Mobile Application Development Contracts

Mobile App Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mobile Application Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Application Development over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 635 746
Rank change year-on-year +97 +111 -132
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 41 65 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 56 87
10th Percentile £321 £216 £425
25th Percentile £432 £330 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -23.26% +4.88%
75th Percentile £488 £613 £625
90th Percentile £592 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +15.20% -28.57% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile Application Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

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 26 April 2024.

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 9 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 26 April 2024. 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 +89 35 £463 +15.63% 45
London +95 26 £463 +8.82% 16
Work from Home +112 13 £432 +1.65% 24
UK excluding London +66 11 £432 +15.20% 30
North of England +31 7 £400 -3.15% 9
Yorkshire - 7 £400 - 2
South East +18 2 £475 +90.00% 4
Scotland +33 1 £350 -57.58% 1
Wales - 1 £450 -

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:

Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (9.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (9.76%) InVision
1 4 (9.76%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) GitHub
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Firebase
2 4 (9.76%) Flurry Analytics
2 4 (9.76%) PubNub
3 3 (7.32%) Apigee
4 2 (4.88%) Azure
4 2 (4.88%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Figma
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.44%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Mixpanel
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 5 (12.20%) Appium
4 4 (9.76%) Axure RP
4 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.32%) gulp
5 3 (7.32%) Maven
5 3 (7.32%) Postman
5 3 (7.32%) Selenium
6 2 (4.88%) git-flow
6 2 (4.88%) XCTest
6 2 (4.88%) XCUITest
7 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.44%) ESLint
7 1 (2.44%) JIRA
7 1 (2.44%) Lerna
7 1 (2.44%) Storybook
7 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.44%) Vite
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Publishing
5 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Project Manager
3 7 (17.07%) Android Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Designer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Project Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Mobile Project Manager
5 3 (7.32%) React Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Android Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Flutter Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.88%) Mobile Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Mobile Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) UI Designer
7 1 (2.44%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) React Native
2 8 (19.51%) CSS
2 8 (19.51%) Node.js
2 8 (19.51%) RESTful
3 7 (17.07%) React
4 6 (14.63%) HTML
5 5 (12.20%) .NET
6 4 (9.76%) ADO
6 4 (9.76%) Flutter
7 3 (7.32%) Electron
7 3 (7.32%) OAuth
7 3 (7.32%) OpenID
7 3 (7.32%) REST
7 3 (7.32%) SAML
8 2 (4.88%) Jest
8 2 (4.88%) Next.js
8 2 (4.88%) SwiftUI
8 2 (4.88%) UIKit
9 1 (2.44%) GatsbyJS
9 1 (2.44%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 41 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) PropTech
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (56.10%) Android
2 11 (26.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Android Development
2 10 (24.39%) User Experience
3 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.51%) SDLC
4 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
5 7 (17.07%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
5 7 (17.07%) Waterfall
6 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.63%) Design Patterns
6 6 (14.63%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
7 5 (12.20%) DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) Fintech
7 5 (12.20%) MVVM
7 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
7 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) Java
1 12 (29.27%) Kotlin
2 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.76%) Python
5 3 (7.32%) C#
5 3 (7.32%) Swift
6 2 (4.88%) Dart
7 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 6 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
1 3 (7.32%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Adobe
3 3 (7.32%) Apple
3 3 (7.32%) Checkmarx
4 2 (4.88%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.44%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft