Mobile Development Contracts

Mobile Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mobile Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Development over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 636 693
Rank change year-on-year +109 +57 -225
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 67 80 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 59 116
10th Percentile £350 £345 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £569
90th Percentile £675 £788 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile 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 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
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 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile 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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +112 62 £459 -8.20% 65
London +89 33 £500 - 29
Work from Home +117 32 £468 +2.58% 27
UK excluding London +79 26 £450 -2.70% 39
North of England +39 12 £438 -16.67% 12
North West +33 11 £438 - 7
South East +25 6 £500 +17.65% 8
West Midlands +33 3 £400 - 2
Midlands +27 3 £400 +39.13% 4
South West - 3 £400 - 8
Scotland +33 1 £588 -28.79% 4
Yorkshire +21 1 £450 -14.29% 2
Wales - 1 £450 -

Mobile 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 1 (1.49%) CMS
1 1 (1.49%) Confluence
1 1 (1.49%) Drupal
1 1 (1.49%) Umbraco
1 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) Azure
2 10 (14.93%) AWS
3 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.97%) Figma
4 3 (4.48%) GitHub
5 2 (2.99%) Datadog
5 2 (2.99%) Firebase
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.49%) SaaS
6 1 (1.49%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.97%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.49%) MySQL
3 1 (1.49%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.49%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Android Studio
2 7 (10.45%) Mockito
2 7 (10.45%) Xcode
3 6 (8.96%) Git
4 4 (5.97%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.99%) Gradle
5 2 (2.99%) Mocha
5 2 (2.99%) Postman
5 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.49%) Appium
6 1 (1.49%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) JUnit
6 1 (1.49%) Selenium
6 1 (1.49%) Storybook
6 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (5.97%) Digital Healthcare
2 2 (2.99%) Banking
2 2 (2.99%) Finance
2 2 (2.99%) Marketing
2 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
2 2 (2.99%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
3 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (74.63%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Android Developer
3 15 (22.39%) Mobile Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Flutter Developer
4 8 (11.94%) iOS Developer
5 6 (8.96%) React Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 4 (5.97%) iOS Android Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Lead
9 2 (2.99%) Android Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 1 (1.49%) .NET Developer
10 1 (1.49%) Contracts Manager
10 1 (1.49%) PHP Developer
10 1 (1.49%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.49%) Software Development Manager
10 1 (1.49%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) React Native
2 12 (17.91%) HTML
3 11 (16.42%) CSS
3 11 (16.42%) Node.js
4 10 (14.93%) RESTful
4 10 (14.93%) Vue
5 9 (13.43%) Flutter
6 8 (11.94%) .NET
6 8 (11.94%) React
6 8 (11.94%) REST
6 8 (11.94%) Web Services
7 6 (8.96%) ASP.NET
7 6 (8.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (8.96%) Ionic Framework
7 6 (8.96%) iOS SDK
8 5 (7.46%) Jest
8 5 (7.46%) Laravel
9 4 (5.97%) Android SDK
9 4 (5.97%) Next.js
9 4 (5.97%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.82%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (58.21%) Android
2 29 (43.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Android Development
2 15 (22.39%) iOS Development
3 12 (17.91%) Unit Testing
3 12 (17.91%) Web Development
4 10 (14.93%) MVVM
5 9 (13.43%) Design Patterns
6 8 (11.94%) Agile
6 8 (11.94%) User Experience
7 7 (10.45%) MVC
7 7 (10.45%) SOLID
8 6 (8.96%) DevOps
8 6 (8.96%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (8.96%) OO
8 6 (8.96%) OOP
8 6 (8.96%) UX Design
9 5 (7.46%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (7.46%) Test Automation
10 4 (5.97%) Fintech
11 3 (4.48%) API Integration
11 3 (4.48%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Kotlin
2 15 (22.39%) Java
3 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.42%) Swift
5 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.94%) C#
7 4 (5.97%) Objective-C
8 3 (4.48%) Dart
9 2 (2.99%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) SQL
10 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.49%) C
10 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.99%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Terraform
2 1 (1.49%) Ansible
2 1 (1.49%) Bugsnag
2 1 (1.49%) Grafana
2 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) Xamarin
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe
2 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
2 1 (1.49%) Google
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle
2 1 (1.49%) Salesforce