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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 426 529
Rank change year-on-year -108 +103 +142
Contract jobs citing MVVM 59 92 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.33% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 51 55
10th Percentile £294 £388 £425
25th Percentile £381 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £539 £638
90th Percentile £606 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -21.43% -8.70% +4.55%
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 - - +79.05%

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 33,541 27,883 38,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.07% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,255 16,908 25,386
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £722 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 876 1,970
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +44.23%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -109 54 £513 +3.27% 31
London -77 28 £570 +15.74% 9
UK excluding London -40 25 £413 -21.43% 23
Work from Home -30 15 £475 -5.00% 19
North of England -51 10 £375 -25.00% 8
South West -18 7 £400 -23.81% 3
Yorkshire -43 7 £375 -37.50% 1
South East - 4 £550 - 5
North West -29 3 - - 6
Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
Scotland - 2 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 2
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 (5.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) GitHub
2 9 (15.25%) Firebase
3 8 (13.56%) Google Play
4 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.08%) Azure
5 3 (5.08%) Bitrise
6 2 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Stripe
7 1 (1.69%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.69%) AWS
7 1 (1.69%) Figma
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DHCP
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
1 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.39%) SSL
3 1 (1.69%) DSL
3 1 (1.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Git
2 10 (16.95%) Gradle
3 8 (13.56%) Android Studio
3 8 (13.56%) Xcode
4 7 (11.86%) fastlane
4 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.17%) JIRA
6 4 (6.78%) Crashlytics
6 4 (6.78%) XCTest
7 3 (5.08%) CircleCI
7 3 (5.08%) JUnit
7 3 (5.08%) Mockito
8 2 (3.39%) Appium
8 2 (3.39%) CocoaPods
8 2 (3.39%) GitLab
8 2 (3.39%) NUnit
8 2 (3.39%) XCUITest
9 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.69%) TestRail
General
1 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.78%) Banking
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Automotive
5 1 (1.69%) Games
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
5 1 (1.69%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (88.14%) Developer
2 29 (49.15%) Android Developer
3 16 (27.12%) iOS Developer
4 11 (18.64%) Senior
5 10 (16.95%) Mobile Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.17%) .NET Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Applications Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Android Developer
10 3 (5.08%) iOS Android Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Lead
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Principal Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Lead Android Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Senior iOS Developer
11 2 (3.39%) UI Developer
12 1 (1.69%) Azure Consultant
12 1 (1.69%) Mobile Tester
12 1 (1.69%) Mobile UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (40.68%) RESTful
2 22 (37.29%) Android Jetpack
3 21 (35.59%) Jetpack Compose
4 11 (18.64%) Android SDK
4 11 (18.64%) SwiftUI
5 10 (16.95%) .NET
6 9 (15.25%) UIKit
7 8 (13.56%) RxJava
8 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
8 6 (10.17%) REST
8 6 (10.17%) Web Services
9 5 (8.47%) Core Data
9 5 (8.47%) Dagger
9 5 (8.47%) FHIR
10 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
10 4 (6.78%) React
10 4 (6.78%) Retrofit
11 3 (5.08%) Bootstrap
11 3 (5.08%) Express.js
11 3 (5.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (47.46%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.08%) Animation
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) NHS
5 1 (1.69%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.69%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (57.63%) Android
2 27 (45.76%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.78%) Windows
4 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) Android Development
2 28 (47.46%) CI/CD
3 22 (37.29%) User Experience
4 20 (33.90%) Design Patterns
5 19 (32.20%) Agile
5 19 (32.20%) iOS Development
6 18 (30.51%) Architectural Patterns
7 17 (28.81%) SOLID
8 16 (27.12%) Analytics
8 16 (27.12%) DevOps
9 15 (25.42%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (23.73%) Mobile Development
10 14 (23.73%) Push Notifications
11 13 (22.03%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (22.03%) UX Design
12 12 (20.34%) Clean Code
13 11 (18.64%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
14 10 (16.95%) Open Source
14 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Kotlin
2 23 (38.98%) Swift
3 20 (33.90%) Java
4 10 (16.95%) Objective-C
5 9 (15.25%) C#
6 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.69%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
3 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Grafana
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (33.90%) Google
2 8 (13.56%) Apple
3 6 (10.17%) Xamarin
4 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) VMware
5 2 (3.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.69%) Adyen