 (1.25%) GDPR
5 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.93%) NCSC
5 3 (0.93%) PSD2
6 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) DICOM
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.31%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 13 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.74%) Grafana
3 10 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.56%) Terraform
6 4 (1.25%) Istio
6 4 (1.25%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.25%) linkerd
6 4 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.93%) Ansible
8 2 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.31%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.97%) Adobe
3 23 (7.17%) Google
4 15 (4.67%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.67%) Oracle
5 13 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.05%) Splunk
6 12 (3.74%) Apple
7 8 (2.49%) SAP
8 5 (1.56%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.25%) Braze
9 4 (1.25%) ESRI
9 4 (1.25%) Tealium
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.62%) Coverity
10 2 (0.62%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.62%) Thales
11 1 (0.31%) New Relic
11 1 (0.31%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.31%) Sitecore