Mobile App Contracts

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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 253 289
Rank change year-on-year -32 +36 -68
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 253 401 511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.93% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.55% 3.10% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 275 374
10th Percentile £330 £325 £327
25th Percentile £395 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.72% -3.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 10
10th Percentile - - £12.61
25th Percentile - £12.25 £20.49
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +87.17%
75th Percentile - £70.18 £43.25
90th Percentile - £81.44 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £38.63 £16.31
% change year-on-year - +136.89% -12.81%

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 9,923 12,915 18,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.23% 30.10% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,235 8,267 12,840
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £680
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 924 608
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.75 £15.21 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £35.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +60.23% -18.46%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.35 £71.69 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.76 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% +59.09% +2.95%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Daily rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile App.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile App in the UK

Mobile App
Top 16 Contract 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 5 June 2025. 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 -45 202 £469 -6.20% 2,954
London -37 119 £500 -9.09% 586
Work from Home -6 99 £488 +4.84% 1,624
UK excluding London -7 92 £450 - 2,711
North of England -20 38 £400 -11.11% 620
North West -2 22 £400 -8.57% 312
Midlands +5 17 £463 -11.90% 528
Scotland +10 15 £423 -0.59% 128
East Midlands +21 13 £463 +48.00% 196
South East +33 11 £580 +22.11% 718
Yorkshire -8 11 £400 -15.79% 237
South West +32 7 £350 -6.67% 287
North East 0 5 £519 -13.54% 72
West Midlands +6 4 £400 -33.33% 300
East of England +20 3 £425 -19.96% 396
Wales +2 1 £375 -16.67% 73

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.56%) Apache
2 7 (2.77%) Confluence
3 5 (1.98%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.19%) nginx
4 3 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.79%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.58%) Sketch
3 3 (1.19%) Acrobat
3 3 (1.19%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.79%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (0.79%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Trello
5 1 (0.40%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.79%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (20.16%) AWS
2 47 (18.58%) Azure
3 30 (11.86%) Figma
4 16 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.32%) Serverless
5 13 (5.14%) GitHub
6 12 (4.74%) SaaS
7 10 (3.95%) GCP
8 8 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.37%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.98%) PaaS
10 5 (1.98%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.58%) Firebase
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.19%) Azure API Management
12 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) HTTP
1 5 (1.98%) Internet
2 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.79%) Calico
3 2 (0.79%) Intranet
3 2 (0.79%) MQTT
3 2 (0.79%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) Broadband
4 1 (0.40%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.56%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.77%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.77%) MySQL
3 6 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.58%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.19%) Big Data
5 3 (1.19%) Flink
5 3 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.79%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (17.39%) Git
2 19 (7.51%) JIRA
3 15 (5.93%) Xcode
4 14 (5.53%) Jenkins
5 12 (4.74%) Postman
6 10 (3.95%) Appium
7 8 (3.16%) Selenium
8 7 (2.77%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.77%) Subversion
9 6 (2.37%) Gradle
10 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.58%) Android Studio
11 4 (1.58%) GitLab
11 4 (1.58%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.19%) Gerrit
12 3 (1.19%) Mocha
12 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.02%) Finance
3 25 (9.88%) Banking
4 17 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.53%) Retail
7 12 (4.74%) Marketing
8 9 (3.56%) Legal
9 4 (1.58%) Law
10 3 (1.19%) Automotive
10 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.19%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Back Office
11 2 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.79%) French Language
11 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (39.53%) Developer
2 40 (15.81%) Senior
3 30 (11.86%) Designer
4 24 (9.49%) Android Developer
5 20 (7.91%) React Developer
6 18 (7.11%) iOS Developer
7 16 (6.32%) Architect
8 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.14%) UX Designer
10 12 (4.74%) Product Manager
10 12 (4.74%) Project Manager
11 11 (4.35%) Lead
12 10 (3.95%) Analyst
12 10 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.56%) Mobile Developer
14 8 (3.16%) Product Designer
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Designer
15 7 (2.77%) Mobile Engineer
15 7 (2.77%) Software Engineer
16 6 (2.37%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.07%) React Native
1 28 (11.07%) RESTful
2 22 (8.70%) React
3 20 (7.91%) HTML
4 19 (7.51%) CSS
4 19 (7.51%) Node.js
5 18 (7.11%) .NET
6 17 (6.72%) REST
7 15 (5.93%) GraphQL
8 14 (5.53%) Jetpack Compose
9 13 (5.14%) Android Jetpack
10 11 (4.35%) Next.js
10 11 (4.35%) SwiftUI
11 10 (3.95%) Android SDK
11 10 (3.95%) Redux
11 10 (3.95%) UIKit
12 9 (3.56%) Dagger
12 9 (3.56%) Flutter
13 8 (3.16%) OAuth
14 6 (2.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.16%) Virtual Team
3 7 (2.77%) IoT
3 7 (2.77%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (2.37%) Animation
4 6 (2.37%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.37%) Social Media
5 5 (1.98%) Credit Risk
5 5 (1.98%) Infotainment
5 5 (1.98%) iPad
5 5 (1.98%) iPhone
5 5 (1.98%) PMI
6 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.19%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 74 (29.25%) Android
2 61 (24.11%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.98%) Windows
4 2 (0.79%) Linux
4 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (44.66%) Agile
2 87 (34.39%) User Experience
3 59 (23.32%) CI/CD
3 59 (23.32%) UX Design
4 42 (16.60%) Mobile Development
5 41 (16.21%) Mobile Application Development
5 41 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (15.81%) DevOps
7 34 (13.44%) Scrum
7 34 (13.44%) Test Automation
8 33 (13.04%) Prototyping
9 28 (11.07%) iOS Development
10 27 (10.67%) Android Development
11 26 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (9.88%) MVVM
13 23 (9.09%) Mentoring
14 21 (8.30%) Front End Development
14 21 (8.30%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (8.30%) TDD
14 21 (8.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (17.00%) Kotlin
2 36 (14.23%) JavaScript
3 29 (11.46%) Swift
4 24 (9.49%) Java
5 21 (8.30%) Objective-C
6 15 (5.93%) Python
7 14 (5.53%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.14%) C#
9 8 (3.16%) C++
9 8 (3.16%) SQL
10 7 (2.77%) Dart
10 7 (2.77%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.37%) Ruby
12 5 (1.98%) Scala
13 4 (1.58%) C
13 4 (1.58%) Go
14 3 (1.19%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.19%) VBA
14 3 (1.19%) VBScript
15 2 (0.79%) JSX
Qualifications
1 18 (7.11%) Degree
2 9 (3.56%) SC Cleared
2 9 (3.56%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.37%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.98%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.58%) ISEB
7 3 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.79%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) MCSA
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
9 1 (0.40%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.83%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.32%) QA
3 3 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (1.19%) WCAG
4 2 (0.79%) NCSC
4 2 (0.79%) PSD2
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (2.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.77%) Terraform
3 3 (1.19%) Grafana
3 3 (1.19%) Kibana
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.79%) Istio
4 2 (0.79%) SCCM
4 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) SCOM
5 1 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.14%) Adobe
3 12 (4.74%) Google
4 8 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.58%) Apple
5 4 (1.58%) Optimizely
5 4 (1.58%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.58%) Xamarin
5 4 (1.58%) YouTube
6 3 (1.19%) IBM
6 3 (1.19%) SAP
7 2 (0.79%) NEC
8 1 (0.40%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.40%) Avaya
8 1 (0.40%) Brio
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix
8 1 (0.40%) Perforce
8 1 (0.40%) Polycom
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.40%) Wyse