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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 271 233
Rank change year-on-year -15 -38 +15
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 361 303 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 2.97% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 212 250
10th Percentile £204 £263 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £699 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 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 £50.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - +65.74%

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 13,910 10,189 13,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.49% 33.26% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,782 6,203 8,638
10th Percentile £280 £275 £258
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 329 822
10th Percentile £15.38 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.75 £32.81 £30.58
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +7.29% +36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.64 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -1.54% +1.20% +45.98%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -31 320 £500 +1.78% 274
UK excluding London -24 164 £425 +6.25% 240
London -41 163 £513 -2.38% 95
Work from Home -50 96 £500 +8.11% 108
South East -21 46 £425 -19.05% 64
North of England -72 34 £400 - 62
South West -9 28 £563 +200.00% 27
North West -32 27 £385 -1.28% 35
Midlands -32 26 £529 +9.04% 41
Wales - 16 £173 - 8
East Midlands -18 13 £550 +11.11% 21
West Midlands -34 13 £475 +18.75% 20
Scotland +13 8 £475 +18.75% 19
Yorkshire -68 7 £515 +4.30% 22
East of England -26 6 £185 -76.13% 21

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 (5.54%) CMS
1 20 (5.54%) Confluence
2 11 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.94%) Moodle
5 6 (1.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.39%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.39%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.43%) Chatbot
3 11 (3.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.66%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.66%) Sketch
5 4 (1.11%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 33 (9.14%) Figma
2 30 (8.31%) AWS
3 24 (6.65%) SaaS
4 17 (4.71%) Azure
5 14 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.88%) Sauce Labs
6 13 (3.60%) GCP
6 13 (3.60%) GitHub
7 9 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.22%) Firebase
8 8 (2.22%) Serverless
9 7 (1.94%) Cloud Run
9 7 (1.94%) Kontent
10 6 (1.66%) Contentful
10 6 (1.66%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.66%) PaaS
11 5 (1.39%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.39%) Google Play
12 4 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.05%) Wireless
2 8 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (2.22%) Skype
3 5 (1.39%) Internet
4 3 (0.83%) Firewall
4 3 (0.83%) HTTP
4 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.55%) RFID
5 2 (0.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
6 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.28%) DSL
6 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.28%) SMS
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.88%) MySQL
2 13 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.39%) GIS
4 4 (1.11%) SQLite
5 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.55%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.55%) Power BI
7 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) MS Access
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (8.86%) Git
2 29 (8.03%) Android Studio
3 26 (7.20%) JIRA
4 25 (6.93%) Xcode
5 15 (4.16%) Browser DevTools
6 13 (3.60%) Eclipse
7 12 (3.32%) Jenkins
8 11 (3.05%) Appium
9 10 (2.77%) Cypress.io
9 10 (2.77%) Postman
10 9 (2.49%) Gradle
11 7 (1.94%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.94%) CocoaPods
11 7 (1.94%) XCUITest
12 6 (1.66%) Charles Proxy
12 6 (1.66%) GitLab
12 6 (1.66%) Selenium
12 6 (1.66%) XCTest
13 5 (1.39%) WebDriver
14 4 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 94 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.34%) Finance
3 36 (9.97%) Banking
4 30 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.71%) Marketing
8 15 (4.16%) Retail
9 13 (3.60%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.77%) Electronics
11 9 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.94%) Publishing
13 4 (1.11%) Automotive
13 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Legal
14 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.55%) iGaming
15 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 105 (29.09%) Developer
2 59 (16.34%) Senior
3 39 (10.80%) Designer
4 22 (6.09%) Android Developer
5 21 (5.82%) Mobile Developer
6 19 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
7 18 (4.99%) Break Fix Engineer
7 18 (4.99%) Junior
8 17 (4.71%) Architect
8 17 (4.71%) React Developer
9 15 (4.16%) iOS Developer
9 15 (4.16%) Tester
10 14 (3.88%) Analyst
10 14 (3.88%) Applications Developer
10 14 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.88%) Software Engineer
10 14 (3.88%) UX Designer
11 13 (3.60%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 13 (3.60%) Senior Designer
11 13 (3.60%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.53%) CSS
2 34 (9.42%) React
2 34 (9.42%) React Native
3 32 (8.86%) RESTful
4 27 (7.48%) AngularJS
4 27 (7.48%) HTML
5 25 (6.93%) REST
6 22 (6.09%) GraphQL
7 18 (4.99%) .NET
8 15 (4.16%) OAuth
8 15 (4.16%) Spring
9 14 (3.88%) Ajax
9 14 (3.88%) Android Jetpack
9 14 (3.88%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.60%) Jetpack Compose
10 13 (3.60%) SwiftUI
11 12 (3.32%) Node.js
12 10 (2.77%) .NET Framework
13 9 (2.49%) ASP.NET
13 9 (2.49%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.32%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.77%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.49%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.49%) Security Posture
5 6 (1.66%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.66%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.39%) FMCG
6 5 (1.39%) RIA
6 5 (1.39%) W3C
7 3 (0.83%) Blockchain
7 3 (0.83%) Blog
7 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.83%) Digital Media
7 3 (0.83%) EMV
7 3 (0.83%) Java Card
7 3 (0.83%) Media Streaming
7 3 (0.83%) Tandem
7 3 (0.83%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 106 (29.36%) Android
2 84 (23.27%) Apple iOS
3 27 (7.48%) Windows
4 14 (3.88%) Linux
5 13 (3.60%) Unix
6 11 (3.05%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.42%) Agile
2 92 (25.48%) User Experience
3 76 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 66 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (13.02%) Test Automation
6 42 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (10.53%) AI
7 38 (10.53%) UX Design
8 37 (10.25%) Design Patterns
8 37 (10.25%) DevOps
9 36 (9.97%) Analytics
9 36 (9.97%) Software Engineering
10 34 (9.42%) Android Development
11 33 (9.14%) Mobile Application Development
12 31 (8.59%) iOS Development
13 28 (7.76%) Mobile Development
14 27 (7.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (6.93%) MVVM
16 24 (6.65%) Mentoring
16 24 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.01%) Java
2 63 (17.45%) JavaScript
3 52 (14.40%) Kotlin
4 35 (9.70%) Swift
5 31 (8.59%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.37%) SQL
7 22 (6.09%) C#
8 19 (5.26%) Python
9 16 (4.43%) Perl
10 12 (3.32%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.11%) Go
11 4 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.83%) C++
13 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.55%) R
13 2 (0.55%) Rust
14 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.28%) C
14 1 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (8.86%) Degree
2 26 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.77%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.49%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.22%) PMP
7 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.55%) ACSP
8 2 (0.55%) ACTC
8 2 (0.55%) CISSP
8 2 (0.55%) SANS
9 1 (0.28%) CCA
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) GIAC
9 1 (0.28%) ISEB
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.68%) Accessibility
2 50 (13.85%) QA
3 15 (4.16%) WCAG
4 7 (1.94%) GDPR
5 5 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.83%) NCSC
6 3 (0.83%) SLA
7 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.22%) Grafana
2 8 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.55%) rkt
5 2 (0.55%) Terraform
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 58 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.31%) Adobe
3 25 (6.93%) Google
4 23 (6.37%) Splunk
5 20 (5.54%) Oracle
6 19 (5.26%) HP
7 16 (4.43%) SAP
8 13 (3.60%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.77%) Xamarin
10 9 (2.49%) Apple
10 9 (2.49%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.22%) Cisco
12 6 (1.66%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.39%) OneTrust
13 5 (1.39%) Sitecore
14 4 (1.11%) ESRI
14 4 (1.11%) Optimizely
14 4 (1.11%) Tealium
15 3 (0.83%) Hotjar
15 3 (0.83%) Thales