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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 477 462
Rank change year-on-year -129 -15 +112
Contract jobs citing MVVM 82 79 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 40 53
10th Percentile £363 £374 £390
25th Percentile £400 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £508 £600 £541
90th Percentile £548 £605 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +5.26%

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 46,826 30,024 32,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.50% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,144 18,679 19,408
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,886 1,245
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.07 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 14 October 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 11 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 14 October 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 -127 65 £450 -14.29% 95
UK excluding London -91 43 £400 -20.00% 31
London -114 31 £500 -9.09% 55
Scotland -17 12 £390 - 1
South West -24 12 £400 -15.79% 6
North of England -74 12 £450 +10.77% 10
Work from Home -80 10 £494 -1.25% 36
North East -34 8 £450 -
East of England -25 4 - - 5
North West - 4 £450 - 9
South East -62 3 £323 -43.91% 6

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 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) GitHub
2 23 (28.05%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (23.17%) Google Play
4 17 (20.73%) Azure
5 12 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (14.63%) Firebase
6 7 (8.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (6.10%) Azure AI
8 3 (3.66%) AWS
8 3 (3.66%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.44%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.22%) Google Pay
10 1 (1.22%) Miro
10 1 (1.22%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) NFC
2 1 (1.22%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (34.15%) Git
2 19 (23.17%) XCTest
2 19 (23.17%) XCUITest
3 15 (18.29%) Gradle
4 14 (17.07%) CircleCI
5 13 (15.85%) Xcode
6 12 (14.63%) Android Studio
7 11 (13.41%) Jenkins
8 10 (12.20%) fastlane
9 5 (6.10%) Crashlytics
10 4 (4.88%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.44%) JUnit
12 1 (1.22%) CocoaPods
General
1 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.54%) Banking
5 6 (7.32%) Finance
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.22%) Publishing
6 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (58.54%) Developer
2 22 (26.83%) Android Developer
2 22 (26.83%) Senior
3 21 (25.61%) iOS Developer
4 19 (23.17%) Android Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Senior Android Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Android Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior iOS Developer
8 4 (4.88%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.88%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (4.88%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.88%) C# WPF Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Mobile Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) WPF Developer
9 2 (2.44%) Mobile Developer
10 1 (1.22%) iOS Android Developer
10 1 (1.22%) Java Developer
10 1 (1.22%) Java Mobile Developer
10 1 (1.22%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (46.34%) RESTful
2 36 (43.90%) Android Jetpack
3 31 (37.80%) REST
4 28 (34.15%) Android SDK
4 28 (34.15%) Jetpack Compose
5 25 (30.49%) UIKit
6 20 (24.39%) SwiftUI
7 12 (14.63%) Retrofit
8 10 (12.20%) Core Data
9 7 (8.54%) iOS SDK
9 7 (8.54%) RxSwift
10 5 (6.10%) JSON
11 4 (4.88%) .NET
11 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.88%) Entity Framework
11 4 (4.88%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 4 (4.88%) Silverlight
11 4 (4.88%) WCF
11 4 (4.88%) Web Services
11 4 (4.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 53 (64.63%) Mobile App
2 17 (20.73%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.54%) AI Agents
4 6 (7.32%) Virtual Team
5 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.88%) Legacy Code
7 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.22%) Contactless
8 1 (1.22%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.22%) IoT
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.22%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (1.22%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (56.10%) Android
2 38 (46.34%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) CI/CD
2 36 (43.90%) Agile
3 33 (40.24%) Android Development
3 33 (40.24%) iOS Development
4 32 (39.02%) Architectural Patterns
5 30 (36.59%) Scrum
6 27 (32.93%) User Experience
7 23 (28.05%) Performance Optimisation
8 22 (26.83%) Test Automation
9 21 (25.61%) Design Patterns
10 18 (21.95%) Clean Code
11 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (19.51%) Secure Coding
13 15 (18.29%) API Integration
13 15 (18.29%) UX Design
14 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (15.85%) TDD
15 12 (14.63%) DevOps
16 11 (13.41%) Open Source
17 10 (12.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.88%) Kotlin
2 38 (46.34%) Swift
3 29 (35.37%) Java
4 15 (18.29%) Objective-C
5 4 (4.88%) C#
5 4 (4.88%) XAML
6 1 (1.22%) C++
6 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) Degree
2 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.88%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.95%) Accessibility
2 15 (18.29%) QA
3 8 (9.76%) WCAG
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) Google
2 9 (10.98%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.54%) Apple
4 5 (6.10%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft