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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 481 524
Rank change year-on-year -77 +43 +108
Contract jobs citing MVVM 68 43 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 51
10th Percentile £281 £355 £425
25th Percentile £363 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £675
90th Percentile £602 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +6.25% -30.43% +7.88%
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 37,150 26,655 38,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 90.32% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,527 17,023 25,087
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 906 2,334
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.69% -9.57%

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 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 14 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 -67 61 £500 -1.48% 33
UK excluding London -56 31 £425 +6.25% 23
London -58 28 £550 +8.37% 11
South West -13 18 £450 -14.29% 2
Work from Home -30 18 £450 -12.20% 19
North of England -61 9 £450 +12.50% 8
Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 3
North West -34 3 - - 5
Scotland +12 2 £425 +33.65%
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
South East - 1 £275 - 9
Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
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 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.94%) GitHub
2 11 (16.18%) Firebase
3 10 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (8.82%) Google Play
5 4 (5.88%) Azure
5 4 (5.88%) Bitrise
6 3 (4.41%) AWS
7 2 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Stripe
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.47%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.47%) Figma
8 1 (1.47%) GCP
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DHCP
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
1 2 (2.94%) DSL
1 2 (2.94%) SSL
1 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) SQLite
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Git
2 13 (19.12%) Xcode
3 11 (16.18%) Gradle
4 10 (14.71%) fastlane
5 9 (13.24%) XCTest
6 8 (11.76%) Android Studio
6 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
7 7 (10.29%) JIRA
7 7 (10.29%) XCUITest
8 5 (7.35%) CircleCI
9 4 (5.88%) Crashlytics
10 3 (4.41%) GitLab
10 3 (4.41%) JUnit
10 3 (4.41%) Mockito
11 2 (2.94%) Appium
11 2 (2.94%) CocoaPods
11 2 (2.94%) NUnit
12 1 (1.47%) PostCSS
12 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 10 (14.71%) Public Sector
1 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Banking
3 3 (4.41%) Finance
4 1 (1.47%) Automotive
4 1 (1.47%) Games
4 1 (1.47%) Retail
4 1 (1.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (80.88%) Developer
2 30 (44.12%) Android Developer
3 19 (27.94%) iOS Developer
4 10 (14.71%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
6 5 (7.35%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Applications Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Android Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Architect
9 2 (2.94%) iOS Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (2.94%) Senior Android Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (2.94%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (44.12%) Android Jetpack
2 29 (42.65%) Jetpack Compose
3 22 (32.35%) RESTful
4 17 (25.00%) Android SDK
5 13 (19.12%) SwiftUI
6 9 (13.24%) .NET
6 9 (13.24%) REST
7 8 (11.76%) RxJava
7 8 (11.76%) UIKit
8 7 (10.29%) GraphQL
9 6 (8.82%) Web Services
10 5 (7.35%) Core Data
10 5 (7.35%) Dagger
10 5 (7.35%) FHIR
10 5 (7.35%) Retrofit
11 4 (5.88%) CSS
11 4 (5.88%) XML
12 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
12 3 (4.41%) Core Animation
12 3 (4.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.76%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.41%) Animation
3 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (58.82%) Android
2 29 (42.65%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) Android Development
2 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 25 (36.76%) Architectural Patterns
4 24 (35.29%) iOS Development
5 23 (33.82%) SOLID
6 21 (30.88%) Design Patterns
7 20 (29.41%) User Experience
8 19 (27.94%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (25.00%) Analytics
10 16 (23.53%) Test Automation
11 15 (22.06%) Agile
11 15 (22.06%) DevOps
11 15 (22.06%) Push Notifications
12 14 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (20.59%) Open Source
13 13 (19.12%) Benchmarking
13 13 (19.12%) Mobile Development
14 12 (17.65%) Clean Code
15 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
16 10 (14.71%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (57.35%) Kotlin
2 26 (38.24%) Java
2 26 (38.24%) Swift
3 8 (11.76%) C#
4 7 (10.29%) Objective-C
5 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) C
7 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
1 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Grafana
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Google
2 6 (8.82%) Apple
3 5 (7.35%) Xamarin
4 2 (2.94%) Adobe
4 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.94%) Brightcove
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (1.47%) Adyen
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic
5 1 (1.47%) Tealium