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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 556 725 742
Rank change year-on-year +169 +17 -189
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 48 83 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 88
10th Percentile £326 £328 £400
25th Percentile £437 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £681 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -0.58%

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 39,726 69,214 81,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.51% 90.15% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,590 47,923 56,854
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +5.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £623
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,525 1,676 1,999
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.41 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.56 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.73 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +35.08% +80.56% -20.00%

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 7 December 2023.

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 13 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 7 December 2023. 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 +167 44 £550 - 59
London +136 29 £550 -4.35% 25
Work from Home +144 19 £500 -9.09% 34
UK excluding London +76 16 £500 -4.76% 40
Midlands +75 9 £600 +9.09% 10
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 2
West Midlands +66 4 £494 -10.23% 8
North of England +48 4 £475 -9.52% 14
North West +46 2 £515 -1.90% 8
Yorkshire +35 2 £413 - 5
Scotland +34 1 £350 -51.72% 2
South East +29 1 £243 -47.57% 5
Wales - 1 £310 -

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 (4.17%) Mendix
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.25%) Azure
1 3 (6.25%) Firebase
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (4.17%) Google Play
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
2 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.08%) Bitrise
3 1 (2.08%) Flurry Analytics
3 1 (2.08%) PubNub
3 1 (2.08%) Route 53
3 1 (2.08%) SaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
1 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.08%) Flink
2 1 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.08%) GIS
2 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.08%) Mixpanel
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) Postman
2 5 (10.42%) Xcode
3 4 (8.33%) Android Studio
4 3 (6.25%) Gradle
5 2 (4.17%) CocoaPods
5 2 (4.17%) fastlane
5 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.17%) JIRA
6 1 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (2.08%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Publishing
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (81.25%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) React Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Applications Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (8.33%) iOS Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Flutter Developer
6 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Architect
7 2 (4.17%) iOS Android Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Android Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Low-Code Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Angular Developer
8 1 (2.08%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) React Native
2 13 (27.08%) RESTful
3 8 (16.67%) CSS
3 8 (16.67%) REST
4 5 (10.42%) .NET
4 5 (10.42%) HTML
4 5 (10.42%) React
5 4 (8.33%) Android SDK
5 4 (8.33%) Flutter
6 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.25%) Node.js
6 3 (6.25%) Web Services
7 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.17%) Ionic Framework
7 2 (4.17%) SOAP
7 2 (4.17%) SwiftUI
7 2 (4.17%) UIKit
8 1 (2.08%) Electron
8 1 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 48 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.17%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.17%) Social Media
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Android
2 13 (27.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Clean Code
1 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (29.17%) User Experience
2 12 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 11 (22.92%) Android Development
4 10 (20.83%) Agile
5 7 (14.58%) API Integration
5 7 (14.58%) iOS Development
5 7 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
6 6 (12.50%) UX Design
7 4 (8.33%) Analytics
7 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.33%) Code Quality
7 4 (8.33%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (6.25%) Decision-Making
8 3 (6.25%) Design Patterns
8 3 (6.25%) Mobile Development
8 3 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 7 (14.58%) Kotlin
4 5 (10.42%) Java
5 4 (8.33%) Python
5 4 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (6.25%) Dart
6 3 (6.25%) Swift
7 2 (4.17%) C#
7 2 (4.17%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.08%) Perl
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Degree
2 12 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) OutSystems
3 2 (4.17%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.08%) Apple
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) VMware