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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 476 537
Rank change year-on-year -96 +61 +53
Contract jobs citing MVVM 80 63 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 30 39
10th Percentile £320 £358 £446
25th Percentile £406 £416 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £613
90th Percentile £546 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £575
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +23.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £77.85
25th Percentile - - £78.38
Median hourly rate - - £80.50
75th Percentile - - £82.13
90th Percentile - - £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 44,261 28,859 36,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.68% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,507 18,191 23,560
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,650 1,433 2,509
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.50 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +8.82%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -83 70 £475 -5.00% 32
UK excluding London -84 43 £450 - 24
London -95 23 £500 +2.56% 16
South West - 23 £513 - 1
Work from Home -64 17 £475 -5.00% 26
North East -29 9 £450 - 1
North of England -65 9 £450 -5.26% 6
South East - 6 £413 - 7
East of England -27 2 - - 4
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Scotland -20 1 £425 +33.65% 7

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 31 (38.75%) GitHub
2 18 (22.50%) Azure
3 17 (21.25%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.25%) Firebase
6 12 (15.00%) Google Play
7 5 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.75%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.50%) AWS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.25%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.25%) Google Pay
10 1 (1.25%) Serverless
10 1 (1.25%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) DSL
2 2 (2.50%) NFC
3 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (22.50%) Git
2 17 (21.25%) fastlane
3 16 (20.00%) Xcode
4 14 (17.50%) XCTest
4 14 (17.50%) XCUITest
5 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
6 9 (11.25%) Gradle
7 7 (8.75%) Android Studio
8 6 (7.50%) CircleCI
9 5 (6.25%) Crashlytics
10 2 (2.50%) Appium
10 2 (2.50%) JIRA
10 2 (2.50%) NUnit
10 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.25%) CocoaPods
11 1 (1.25%) GitLab
11 1 (1.25%) JUnit
11 1 (1.25%) MSTest
11 1 (1.25%) Postman
11 1 (1.25%) TestRail
General
1 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Aviation
5 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (63.75%) Developer
2 25 (31.25%) Senior
3 23 (28.75%) Android Developer
4 20 (25.00%) iOS Developer
5 16 (20.00%) Android Engineer
6 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
7 10 (12.50%) Senior Android Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Android Developer
9 5 (6.25%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior iOS Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Applications Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Lead
10 3 (3.75%) Mobile Developer
11 2 (2.50%) C# WPF Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Java Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Lead Android Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Mobile Architect
11 2 (2.50%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (43.75%) Android Jetpack
2 31 (38.75%) RESTful
3 29 (36.25%) Android SDK
4 28 (35.00%) Jetpack Compose
5 17 (21.25%) SwiftUI
6 16 (20.00%) REST
7 12 (15.00%) UIKit
8 9 (11.25%) iOS SDK
9 8 (10.00%) .NET
10 6 (7.50%) Retrofit
11 5 (6.25%) Core Data
11 5 (6.25%) GraphQL
12 4 (5.00%) JSON
12 4 (5.00%) Web Services
13 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
14 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
14 2 (2.50%) Silverlight
14 2 (2.50%) WCF
14 2 (2.50%) WPF
14 2 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (48.75%) Mobile App
2 14 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Contactless
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%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 47 (58.75%) Android
2 33 (41.25%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.25%) Android Development
1 37 (46.25%) CI/CD
2 35 (43.75%) Architectural Patterns
3 31 (38.75%) iOS Development
4 27 (33.75%) Test Automation
5 25 (31.25%) Agile
6 24 (30.00%) User Experience
7 22 (27.50%) Design Patterns
8 20 (25.00%) TDD
9 19 (23.75%) Secure Coding
10 18 (22.50%) Scrum
11 16 (20.00%) Clean Code
11 16 (20.00%) UX Design
12 15 (18.75%) DevOps
13 14 (17.50%) Analytics
13 14 (17.50%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (16.25%) API Integration
14 13 (16.25%) Async-Await
14 13 (16.25%) SOLID
15 12 (15.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.00%) Kotlin
2 32 (40.00%) Java
2 32 (40.00%) Swift
3 8 (10.00%) C#
4 5 (6.25%) Objective-C
5 2 (2.50%) XAML
6 1 (1.25%) C++
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.75%) WCAG
3 6 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Google
2 10 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 8 (10.00%) Apple
4 4 (5.00%) Xamarin
5 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.50%) Brightcove
7 1 (1.25%) Adyen
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.25%) New Relic
7 1 (1.25%) Tealium