Mobile First Contracts

Mobile First
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mobile First skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile First 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 502 565 688
Rank change year-on-year +63 +123 +96
Contract jobs citing Mobile First 18 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.039% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.045% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 13
10th Percentile £418 - £320
25th Percentile £500 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £438 £625
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £738 £456 £675
90th Percentile - £605 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £400 £519
% change year-on-year +31.25% -22.89% +6.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mobile First 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 First
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile First over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile First in the UK

Mobile First
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile First 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 +54 11 £525 +31.25% 73
Work from Home +43 9 £725 +61.11% 29
London +41 8 £600 +35.21% 41
UK excluding London +55 3 £525 +31.25% 46
North of England +16 3 £525 +50.00% 9
North West +15 3 £525 +50.00% 4

Mobile First
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 2 (11.11%) Autodesk Smoke
1 2 (11.11%) InVision
2 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Figma
2 4 (22.22%) Cloudflare
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Couchbase
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Designer
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Artworker
4 3 (16.67%) Product Designer
4 3 (16.67%) SAP Developer
4 3 (16.67%) SAPUI5 Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Interface Designer
5 2 (11.11%) React Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior React Developer
5 2 (11.11%) UI Designer
5 2 (11.11%) User Researcher
6 1 (5.56%) Murex Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.56%) UX Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) HTML5
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (16.67%) SAPUI5
4 2 (11.11%) React
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Animation
2 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) UX Design
4 4 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 4 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (16.67%) Typography
5 3 (16.67%) Use Case
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) CRM
6 2 (11.11%) Interaction Design
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Murex