Mobile Banking Contract Job Trends

Mobile Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Banking over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 512 561
Rank change year-on-year -53 +49 +173
Contract jobs citing Mobile Banking 19 17 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.054% 0.044%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 16
10th Percentile £352 £572 -
25th Percentile £375 £610 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year -40.93% +75.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £538 - £445
90th Percentile £551 £773 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £594 -
% change year-on-year -36.82% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile Banking 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 12,959 10,253 13,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.18% 32.36% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,194 6,078 8,768
10th Percentile £278 £263 £256
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -4.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 621 312 693
10th Percentile £14.54 £18.51 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.54 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% - +55.66%
75th Percentile £61.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.10 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.65
% change year-on-year -15.38% -8.84% +78.25%

Mobile Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mobile Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Mobile Banking
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mobile Banking

Mobile Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Banking over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Banking in the UK

Mobile Banking
Top 9 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 Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 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 -45 19 £414 -40.93% 1
UK excluding London -55 10 £375 -36.82%
London -29 9 £525 -25.00% 1
North of England -51 9 £375 -36.82%
North West -28 6 £375 -36.82%
Work from Home -5 3 £358 -52.27%
Yorkshire - 3 £538 -
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Midlands - 1 £358 -

Mobile Banking
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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Figma
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Firebase
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
1 4 (21.05%) Xcode
2 3 (15.79%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (100.00%) Banking
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Publishing
5 3 (15.79%) Retail
6 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (5.26%) Marketing
7 1 (5.26%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate
5 1 (5.26%) Java Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) UI Designer
5 1 (5.26%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) OAuth
1 5 (26.32%) OAuth2
1 5 (26.32%) React Native
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) Flutter
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) OpenID
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Media
4 1 (5.26%) Graphic Design
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Apple iOS
2 8 (42.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) User Experience
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Customer Experience
3 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
3 6 (31.58%) UX Design
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
5 4 (21.05%) Observability
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) TDD
5 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
6 3 (15.79%) BDD
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) iOS Development
6 3 (15.79%) Mobile Development
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Swift
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) Kotlin
3 4 (21.05%) Objective-C
4 3 (15.79%) C
4 3 (15.79%) C++
4 3 (15.79%) Ruby
4 3 (15.79%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) CISSP
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Google
2 4 (21.05%) Apple
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Xamarin