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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 251 212
Rank change year-on-year -77 -39 +103
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 401 348 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.06% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 3.01% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 230 299
10th Percentile £363 £316 £304
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £595
90th Percentile £675 £576 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £405 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £14.72 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% +1.15% -14.89%
75th Percentile £17.75 - £68.84
90th Percentile £32.90 - £74.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £12.25
% change year-on-year -56.75% +230.29% -75.00%

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 18,031 11,571 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 35.33% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,896 7,111 7,439
10th Percentile £322 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,062 576 568
10th Percentile £14.68 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.87 £18.46
Median hourly rate £40.98 £30.00 £44.52
Median % change year-on-year +36.60% -32.61% +1.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £68.98
90th Percentile £83.98 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +46.53% -38.46% +6.39%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -87 314 £505 +9.19% 540
UK excluding London -58 183 £450 +11.11% 250
London -74 164 £518 +3.50% 354
Work from Home -84 80 £475 - 201
North of England -81 56 £516 +32.71% 58
Scotland +15 43 £390 -22.00% 16
South West -18 33 £475 -13.64% 38
North West -52 28 £550 +46.67% 30
Midlands -51 26 £526 +13.62% 29
West Midlands -40 20 £480 +11.51% 14
Yorkshire -57 19 £525 +31.25% 22
South East -61 16 £275 -38.89% 66
North East -37 9 £450 -13.25% 7
Wales -10 8 £425 -5.56% 10
East Midlands -22 6 £526 +13.62% 15
East of England -22 2 £500 +21.21% 30

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 (3.24%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) CMS
2 5 (1.25%) Moodle
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (3.24%) Sketch
3 10 (2.49%) Chatbot
4 8 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.50%) InVision
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.75%) Shopify
2 4 (1.00%) Maximo
3 2 (0.50%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.50%) 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 52 (12.97%) Azure
2 42 (10.47%) GitHub
3 38 (9.48%) Figma
4 34 (8.48%) AWS
5 25 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.49%) Entra ID
8 17 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.24%) Firebase
9 16 (3.99%) Google Play
9 16 (3.99%) SaaS
10 9 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.50%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.25%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.25%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.25%) GCP
12 5 (1.25%) Lucidchart
12 5 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
12 5 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) Firewall
2 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.50%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.25%) DSL
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 (1.75%) Power BI
2 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.00%) Tableau
4 3 (0.75%) Looker
4 3 (0.75%) MySQL
4 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.50%) SQLite
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) GIS
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (6.48%) Git
2 23 (5.74%) JIRA
3 18 (4.49%) Gradle
4 16 (3.99%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.49%) Android Studio
5 14 (3.49%) Xcode
6 12 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 11 (2.74%) fastlane
7 11 (2.74%) XCUITest
8 9 (2.24%) LoadRunner
9 8 (2.00%) JUnit
10 7 (1.75%) Appium
10 7 (1.75%) XCTest
11 5 (1.25%) Crashlytics
12 4 (1.00%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
13 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.75%) Postman
13 3 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 112 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.71%) Finance
3 49 (12.22%) Banking
4 27 (6.73%) Retail
5 25 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.74%) Marketing
7 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.24%) Italian Language
9 5 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Digital Health
11 3 (0.75%) Games
11 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Local Government
11 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (25.94%) Developer
2 64 (15.96%) Senior
3 47 (11.72%) Designer
4 33 (8.23%) Android Developer
5 28 (6.98%) iOS Developer
6 25 (6.23%) Architect
7 24 (5.99%) Android Engineer
8 21 (5.24%) Lead
9 20 (4.99%) Analyst
10 19 (4.74%) Product Designer
11 17 (4.24%) Project Manager
11 17 (4.24%) Tester
12 16 (3.99%) Mobile Engineer
13 14 (3.49%) Product Manager
13 14 (3.49%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.99%) Senior Android Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) UX Designer
15 11 (2.74%) UI Designer
16 10 (2.49%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.49%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.47%) REST
2 47 (11.72%) RESTful
3 36 (8.98%) React Native
4 35 (8.73%) Android Jetpack
5 27 (6.73%) Jetpack Compose
6 25 (6.23%) Android SDK
7 21 (5.24%) SwiftUI
8 19 (4.74%) OAuth
9 17 (4.24%) UIKit
10 13 (3.24%) OAuth2
10 13 (3.24%) Web Services
11 12 (2.99%) GraphQL
12 11 (2.74%) Flutter
13 10 (2.49%) React
14 9 (2.24%) Core Data
14 9 (2.24%) CSS
14 9 (2.24%) HTML
14 9 (2.24%) iOS SDK
14 9 (2.24%) Retrofit
15 8 (2.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.74%) Educational Technology
5 11 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.49%) Mobile Banking
7 9 (2.24%) Credit Risk
8 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.50%) Social Media
11 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.25%) IoT
11 5 (1.25%) Legacy Code
11 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.00%) CMDB
12 4 (1.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 121 (30.17%) Android
2 101 (25.19%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.49%) Windows
4 8 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.00%) Linux
6 4 (1.00%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.43%) Agile
2 100 (24.94%) AI
3 94 (23.44%) User Experience
4 69 (17.21%) CI/CD
5 62 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (13.22%) DevOps
7 52 (12.97%) Android Development
8 51 (12.72%) MVVM
8 51 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (12.22%) iOS Development
10 48 (11.97%) UX Design
11 47 (11.72%) Test Automation
12 46 (11.47%) Scrum
13 40 (9.98%) Roadmaps
14 39 (9.73%) Analytics
15 38 (9.48%) Generative AI
16 37 (9.23%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (7.98%) Performance Optimisation
19 26 (6.48%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.46%) Kotlin
2 52 (12.97%) Java
3 44 (10.97%) Swift
4 28 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.49%) Python
6 16 (3.99%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.74%) Objective-C
8 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.75%) SQL
9 4 (1.00%) C++
10 3 (0.75%) C#
10 3 (0.75%) Perl
11 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
11 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) Dart
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 43 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 17 (4.24%) Degree
4 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.75%) MBA
7 2 (0.50%) CCA
7 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.50%) OSCP
8 1 (0.25%) CCSAM
8 1 (0.25%) CISM
8 1 (0.25%) CISSP
8 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.25%) ECSA
8 1 (0.25%) GXPN
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.47%) Accessibility
2 49 (12.22%) QA
3 17 (4.24%) WCAG
4 6 (1.50%) GDPR
5 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.75%) GRC
6 3 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.25%) DICOM
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Firmware
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.00%) Grafana
4 4 (1.00%) Istio
4 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.00%) Kustomize
4 4 (1.00%) linkerd
4 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.00%) SCCM
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 48 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.48%) Adobe
2 30 (7.48%) Google
3 22 (5.49%) Apple
4 18 (4.49%) Dynatrace
5 16 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.99%) Oracle
7 8 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.25%) Splunk
9 4 (1.00%) Braze
9 4 (1.00%) IBM
9 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.00%) Samsung
9 4 (1.00%) SAP
9 4 (1.00%) Tealium
10 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.50%) Dell
11 1 (0.25%) Sitecore