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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 440 521
Rank change year-on-year -92 +81 +136
Contract jobs citing MVVM 68 85 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 48 55
10th Percentile £280 £388 £425
25th Percentile £373 £412 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £644
90th Percentile £603 £611 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -7.14% -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 35,252 27,502 38,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.92% 89.66% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,364 16,881 25,241
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,119 838 2,150
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £72.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +6.22%

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 18 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 12 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 18 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 -94 62 £500 - 45
London -71 31 £548 +9.50% 17
UK excluding London -56 29 £488 -7.14% 29
Work from Home -33 18 £425 -15.00% 23
South West -11 14 £500 -4.76% 8
North of England -52 10 £375 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -46 7 £375 -37.50% 2
North West -30 3 - - 7
Midlands - 2 £494 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £494 - 5
Scotland - 2 £425 -
South East - 1 £275 - 5

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 16 (23.53%) GitHub
2 10 (14.71%) Firebase
3 9 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (11.76%) Google Play
5 4 (5.88%) Azure
6 3 (4.41%) Bitrise
7 2 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.94%) AWS
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Stripe
8 1 (1.47%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.47%) Figma
8 1 (1.47%) GCP
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) DHCP
1 3 (4.41%) DNS
1 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.94%) DSL
2 2 (2.94%) SSL
3 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.41%) SQLite
2 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) Gradle
2 11 (16.18%) Xcode
3 10 (14.71%) fastlane
4 8 (11.76%) Android Studio
5 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
5 7 (10.29%) JIRA
5 7 (10.29%) XCTest
6 5 (7.35%) CircleCI
6 5 (7.35%) XCUITest
7 4 (5.88%) Crashlytics
8 3 (4.41%) JUnit
8 3 (4.41%) Mockito
9 2 (2.94%) Appium
9 2 (2.94%) CocoaPods
9 2 (2.94%) GitLab
9 2 (2.94%) NUnit
10 1 (1.47%) PostCSS
10 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 10 (14.71%) Public Sector
1 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Banking
3 4 (5.88%) 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 17 (25.00%) iOS Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (8.82%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Android Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Android Developer
10 2 (2.94%) iOS Android Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Senior iOS Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.94%) UI Developer
11 1 (1.47%) Consultant
11 1 (1.47%) Mobile Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (42.65%) Android Jetpack
2 28 (41.18%) Jetpack Compose
3 23 (33.82%) RESTful
4 16 (23.53%) Android SDK
5 12 (17.65%) SwiftUI
6 10 (14.71%) .NET
6 10 (14.71%) UIKit
7 9 (13.24%) RxJava
8 8 (11.76%) REST
8 8 (11.76%) Web Services
9 7 (10.29%) GraphQL
10 6 (8.82%) Dagger
11 5 (7.35%) Core Data
11 5 (7.35%) FHIR
11 5 (7.35%) Retrofit
12 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
12 4 (5.88%) CSS
12 4 (5.88%) React
12 4 (5.88%) XML
13 3 (4.41%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.71%) 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%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.47%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (55.88%) Android
2 28 (41.18%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.88%) Windows
4 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) Android Development
2 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.82%) iOS Development
4 22 (32.35%) SOLID
5 21 (30.88%) Architectural Patterns
5 21 (30.88%) Design Patterns
6 20 (29.41%) User Experience
7 18 (26.47%) Agile
7 18 (26.47%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (25.00%) Analytics
9 16 (23.53%) DevOps
10 15 (22.06%) Mobile Development
10 15 (22.06%) Test Automation
11 14 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (20.59%) Push Notifications
12 13 (19.12%) Clean Code
12 13 (19.12%) Open Source
13 12 (17.65%) Benchmarking
13 12 (17.65%) Unit Testing
14 10 (14.71%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) Kotlin
2 25 (36.76%) Swift
3 23 (33.82%) Java
4 9 (13.24%) C#
5 7 (10.29%) Objective-C
6 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.47%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Grafana
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Google
2 5 (7.35%) Apple
2 5 (7.35%) Xamarin
3 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.41%) VMware
4 2 (2.94%) Adobe
4 2 (2.94%) Brightcove
5 1 (1.47%) Adyen
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic
5 1 (1.47%) Tealium