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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 248 207
Rank change year-on-year -77 -41 +74
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 414 367 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.11% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 3.10% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 264 283
10th Percentile £363 £313 £266
25th Percentile £406 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +8.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £564 £575
90th Percentile £634 £604 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £440 £400
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £16.41 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.46 £81.18
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% -50.16% +82.43%
75th Percentile £55.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 -
% change year-on-year -56.75% - -

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 19,056 11,857 11,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.01% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,378 7,277 6,831
10th Percentile £323 £293 £281
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.36% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,332 623 402
10th Percentile £13.92 £14.33 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.50 £22.70
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -40.45% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.95% -49.05% +3.90%

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 17 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 13 October 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 -107 337 £500 +2.04% 606
UK excluding London -58 196 £450 +2.27% 239
London -76 170 £513 -0.29% 403
Work from Home -92 79 £475 -5.00% 248
North of England -60 65 £538 +37.47% 69
Scotland +2 40 £375 -16.67% 19
North West -46 35 £550 +46.67% 45
South West -10 34 £450 -25.00% 22
Midlands -44 31 £537 +13.05% 38
West Midlands -37 25 £563 +21.62% 16
Yorkshire -44 22 £525 +29.23% 17
South East -82 19 £295 -34.44% 60
North East -34 10 £450 -13.25% 7
Wales -13 6 £413 -8.33% 11
East Midlands -24 6 £526 +10.63% 22
East of England -23 3 £556 +39.06% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 12 (2.90%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) CMS
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 10 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (2.42%) Sketch
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.21%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.69%) Shopify
3 6 (1.45%) Maximo
4 4 (0.97%) Workfront
5 3 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.48%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.48%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.24%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.24%) Magento
7 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.53%) Azure
2 46 (11.11%) GitHub
3 37 (8.94%) AWS
3 37 (8.94%) Figma
4 29 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (4.59%) Google Play
7 17 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.62%) Firebase
9 14 (3.38%) Entra ID
9 14 (3.38%) SaaS
10 13 (3.14%) GCP
11 9 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.93%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.69%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.21%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.97%) Miro
15 4 (0.97%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Firewall
2 3 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.72%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) Network Security
2 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) Broadband
4 1 (0.24%) DOCSIS
4 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.24%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.24%) Wireless
4 1 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.69%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.45%) Power BI
3 5 (1.21%) MySQL
4 4 (0.97%) Tableau
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.72%) SQLite
6 2 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.48%) Looker
6 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Db2
7 1 (0.24%) Metadata
7 1 (0.24%) Parquet
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (6.52%) Git
2 24 (5.80%) JIRA
3 23 (5.56%) Gradle
4 20 (4.83%) CircleCI
5 16 (3.86%) Xcode
6 13 (3.14%) Android Studio
6 13 (3.14%) fastlane
7 12 (2.90%) Jenkins
8 11 (2.66%) XCUITest
9 10 (2.42%) JUnit
9 10 (2.42%) XCTest
10 9 (2.17%) LoadRunner
11 7 (1.69%) Appium
11 7 (1.69%) Charles Proxy
12 5 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.97%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.97%) CocoaPods
13 4 (0.97%) Crashlytics
14 3 (0.72%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 119 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.91%) Finance
3 44 (10.63%) Banking
4 31 (7.49%) Retail
5 26 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.04%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.07%) Marketing
8 10 (2.42%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.21%) Legal
12 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Games
13 3 (0.72%) Local Government
13 3 (0.72%) Military
13 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.48%) Back Office
14 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (23.19%) Developer
2 70 (16.91%) Senior
3 48 (11.59%) Designer
4 38 (9.18%) Android Developer
5 31 (7.49%) iOS Developer
6 28 (6.76%) Architect
7 27 (6.52%) Android Engineer
8 25 (6.04%) Analyst
8 25 (6.04%) Lead
9 21 (5.07%) Product Designer
10 20 (4.83%) Mobile Engineer
11 19 (4.59%) Project Manager
12 18 (4.35%) Tester
13 14 (3.38%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.14%) Product Manager
14 13 (3.14%) Senior Android Engineer
15 11 (2.66%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.66%) Consultant
15 11 (2.66%) QA Tester
15 11 (2.66%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.04%) REST
2 52 (12.56%) RESTful
3 38 (9.18%) React Native
4 37 (8.94%) Android Jetpack
5 29 (7.00%) Jetpack Compose
6 26 (6.28%) Android SDK
7 22 (5.31%) UIKit
8 21 (5.07%) SwiftUI
9 15 (3.62%) Web Services
10 14 (3.38%) Flutter
11 12 (2.90%) React
12 11 (2.66%) iOS SDK
13 10 (2.42%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.17%) CSS
14 9 (2.17%) HTML
14 9 (2.17%) JSON
14 9 (2.17%) Retrofit
15 8 (1.93%) Core Data
15 8 (1.93%) OAuth
16 7 (1.69%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.63%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.62%) Security Posture
3 14 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 12 (2.90%) Educational Technology
6 11 (2.66%) Credit Risk
7 10 (2.42%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.69%) IoT
8 7 (1.69%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.45%) iPhone
9 6 (1.45%) Mobile Banking
9 6 (1.45%) NHS
9 6 (1.45%) Social Media
10 5 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
11 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 140 (33.82%) Android
2 115 (27.78%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.83%) Windows
4 10 (2.42%) macOS
5 7 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.97%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Linux
8 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (31.64%) Agile
2 100 (24.15%) User Experience
3 99 (23.91%) AI
4 73 (17.63%) CI/CD
5 64 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (14.73%) Android Development
7 58 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (14.01%) Test Automation
8 52 (12.56%) DevOps
8 52 (12.56%) MVVM
9 51 (12.32%) iOS Development
10 48 (11.59%) Scrum
10 48 (11.59%) UX Design
11 43 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (9.66%) Architectural Patterns
13 39 (9.42%) Generative AI
14 37 (8.94%) Roadmaps
15 36 (8.70%) Analytics
15 36 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
16 35 (8.45%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.53%) Kotlin
2 50 (12.08%) Java
3 45 (10.87%) Swift
4 31 (7.49%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.31%) Python
6 17 (4.11%) Objective-C
7 15 (3.62%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.42%) SQL
9 8 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.21%) Perl
11 4 (0.97%) C#
11 4 (0.97%) C++
11 4 (0.97%) Scala
12 3 (0.72%) Go
13 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.48%) Korn
13 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.24%) ABAP
14 1 (0.24%) Bicep
14 1 (0.24%) Dart
Qualifications
1 33 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 23 (5.56%) Degree
3 22 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.97%) MBA
6 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.48%) CCA
8 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.48%) OSCP
8 2 (0.48%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.24%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.73%) QA
2 52 (12.56%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.38%) WCAG
4 8 (1.93%) GDPR
5 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.72%) GRC
6 3 (0.72%) PERC
6 3 (0.72%) PSD2
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) NCSC
7 2 (0.48%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) P3O
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.66%) Docker
2 7 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.97%) SCCM
6 2 (0.48%) Argo
6 2 (0.48%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.24%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 55 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.97%) Google
3 28 (6.76%) Adobe
4 21 (5.07%) Apple
5 17 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.86%) Dynatrace
7 13 (3.14%) Oracle
8 10 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.45%) Samsung
9 6 (1.45%) Splunk
10 5 (1.21%) IBM
10 5 (1.21%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.97%) SAP
12 3 (0.72%) Tealium
13 2 (0.48%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.48%) Dell
13 2 (0.48%) New Relic
13 2 (0.48%) OneLogin