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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 487 584
Rank change year-on-year 0 +97 +54
Contract jobs citing MVVM 72 86 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 53 41
10th Percentile £375 £398 £413
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £713
90th Percentile - £600 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £588 £463
% change year-on-year -14.89% +27.03% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.79%

All Process and 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 29,811 32,761 44,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.67% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,528 20,142 30,042
10th Percentile £300 £309 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,799 1,460 1,542
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%
75th Percentile £44.68 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £40.64
% change year-on-year -47.37% +5.81% +76.70%

MVVM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MVVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MVVM 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 17 September 2025.

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 15 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 17 September 2025. 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 +13 60 £500 - 71
London -10 37 £500 - 34
UK excluding London +17 26 £500 -14.89% 43
Work from Home +14 25 £488 -2.50% 39
North of England -4 12 £400 -33.33% 17
Yorkshire -2 9 £413 -31.25% 10
Scotland -2 7 - - 1
South East +25 3 £575 - 15
North West -16 2 £400 - 6
Midlands - 2 £450 - 8
East of England +5 1 £500 -
North East - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £388 - 4

MVVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) GitHub
2 9 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (9.72%) Firebase
4 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.56%) Google Play
5 3 (4.17%) AWS
5 3 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) Bitrise
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.39%) Figma
7 1 (1.39%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) DHCP
1 1 (1.39%) DNS
1 1 (1.39%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.39%) SSL
1 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Git
2 10 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.11%) Gradle
3 8 (11.11%) JIRA
3 8 (11.11%) Xcode
4 5 (6.94%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.56%) JUnit
6 2 (2.78%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.78%) Crashlytics
6 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.39%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.39%) fastlane
7 1 (1.39%) GitLab
7 1 (1.39%) Mockito
7 1 (1.39%) ReSharper
7 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.39%) XCUITest
General
1 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Finance
3 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.39%) Back Office
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.39%) Front Office
5 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Retail
5 1 (1.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (62.50%) Developer
2 29 (40.28%) Android Developer
3 17 (23.61%) Senior
4 13 (18.06%) Android Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.72%) iOS Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Android Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Android Developer
9 4 (5.56%) .NET Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Mobile Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Mobile Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Principal Developer
11 2 (2.78%) C# WPF Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (2.78%) iOS Android Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Java Android Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.56%) RESTful
2 18 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
3 16 (22.22%) Android SDK
4 15 (20.83%) Dagger
5 14 (19.44%) SwiftUI
6 13 (18.06%) Jetpack Compose
7 11 (15.28%) .NET
8 10 (13.89%) UIKit
9 7 (9.72%) RxJava
10 6 (8.33%) Material Design
11 5 (6.94%) Web Services
11 5 (6.94%) WPF
12 4 (5.56%) REST
12 4 (5.56%) Retrofit
13 3 (4.17%) .NET Core
13 3 (4.17%) .NET Framework
13 3 (4.17%) OAuth2
13 3 (4.17%) React Native
13 3 (4.17%) Vue
13 3 (4.17%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (55.56%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.33%) Credit Risk
3 6 (8.33%) iPad
3 6 (8.33%) iPhone
3 6 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.94%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.39%) Derivative
5 1 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.39%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (76.39%) Android
2 25 (34.72%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.39%) tvOS
4 1 (1.39%) watchOS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) Agile
2 34 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 32 (44.44%) User Experience
4 31 (43.06%) Android Development
5 30 (41.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 27 (37.50%) Design Patterns
7 22 (30.56%) UX Design
8 17 (23.61%) iOS Development
8 17 (23.61%) Mobile Development
9 15 (20.83%) MVC
9 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (18.06%) Customer Experience
10 13 (18.06%) TDD
10 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
11 12 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
11 12 (16.67%) Prototyping
11 12 (16.67%) Scrum
12 11 (15.28%) BDD
12 11 (15.28%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (15.28%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 23 (31.94%) Swift
3 19 (26.39%) Java
4 12 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 10 (13.89%) C#
6 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.78%) XAML
8 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.78%) PhD
5 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) Google
2 4 (5.56%) Apple
3 3 (4.17%) Xamarin
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.39%) Pega
5 1 (1.39%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.39%) VMware