MVVM Contract Job Trends

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring MVVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 453 554
Rank change year-on-year -65 +101 +116
Contract jobs citing MVVM 61 94 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.30% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 41
10th Percentile £355 £392 £413
25th Percentile £375 £416 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -2.54%
75th Percentile £594 £541 £675
90th Percentile £608 £600 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - - £76.56
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +76.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MVVM 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 32,257 31,288 39,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.04% 87.36% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,268 18,944 26,694
10th Percentile £300 £309 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,091 1,103 1,539
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £45.61 £63.42 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.39 £43.95
% change year-on-year -29.45% -26.30% +40.82%

MVVM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MVVM job vacancy trend in the UK

MVVM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM

MVVM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MVVM over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MVVM in the UK

MVVM
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM

MVVM
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVVM within the UK over the 6 months to 3 December 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 -57 57 £506 +2.02% 38
London -56 34 £570 +14.86% 10
UK excluding London -18 26 £400 -20.00% 35
Work from Home -3 15 £400 -20.00% 35
Yorkshire -20 12 £400 -33.33% 2
North of England -41 12 £400 -20.00% 11
South West - 5 £390 - 5
South East +1 3 £575 - 9
Scotland - 3 - -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
East of England -16 1 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £388 -

MVVM
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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Firebase
1 9 (14.75%) Google Play
2 6 (9.84%) GitHub
3 4 (6.56%) Azure
4 3 (4.92%) Bitrise
5 2 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.28%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.64%) Figma
6 1 (1.64%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DHCP
1 3 (4.92%) DNS
1 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Xcode
3 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.48%) CircleCI
5 6 (9.84%) Gradle
5 6 (9.84%) JIRA
6 5 (8.20%) Android Studio
7 4 (6.56%) JUnit
8 3 (4.92%) Mockito
9 2 (3.28%) CocoaPods
9 2 (3.28%) Crashlytics
9 2 (3.28%) fastlane
10 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.64%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.64%) PostCSS
10 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
2 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.84%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Automotive
5 1 (1.64%) Back Office
5 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.64%) Front Office
5 1 (1.64%) Games
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (83.61%) Developer
2 27 (44.26%) Android Developer
3 16 (26.23%) iOS Developer
4 12 (19.67%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Mobile Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Applications Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Android Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Android Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Principal Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior iOS Developer
8 2 (3.28%) iOS Android Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Lead Android Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Mobile Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) UI Developer
9 1 (1.64%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (47.54%) RESTful
2 22 (36.07%) Android Jetpack
3 20 (32.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 13 (21.31%) Android SDK
4 13 (21.31%) SwiftUI
5 9 (14.75%) UIKit
6 8 (13.11%) .NET
6 8 (13.11%) RxJava
7 7 (11.48%) Dagger
8 6 (9.84%) Web Services
9 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
9 5 (8.20%) Core Data
9 5 (8.20%) WPF
10 4 (6.56%) Bootstrap
10 4 (6.56%) Core Animation
10 4 (6.56%) CSS
10 4 (6.56%) FHIR
10 4 (6.56%) GraphQL
10 4 (6.56%) Material Design
10 4 (6.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (54.10%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.92%) Animation
5 2 (3.28%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.28%) iPad
5 2 (3.28%) iPhone
5 2 (3.28%) NHS
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.64%) Derivative
6 1 (1.64%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Music Streaming
6 1 (1.64%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (60.66%) Android
2 28 (45.90%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.56%) Windows
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.64%) tvOS
5 1 (1.64%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) CI/CD
2 29 (47.54%) Android Development
3 25 (40.98%) Agile
4 24 (39.34%) User Experience
5 22 (36.07%) Architectural Patterns
6 21 (34.43%) iOS Development
7 19 (31.15%) Design Patterns
8 16 (26.23%) SOLID
9 15 (24.59%) DevOps
9 15 (24.59%) Mobile Development
9 15 (24.59%) Push Notifications
9 15 (24.59%) UX Design
10 14 (22.95%) Analytics
10 14 (22.95%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
12 12 (19.67%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (19.67%) Unit Testing
13 10 (16.39%) Benchmarking
13 10 (16.39%) MVC
13 10 (16.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (57.38%) Kotlin
2 25 (40.98%) Swift
3 20 (32.79%) Java
4 11 (18.03%) Objective-C
5 7 (11.48%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (36.07%) Google
2 9 (14.75%) Apple
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.92%) VMware
5 2 (3.28%) Adobe
5 2 (3.28%) Xamarin