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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 465 571
Rank change year-on-year -15 +106 +64
Contract jobs citing MVVM 77 92 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 48
10th Percentile £363 £389 £413
25th Percentile £403 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £581
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.87% +2.74%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £713
90th Percentile £606 £550 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £76.38
25th Percentile - - £76.56
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £81.56
90th Percentile - - £82.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +76.25%

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 30,286 31,889 42,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 86.07% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,837 19,171 28,834
10th Percentile £295 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,193 1,584
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.23 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.43% -5.88% +59.00%

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 21 October 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 14 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 21 October 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 -15 69 £538 +9.14% 76
London -25 44 £550 +11.68% 32
UK excluding London +12 28 £500 - 59
Work from Home +13 21 £565 +13.00% 39
North of England -18 15 £406 -18.75% 16
Yorkshire -15 14 £406 -32.29% 9
Scotland - 5 - -
South East +8 3 £575 - 28
South West - 2 £475 - 9
Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
East of England -2 1 £500 -
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £388 -
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 4

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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) GitHub
2 9 (11.69%) Firebase
3 7 (9.09%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Google Play
4 4 (5.19%) Bitrise
4 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.90%) AWS
6 2 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) GCP
7 1 (1.30%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.30%) Figma
7 1 (1.30%) Sentry
7 1 (1.30%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) DHCP
1 2 (2.60%) DNS
1 2 (2.60%) SSL
1 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (29.87%) Git
2 14 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.58%) Gradle
4 11 (14.29%) Xcode
5 10 (12.99%) JIRA
6 7 (9.09%) CircleCI
7 5 (6.49%) Android Studio
7 5 (6.49%) JUnit
8 4 (5.19%) Crashlytics
9 3 (3.90%) fastlane
10 2 (2.60%) CocoaPods
10 2 (2.60%) Mockito
11 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.30%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.30%) PostCSS
11 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.30%) XCUITest
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Banking
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Back Office
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.30%) Front Office
6 1 (1.30%) Games
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 53 (68.83%) Developer
2 29 (37.66%) Android Developer
3 17 (22.08%) Senior
4 14 (18.18%) iOS Developer
5 12 (15.58%) Android Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Mobile Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Android Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Mobile Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Mobile Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Principal Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Android Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior iOS Developer
10 2 (2.60%) iOS Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (41.56%) RESTful
2 22 (28.57%) Android Jetpack
3 20 (25.97%) Jetpack Compose
4 17 (22.08%) Android SDK
5 16 (20.78%) SwiftUI
6 14 (18.18%) Dagger
7 11 (14.29%) UIKit
8 10 (12.99%) .NET
8 10 (12.99%) RxJava
9 7 (9.09%) Web Services
10 6 (7.79%) CSS
11 5 (6.49%) HTML
11 5 (6.49%) Retrofit
12 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
12 4 (5.19%) Core Data
12 4 (5.19%) FHIR
12 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
12 4 (5.19%) Material Design
12 4 (5.19%) REST
12 4 (5.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (57.14%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.19%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) iPad
3 4 (5.19%) iPhone
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (5.19%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.90%) Animation
5 2 (2.60%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Derivative
6 1 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.30%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (67.53%) Android
2 31 (40.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.90%) Windows
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.30%) tvOS
5 1 (1.30%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.95%) CI/CD
2 33 (42.86%) Agile
2 33 (42.86%) Android Development
3 32 (41.56%) Architectural Patterns
3 32 (41.56%) User Experience
4 31 (40.26%) Design Patterns
5 23 (29.87%) iOS Development
5 23 (29.87%) UX Design
6 21 (27.27%) Mobile Development
7 20 (25.97%) SOLID
8 16 (20.78%) Push Notifications
9 15 (19.48%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (19.48%) DevOps
9 15 (19.48%) MVC
9 15 (19.48%) Test Automation
10 14 (18.18%) Analytics
11 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (15.58%) Customer Experience
12 12 (15.58%) TDD
12 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.04%) Kotlin
2 29 (37.66%) Swift
3 24 (31.17%) Java
4 13 (16.88%) Objective-C
5 9 (11.69%) C#
6 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.30%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (7.79%) Degree
1 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
1 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Google
2 9 (11.69%) Apple
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) Xamarin
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.60%) VMware
5 1 (1.30%) Pega