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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 477 513
Rank change year-on-year -73 +36 +128
Contract jobs citing MVVM 65 43 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 23 50
10th Percentile £282 £360 £425
25th Percentile £368 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £675
90th Percentile £602 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +4.69% -30.43% +23.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £59.65 - £76.50
25th Percentile £61.38 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £68.38 - £81.75
90th Percentile £69.35 - £82.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +76.62%

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 37,403 26,465 38,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.45% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,742 17,048 24,949
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,201 924 2,323
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £31.64 £31.13
% change year-on-year -11.50% +1.65% -11.14%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -69 59 £500 -1.48% 44
UK excluding London -63 29 £419 +4.69% 25
London -50 27 £550 +8.37% 18
South West -13 18 £450 -14.29%
Work from Home -33 18 £450 -12.20% 30
North of England -69 6 £525 +31.25% 8
North West -33 3 - - 4
South East - 3 £413 - 11
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
Scotland +7 1 £425 +33.65%
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
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 2 (3.08%) CMS
1 2 (3.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) GitHub
2 12 (18.46%) Firebase
3 11 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (10.77%) Google Play
5 5 (7.69%) Azure
6 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Bitrise
7 2 (3.08%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) AWS
7 2 (3.08%) Stripe
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.54%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DHCP
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
1 2 (3.08%) DSL
1 2 (3.08%) SSL
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) SQLite
2 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Xcode
2 12 (18.46%) fastlane
2 12 (18.46%) Gradle
3 11 (16.92%) Git
4 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
4 9 (13.85%) XCTest
5 8 (12.31%) Android Studio
6 7 (10.77%) XCUITest
7 6 (9.23%) JIRA
8 5 (7.69%) CircleCI
8 5 (7.69%) Crashlytics
9 3 (4.62%) GitLab
9 3 (4.62%) JUnit
9 3 (4.62%) Mockito
10 2 (3.08%) Appium
10 2 (3.08%) CocoaPods
10 2 (3.08%) NUnit
11 1 (1.54%) PostCSS
11 1 (1.54%) Postman
11 1 (1.54%) TestRail
General
1 12 (18.46%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Automotive
5 1 (1.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (80.00%) Developer
2 28 (43.08%) Android Developer
3 18 (27.69%) iOS Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Senior
5 7 (10.77%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Applications Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Android Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead
9 3 (4.62%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Android Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior iOS Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Architect
10 2 (3.08%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Mobile Architect
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Android Engineer
11 1 (1.54%) Backend Developer
11 1 (1.54%) Java Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (44.62%) Android Jetpack
2 28 (43.08%) Jetpack Compose
3 20 (30.77%) RESTful
4 16 (24.62%) Android SDK
5 13 (20.00%) SwiftUI
6 9 (13.85%) REST
7 8 (12.31%) .NET
7 8 (12.31%) UIKit
8 7 (10.77%) GraphQL
8 7 (10.77%) RxJava
9 6 (9.23%) Core Data
10 5 (7.69%) FHIR
10 5 (7.69%) Retrofit
10 5 (7.69%) Web Services
11 4 (6.15%) Dagger
12 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
12 3 (4.62%) iOS SDK
12 3 (4.62%) React
12 3 (4.62%) RxSwift
12 3 (4.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.92%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.62%) Animation
3 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) NHS
4 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.54%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.92%) Android
2 27 (41.54%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.62%) Windows
4 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Android Development
2 30 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 26 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 23 (35.38%) iOS Development
5 21 (32.31%) SOLID
5 21 (32.31%) User Experience
6 18 (27.69%) Analytics
6 18 (27.69%) Design Patterns
6 18 (27.69%) Test Automation
7 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (24.62%) Agile
8 16 (24.62%) DevOps
9 14 (21.54%) Clean Code
9 14 (21.54%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (20.00%) Mobile Development
10 13 (20.00%) Push Notifications
11 12 (18.46%) Open Source
12 11 (16.92%) Benchmarking
12 11 (16.92%) TDD
12 11 (16.92%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (55.38%) Kotlin
2 24 (36.92%) Java
2 24 (36.92%) Swift
3 8 (12.31%) C#
4 6 (9.23%) Objective-C
5 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.54%) C
7 1 (1.54%) Scala
7 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.62%) WCAG
3 2 (3.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Grafana
1 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Google
2 7 (10.77%) Apple
3 4 (6.15%) Xamarin
4 2 (3.08%) Adobe
4 2 (3.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.08%) Brightcove
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Adyen
5 1 (1.54%) New Relic
5 1 (1.54%) Tealium