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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 482 476
Rank change year-on-year -124 -6 +100
Contract jobs citing MVVM 83 75 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 32 53
10th Percentile £363 £375 £398
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £521 £600 £550
90th Percentile £550 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £456 £588
% change year-on-year -1.37% -22.34% +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 46,340 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,136 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
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 3,159 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.96
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% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +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 19 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 19 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 -120 66 £463 -7.50% 149
UK excluding London -96 45 £450 -1.37% 84
London -87 30 £500 - 68
Scotland -13 12 £390 - 6
South West -24 12 £525 -4.55% 6
North of England -77 10 £450 +12.50% 30
North East -43 8 £450 - 2
Work from Home -82 8 £494 +1.28% 48
South East -56 6 £413 -28.26% 17
East of England -22 4 - - 13
North West -55 2 £450 +12.50% 22
West Midlands -49 1 £525 +2.44% 5
Midlands -50 1 £525 +16.67% 8

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 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (36.14%) GitHub
2 21 (25.30%) Google Play
3 19 (22.89%) Azure
3 19 (22.89%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (15.66%) Firebase
6 7 (8.43%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (6.02%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.41%) AWS
8 2 (2.41%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (1.20%) Bitrise
9 1 (1.20%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) NFC
2 1 (1.20%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.20%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.20%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (33.73%) Git
2 15 (18.07%) XCTest
2 15 (18.07%) XCUITest
3 14 (16.87%) Gradle
4 13 (15.66%) Android Studio
5 12 (14.46%) fastlane
5 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
6 11 (13.25%) Xcode
7 10 (12.05%) CircleCI
8 5 (6.02%) Crashlytics
9 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.20%) CocoaPods
10 1 (1.20%) JUnit
General
1 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Aviation
6 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (63.86%) Developer
2 25 (30.12%) Android Developer
2 25 (30.12%) Senior
3 22 (26.51%) iOS Developer
4 19 (22.89%) Android Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Android Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Android Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior iOS Developer
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.82%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (4.82%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.82%) C# WPF Developer
8 4 (4.82%) WPF Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Lead
10 2 (2.41%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Mobile Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Mobile Engineer
11 1 (1.20%) iOS Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (46.99%) RESTful
2 36 (43.37%) Android Jetpack
3 29 (34.94%) Android SDK
4 27 (32.53%) Jetpack Compose
4 27 (32.53%) REST
5 20 (24.10%) SwiftUI
6 19 (22.89%) UIKit
7 13 (15.66%) Retrofit
8 11 (13.25%) Core Data
9 7 (8.43%) iOS SDK
9 7 (8.43%) RxSwift
10 5 (6.02%) JSON
11 4 (4.82%) .NET
11 4 (4.82%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.82%) Entity Framework
11 4 (4.82%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 4 (4.82%) Silverlight
11 4 (4.82%) WCF
11 4 (4.82%) Web Services
11 4 (4.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (62.65%) Mobile App
2 16 (19.28%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.43%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.82%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.20%) Contactless
7 1 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.20%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (57.83%) Android
2 34 (40.96%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.19%) CI/CD
2 38 (45.78%) Agile
3 37 (44.58%) Android Development
4 33 (39.76%) iOS Development
5 32 (38.55%) Scrum
6 30 (36.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 26 (31.33%) User Experience
8 24 (28.92%) Design Patterns
9 22 (26.51%) Test Automation
10 21 (25.30%) Performance Optimisation
11 20 (24.10%) Secure Coding
12 17 (20.48%) API Integration
12 17 (20.48%) Clean Code
12 17 (20.48%) UX Design
13 16 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (19.28%) TDD
14 15 (18.07%) DevOps
15 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (14.46%) Kanban
17 11 (13.25%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (55.42%) Kotlin
2 34 (40.96%) Swift
3 31 (37.35%) Java
4 11 (13.25%) Objective-C
5 4 (4.82%) C#
5 4 (4.82%) XAML
6 1 (1.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) Degree
4 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.82%) PhD
6 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.89%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.25%) QA
3 10 (12.05%) WCAG
Vendors
1 27 (32.53%) Google
2 10 (12.05%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.43%) Apple
4 5 (6.02%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft