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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 241 209
Rank change year-on-year -90 -32 +85
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 400 360 450
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.10% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 3.08% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 251 293
10th Percentile £363 £316 £281
25th Percentile £413 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £575
90th Percentile £671 £600 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £15.56 - £64.04
25th Percentile £17.25 - £66.34
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year -56.75% -42.35% +57.71%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £75.68
90th Percentile £56.60 - £78.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £40.46 £67.59
% change year-on-year -56.75% -40.14% +51.89%

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 18,677 11,681 11,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 35.73% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,192 7,140 7,001
10th Percentile £322 £294 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,219 589 449
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £22.40
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.53 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.42% -47.69% +14.70%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -97 319 £513 +7.89% 626
UK excluding London -76 190 £450 +9.09% 345
London -95 161 £523 +3.47% 352
Work from Home -102 70 £475 -2.81% 218
North of England -88 59 £525 +32.41% 92
Scotland +9 44 £390 -22.00% 27
South West -11 34 £463 -19.57% 32
North West -53 30 £550 +46.67% 57
Midlands -46 28 £533 +15.14% 63
West Midlands -29 22 £550 +27.54% 28
Yorkshire -55 21 £525 +29.23% 30
South East -75 17 £278 -38.33% 78
North East -35 8 £450 -13.25% 5
Wales -9 7 £413 -8.33% 14
East Midlands -27 6 £526 +13.62% 35
East of England -29 2 £500 +25.00% 28

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 (3.00%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) CMS
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) Moodle
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (4.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (3.00%) Sketch
3 8 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.75%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Shopify
2 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.50%) 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 49 (12.25%) Azure
2 41 (10.25%) GitHub
3 38 (9.50%) Figma
4 30 (7.50%) AWS
5 23 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.75%) Firebase
7 15 (3.75%) Google Play
7 15 (3.75%) SaaS
8 10 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (2.25%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.00%) GCP
11 5 (1.25%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.00%) Lucidchart
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Firewall
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.50%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) DOCSIS
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%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.50%) SQLite
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) Db2
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) Parquet
6 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (6.75%) Git
2 23 (5.75%) JIRA
3 16 (4.00%) Gradle
4 14 (3.50%) CircleCI
5 13 (3.25%) Android Studio
5 13 (3.25%) Xcode
6 12 (3.00%) Jenkins
7 11 (2.75%) fastlane
8 10 (2.50%) XCUITest
9 9 (2.25%) LoadRunner
10 8 (2.00%) XCTest
11 7 (1.75%) Appium
11 7 (1.75%) JUnit
12 4 (1.00%) Charles Proxy
12 4 (1.00%) Crashlytics
13 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.75%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.50%) JMeter
14 2 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 114 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.25%) Finance
3 44 (11.00%) Banking
4 28 (7.00%) Retail
5 26 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.75%) Marketing
8 10 (2.50%) Italian Language
9 9 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Games
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (24.25%) Developer
2 63 (15.75%) Senior
3 47 (11.75%) Designer
4 35 (8.75%) Android Developer
5 28 (7.00%) iOS Developer
6 26 (6.50%) Lead
7 23 (5.75%) Android Engineer
8 20 (5.00%) Architect
9 19 (4.75%) Analyst
9 19 (4.75%) Product Designer
9 19 (4.75%) Project Manager
9 19 (4.75%) Tester
10 18 (4.50%) Mobile Engineer
11 14 (3.50%) Product Manager
12 12 (3.00%) Senior Android Engineer
12 12 (3.00%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.75%) QA Tester
14 10 (2.50%) Finance Project Manager
14 10 (2.50%) Senior Designer
14 10 (2.50%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.00%) REST
2 46 (11.50%) RESTful
3 36 (9.00%) React Native
4 34 (8.50%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (6.00%) Android SDK
7 19 (4.75%) SwiftUI
8 18 (4.50%) UIKit
9 14 (3.50%) Web Services
10 11 (2.75%) Flutter
10 11 (2.75%) React
11 9 (2.25%) CSS
11 9 (2.25%) GraphQL
11 9 (2.25%) HTML
11 9 (2.25%) OAuth
11 9 (2.25%) Retrofit
12 8 (2.00%) Core Data
12 8 (2.00%) iOS SDK
12 8 (2.00%) JSON
13 6 (1.50%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.25%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.25%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.50%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.00%) Educational Technology
5 12 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.75%) Credit Risk
7 7 (1.75%) Mobile Banking
8 6 (1.50%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.50%) Social Media
8 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.25%) IoT
9 5 (1.25%) iPhone
9 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.00%) CMDB
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 127 (31.75%) Android
2 104 (26.00%) Apple iOS
3 20 (5.00%) Windows
4 9 (2.25%) 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
1 122 (30.50%) Agile
2 98 (24.50%) AI
3 91 (22.75%) User Experience
4 67 (16.75%) CI/CD
5 62 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (13.75%) Android Development
7 54 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (13.00%) DevOps
9 50 (12.50%) MVVM
10 48 (12.00%) iOS Development
11 47 (11.75%) Test Automation
12 45 (11.25%) Scrum
13 44 (11.00%) UX Design
14 41 (10.25%) Generative AI
15 37 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.25%) Roadmaps
16 35 (8.75%) Analytics
16 35 (8.75%) Architectural Patterns
17 31 (7.75%) Performance Optimisation
18 30 (7.50%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (12.00%) Kotlin
2 41 (10.25%) Java
3 40 (10.00%) Swift
4 29 (7.25%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.50%) Python
6 14 (3.50%) Objective-C
6 14 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.25%) SQL
8 8 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.00%) C#
9 4 (1.00%) 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 37 (9.25%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.00%) Degree
5 9 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) CCA
8 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.25%) ECSA
9 1 (0.25%) GPEN
9 1 (0.25%) GXPN
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.25%) Accessibility
1 53 (13.25%) QA
2 14 (3.50%) WCAG
3 5 (1.25%) GDPR
4 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.75%) GRC
5 3 (0.75%) PSD2
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.25%) Docker
2 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.75%) Firmware
5 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.00%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.25%) linkerd
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.25%) Google
3 28 (7.00%) Adobe
4 22 (5.50%) Apple
5 16 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.75%) Oracle
8 9 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.25%) IBM
9 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.25%) Samsung
9 5 (1.25%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.00%) SAP
11 2 (0.50%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.50%) Braze
11 2 (0.50%) Dell
11 2 (0.50%) Tealium
12 1 (0.25%) Databricks