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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 276 244
Rank change year-on-year -61 -32 +36
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 332 271 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.91% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 2.66% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 177 278
10th Percentile £363 £313 £324
25th Percentile £418 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.13% -3.23%
75th Percentile £588 £548 £598
90th Percentile £681 £630 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +8.94% -0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £24.02 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £41.00 - £70.18
90th Percentile £49.50 - £81.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.36 - £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 16,316 10,181 13,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.50% 34.37% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,004 6,390 8,269
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 442 940
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.09 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -7.04% +57.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.03 £72.50
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -63 283 £516 +11.46% 268
UK excluding London -56 147 £488 +8.94% 166
London -66 145 £541 +10.18% 149
Work from Home -62 74 £488 - 115
North of England -68 48 £450 +12.50% 53
South West 0 34 £525 +50.00% 19
North West -44 23 £481 +20.31% 28
South East -45 22 £425 -26.09% 41
Midlands -52 22 £531 +14.74% 20
West Midlands -45 17 £529 +32.21% 9
Scotland -7 16 £550 +23.60% 11
Yorkshire -51 16 £525 +23.53% 19
North East -29 9 £450 -13.25% 6
Wales -9 5 £425 +13.33% 8
East Midlands -31 5 £533 +15.14% 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 11 (3.31%) Confluence
2 7 (2.11%) CMS
3 5 (1.51%) Moodle
4 3 (0.90%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (5.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (3.61%) Sketch
3 11 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (2.41%) Chatbot
6 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.90%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.60%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Workfront
3 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.46%) Azure
2 39 (11.75%) AWS
3 33 (9.94%) Figma
4 29 (8.73%) GitHub
5 22 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.42%) SaaS
8 16 (4.82%) Firebase
9 12 (3.61%) Entra ID
10 11 (3.31%) GCP
11 8 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.11%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.11%) Cloud Run
12 7 (2.11%) Sauce Labs
13 6 (1.81%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.81%) Google Play
14 5 (1.51%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 5 (1.51%) Serverless
15 4 (1.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.20%) Network Security
2 2 (0.60%) DSL
2 2 (0.60%) Firewall
2 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.60%) RFID
2 2 (0.60%) VPN
2 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) 5G
3 1 (0.30%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.30%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.51%) GIS
1 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.20%) MySQL
3 3 (0.90%) Power BI
3 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.60%) Looker
4 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.60%) Tableau
5 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.30%) MS Access
5 1 (0.30%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (5.12%) Android Studio
1 17 (5.12%) Git
1 17 (5.12%) JIRA
1 17 (5.12%) Xcode
2 16 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.22%) Gradle
4 12 (3.61%) fastlane
5 10 (3.01%) XCUITest
6 9 (2.71%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.71%) LoadRunner
6 9 (2.71%) XCTest
7 8 (2.41%) Appium
7 8 (2.41%) JUnit
8 6 (1.81%) Crashlytics
8 6 (1.81%) Postman
9 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.51%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.51%) Selenium
10 4 (1.20%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.16%) Finance
3 32 (9.64%) Banking
4 30 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.42%) Retail
7 10 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.11%) Marketing
9 4 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.20%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Publishing
11 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Automotive
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 95 (28.61%) Developer
2 56 (16.87%) Senior
3 38 (11.45%) Designer
4 24 (7.23%) Architect
5 22 (6.63%) iOS Developer
6 21 (6.33%) Android Developer
7 20 (6.02%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.42%) Mobile Engineer
9 15 (4.52%) Lead
10 14 (4.22%) Product Designer
10 14 (4.22%) Tester
11 12 (3.61%) Analyst
11 12 (3.61%) Visual Designer
12 11 (3.31%) Android Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Mobile Developer
12 11 (3.31%) Product Manager
13 10 (3.01%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.01%) React Developer
13 10 (3.01%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (12.95%) REST
2 35 (10.54%) RESTful
3 31 (9.34%) React Native
4 25 (7.53%) Android Jetpack
5 22 (6.63%) Jetpack Compose
5 22 (6.63%) OAuth
6 17 (5.12%) Android SDK
6 17 (5.12%) SwiftUI
7 15 (4.52%) GraphQL
8 14 (4.22%) Spring
8 14 (4.22%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.22%) UIKit
8 14 (4.22%) Web Services
9 13 (3.92%) OAuth2
10 12 (3.61%) CSS
10 12 (3.61%) React
11 10 (3.01%) HTML
12 9 (2.71%) .NET
13 8 (2.41%) iOS SDK
13 8 (2.41%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.13%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.63%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.61%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.31%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.11%) Mobile Banking
7 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) CMDB
8 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.20%) Social Media
9 3 (0.90%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.90%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.90%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.90%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 87 (26.20%) Android
2 82 (24.70%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.01%) Windows
4 5 (1.51%) Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Unix
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (27.11%) Agile
2 75 (22.59%) User Experience
3 70 (21.08%) CI/CD
4 59 (17.77%) AI
5 55 (16.57%) DevOps
6 47 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (14.16%) Test Automation
7 43 (12.95%) Analytics
8 40 (12.05%) UX Design
9 36 (10.84%) Architectural Patterns
10 35 (10.54%) iOS Development
11 34 (10.24%) MVVM
12 32 (9.64%) Generative AI
13 31 (9.34%) Observability
14 30 (9.04%) Roadmaps
15 29 (8.73%) Android Development
16 27 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (8.13%) TDD
17 26 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (7.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.47%) Java
2 56 (16.87%) Kotlin
3 37 (11.14%) Swift
4 28 (8.43%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.82%) Python
6 14 (4.22%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.31%) C#
8 10 (3.01%) Objective-C
9 7 (2.11%) SQL
10 5 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.20%) Perl
12 3 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.90%) Go
12 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) ABAP
14 1 (0.30%) Korn
14 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.30%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.82%) Degree
4 9 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.90%) CCA
6 3 (0.90%) CISSP
6 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.90%) MBA
7 2 (0.60%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.60%) OSCP
7 2 (0.60%) SANS
8 1 (0.30%) CISM
8 1 (0.30%) GPEN
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.30%) OSCE
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.06%) Accessibility
2 38 (11.45%) QA
3 18 (5.42%) WCAG
4 4 (1.20%) GDPR
5 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.90%) NCSC
5 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.90%) PSD2
6 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.60%) GRC
6 2 (0.60%) HL7
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) DICOM
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.30%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 13 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.31%) Grafana
3 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.51%) Terraform
6 4 (1.20%) Istio
6 4 (1.20%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.20%) linkerd
6 4 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.90%) Ansible
8 2 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.34%) Adobe
3 24 (7.23%) Google
4 18 (5.42%) Dynatrace
5 15 (4.52%) Apple
6 14 (4.22%) Oracle
6 14 (4.22%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.61%) Splunk
8 8 (2.41%) SAP
9 5 (1.51%) Xamarin
10 4 (1.20%) Braze
10 4 (1.20%) ESRI
10 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.20%) Tealium
11 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.60%) Coverity
11 2 (0.60%) Dell
11 2 (0.60%) HP
11 2 (0.60%) Thales
12 1 (0.30%) Sitecore