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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 478 522
Rank change year-on-year -85 +44 +111
Contract jobs citing MVVM 59 42 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 45
10th Percentile £275 £400 £439
25th Percentile £363 £422 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £675
90th Percentile £588 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £400 £581
% change year-on-year +21.88% -31.18% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £59.65 - £77.85
25th Percentile £61.38 - £78.38
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.50
75th Percentile £68.38 - £82.13
90th Percentile £69.35 - £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.50
% change year-on-year - - +77.72%

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 39,218 26,699 37,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.74% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,782 17,291 24,442
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,336 1,037 2,416
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.74 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.33 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £71.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -

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 19 April 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 12 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 19 April 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 -79 53 £475 -6.40% 30
UK excluding London -85 32 £488 +21.88% 21
South West -12 19 £500 -4.76% 2
London -53 18 £463 -8.87% 9
Work from Home -36 15 £425 -10.53% 23
South East - 6 £413 - 7
North of England -73 4 £525 +31.25% 7
North West -42 3 - - 5
Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Scotland +1 1 £425 +33.65%
North East - 1 £525 -

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 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) GitHub
2 13 (22.03%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (16.95%) Firebase
4 6 (10.17%) Google Play
5 5 (8.47%) Azure
6 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) Bitrise
7 2 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (3.39%) AWS
7 2 (3.39%) Stripe
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.69%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DSL
2 2 (3.39%) DHCP
2 2 (3.39%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) SSL
2 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) fastlane
2 10 (16.95%) XCTest
3 9 (15.25%) Git
3 9 (15.25%) Gradle
3 9 (15.25%) Xcode
4 8 (13.56%) XCUITest
5 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
6 5 (8.47%) Android Studio
6 5 (8.47%) CircleCI
7 3 (5.08%) Crashlytics
7 3 (5.08%) GitLab
7 3 (5.08%) JIRA
7 3 (5.08%) JUnit
8 2 (3.39%) Appium
8 2 (3.39%) Mockito
8 2 (3.39%) NUnit
9 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.69%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.69%) MSTest
9 1 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.17%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Banking
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Automotive
4 1 (1.69%) Aviation
4 1 (1.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 43 (72.88%) Developer
2 22 (37.29%) Android Developer
3 15 (25.42%) iOS Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Senior
5 6 (10.17%) Android Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Lead Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Android Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Applications Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Mobile Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.69%) Backend Developer
10 1 (1.69%) Java Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (42.37%) Android Jetpack
2 24 (40.68%) Jetpack Compose
3 14 (23.73%) Android SDK
4 13 (22.03%) SwiftUI
5 12 (20.34%) RESTful
6 10 (16.95%) REST
7 9 (15.25%) GraphQL
8 8 (13.56%) .NET
9 7 (11.86%) UIKit
10 5 (8.47%) RxJava
11 4 (6.78%) Core Data
11 4 (6.78%) Web Services
12 3 (5.08%) iOS SDK
12 3 (5.08%) Retrofit
12 3 (5.08%) XML
13 2 (3.39%) Dagger
13 2 (3.39%) JWT
13 2 (3.39%) OkHttp
13 2 (3.39%) React
13 2 (3.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.78%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Animation
5 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.69%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.69%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (57.63%) Android
2 25 (42.37%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.08%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Android Development
2 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
3 25 (42.37%) Architectural Patterns
4 21 (35.59%) iOS Development
5 18 (30.51%) Test Automation
6 15 (25.42%) Agile
6 15 (25.42%) User Experience
7 13 (22.03%) Design Patterns
7 13 (22.03%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (22.03%) SOLID
7 13 (22.03%) TDD
8 10 (16.95%) Analytics
8 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (16.95%) DevOps
8 10 (16.95%) Open Source
9 9 (15.25%) Benchmarking
10 8 (13.56%) Async-Await
10 8 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (13.56%) Scrum
10 8 (13.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) Kotlin
2 22 (37.29%) Java
2 22 (37.29%) Swift
3 8 (13.56%) C#
4 5 (8.47%) Objective-C
5 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) C
6 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) WCAG
3 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Google
2 4 (6.78%) Xamarin
3 3 (5.08%) Apple
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
4 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.39%) Brightcove
4 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) Adyen
5 1 (1.69%) New Relic
5 1 (1.69%) Tealium