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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 422 533
Rank change year-on-year -125 +111 +107
Contract jobs citing MVVM 62 95 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.35% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 53
10th Percentile £274 £388 £426
25th Percentile £378 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -1.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £650
90th Percentile £605 £599 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -25.00% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £59.65 - £76.63
25th Percentile £61.38 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £68.38 - £82.50
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +68.99%

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 34,545 27,534 38,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.04% 89.45% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,908 16,837 25,471
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 848 2,117
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.78 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -11.20% +8.53%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -96 57 £500 +0.76% 38
London -82 30 £550 +11.68% 9
UK excluding London -58 25 £394 -25.00% 30
Work from Home -26 16 £475 -5.00% 23
South West -16 10 £400 -23.81% 9
North of England -54 10 £375 -25.00% 8
Yorkshire -51 7 £375 -37.50% 1
North West -29 3 - - 7
Scotland - 2 £425 -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 4
South East - 1 £275 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £388 -

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 (4.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) GitHub
2 9 (14.52%) Firebase
3 8 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (12.90%) Google Play
4 4 (6.45%) Azure
5 3 (4.84%) Bitrise
6 2 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.23%) Stripe
7 1 (1.61%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.61%) AWS
7 1 (1.61%) Figma
7 1 (1.61%) GCP
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) DHCP
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
1 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.23%) DSL
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.84%) SQLite
2 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Gradle
2 10 (16.13%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) Xcode
4 8 (12.90%) Android Studio
4 8 (12.90%) fastlane
5 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
6 6 (9.68%) JIRA
7 5 (8.06%) XCTest
8 4 (6.45%) Crashlytics
9 3 (4.84%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.84%) JUnit
9 3 (4.84%) Mockito
9 3 (4.84%) XCUITest
10 2 (3.23%) Appium
10 2 (3.23%) CocoaPods
10 2 (3.23%) GitLab
10 2 (3.23%) NUnit
11 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.61%) TestRail
General
1 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Finance
5 1 (1.61%) Automotive
5 1 (1.61%) Games
5 1 (1.61%) Retail
5 1 (1.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 54 (87.10%) Developer
2 29 (46.77%) Android Developer
3 16 (25.81%) iOS Developer
4 11 (17.74%) Senior
5 9 (14.52%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (9.68%) .NET Developer
6 6 (9.68%) Applications Developer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Lead
8 3 (4.84%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (3.23%) iOS Android Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.23%) UI Developer
10 1 (1.61%) Applications Tester
10 1 (1.61%) Test Consultant
10 1 (1.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.94%) Android Jetpack
2 25 (40.32%) Jetpack Compose
3 22 (35.48%) RESTful
4 14 (22.58%) Android SDK
5 11 (17.74%) .NET
5 11 (17.74%) SwiftUI
6 9 (14.52%) UIKit
7 8 (12.90%) RxJava
8 7 (11.29%) GraphQL
8 7 (11.29%) REST
8 7 (11.29%) Web Services
9 5 (8.06%) Core Data
9 5 (8.06%) Dagger
9 5 (8.06%) FHIR
10 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
10 4 (6.45%) CSS
10 4 (6.45%) React
10 4 (6.45%) Retrofit
11 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (4.84%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (40.32%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.84%) Animation
3 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.61%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (56.45%) Android
2 25 (40.32%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.45%) Windows
4 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Android Development
2 27 (43.55%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.87%) Design Patterns
4 20 (32.26%) SOLID
5 19 (30.65%) iOS Development
5 19 (30.65%) User Experience
6 17 (27.42%) Agile
6 17 (27.42%) Architectural Patterns
7 16 (25.81%) Analytics
7 16 (25.81%) DevOps
8 15 (24.19%) Mobile Development
8 15 (24.19%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (22.58%) Push Notifications
10 12 (19.35%) Clean Code
10 12 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (19.35%) Open Source
11 11 (17.74%) Benchmarking
11 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
11 11 (17.74%) Unit Testing
12 10 (16.13%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 34 (54.84%) Kotlin
2 21 (33.87%) Swift
3 20 (32.26%) Java
4 10 (16.13%) C#
5 7 (11.29%) Objective-C
6 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.61%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Grafana
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) Google
2 6 (9.68%) Xamarin
3 5 (8.06%) Apple
4 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) Adobe
6 1 (1.61%) Adyen