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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 213 245
Rank change year-on-year -47 +32 -5
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 382 367 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.16% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 3.60% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 250 237
10th Percentile £204 £200 £350
25th Percentile £360 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £575
90th Percentile £625 £689 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +137.97%

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 12,666 10,186 13,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.26% 32.23% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 6,052 8,697
10th Percentile £278 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £549
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -2.91% -0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 317 558
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £15.43
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -9.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £75.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% -22.62% +99.90%

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 14 January 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 14 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 15 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 14 January 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 -30 346 £485 +3.47% 391
UK excluding London -1 192 £425 +6.25% 366
London -54 164 £500 - 82
Work from Home -63 91 £511 +13.61% 206
South East -2 55 £316 -38.29% 113
North of England -52 54 £390 +5.12% 78
North West -25 33 £380 +6.74% 42
Midlands -27 28 £510 +27.50% 48
South West -9 25 £600 +220.00% 36
Yorkshire -43 21 £400 -17.95% 26
Wales +13 17 £175 -64.10% 21
East Midlands -13 15 £550 +2.56% 30
West Midlands -31 13 £438 +201.72% 18
Scotland -4 7 £475 +18.75% 14
East of England -12 6 £185 -76.13% 58

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 20 (5.24%) CMS
2 19 (4.97%) Confluence
3 12 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.88%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.83%) Moodle
6 6 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (1.31%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (1.31%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.79%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 19 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.19%) Chatbot
3 12 (3.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.31%) Adobe Captivate
5 5 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.79%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.79%) Sketch
7 1 (0.26%) Moqups
7 1 (0.26%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.26%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle iSupplier
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.26%) Figma
2 28 (7.33%) Azure
3 27 (7.07%) AWS
3 27 (7.07%) SaaS
4 19 (4.97%) Sauce Labs
5 16 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.66%) GitHub
7 12 (3.14%) Serverless
8 10 (2.62%) Firebase
9 8 (2.09%) Google Play
10 7 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.83%) Contentful
10 7 (1.83%) Google Analytics
10 7 (1.83%) Kontent
11 6 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.31%) BrowserStack
12 5 (1.31%) GCP
12 5 (1.31%) Google Tag Manager
12 5 (1.31%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.45%) Wireless
2 8 (2.09%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (2.09%) Skype
3 5 (1.31%) HTTP
3 5 (1.31%) Internet
4 3 (0.79%) Firewall
5 2 (0.52%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.52%) RFID
5 2 (0.52%) VPN
5 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) SMS
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.50%) MySQL
2 20 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.05%) SQLite
5 3 (0.79%) GIS
5 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.26%) MS Access
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.26%) Power BI
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (12.04%) Git
2 42 (10.99%) Xcode
3 36 (9.42%) Android Studio
4 22 (5.76%) Browser DevTools
4 22 (5.76%) JIRA
5 20 (5.24%) Gradle
6 19 (4.97%) Eclipse
7 15 (3.93%) Appium
7 15 (3.93%) Jenkins
8 10 (2.62%) Postman
9 8 (2.09%) Charles Proxy
10 7 (1.83%) CocoaPods
10 7 (1.83%) Storybook
10 7 (1.83%) XCUITest
11 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.57%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.57%) GitLab
12 5 (1.31%) fastlane
12 5 (1.31%) Katalon Studio
12 5 (1.31%) Selenium
General
1 98 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.28%) Finance
3 51 (13.35%) Banking
4 26 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.71%) Marketing
8 14 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.62%) Electronics
9 10 (2.62%) Retail
10 8 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.57%) Publishing
12 4 (1.05%) Automotive
12 4 (1.05%) Legal
12 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 121 (31.68%) Developer
2 50 (13.09%) Senior
3 43 (11.26%) Designer
4 29 (7.59%) Android Developer
5 25 (6.54%) iOS Developer
6 22 (5.76%) Architect
7 20 (5.24%) React Developer
7 20 (5.24%) Support Engineer
7 20 (5.24%) Technical Engineer
7 20 (5.24%) Technical Support
7 20 (5.24%) Technical Support Engineer
7 20 (5.24%) UX Engineer
8 19 (4.97%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 19 (4.97%) Mobile Developer
8 19 (4.97%) Product Designer
9 17 (4.45%) Break Fix Engineer
9 17 (4.45%) Junior
10 16 (4.19%) Mobile Engineer
11 15 (3.93%) Applications Developer
12 14 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.35%) CSS
2 46 (12.04%) RESTful
3 40 (10.47%) React
4 36 (9.42%) React Native
5 35 (9.16%) AngularJS
6 33 (8.64%) HTML
7 27 (7.07%) GraphQL
8 21 (5.50%) Ajax
9 18 (4.71%) OAuth
10 16 (4.19%) Node.js
11 15 (3.93%) .NET
11 15 (3.93%) JSON
12 13 (3.40%) Android Jetpack
12 13 (3.40%) REST
12 13 (3.40%) SwiftUI
13 12 (3.14%) Jetpack Compose
14 11 (2.88%) Flutter
15 10 (2.62%) .NET Framework
16 9 (2.36%) ASP.NET
16 9 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.36%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.09%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
4 7 (1.83%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.31%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.31%) FMCG
5 5 (1.31%) RIA
5 5 (1.31%) W3C
6 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 3 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.79%) Digital Media
7 3 (0.79%) Java Card
7 3 (0.79%) Social Media
7 3 (0.79%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 131 (34.29%) Android
2 104 (27.23%) Apple iOS
3 31 (8.12%) Windows
4 22 (5.76%) Unix
5 21 (5.50%) Linux
6 10 (2.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (30.89%) Agile
2 105 (27.49%) User Experience
3 78 (20.42%) CI/CD
4 64 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (14.92%) Mobile Application Development
6 46 (12.04%) DevOps
7 44 (11.52%) Test Automation
8 42 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (10.99%) iOS Development
9 41 (10.73%) Android Development
10 40 (10.47%) UX Design
11 38 (9.95%) AI
12 36 (9.42%) Analytics
12 36 (9.42%) Design Patterns
13 34 (8.90%) Mobile Development
14 30 (7.85%) Application Security
15 28 (7.33%) Scrum
16 27 (7.07%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (7.07%) MVVM
17 23 (6.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.68%) JavaScript
2 67 (17.54%) Java
3 51 (13.35%) Kotlin
4 43 (11.26%) Swift
5 35 (9.16%) TypeScript
6 31 (8.12%) Python
7 23 (6.02%) Perl
8 22 (5.76%) SQL
9 18 (4.71%) C#
10 17 (4.45%) Objective-C
11 5 (1.31%) C++
12 4 (1.05%) C
13 3 (0.79%) Go
13 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.79%) Ruby
13 3 (0.79%) Scala
14 2 (0.52%) Dart
14 2 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Rust
14 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (9.16%) Degree
2 18 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.14%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.62%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.36%) PMP
6 8 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.09%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.05%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.52%) ACSP
9 2 (0.52%) ACTC
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.52%) ISEB
9 2 (0.52%) SANS
10 1 (0.26%) CCA
10 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (15.71%) Accessibility
2 45 (11.78%) QA
3 12 (3.14%) WCAG
4 9 (2.36%) GDPR
5 6 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.05%) SLA
7 3 (0.79%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.09%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.52%) rkt
4 2 (0.52%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 72 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.59%) Oracle
3 26 (6.81%) Adobe
4 24 (6.28%) Splunk
5 22 (5.76%) Google
5 22 (5.76%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.71%) HP
7 16 (4.19%) Apple
7 16 (4.19%) SAP
8 8 (2.09%) Cisco
9 7 (1.83%) Xamarin
10 6 (1.57%) OneTrust
11 5 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.31%) Optimizely
11 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.31%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.05%) Tealium
13 3 (0.79%) ESRI
13 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.79%) Thales