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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 495 479
Rank change year-on-year -105 -16 +111
Contract jobs citing MVVM 80 70 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 30 53
10th Percentile £363 £374 £398
25th Percentile £400 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £523 £600 £550
90th Percentile £560 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.89% +27.03%

All Process & 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 45,811 29,562 32,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.52% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,345 20,161
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,152 1,818 1,440
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -48.10% +1.18%

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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 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 -114 63 £475 -5.00% 139
UK excluding London -90 43 £450 -10.00% 58
London -90 29 £500 +2.04% 86
Scotland -22 12 £390 - 3
South West -28 12 £525 -4.55% 4
North of England -71 10 £450 +12.50% 24
North East -33 8 £450 - 1
Work from Home -77 8 £494 +9.72% 57
East of England -24 4 - - 10
South East -62 4 £600 +4.35% 11
North West -48 2 £450 +12.50% 18
West Midlands -46 1 £525 +2.44% 3
Midlands -47 1 £525 +16.67% 3

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) GitHub
2 20 (25.00%) Google Play
3 18 (22.50%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (21.25%) Azure
5 12 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Firebase
7 7 (8.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (6.25%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.50%) AWS
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.25%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.25%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) NFC
2 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.25%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) Git
2 15 (18.75%) XCTest
2 15 (18.75%) XCUITest
3 13 (16.25%) Gradle
4 12 (15.00%) Android Studio
5 10 (12.50%) CircleCI
5 10 (12.50%) fastlane
5 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 10 (12.50%) Xcode
6 4 (5.00%) Crashlytics
6 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.25%) CocoaPods
7 1 (1.25%) JUnit
General
1 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Finance
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Aviation
6 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (62.50%) Developer
2 24 (30.00%) Android Developer
3 23 (28.75%) Senior
4 20 (25.00%) iOS Developer
5 19 (23.75%) Android Engineer
6 12 (15.00%) Senior Android Engineer
7 10 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Android Developer
9 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (5.00%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.00%) C# WPF Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior iOS Developer
9 4 (5.00%) WPF Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Lead
11 2 (2.50%) Lead Android Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Mobile Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Mobile Engineer
12 1 (1.25%) Java Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (46.25%) RESTful
2 35 (43.75%) Android Jetpack
3 28 (35.00%) Android SDK
4 27 (33.75%) REST
5 26 (32.50%) Jetpack Compose
6 18 (22.50%) SwiftUI
6 18 (22.50%) UIKit
7 12 (15.00%) Retrofit
8 10 (12.50%) Core Data
9 7 (8.75%) RxSwift
10 6 (7.50%) iOS SDK
11 5 (6.25%) JSON
12 4 (5.00%) .NET
12 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
12 4 (5.00%) Entity Framework
12 4 (5.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
12 4 (5.00%) Silverlight
12 4 (5.00%) WCF
12 4 (5.00%) Web Services
12 4 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (62.50%) Mobile App
2 14 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.75%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.25%) Contactless
7 1 (1.25%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.25%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (58.75%) Android
2 32 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
2 36 (45.00%) Android Development
3 35 (43.75%) Agile
4 31 (38.75%) iOS Development
5 30 (37.50%) Scrum
6 28 (35.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 24 (30.00%) User Experience
8 23 (28.75%) Design Patterns
9 21 (26.25%) Performance Optimisation
10 20 (25.00%) Test Automation
11 18 (22.50%) Secure Coding
12 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.75%) API Integration
13 15 (18.75%) Clean Code
13 15 (18.75%) UX Design
14 14 (17.50%) TDD
15 13 (16.25%) DevOps
15 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (12.50%) AI
16 10 (12.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 45 (56.25%) Kotlin
2 32 (40.00%) Swift
3 30 (37.50%) Java
4 11 (13.75%) Objective-C
5 4 (5.00%) C#
5 4 (5.00%) XAML
6 1 (1.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.00%) PhD
6 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.25%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.75%) QA
3 8 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 26 (32.50%) Google
2 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 6 (7.50%) Apple
4 5 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft