Mobile Development Contracts

Mobile Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mobile Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile 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 469 514 638
Rank change year-on-year +45 +124 +52
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 51 68 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 62 59
10th Percentile £313 £351 £345
25th Percentile £419 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% -6.40% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £673 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -30.56% -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £41.05 - -
25th Percentile £50.13 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% - -
75th Percentile £65.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile 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 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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mobile Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile 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 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 +30 36 £500 +11.11% 99
London +29 25 £525 +5.00% 51
UK excluding London +51 14 £313 -30.56% 62
Work from Home +20 12 £575 +22.86% 69
North of England +13 6 - - 26
Scotland +17 5 £425 -27.66% 7
Yorkshire +11 4 - - 4
South West +44 2 £250 -41.18% 5
North West +8 2 - - 21
Midlands +20 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (7.84%) Serverless
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.92%) Apple Pay
4 2 (3.92%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) Azure
5 1 (1.96%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.96%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
1 1 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Git
1 9 (17.65%) Xcode
2 1 (1.96%) Appium
2 1 (1.96%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Storybook
2 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (1.96%) Vite
2 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Android Developer
3 7 (13.73%) iOS Developer
3 7 (13.73%) Mobile Developer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Applications Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Flutter Developer
5 3 (5.88%) iOS Android Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Mobile Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) React Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Java Android Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Java Mobile Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Lead
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Android Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) UIKit
2 7 (13.73%) Flutter
3 6 (11.76%) RESTful
4 5 (9.80%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (9.80%) SwiftUI
5 4 (7.84%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.84%) React Native
6 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.88%) JSON
7 2 (3.92%) Android SDK
7 2 (3.92%) Dagger
7 2 (3.92%) Jest
7 2 (3.92%) Next.js
7 2 (3.92%) React
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Amplify
8 1 (1.96%) Core Data
8 1 (1.96%) GatsbyJS
8 1 (1.96%) Parceljs
8 1 (1.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (68.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.88%) iPad
3 3 (5.88%) iPhone
3 3 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.96%) Animation
5 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (49.02%) Apple iOS
2 24 (47.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.98%) Agile
2 18 (35.29%) iOS Development
3 15 (29.41%) Android Development
4 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
4 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (23.53%) Mobile Application Development
5 12 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 11 (21.57%) User Experience
7 10 (19.61%) Scrum
8 9 (17.65%) UX Design
9 8 (15.69%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (15.69%) Push Notifications
10 7 (13.73%) Design Patterns
10 7 (13.73%) Unit Testing
11 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (9.80%) Code Quality
12 5 (9.80%) MVVM
12 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
13 4 (7.84%) B2C
13 4 (7.84%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) Swift
2 17 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 12 (23.53%) Objective-C
4 7 (13.73%) Dart
4 7 (13.73%) Java
5 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) SQL
5 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) WCAG
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (3.92%) Apple
1 2 (3.92%) Xamarin
2 1 (1.96%) Amplitude
2 1 (1.96%) Google
2 1 (1.96%) Guidewire
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle
2 1 (1.96%) OutSystems
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media