Mobile Application Development Contracts

Mobile App Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Application Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 541 653
Rank change year-on-year +63 +112 +80
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 42 41 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.094% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 56
10th Percentile £342 £321 £216
25th Percentile £375 £432 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +12.12% -23.01%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £613
90th Percentile £538 £592 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £432 £363
% change year-on-year +6.37% +19.17% -30.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile Application Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Application Development within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +55 33 £418 -9.73% 92
London +32 20 £400 -13.51% 47
Work from Home +45 17 £450 +4.17% 62
UK excluding London +67 15 £460 +6.37% 56
North of England +20 8 £425 +6.25% 16
South East +47 3 £513 +7.89% 16
Scotland +15 3 £425 +21.43% 1
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 +6.25% 8
North West - 3 £404 - 8
North East - 2 - -
South West - 1 £469 - 1

Mobile Application Development
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 2 (4.76%) OpenEdge
1 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.76%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) AWS
2 6 (14.29%) GCP
3 5 (11.90%) Azure
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) Apple Pay
5 2 (4.76%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.76%) npm
5 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.38%) Figma
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) MySQL
1 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Android Studio
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.38%) Xcode
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Android Developer
3 9 (21.43%) iOS Developer
3 9 (21.43%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Android Developer
6 4 (9.52%) iOS Android Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Product Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Mobile Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Contracts Manager
8 2 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (4.76%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (4.76%) Flutter Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (4.76%) React Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Product Manager
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Android SDK
1 5 (11.90%) Dagger
2 4 (9.52%) Core Data
2 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
2 4 (9.52%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
3 3 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
3 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.14%) React Native
3 3 (7.14%) UIKit
4 2 (4.76%) Apache Cordova
4 2 (4.76%) Core Animation
4 2 (4.76%) React
4 2 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) Google Maps API
5 1 (2.38%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (2.38%) Laravel
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) PhoneGap
5 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.76%) Animation
2 2 (4.76%) Digital Media
2 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (52.38%) Android
2 18 (42.86%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) Android Development
3 13 (30.95%) User Experience
4 12 (28.57%) iOS Development
4 12 (28.57%) Mobile Development
5 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.05%) Scrum
9 6 (14.29%) MVVM
10 5 (11.90%) B2C
10 5 (11.90%) Dependency Injection
10 5 (11.90%) Kanban
10 5 (11.90%) Push Notifications
11 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 4 (9.52%) SDLC
11 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
12 3 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (7.14%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) Kotlin
2 10 (23.81%) Swift
3 4 (9.52%) Objective-C
4 3 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Python
5 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.38%) Dart
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) NCSC
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Istio
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.38%) SCCM
2 1 (2.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Apple
2 2 (4.76%) IBM
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce