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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 257 223
Rank change year-on-year -60 -34 +88
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 403 340 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.04% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.94% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 225 286
10th Percentile £363 £316 £307
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £588 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £409 £463
% change year-on-year +10.09% -11.62% -2.63%
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 18,016 11,546 11,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 35.22% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,919 7,102 7,540
10th Percentile £322 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £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 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,041 571 585
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.27
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -33.33% +10.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -36.84% +11.76%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -95 318 £505 +8.02% 219
UK excluding London -59 180 £450 +10.09% 181
London -71 169 £520 +4.00% 84
Work from Home -89 80 £475 - 65
North of England -84 56 £516 +32.71% 46
Scotland +11 41 £395 -21.00% 10
South West -25 32 £475 -13.64% 24
North West -46 28 £550 +46.67% 19
Midlands -47 26 £526 +13.62% 26
West Midlands -42 20 £480 +11.51% 14
Yorkshire -49 19 £525 +31.25% 24
South East -69 16 £275 -38.89% 54
North East -32 9 £450 -13.25% 4
Wales -11 8 £425 - 8
East Midlands -25 6 £526 +13.62% 12
East of England -14 2 £500 +21.21% 15

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 14 (3.47%) Confluence
2 6 (1.49%) CMS
3 5 (1.24%) Moodle
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (3.23%) Sketch
3 10 (2.48%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.50%) InVision
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.74%) Shopify
2 3 (0.74%) 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 (12.90%) Azure
2 43 (10.67%) GitHub
3 38 (9.43%) Figma
4 35 (8.68%) AWS
5 26 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.47%) Entra ID
8 17 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.22%) Firebase
9 16 (3.97%) Google Play
9 16 (3.97%) SaaS
10 9 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.23%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.74%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.24%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.24%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.24%) Lucidchart
12 5 (1.24%) Sauce Labs
12 5 (1.24%) Serverless
13 4 (0.99%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.99%) Network Security
2 3 (0.74%) Firewall
3 2 (0.50%) DSL
3 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.74%) Power BI
2 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.99%) Looker
3 4 (0.99%) Tableau
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.74%) 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 (6.45%) Git
2 23 (5.71%) JIRA
3 18 (4.47%) Gradle
4 16 (3.97%) Android Studio
4 16 (3.97%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.47%) Xcode
6 12 (2.98%) CircleCI
6 12 (2.98%) XCUITest
7 11 (2.73%) fastlane
8 9 (2.23%) JUnit
8 9 (2.23%) LoadRunner
9 8 (1.99%) XCTest
10 7 (1.74%) Appium
11 5 (1.24%) Crashlytics
12 4 (0.99%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.74%) Charles Proxy
13 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.74%) JMeter
13 3 (0.74%) Postman
13 3 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 110 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.11%) Finance
3 49 (12.16%) Banking
4 27 (6.70%) Retail
5 25 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.72%) Marketing
8 10 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.23%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.99%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.74%) Games
12 3 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 106 (26.30%) Developer
2 65 (16.13%) Senior
3 48 (11.91%) Designer
4 34 (8.44%) Android Developer
5 28 (6.95%) iOS Developer
6 24 (5.96%) Android Engineer
6 24 (5.96%) Architect
7 22 (5.46%) Lead
8 20 (4.96%) Analyst
9 19 (4.71%) Product Designer
10 17 (4.22%) Project Manager
11 16 (3.97%) Mobile Engineer
11 16 (3.97%) Tester
12 14 (3.47%) Product Manager
12 14 (3.47%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.98%) Senior Android Engineer
13 12 (2.98%) UI Designer
13 12 (2.98%) UX Designer
14 11 (2.73%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (12.90%) REST
2 47 (11.66%) RESTful
3 37 (9.18%) React Native
4 36 (8.93%) Android Jetpack
5 28 (6.95%) Jetpack Compose
6 27 (6.70%) Android SDK
7 21 (5.21%) SwiftUI
8 19 (4.71%) OAuth
9 17 (4.22%) UIKit
10 13 (3.23%) GraphQL
10 13 (3.23%) OAuth2
10 13 (3.23%) Web Services
11 11 (2.73%) Flutter
12 10 (2.48%) React
13 9 (2.23%) Core Data
13 9 (2.23%) CSS
13 9 (2.23%) HTML
13 9 (2.23%) iOS SDK
13 9 (2.23%) JSON
13 9 (2.23%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.68%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.47%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.98%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.73%) Educational Technology
6 10 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.23%) Credit Risk
7 9 (2.23%) Mobile Banking
8 8 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.49%) Social Media
11 5 (1.24%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.24%) IoT
11 5 (1.24%) Legacy Code
11 5 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.99%) CMDB
12 4 (0.99%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 123 (30.52%) Android
2 102 (25.31%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.47%) Windows
4 8 (1.99%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.99%) Linux
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.03%) Agile
2 98 (24.32%) AI
3 94 (23.33%) User Experience
4 70 (17.37%) CI/CD
5 60 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (13.15%) Android Development
6 53 (13.15%) DevOps
7 51 (12.66%) MVVM
8 50 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (12.16%) iOS Development
10 48 (11.91%) Test Automation
10 48 (11.91%) UX Design
11 46 (11.41%) Scrum
12 39 (9.68%) Analytics
12 39 (9.68%) Roadmaps
13 38 (9.43%) Architectural Patterns
14 37 (9.18%) Generative AI
15 35 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (7.94%) Performance Optimisation
17 26 (6.45%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.14%) Kotlin
2 53 (13.15%) Java
3 44 (10.92%) Swift
4 28 (6.95%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.46%) Python
6 16 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.73%) Objective-C
8 7 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.74%) SQL
9 4 (0.99%) C++
10 3 (0.74%) C#
10 3 (0.74%) 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 45 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.47%) Degree
4 17 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.74%) MBA
8 2 (0.50%) CCA
8 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
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 54 (13.40%) Accessibility
2 49 (12.16%) QA
3 17 (4.22%) WCAG
4 6 (1.49%) GDPR
5 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.74%) 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 (2.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) Firmware
3 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.99%) Grafana
4 4 (0.99%) Istio
4 4 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.99%) Kustomize
4 4 (0.99%) linkerd
4 4 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.99%) SCCM
5 3 (0.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.69%) Adobe
2 31 (7.69%) Google
3 22 (5.46%) Apple
4 18 (4.47%) Dynatrace
5 16 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.98%) Oracle
7 8 (1.99%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.24%) Splunk
9 4 (0.99%) Braze
9 4 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.99%) Samsung
9 4 (0.99%) SAP
9 4 (0.99%) Tealium
10 3 (0.74%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.74%) IBM
11 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.50%) Dell
12 1 (0.25%) Sitecore