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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 487 531
Rank change year-on-year -70 +44 +105
Contract jobs citing MVVM 61 41 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 47
10th Percentile £277 £360 £429
25th Percentile £363 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £675
90th Percentile £588 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £581
% change year-on-year +18.75% -31.18% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £59.65 - £77.85
25th Percentile £61.38 - £78.38
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.50
75th Percentile £68.38 - £82.13
90th Percentile £69.35 - £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.50
% change year-on-year - - +77.72%

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 38,955 26,496 37,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,674 17,197 24,574
10th Percentile £314 £308 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,314 992 2,359
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.02 £19.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.48 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.87 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.55% -7.69% -11.69%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -81 55 £475 -6.40% 36
UK excluding London -82 33 £475 +18.75% 24
South West -13 20 £450 -14.29% 1
London -69 19 £475 -6.40% 11
Work from Home -32 16 £413 -19.51% 26
South East - 6 £413 - 11
North of England -69 4 £525 +31.25% 8
North West -33 3 - - 4
Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Scotland +6 1 £425 +33.65%
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 1 (1.64%) CMS
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) GitHub
2 13 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (18.03%) Firebase
4 6 (9.84%) Google Play
5 5 (8.20%) Azure
6 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) Bitrise
7 2 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (3.28%) AWS
7 2 (3.28%) Stripe
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.64%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DSL
2 2 (3.28%) DHCP
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) SSL
2 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.28%) SQLite
2 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) fastlane
2 10 (16.39%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) Xcode
2 10 (16.39%) XCTest
3 9 (14.75%) Gradle
4 8 (13.11%) XCUITest
5 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
6 5 (8.20%) Android Studio
6 5 (8.20%) CircleCI
7 4 (6.56%) Crashlytics
7 4 (6.56%) JIRA
8 3 (4.92%) GitLab
8 3 (4.92%) JUnit
9 2 (3.28%) Appium
9 2 (3.28%) Mockito
9 2 (3.28%) NUnit
10 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.64%) CocoaPods
10 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.64%) MSTest
General
1 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.28%) Banking
3 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.64%) Automotive
4 1 (1.64%) Aviation
4 1 (1.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (73.77%) Developer
2 23 (37.70%) Android Developer
3 16 (26.23%) iOS Developer
4 11 (18.03%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) Android Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Lead
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Android Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Applications Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Mobile Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (42.62%) Android Jetpack
2 24 (39.34%) Jetpack Compose
3 15 (24.59%) Android SDK
4 13 (21.31%) RESTful
4 13 (21.31%) SwiftUI
5 10 (16.39%) REST
6 9 (14.75%) GraphQL
7 8 (13.11%) .NET
7 8 (13.11%) UIKit
8 5 (8.20%) Core Data
8 5 (8.20%) RxJava
9 4 (6.56%) Web Services
10 3 (4.92%) iOS SDK
10 3 (4.92%) Retrofit
10 3 (4.92%) XML
11 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (3.28%) Core Animation
11 2 (3.28%) Dagger
11 2 (3.28%) React
11 2 (3.28%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.56%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.28%) Animation
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.64%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (57.38%) Android
2 26 (42.62%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.92%) Windows
4 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Android Development
2 27 (44.26%) CI/CD
3 25 (40.98%) Architectural Patterns
4 22 (36.07%) iOS Development
5 18 (29.51%) Test Automation
6 16 (26.23%) Agile
7 15 (24.59%) User Experience
8 14 (22.95%) Design Patterns
8 14 (22.95%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (21.31%) SOLID
9 13 (21.31%) TDD
10 11 (18.03%) Analytics
10 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (16.39%) DevOps
11 10 (16.39%) Open Source
12 9 (14.75%) Benchmarking
12 9 (14.75%) Unit Testing
13 8 (13.11%) Code Quality
13 8 (13.11%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (13.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) Kotlin
2 23 (37.70%) Swift
3 22 (36.07%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) C#
5 6 (9.84%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.64%) C
7 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.92%) WCAG
3 2 (3.28%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) Apple
2 4 (6.56%) Xamarin
3 2 (3.28%) Adobe
3 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.28%) Brightcove
3 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) Adyen
4 1 (1.64%) New Relic
4 1 (1.64%) Tealium