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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 211 251
Rank change year-on-year -45 +40 -37
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 390 428 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.17% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.12% 3.79% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 275 294
10th Percentile £250 £205 £325
25th Percentile £375 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £654 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 15
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £16.90 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £81.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.76% +82.43% +27.14%
75th Percentile £35.06 - £71.25
90th Percentile £40.46 - £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.46 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.11%

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 12,501 11,296 15,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 30.75% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,714 6,683 10,126
10th Percentile £278 £275 £280
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £672
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% -0.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 680 349 498
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.82 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.22 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £41.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.91% -9.32% +100.78%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -36 354 £500 +9.59% 912
UK excluding London -25 180 £425 +6.25% 764
London -31 177 £514 +3.84% 378
Work from Home -54 106 £511 +13.61% 467
North of England -36 68 £388 -10.14% 156
South East +16 45 £450 -12.20% 326
Midlands -12 34 £498 +32.67% 74
North West -37 33 £370 -5.13% 101
Yorkshire -24 32 £406 -16.67% 44
East Midlands -11 20 £531 +7.32% 25
South West 0 16 £600 +71.43% 75
West Midlands -28 14 £431 +197.41% 47
Wales +11 9 £170 -62.74% 39
Scotland -2 6 £475 +35.71% 41
North East -7 3 £519 - 12
East of England -13 2 £400 -15.79% 42

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 23 (5.90%) CMS
2 22 (5.64%) Confluence
3 10 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.28%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.28%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.28%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.03%) Apache
8 3 (0.77%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.26%) Drupal
9 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.26%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.56%) Chatbot
3 8 (2.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.54%) Adobe Captivate
6 5 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.28%) Zeplin
7 3 (0.77%) Sketch
8 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.26%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Maximo
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.31%) Azure
2 42 (10.77%) Figma
3 33 (8.46%) AWS
4 29 (7.44%) SaaS
5 24 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.62%) Sauce Labs
7 17 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.10%) GitHub
8 16 (4.10%) Google Play
9 13 (3.33%) Serverless
10 11 (2.82%) Firebase
11 8 (2.05%) BrowserStack
12 7 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.79%) Contentful
12 7 (1.79%) Kontent
13 6 (1.54%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.54%) GCP
13 6 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.54%) Miro
14 5 (1.28%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.87%) Wireless
2 8 (2.05%) Internet
3 5 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (1.28%) HTTP
3 5 (1.28%) Skype
4 4 (1.03%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.77%) Firewall
5 3 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.26%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.26%) Intranet
6 1 (0.26%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.26%) LAN
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) SMS
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.38%) MySQL
2 19 (4.87%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.05%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.77%) Power BI
5 3 (0.77%) SQLite
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Big Data
7 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.26%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.26%) Flink
7 1 (0.26%) GIS
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (17.18%) Git
2 50 (12.82%) Xcode
3 36 (9.23%) Android Studio
4 29 (7.44%) JIRA
5 24 (6.15%) Gradle
6 20 (5.13%) Browser DevTools
6 20 (5.13%) Jenkins
7 18 (4.62%) Eclipse
8 16 (4.10%) Appium
9 12 (3.08%) Postman
10 10 (2.56%) Selenium
11 7 (1.79%) Charles Proxy
11 7 (1.79%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.79%) Storybook
11 7 (1.79%) XCUITest
12 6 (1.54%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.54%) CocoaPods
13 5 (1.28%) Katalon Studio
14 4 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 115 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.26%) Finance
3 62 (15.90%) Banking
4 22 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.38%) Retail
6 20 (5.13%) Marketing
7 17 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.31%) Automotive
10 8 (2.05%) Legal
11 7 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.54%) Electronics
12 6 (1.54%) Law
12 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.28%) Publishing
14 4 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (34.10%) Developer
2 46 (11.79%) Designer
3 44 (11.28%) Senior
4 36 (9.23%) Android Developer
5 31 (7.95%) iOS Developer
6 23 (5.90%) React Developer
7 21 (5.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 21 (5.38%) Product Designer
8 20 (5.13%) Lead
8 20 (5.13%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.87%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (4.87%) Technical Support
9 19 (4.87%) Technical Support Engineer
9 19 (4.87%) UX Engineer
10 16 (4.10%) Mobile Developer
10 16 (4.10%) Project Manager
11 15 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
12 13 (3.33%) Architect
12 13 (3.33%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.41%) CSS
1 64 (16.41%) RESTful
2 47 (12.05%) HTML
2 47 (12.05%) React
3 42 (10.77%) React Native
4 35 (8.97%) AngularJS
5 34 (8.72%) GraphQL
6 31 (7.95%) .NET
7 27 (6.92%) REST
8 24 (6.15%) Node.js
9 22 (5.64%) Android Jetpack
10 20 (5.13%) Jetpack Compose
10 20 (5.13%) JSON
11 19 (4.87%) Ajax
12 17 (4.36%) SwiftUI
13 16 (4.10%) Redux
14 15 (3.85%) Web Services
15 14 (3.59%) .NET Framework
15 14 (3.59%) Flutter
16 13 (3.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
2 10 (2.56%) Virtual Team
3 9 (2.31%) Mobile Banking
4 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.54%) iPhone
5 6 (1.54%) RIA
5 6 (1.54%) W3C
6 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.77%) IoT
8 3 (0.77%) iPad
8 3 (0.77%) Java Card
8 3 (0.77%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 148 (37.95%) Android
2 118 (30.26%) Apple iOS
3 30 (7.69%) Windows
4 21 (5.38%) Unix
5 20 (5.13%) Linux
6 8 (2.05%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (38.46%) Agile
2 133 (34.10%) User Experience
3 95 (24.36%) CI/CD
4 70 (17.95%) DevOps
5 69 (17.69%) Mobile Application Development
6 64 (16.41%) UX Design
7 51 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (12.56%) Test Automation
9 48 (12.31%) iOS Development
10 45 (11.54%) Android Development
11 44 (11.28%) Mobile Development
11 44 (11.28%) Scrum
12 38 (9.74%) Analytics
12 38 (9.74%) MVVM
13 36 (9.23%) Design Patterns
14 33 (8.46%) Unit Testing
15 31 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (7.44%) Mentoring
16 29 (7.44%) Performance Optimisation
16 29 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 80 (20.51%) Java
3 63 (16.15%) Kotlin
4 54 (13.85%) Swift
5 45 (11.54%) Python
6 38 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.18%) Objective-C
8 26 (6.67%) C#
9 24 (6.15%) SQL
10 22 (5.64%) Perl
11 13 (3.33%) Ruby
12 7 (1.79%) C
12 7 (1.79%) C++
12 7 (1.79%) PHP
12 7 (1.79%) Scala
13 4 (1.03%) Go
13 4 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.77%) Dart
14 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (10.51%) Degree
2 11 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.05%) PMP
5 7 (1.79%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.77%) ACSP
7 3 (0.77%) ACTC
7 3 (0.77%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.51%) ISEB
9 1 (0.26%) MBA
9 1 (0.26%) MCSA
9 1 (0.26%) MCSE
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (16.92%) Accessibility
2 47 (12.05%) QA
3 10 (2.56%) GDPR
4 9 (2.31%) WCAG
5 4 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.77%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) PERC
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.77%) Terraform
5 2 (0.51%) Ansible
5 2 (0.51%) rkt
5 2 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.26%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.26%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Kibana
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.44%) Oracle
3 28 (7.18%) Google
4 24 (6.15%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.90%) Splunk
6 19 (4.87%) Adobe
7 18 (4.62%) Apple
8 8 (2.05%) SAP
8 8 (2.05%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.28%) Cisco
9 5 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.28%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.03%) OneTrust
10 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.03%) YouTube
11 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.51%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.51%) Mercator
12 2 (0.51%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.51%) Ping Identity